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SWANA/ARAB literary journal. Rowayat.org is seeking original writing for our upcoming online publications. Submission categories are fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, flash fiction, comics, art, reviews and interviews – in English, French or Arabic.

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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🪞 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 When we launched Issue 14, 𝑀𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑠, in July, we said it would unfold as a rolling publication. Then our social channels went quiet. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁. Behind the silence, our editorial family kept reading, editing, translating and building.
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Deep thanks to our guest editors: Fatima ElKalay, Zeina Azzam, Sunnah Khan, banah el ghadbanah, Nyla Matuk, Elest Ali, Barâa Arar, Mohamed Seif El Nasr, Carol Berger, Mohsen Mohamed, Rana Mourtaja, Salwa Batchi, Meriem Essaoudy, Ghada Emish, Mai Khaled & Habiba ElShoky.
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I am a mirror set before your eyes.” — Attar. Issue 14: MIRRORS is now live. New fiction, poetry, CNF, interviews, and Arabic literature in translation every few days throughout July, start reading by engaging with our Featured Artist Shirin Abedinirad. rowayat.org/tag/issue-14
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Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'll be a guest fiction editor at Rowayat magazine for issue 14, "Mirrors." The call for submissions of fiction, non-fiction and poetry is open until May 5: rowayat.org/issue-14-mir... @rowayat.bsky.social
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Issue 14: Mirrors - Rowayat
We are open for Submissions for Issue #14: Mirrors April 1st to May 5th 2025 Click here to…
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Life rarely moves in straight lines. Perhaps that too belongs to the language of mirrors: the unexpected refraction that makes us pause and look again. Some seasons force us to slow down and move more humanly through the world.
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The May issue is out with a cover feature ,"Reading in Egypt," + a diary from Iran, reading recs from the Philippines, and much more. Check out the table of contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may.
An oil on canvas, The Cafe, by Reda Khalil Amin, shows musicians playing in a cafe alongside a woman reading a newspaper.
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“Literature in Egypt is not only what is read but how it is held, discussed, and kept alive.” Sherine Elbanhawy writes about “Reading as Resistance in Egypt” in our March issue. worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/rea...
A photo of a group reading in a bookstore in Egypt
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“For readers of Arabic, there is a thriving independent press scene in Egypt.” In our cover feature, Gretchen McCullough writes about a “parallel ecosystem—less visible internationally, perhaps, but deeply rooted in local reading cultures.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/boo...
Reda Khalil Amin, A Girl Reading, oil on canvas, a painting of a girl reading alone
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A small circle in Cairo أحد عشر كوكبًا على آخر المشهد الأندلسي. A constellation, echoing Darwish’s own quiet numerology: 11 poems 11 days in February 2026 11 last nights of Ramadan 3 convergences #Rowayat The first poem to travel outward tonight — rowayat.org/eleven-stars...
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Eleven Stars over Andalusia - Rowayat
We have on this earth what makes life worth living.   Where should we go after the last…
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Join us for a conversation and book signing celebrating "The Book of Z," a poetic re-voicing of Zulaykha. 🗓 Wed, Feb 11 · 7 PM 📍 Diwan Zamalek 🗣 In conversation with Fatima ElKalay Hosted by the Rowayat Editorial Family ✨ #Poetry #Rowayat
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
WHEN KINGDOMS FALL, CONSCIENCES RISE A conversation on history, faith & moral compromise in Then He Sent Prophets 🗣 Mohamed Seif El Nasr × Sherine Elbanhawy 📍 Diwan Cinema Radio 🗓 Feb 4 · 7 PM Presented by @RowayatEgypt & @DiwanBookstore #SAWNALiterature #HistoricalFiction
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
During dark times, we search for fragments of connection— Week 3 of Forged Kinship is here. Read this week’s 18 contributors who illuminate the paths between us: poetry, nonfiction, fiction & art shaped by grief, memory, rupture, and survival. rowayat.org/tag/issue-13/ #Rowayat #Issue13
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Alice S. Yousef @alicesyousef.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Thank you for having me as one of the 4 great poetry editors.✍️📝
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Week Two of Rowayat Issue 13: Forged Kinship is now live. This week’s pieces moved us to tears—war, grief, Gaza, home, language, translation, and the fragile threads that bind us when everything else is breaking. 🔗 rowayat.org/category/new/ pages, where kinship is shaped word by word.
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Issue 13: Forged Kinship has begun. 17 new pieces—poetry, fiction, nonfiction & art—including Rowayat's 2025 Poetry Contest Winner & the full shortlist. New pieces will drop every week until just before Christmas. Read and stay 4 the kinship we are forging line by line. rowayat.org/tag/issue-13/
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
🚨 New Deadline: November 7, 2025 Rowayat’s Issue 13: Forged Kinship is still open for submissions. • Fiction (short stories, scripts, novel excerpts) • CNF (essays, memoirs, hybrid forms) • Poetry & Flash • Visual Art • Comics • Writing Central rowayat.submittable.com/submit
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest Shortlist! Aida Bardissi – Recipe for عيش بلدي Haseeb Sultan – the soil under our house was once the Indus Kimberly Gibson-Tran – Imago Dei Paul Potts – i have Ruaa Hassouna*, tr. Alice S. Yousef* – Untitled Winner to be announced Oct 31 🎉
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
SUBMIT NOW: Rowayat Issue 13 — Forged Kinship Open until Oct 22, 2025 Meet our Guest Editors: rowayat.org/issue-13-for... Submit poetry, fiction, CNF, translations, reviews, hybrid & art: rowayat.submittable.com/submit #CallForSubmissions #Rowayat #ForgedKinship #SWANAvoices #GlobalSouthWriters
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AWP @awpwriter.org · 30/09/2025
Writing organizations play a vital role in shaping the literary landscape. Recognize any that have made a significant impact by nominating them for the 2026 AWP Writing Organization Award; nominations are open to all until 11:59 p.m. ET on October 31.
