🗣️ Calling all fiction writers! Shenandoah will open for submissions on January 15th. Submissions will be considered by N.S. Ahmed (Fellow '22), who was named Shenandoah's Fall 2025 Editorial Fellow in Fiction.

I wrote about doctors without politics, Doctors Without Borders, and doctors in Palestine, for The Baffler thebaffler.com/salvos/doctors…

Another stunning piece by Mary (Her June ‘24 essay, “Running Amok,” is also essential reading: thebaffler.com/latest/running…)

Attention Fiction writers! Reminder that we’ll be open for submissions starting January 15 🤩 Swipe to read the call from our Fall 2025 Editorial Fellow in Fiction, Anes Ahmed!

Fellow fictioneers, my sub call for Shenandoah will be live on the 15th, and as I brace for the impending literary storm on submitable by gathering endless coffee, here are the vibes if you'd like to partake and send over something, looking forward to the good trouble✌🏽

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Palestine, my heart, I'm speechless

Drinking a slushie while getting ready for the slush pile to turn me into slush🫡

First story of the year done (but when is it ever done really😅) and heading out to find a place in the world, may it find a comfortable home

Today is my birthday, and the greatest gift I could possibly get in this desperate, hopeless, futureless day is a future as a writer. If l can earn out my advance, hopefully, I can write another book. bookshop.org/p/books/magica…

“Consider this an enthusiastic acceptance…,” the email reads. Thank you N.S. Ahmed for one of the best acceptance emails I’ve ever received as a writer! Voila! My short story “Daily Money” is getting published by Shenandoah later in the year! 😍❤️

Part of my scheming as an editor at Shenandoah is finding brilliant writers like Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim and being able to publish his amazing story, 1/5 down, 4 more stories in my curation to go!!! And I'll just say, there are some heavy hitters that really got me salivating to take!

Some (highly recommended) 2024/2025 🇵🇸📚

i love turning 26. i ate a beautiful tomato. which in turn turned me into a young Che Guevara.

The Japanese edition of "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak" retitled "Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" comes out today from Kawade! It's been translated into Japanese by the brilliant 矢倉喬士 Takashi YAGURA and beautiful cover art is by Jun Kawana. Link: kawade.co.jp/np/isbn/978430

I've had the absolute honor to translate poems by Palestinian poet Dalia Taha, three of which appear today as part of The Yale Review's spring issue. Here's "Enter Silence": yalereview.org/article/dalia-…

Coming back from the abyss just to say that I'd beat the gorilla in a 1v1 easy without the other 99 dudes