This piece hits home for me at so many moments. It started as a breathless paragraph but during revision developed into something much deeper. Stella – an excerpt: “I see you nine-year-old girl dancing with your sisters all in a line, Madonna’s True Blue spiraling up from the radio and you all wrapped in billowing…
Versification Zine Mosh Pit CNF Contest 2021
Delighted to have won 2nd place in the Versification Zine Mosh Pit CNF Contest 2021 for my essay, ‘Lost & Found’. Check out the entire issue and all the contest winners here. (click through to get the links for the website).
Flash fiction: Under a neon moon
Delighted to have my latest flash fiction story, Under a neon moon, published in Coffin Bell Journal‘s Volume 4, Issue No. 2, “Labyrinths”.
CNF: On the incessant, inescapable, infinite, unraveling, meandering, indifferent and heartless road: A map
Roads, maps and travel are persistent and important themes in my life. This was such a defining aspect of my childhood and has continued to shape much of my adult life. In this piece of creative non fiction, published by the wonderful literary magazine, Bending Genres, I think that I’m finally beginning to wrestle with…
Micro fiction: Tryst
Delighted to share my first ever ‘micro’ piece published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Dribble Drabble Review. Writing micros might seem easier given the small word count. But in truth, telling a story – whether a story of a person, a place or a moment – in full battle dress in such a…
CNF: Pangaea Reunited
“The road leading to my mother’s house is pock marked and bumpy, derelict and beautiful in the way only roads in small southern towns can be. We barrel along, avoiding craters and random squirrels that kamikaze across the highway. A fulgent sun brightens the forest. On either side of the road, copses of willow oak,…
Poetry: Epithet
In 2017, I won the INK & PAINT poetry and art competition in Kuwait organized by the Kuwait Poet’s Society and Artspace. My poem, Epithet, was paired with artwork by artist Nadine Qauddoumi. I wrote the poem in late 2016, early 2017 in response to the hate, misogyny and racism (especially against Muslims) from the…