Hussain A. Ayoub
@dreadunderarm.bsky.social
Syrian author | Historophile | Al Azhar Writing Prize winner | Pushcart Prize & #bestofthenet nominee | Quillers SWANA mentee | https://hussainaayoub.carrd.co
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An Agent’s Guide to CLINGING TO THE STONES!
#agentguide #agentsguide #F #amquerying #Heist #WritingCommunity #amwriting
#agentguide #agentsguide #F #amquerying #Heist #WritingCommunity #amwriting
Get a glimpse of what’s coming next!
Read "War and War", my Azhar Prize-winning short story & part of the prequel to my #wip CLINGING TO THE STONES. #ShortStory #Fantasy
#amqyerying #ClingingToTheStones
bit.ly/war-and-war
Read "War and War", my Azhar Prize-winning short story & part of the prequel to my #wip CLINGING TO THE STONES. #ShortStory #Fantasy
#amqyerying #ClingingToTheStones
bit.ly/war-and-war
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Get a glimpse of what’s coming next!
Read "War and War", my Azhar Prize-winning short story & part of the prequel to my #wip CLINGING TO THE STONES. #ShortStory #Fantasy
#amqyerying #ClingingToTheStones
bit.ly/war-and-war
Read "War and War", my Azhar Prize-winning short story & part of the prequel to my #wip CLINGING TO THE STONES. #ShortStory #Fantasy
#amqyerying #ClingingToTheStones
bit.ly/war-and-war
An Agent’s Guide to CLINGING TO THE STONES!
#agentguide #agentsguide #F #amquerying #Heist #WritingCommunity #amwriting
#agentguide #agentsguide #F #amquerying #Heist #WritingCommunity #amwriting
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
An Agent’s Guide to CLINGING TO THE STONES!
#agentguide #agentsguide #F #amquerying #Heist #WritingCommunity #amwriting
#agentguide #agentsguide #F #amquerying #Heist #WritingCommunity #amwriting
Enter Arabfuturism!
THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY sits at the top of my most anticipated books for next year.
I mean, look at these amazing covers!
THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY sits at the top of my most anticipated books for next year.
I mean, look at these amazing covers!
Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Enter Arabfuturism!
THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY sits at the top of my most anticipated books for next year.
I mean, look at these amazing covers!
THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY sits at the top of my most anticipated books for next year.
I mean, look at these amazing covers!
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Add my book on Goodreads, support an indie author
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Love Lethal, Death Divine
When Liana learns that her beloved husband, Prince Amro…
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October 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Add my book on Goodreads, support an indie author
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Almosting my heist fantasy: Andor meets the Age of Madness, set in a world inspired by Syrian history and mythology. So close!
#WIP #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy #Heist
#WIP #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy #Heist
October 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Almosting my heist fantasy: Andor meets the Age of Madness, set in a world inspired by Syrian history and mythology. So close!
#WIP #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy #Heist
#WIP #WritingCommunity #EpicFantasy #Heist
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Add my book on Goodreads.
It costs you nothing and it makes me happy.
Win-win.
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It costs you nothing and it makes me happy.
Win-win.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Goodreads
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Add my book on Goodreads.
It costs you nothing and it makes me happy.
Win-win.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
It costs you nothing and it makes me happy.
Win-win.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
"The fairest survivor from the slaughter
Now worships a dagger,
And the men are about to sell something dear—beware!
All that sweats beneath the wing shall pass away,
And the barking that led you to the spring
Had led the guards..."
Atif Khairy
Now worships a dagger,
And the men are about to sell something dear—beware!
All that sweats beneath the wing shall pass away,
And the barking that led you to the spring
Had led the guards..."
Atif Khairy
October 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"The fairest survivor from the slaughter
Now worships a dagger,
And the men are about to sell something dear—beware!
All that sweats beneath the wing shall pass away,
And the barking that led you to the spring
Had led the guards..."
Atif Khairy
Now worships a dagger,
And the men are about to sell something dear—beware!
All that sweats beneath the wing shall pass away,
And the barking that led you to the spring
Had led the guards..."
Atif Khairy
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October 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Halfway through rewrites. Way past my self-imposed deadline. Grinding hard, pushing toward the end.
