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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.
🪞 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.
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.
“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
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
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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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.
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.
“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...
“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...
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...
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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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
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
Thank you for having me as one of the 4 great poetry editors.✍️📝
Rowayat@rowayat.bsky.social · 10mo agoWeek 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.
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.
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/
🚨 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
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 🎉
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
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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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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AWP@awpwriter.org · last yr.The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is thrilled to announce @moeshalabi.bsky.social as a recipient of the Go Finish Your Book! Grant, a brand-new initiative from James Patterson. Read more about Shalabi’s winning project in our latest Writer’s News piece. awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...
🚨 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest! Submit your unpublished poems (1–3, max 5 pages) between Aug. 1st–31st rowayat.submittable.com/submit
🚨 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest! Submit your unpublished poems (1–3, max 5 pages) between Aug. 1st–31st rowayat.submittable.com/submit
Check it out to read my three featured poems!
Rowayat@rowayat.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
Issue #12 Echoes - Rowayat
Fiction, Poetry, CNF, Author Interviews, Book Reviews, Art, Comics, SWANA, Global South, Feminists
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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
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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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/
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.
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...
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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