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AWP Writing Organization Award
Nominations for the 2026 AWP Writing Organization Award open September 1, 2025, and will be accepted until October 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET.
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Moe Shalabi @moeshalabi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Look at me, mom!
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
🚨 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest! Submit your unpublished poems (1–3, max 5 pages) between Aug. 1st–31st rowayat.submittable.com/submit
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
🚨 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest! Submit your unpublished poems (1–3, max 5 pages) between Aug. 1st–31st rowayat.submittable.com/submit
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J. D. Harlock @jdharlock.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Check it out to read my three featured poems!
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Rowayat @rowayat.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Rowayat Issue 12: Echoes is here. 71 voices rising in chorus. Poems, essays, stories, and translations—each piece a heartbeat, a memory, a call. Built by editors, readers, writers across borders. Come read. Come echo. 🔗 rowayat.org/tag/issue-12/ #Rowayat #Echoes
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Issue #12 Echoes - Rowayat
Fiction, Poetry, CNF, Author Interviews, Book Reviews, Art, Comics, SWANA, Global South, Feminists
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J. D. Harlock @jdharlock.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Rowayat has translated three of my Arabic poems into English in their twelfth issue, Echoes! rowayat.org/beiruts-sett... #Arabic #Arab #MENA #Lebanon #Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity #PublishingNews
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Beirut's setting sun & Others - Rowayat
Beirut’s setting sun Do you remember the last time Beirut’s sun—dawned on us?It was beforethe sky was wrapped,in…
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Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
See my newly published poem “Toward” in issue 12 of @rowayat.bsky.social It’s a true story about my heroic mom and what happened after a church ski trip: rowayat.org/toward/
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A. Damon Cutter @adamoncutter.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
New poems @rowayat.bsky.social in their Echoes Issue 12 rowayat.org/poem-for-my-...
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Poem for my daughters on their 14th birthday & The only strength left - Rowayat
Poem for my daughters on their 14th birthday The wires in your mouths set their twisted datesfor removal,…
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Metonymy Press @metonymypress.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Montreal launch for The Sacred Heart Motel by Grace Kwan is coming up! In the BC-based poet’s debut, they are ruthless and nimble, guiding us through the recesses of body and roadside space. Dec 6, 7pm at Co-op Agenda. Also feat. special guests Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch & Carlos A. Pittella.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Now you are alone says the wall that comes at night, there will be no knocks at the door no pats on the shoulder, the roads that led to your dreams lie shattered, splayed like corpses on the arid ground. arablit.org/2023/10/26/n...
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New Poetry in Translation: Ghassan Zaqtan’s ‘Everything Knows You Will Rise’
“Everything Knows You Will Rise” appeared on October 23, 2023, in al-Ayyaam. The art published with this poem is from the cover Zaqtan’s The Silence That Remains, tr. Fady Joudah. Everything...
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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com · 23/10/2023
Palestinian Prison Memoir Becomes Unlikely Topic at 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair - by Olivia Snaije for @arablit.bsky.social arablit.org/2023/10/23/p...
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Palestinian Prison Memoir Becomes Unlikely Topic at 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair
By Olivia Snaije This is a story about many stories. It begins with the Nakba, occupation, and imprisonment, but it’s also about courageous publishers and an upcoming memoir, The Tale of a Wall, tr�...
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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Wonderful news!!! Gazan Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Derek Walcott Prize for 'Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear' arablit.org/2023/11/03/g... via @arablit.bsky.social
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Gazan Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Derek Walcott Prize for ‘Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear’
NOVEMBER 3, 2023 — Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The Walcott Festival yesterday announced the winner of the third annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry…
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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Die Here, to Live There: Two Poems by Kamal Elgizouli arablit.org/2023/11/07/d... via @arablit.bsky.social
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Die Here, to Live There: Two Poems by Kamal Elgizouli
By Adil Babakir Sudanese poet Kamal Elgizouli, who passed away in the early hours of Monday, November 6 in Cairo, will be remembered in his country and abroad for his unequivocal stance for human r…
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
"So for me, for people my age who have never left Gaza, if you ask them ‘how big is the world’? They might answer ‘maybe it’s 10 or 100 times bigger than Gaza?’, because Gaza is their limit. I think geography and our sense of the world is distorted." arablit.org/2023/11/08/a...
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A Conversation with Derek Walcott Prize-winning Poet Mosab Abu Toha
This conversation originally ran last year, in November 2022, after Mosab Abu Toha won a 2022 Palestine Book Award for Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza. Last week, the collecti��...
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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Arab publishing groups withdraw from Frankfurt Book Fair after award for Palestinian author pulled The planned literature prize to Adania Shibli was scrapped over the Israel-Gaza war.
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Arab groups withdraw from Frankfurt Book Fair after award for Palestinian author pulled
Sharjah and Egyptian publishing associations cancel attendance after Adania Shibli's planned prize scrapped
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aghast (MINNESOTA ARC) @shotdayparty.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
My favorite Arab writer -- I'm only missing his early short story collection. Literature can make the difference between "oh, another war in Lebanon" and "oh no, another war in Lebanon!"
Six books by Rabih Alameddine
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature is a digital-born project that seeks to retrace and remap the global story of Palestinian literature in the 20th century, starting from the Arab world, & going through Europe, North America, and Latin America countryofwords.org
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A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature
by REFQA ABU-REMAILEH
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