#WritingCommunity #writing #fantasy
#WritingCommunity #writing #fantasy
September 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Halfway through rewrites. Way past my self-imposed deadline. Grinding hard, pushing toward the end.
#WritingCommunity #writing #fantasy
#WritingCommunity #writing #fantasy
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"Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us."
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion
September 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us."
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion
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📰 [TMR WEEKLY]
Today: two new short stories — Hussain A. Ayoub's war-torn dispatch and Sara Masry’s journey through memory — and Souseh’s advice column on love and survival in a time of genocide.
🔗 https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
#TMRweekly #LatesArticles
Today: two new short stories — Hussain A. Ayoub's war-torn dispatch and Sara Masry’s journey through memory — and Souseh’s advice column on love and survival in a time of genocide.
🔗 https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
#TMRweekly #LatesArticles
September 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
📰 [TMR WEEKLY]
Today: two new short stories — Hussain A. Ayoub's war-torn dispatch and Sara Masry’s journey through memory — and Souseh’s advice column on love and survival in a time of genocide.
🔗 https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
#TMRweekly #LatesArticles
Today: two new short stories — Hussain A. Ayoub's war-torn dispatch and Sara Masry’s journey through memory — and Souseh’s advice column on love and survival in a time of genocide.
🔗 https://bit.ly/weekly-latest-articles
#TMRweekly #LatesArticles
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Today's art: the short story 'War & War', by Hussain A. Ayoub. Powerful and devastating.
Delighted to share that my short story “War & War”, first place in the Azhar Writing Prize, is now published in
@markaz-review.bsky.social.
📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war
#AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity
@markaz-review.bsky.social.
📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war
#AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity
War and War
Winner of the 2025 Azhar Writing Prize — A foreign correspondent confronts devastation and violence before crossing a line of no return.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Today's art: the short story 'War & War', by Hussain A. Ayoub. Powerful and devastating.
Delighted to share that my short story “War & War”, first place in the Azhar Writing Prize, is now published in
@markaz-review.bsky.social.
📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war
#AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity
@markaz-review.bsky.social.
📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war
#AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity
War and War
Winner of the 2025 Azhar Writing Prize — A foreign correspondent confronts devastation and violence before crossing a line of no return.
themarkaz.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Delighted to share that my short story “War & War”, first place in the Azhar Writing Prize, is now published in
@markaz-review.bsky.social.
📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war
#AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity
@markaz-review.bsky.social.
📖 Read it here: themarkaz.org/war-and-war
#AzharWritingPrize #MarkazReview #literaryaward #ArabWriters #creativewriting #WritingCommunity
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I squealed when I saw this and had to take a seat on the stairs to read it. My novella has a review in Strange Horizons!!
There are Reasons for This by Nini Berndt
reviewed by E. C. Barrett
Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza
reviewed by Nileena Sunil
Memories From The Jungle by Tristan Garcia, trans. by Christopher Beach
reviewed by Will Emmons
Link to latest issue in bio!
#sciencefiction #scifi #sff #bookreviews
reviewed by E. C. Barrett
Orphan Planet by Madeehah Reza
reviewed by Nileena Sunil
Memories From The Jungle by Tristan Garcia, trans. by Christopher Beach
reviewed by Will Emmons
Link to latest issue in bio!
#sciencefiction #scifi #sff #bookreviews
September 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I squealed when I saw this and had to take a seat on the stairs to read it. My novella has a review in Strange Horizons!!
kindness is the priceless act that costs nothing. Be kind.
September 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
kindness is the priceless act that costs nothing. Be kind.
"Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs, and, given our history, we have an awful lot of songs."
Frank Harte
Frank Harte
August 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs, and, given our history, we have an awful lot of songs."
Frank Harte
Frank Harte
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Buy my booooook it has strange planets and female protagonists and emotions
(And no romance)
And if you've already read it remember to leave a review 😇
(And no romance)
And if you've already read it remember to leave a review 😇
Discover #OrphanPlanet by @madeehahwrites.bsky.social 🪐
Elif is the warden of Maoira-I, a planet of interest for the spacefaring remnants of humanity seeking a new home.
But Elif is a child, and the only human inhabiting this world of violent seasons. www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella
Elif is the warden of Maoira-I, a planet of interest for the spacefaring remnants of humanity seeking a new home.
