Rowayat (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Rowayat
Rowayat (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/rowayat-a-literary-journal-35182 #amwriting
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Rowayat (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Hello all, I've published a fictional short story 'Malcolm X at Sidi Gaber' for Rowayat Literary Journal. The story explores Malcolm X’s visit to Egypt in 1964 but reimagines him meeting novelist Naguib Mahfouz in Alexandria. rowayat.org/malcolm-x-at...
Malcolm X at Sidi Gaber - Rowayat
My death feels imminent, but the feeling recedes when I’m distant from the American scene that daily threatens…
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November 20, 2023 at 1:19 PM
Hello all, I've published a fictional short story 'Malcolm X at Sidi Gaber' for Rowayat Literary Journal. The story explores Malcolm X’s visit to Egypt in 1964 but reimagines him meeting novelist Naguib Mahfouz in Alexandria. rowayat.org/malcolm-x-at...
Rowayat has translated three of my Arabic poems into English in their twelfth issue, Echoes!
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#Arabic #Arab #MENA #Lebanon #Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity #PublishingNews
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#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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June 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Rowayat has translated three of my Arabic poems into English in their twelfth issue, Echoes!
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#Arabic #Arab #MENA #Lebanon #Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity #PublishingNews
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#Arabic #Arab #MENA #Lebanon #Poetry #Poem #WritingCommunity #PublishingNews
Two poems by Julian Matthews, The Air We Breathe & Fists and Palms, in literary journal Rowayat. bit.ly/theairjulian
Art credit: Hassan Zahreddine
Art credit: Hassan Zahreddine
The Air We Breathe & Fists and Palms - Rowayat
The Air We Breathe Why do you avert the gaze of my peoplewhen you can still hear them…
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July 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Two poems by Julian Matthews, The Air We Breathe & Fists and Palms, in literary journal Rowayat. bit.ly/theairjulian
Art credit: Hassan Zahreddine
Art credit: Hassan Zahreddine
Akhal-Teke colt Robbie at pasture yesterday, eight days before his yearling birthday.
Robbie is ATF Rowayat Ruh (Ehyr Atlaz x Gavinka, 2024). His name means ‘legendary spirit.’
#nonprofit #conservationbreeding #purebred #akhalteke #atfrowayatruh
Robbie is ATF Rowayat Ruh (Ehyr Atlaz x Gavinka, 2024). His name means ‘legendary spirit.’
#nonprofit #conservationbreeding #purebred #akhalteke #atfrowayatruh
April 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Akhal-Teke colt Robbie at pasture yesterday, eight days before his yearling birthday.
Robbie is ATF Rowayat Ruh (Ehyr Atlaz x Gavinka, 2024). His name means ‘legendary spirit.’
#nonprofit #conservationbreeding #purebred #akhalteke #atfrowayatruh
Robbie is ATF Rowayat Ruh (Ehyr Atlaz x Gavinka, 2024). His name means ‘legendary spirit.’
#nonprofit #conservationbreeding #purebred #akhalteke #atfrowayatruh
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.
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#Rowayat #Echoes
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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July 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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
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
My short story has been published by Rowayat.
In January 1929, during the Al-Karam winter storm, Cavafy and Ahmed Shawqi meet at Baudrot Café in Alexandria in their final reunion. Two visions of Egypt, and a waiter named Mina. rowayat.org/at-cavafys-t...
In January 1929, during the Al-Karam winter storm, Cavafy and Ahmed Shawqi meet at Baudrot Café in Alexandria in their final reunion. Two visions of Egypt, and a waiter named Mina. rowayat.org/at-cavafys-t...
September 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
My short story has been published by Rowayat.
In January 1929, during the Al-Karam winter storm, Cavafy and Ahmed Shawqi meet at Baudrot Café in Alexandria in their final reunion. Two visions of Egypt, and a waiter named Mina. rowayat.org/at-cavafys-t...
In January 1929, during the Al-Karam winter storm, Cavafy and Ahmed Shawqi meet at Baudrot Café in Alexandria in their final reunion. Two visions of Egypt, and a waiter named Mina. rowayat.org/at-cavafys-t...
The Air We Breathe, first published in Rowayat literary magazine, Canada, now in Ipoh Echo.
Link:
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Excerpt below.
Artwork by Alba Fabre
Link:
www.ipohecho.com.my/2025/08/31/p...
Excerpt below.
Artwork by Alba Fabre
September 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Air We Breathe, first published in Rowayat literary magazine, Canada, now in Ipoh Echo.
Link:
www.ipohecho.com.my/2025/08/31/p...
Excerpt below.
Artwork by Alba Fabre
Link:
www.ipohecho.com.my/2025/08/31/p...
Excerpt below.
Artwork by Alba Fabre
New poems @rowayat.bsky.social in their Echoes Issue 12 rowayat.org/poem-for-my-...
Poem for my daughters on their 14th birthday & The only strength left - Rowayat
Poem for my daughters on their 14th birthday The wires in your mouths set their twisted datesfor removal,…
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June 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New poems @rowayat.bsky.social in their Echoes Issue 12 rowayat.org/poem-for-my-...
