A PLACE FOR US X THE FAMILY TREE •A girl’s fight for financial independence •Contemporary Australia •Revisiting 90s Bangladesh •Immigration •PTSD •Found family •An unwanted marriage proposal #Literary #JWPitchFestival

A PLACE FOR US X THE FAMILY TREE Nishi seeks a financially independent identity in Australia, miles away from an abusive marriage in Bangladesh. Not loss of a home, anxiety attacks and worst of all, an unwanted marriage proposal. #Literary #JWPitchFestival

Ode to English teachers around the world! Mine read my short story to my 9th grade class saying it was good enough to be published. Riding on that high since then🙏

The slush pile. How I hate that word. Weeks/months/years of effort, time, energy, money, tears, frustration, sleeplessness and dogged determination reduced to such a demeaning term.

This is poetry in its purest form😍

So apt👇

Our responsibility as authors👇

You’re not failing. It’s just that your work lives in such a subjective reality that, along the way, it suffers from many erroneous judgements. As such, your heart is your only barometer. If you wrote with your heart today, then it was a successful. Throw away the critic’s scale.

Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a fantastic start to the new year. Stay safe, stay healthy and enjoy time with those who matter❤️

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I am excited to announce a new initiative with some phenomenal writers of South Asian heritage: SASS! Please spread the word to grow our new community of practice -- launching April 3!   More details coming soon. #SouthAsianScribeSquad #KidLit #WritingCommunity

Overheard: Being a woman is kind of like being a cyclist in a city where all the cars represent men. You're supposed to be able to share the road equally with cars, but that's not how it works. The roads are built for cars and you spend a great deal of physical and mental energy

Please, please, please head to Urban Dictionary and click the thumbs up to secure this word into the world’s vocabulary—it exists anyway, and that won’t change, but let’s make it official! urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter…

My interview with author Amal Awad published in print and online in The Daily Star. Click on the link below to read more. thedailystar.net/daily-star-boo…

My review of The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim (buy Always Be My Bibi!) 🇧🇩🍉✨ published by Star Books & Literature thedailystar.net/daily-star-boo…

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Piers Morgan asks Norm Finkelstein and Rabbi Shmuley: "If Israel is so precise, why is it killing so many children?" Shmuley answers, and then Norm answers. Shmuley then cuts off Norm because it seems like Rabbi Shmuley can't handle an intelligent point being made.

Requesting all my author friends and readers to RT the post below! It's the cover reveal of my 4th book! It was a huge challenge to write this one so I hope you'll all support it. It's the sequel to my debut IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS

I’m proud to have been longlisted for the 2024 #CWprize after 7,359 writers entered stories. Congratulations to everyone who made the shortlist! I can’t wait to discover who wins. Commonwealth Foundation Creatives commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-pr…

What to know about the deadly student protests in Bangladesh sbs.com.au/news/article/w…

Bangladesh imposes curfew and deploys army to curb massive quota protest... youtu.be/zL-p_UGu1Zw?si… via YouTube #Save_Bangladeshi_students #QuotaReformMovement #BangladeshIsBleeding