Hey @menapitch.bsky.social participants (& any other aspiring SWANA writers)! I’d love to start a Discord where all of us can chat, talk about our projects, peer review, etc. If you’re interested, interact w/this post! It would be awesome to have a hub where we can all support eachother☺️ #menapit

Today is @menapitch.bsky.social . I feel honored to join in a pitch event geared specifically toward SWANA authors, especially now during #arabheritagemonth. SWANA authors make up less than .5% (A HALF OF A PERCENT) of published authors. #menapit #ag #hf #LGBTQ

The Necromancer’s Wife as quotes from SWANA writers ✨agent and Big 5 editor interest✨ 🏳️‍🌈wlw+queer chars 💀retired necromancer🩷💜💙 ⚗️missing alchemist🧡🤍🩷 🪄magical intrigue 🚂dieselpunk #MENApit #Qu #A #F #LGBT

Pearls of Wishes is book one of a queer gaslamp fantasy adventure about a future prince consort reconnecting with his estranged family and culture while pursued by a nationalist cult. #MENApit #YA #F #WIP #POC #LGBT #ND

KPDH x THE HONEYS "I long to have Ava’s limbs, June’s voice—not steal those things from them, never, I simply want to share." 💕 do i want her or do i want to be her? 🎤 complex mother/daughter relationships 🕷 we're soulmates! /threat #MENApit #AG #WIP #H #YA

What We Can Know x CW's The 100 Enemies by circumstance Imani & Elijah must put aside their differences to stay alive & to find the other survivors when their space station crashes onto a ravaged Earth. #MENApit #WIP #A #SF #Dystopian

MARTYR! x THE SHAPE OF WATER 🧜 an artist's coming of age 🧜 complex mother-daughter relationships 🧜 a hostile small town 🧜 majority queer female cast 🧜 battles w/ self-esteem 🧜 water powers reflecting emotional states & past trauma #MENAPit #A #Qu #F #L #MR #LGBT

TALL TALES FROM THE TANTOOR TAILOR Cozy SWANA Fantasy Romcom ft: 🪡Love Magic 🪄👒Enchanted Hat Shop 💍Marriage of Magical Convenience 🐕Golden Retriever Wife 🐈‍⬛Black Cat Husband 💰Tax Fraud #MENApit #WIP #R #Co #F #A

Have you heard? 👀 WORKED 2 DEATH has gone under the knife 🔪 : A ransom plot goes horribly awry when a trio of cash-strapped colleagues kidnap their nepobaby manager on a work trip, and find themselves embroiled in the lethal world of Fintech’s elite. #menapit #agented

An engineer. A Dragon hoarding romance books. A dysfunctional family of gods. Not the start of a joke, but Sy's undoing. When her ex, the chosen one, is murdered, gutsy Sy fights the gods to escape a fate worse than death: becoming the god's eternal slave #MENApit #Qu #F #OWN #LGBT #POC #disability

They Hate Each OtherXLove Simon Ares is a nice Cypriot boy. He’s the star of his basketball team & is dating his childhood best friend.That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life&heart. ✨Big 5 impr. editor interest #MENAPit #YA #C #R #LGBT #OWN #Qu

PALESTINIAN X CITY OF BRASS X TPW Cursed by the blood-soaked decisions of their ancestors, a banished prince, a brooding commander, and warrior woman must save their empire from a genocidal king. 🕊️ jinn blood parchment magic v. elemental magic 🕊️ sentient sword 🕊️ slowburn #MENAPIT #Qu #A #F #R

#menapit #NA #psychthriller #Qu HIDDEN CRACKS is a dual-POV psychological thriller that follows the unraveling relationship between Michael Huang and Amali Rai, exposing how obsession distorts love—and how control can turn deadly.

WARCROSS X BLOOD DEBTS While tech-savvy Viva uses magic and coding to stop the army of undead, her twin sister, Tasia, is resurrected by witches forcing her to kill. 🧟 magic with Necromancy/Voodoo 👩🏽‍💻Girls in STEM 👯‍♀️Magically bonded twins ❤️ Slow burn friends to lovers #MENApit #SF #F #YA #Qu

THE CROOKED JACKAL features magical mobsters like Fonda Lee’s “Green Bone Saga,” with the technological advancements of Kate Dylan’s “Mindwalker,” and an LGBT+ cast similar to Makana Yamamoto’s “Hammajang Luck.” Rep: @laurenbieker.bsky.social #MENApit #AG #OWN #LGBT #A #NA #SFF #F #SF

@menapitch.bsky.social #MENAPIT #menapitchevent A desperate writer accepts an invitation to an elite retreat that guarantees publication...and slowly realizes what it's *actually* harvesting from its residents. #Pub #Qu #H #SF #A #NA #OWN The Centre x Catherine House x Bunny Professionally edited.

SEVERANCE x INDUSTRY 🕴️Hunger Games for burnt-out millennials who are too tired for revolution🕴️ A rebellious young woman struggles to hold on to both her morals and her life in a country ruled by a Big Tech company that executes people deemed unemployable. #MENAPIT #WIP

#menapitchevent #MENApit #SPF #A #NA #syrianvoices #QU #PUB Haneen works for a Company that shows people the lives they were too afraid to want. A Syrian calligrapher gluing boot soles. A refugee building for a brother who'll never see it. She's guided them all home. Until her last case.

@menapitch.bsky.social #MENAPIT #Pub #Qu #H #SF #A #NA #OWN On a remote Trinidadian island, surrounded by douen, the soucouyant, La Diablesse, and the devil in the silk cotton tree, a grieving sister makes a deal she can't take back. When we were Birds x Mexican Gothic Professionally edited.

A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME 6 Keys 🔑 5 Centuries of magical politics ✨ 4 Djinn on a mission ⚔️ 3 Threats Mona Al’Maii must navigate 💀 2 Hot-headed, kindred souls 🖤 1 Secret that could ruin it all 🧭 The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies #MENApit #RF #Qu #NA

They Hate Each Other X Love Simon Ares is a nice Cypriot boy. He’s the star of his basketball team & is dating his childhood best friend.That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life & heart. ✨Big 5 impr. editor interest #ProfilePit #YA #C #R #LGBT #Q