I had the good fortune to collaborate with this talented photographer on a book of mine: youtu.be/ayIvtcaZJRU?... #photography #booksky
Desert Songs ― A love letter to the deserts of Egypt (Rowayat, 2022)
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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September 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I had the good fortune to collaborate with this talented photographer on a book of mine: youtu.be/ayIvtcaZJRU?... #photography #booksky
I have a new poem out in the journal "The Rowayat"
@rowayat.bsky.social called "The Rivers in Me (After Langston Hughes)"! 🥰
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@rowayat.bsky.social called "The Rivers in Me (After Langston Hughes)"! 🥰
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THE RIVERS IN ME - Rowayat
THE RIVERS IN ME After Langston Hughes I am no gash in waitingThere are rivers in mesilent, evergreenunder…
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July 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I have a new poem out in the journal "The Rowayat"
@rowayat.bsky.social called "The Rivers in Me (After Langston Hughes)"! 🥰
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@rowayat.bsky.social called "The Rivers in Me (After Langston Hughes)"! 🥰
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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:
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@rowayat.bsky.social
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@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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April 5, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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
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@rowayat.bsky.social
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...
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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March 9, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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...
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...
"“Refugee” somehow implies that you no longer have dreams."
In her powerful new piece for @rowayat.bsky.social, IALA 2023 mentee Lusine Vanyan reflects on the physical and emotional toll of the 2023 Artsakh blockade and the displacement endured by her fellow Armenians.
Read it here: bit.ly/3UNsNJZ
In her powerful new piece for @rowayat.bsky.social, IALA 2023 mentee Lusine Vanyan reflects on the physical and emotional toll of the 2023 Artsakh blockade and the displacement endured by her fellow Armenians.
Read it here: bit.ly/3UNsNJZ
Refugee Is Not My Name - Rowayat
The “eco”-blockade and military assault ethnically cleansed Karabakh Have you ever dreamt of becoming a refugee or a…
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August 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"“Refugee” somehow implies that you no longer have dreams."
In her powerful new piece for @rowayat.bsky.social, IALA 2023 mentee Lusine Vanyan reflects on the physical and emotional toll of the 2023 Artsakh blockade and the displacement endured by her fellow Armenians.
Read it here: bit.ly/3UNsNJZ
In her powerful new piece for @rowayat.bsky.social, IALA 2023 mentee Lusine Vanyan reflects on the physical and emotional toll of the 2023 Artsakh blockade and the displacement endured by her fellow Armenians.
Read it here: bit.ly/3UNsNJZ
Fun fact, in the short story "Tragic Feline Space Program" there's literally an argument about the project being a tower built upwards, where one cat is concerned about tech debt of just piling things without organization, but the other cat is concerned about a deadline.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Fun fact, in the short story "Tragic Feline Space Program" there's literally an argument about the project being a tower built upwards, where one cat is concerned about tech debt of just piling things without organization, but the other cat is concerned about a deadline.
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From 2010-14 I edited a blog where I challenged poets to write ekphrastic poems inspired by Arshile Gorky's painting "They Will Take My Island," and use that as the title for their poem. Well, my former student Luigi Sposato has taken up the old challenge. Take a look!
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They Will Take My Island - Rowayat
after Arshile Gorky But first they must take everything else. Tadpoles. Sewers. Metal detectorshunt the hymns I’ve buried…
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December 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
From 2010-14 I edited a blog where I challenged poets to write ekphrastic poems inspired by Arshile Gorky's painting "They Will Take My Island," and use that as the title for their poem. Well, my former student Luigi Sposato has taken up the old challenge. Take a look!
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Her young adult novel won the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2022 and her adult novel was shortlisted for Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction 2021. Her writing has appeared in Rowayat, Sapelo Square, Bad Form Review and The Unheard Stories Anthology.
March 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Her young adult novel won the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2022 and her adult novel was shortlisted for Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction 2021. Her writing has appeared in Rowayat, Sapelo Square, Bad Form Review and The Unheard Stories Anthology.
I love this ghazal, "When We Meet," by Sahar Choudhury in @rowayat.bsky.social
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When We Meet & occupier artclass - Rowayat
When We Meet (Ghazal) Which one of us will have crossed the sea when we meet?Will you recognize…
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September 13, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I love this ghazal, "When We Meet," by Sahar Choudhury in @rowayat.bsky.social
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Many thanks to @rowayat.bsky.social for running my poem "The East is not a Looking Glass" in Number 14, where I read for the fiction submissions to the issue.
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The East is not a Looking Glass - Rowayat
“Eye on the ball,” the revolution said, finding an invincible summer. “Protect your peace,” the mashrabiyya whispered, and…
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August 29, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Many thanks to @rowayat.bsky.social for running my poem "The East is not a Looking Glass" in Number 14, where I read for the fiction submissions to the issue.
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My pieces "When We Meet (Ghazal)" and "occupier artclass" appear in Issue 14 of Rowayat! Many thanks to @rowayat.bsky.social.
August 25, 2026 at 1:58 PM
My pieces "When We Meet (Ghazal)" and "occupier artclass" appear in Issue 14 of Rowayat! Many thanks to @rowayat.bsky.social.
Featured artist Shirin Abedinirad’s 𝐷𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑚𝑎 gives us a threshold between descent and ascent, earth and sky, illusion and revelation.
And we are still building.
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆.
𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴.
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#Rowayat #Mirrors
And we are still building.
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆.
𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴.
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#Rowayat #Mirrors
August 17, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Featured artist Shirin Abedinirad’s 𝐷𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑚𝑎 gives us a threshold between descent and ascent, earth and sky, illusion and revelation.
And we are still building.
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆.
𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴.
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#Rowayat #Mirrors
And we are still building.
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆.
𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴.
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#Rowayat #Mirrors
I've got a new piece out @rowayat.bsky.social ! Check out rowayat.org/there-will-c... inspired by Sara Teasdale's "There will come the soft rains"
There will come a time without war - Rowayat
after Sara Teasdale’s “There will come the soft rains” The sleet will come when we are dead,all of…
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August 16, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I've got a new piece out @rowayat.bsky.social ! Check out rowayat.org/there-will-c... inspired by Sara Teasdale's "There will come the soft rains"