But Elif is a child, and the only human inhabiting this world of violent seasons. www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella
August 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Buy my booooook it has strange planets and female protagonists and emotions
(And no romance)
And if you've already read it remember to leave a review 😇
(And no romance)
And if you've already read it remember to leave a review 😇
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Have you reviewed us, or any of the stories we have published? If so, please send me a link!
I've made a new page on our website where I'm keeping track of recommendations, awards, and other nice things
inner-worlds.ghost.io/recognition/
I've made a new page on our website where I'm keeping track of recommendations, awards, and other nice things
inner-worlds.ghost.io/recognition/
Recognition
It makes us SO happy when the authors and works we have had the honour to publish are recognised with awards and reviews, so we're keeping a note of them here.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
August 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Have you reviewed us, or any of the stories we have published? If so, please send me a link!
I've made a new page on our website where I'm keeping track of recommendations, awards, and other nice things
inner-worlds.ghost.io/recognition/
I've made a new page on our website where I'm keeping track of recommendations, awards, and other nice things
inner-worlds.ghost.io/recognition/
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So proud of Hussain for this! Clinging to the Stones (a fantasy heist novel) is coming to an agent's inbox near you soon!
Thrilled — and a little stunned — to have won first prize in the Al Azhar Writing Prize for a short story that’s part of the prequel novella to my #WIP, Clinging to the Stones.
So grateful to the judges & organisers!
And great many thanks for @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social!
#WritingCommunity
So grateful to the judges & organisers!
And great many thanks for @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social!
#WritingCommunity
August 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So proud of Hussain for this! Clinging to the Stones (a fantasy heist novel) is coming to an agent's inbox near you soon!
Thrilled — and a little stunned — to have won first prize in the Al Azhar Writing Prize for a short story that’s part of the prequel novella to my #WIP, Clinging to the Stones.
So grateful to the judges & organisers!
And great many thanks for @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social!
#WritingCommunity
So grateful to the judges & organisers!
And great many thanks for @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social!
#WritingCommunity
August 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Thrilled — and a little stunned — to have won first prize in the Al Azhar Writing Prize for a short story that’s part of the prequel novella to my #WIP, Clinging to the Stones.
So grateful to the judges & organisers!
And great many thanks for @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social!
#WritingCommunity
So grateful to the judges & organisers!
And great many thanks for @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social!
#WritingCommunity
That stage in writing when ‘starting fresh’ is really just a polite way of admitting you have no idea what you’re doing. #WritingStruggles #AmWriting #CreativeProcess #WritersLife
July 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
That stage in writing when ‘starting fresh’ is really just a polite way of admitting you have no idea what you’re doing. #WritingStruggles #AmWriting #CreativeProcess #WritersLife
Today's writing caveat: Drones are more terrifying than dragons. You cannot reason with an algorithm.
#amwriting #fantasy #SciFiAuthor #WritingCommunity
#amwriting #fantasy #SciFiAuthor #WritingCommunity
July 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Today's writing caveat: Drones are more terrifying than dragons. You cannot reason with an algorithm.
#amwriting #fantasy #SciFiAuthor #WritingCommunity
#amwriting #fantasy #SciFiAuthor #WritingCommunity
"There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel."
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
July 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel."
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
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Past issues of Inner Worlds are now available to buy in EPUB and PDF form 📚🤖👻🧚🏻
innerworlds.gumroad.com
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June 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Past issues of Inner Worlds are now available to buy in EPUB and PDF form 📚🤖👻🧚🏻
innerworlds.gumroad.com
innerworlds.gumroad.com
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I know everyone's broke and everything's awful 🫠
But if you like what we're doing here and you have a few £ spare it would be wonderful to be able to pay our authors and artists a little more. Subscribe here 👇🏻
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But if you like what we're doing here and you have a few £ spare it would be wonderful to be able to pay our authors and artists a little more. Subscribe here 👇🏻
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Support Inner Worlds
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March 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I know everyone's broke and everything's awful 🫠
But if you like what we're doing here and you have a few £ spare it would be wonderful to be able to pay our authors and artists a little more. Subscribe here 👇🏻
inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...
But if you like what we're doing here and you have a few £ spare it would be wonderful to be able to pay our authors and artists a little more. Subscribe here 👇🏻
inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...