Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed
@sumaiya.bsky.social
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"Ansari Bhai munches. His son takes a bite. In nine hours, all Iftekar has eaten is a bowl of chira. He swallows his saliva. Ruti crumbs coat the headlines." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Sunday Stories: “You Say Roti; I Say Ruti”
You Say Roti; I Say Rutiby Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed for Abdul Latif Joarder Jessore, East Pakistan, 1971 The Pakistani soldiers joke among themselves, and Iftekar cannot trace the indefinite shapes of t…
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November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Ansari Bhai munches. His son takes a bite. In nine hours, all Iftekar has eaten is a bowl of chira. He swallows his saliva. Ruti crumbs coat the headlines." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
On August 5th, @astoriabookshop.bsky.social and I are co-hosting an evening of readings in honor of the Bangladeshi community on 36th Avenue in Astoria, NY and Bangladesh's 2024 student movement.
In-person tickets SOLD OUT. Tune into the livestream: bit.ly/3Im6cBd
@nyculture.bsky.social
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In-person tickets SOLD OUT. Tune into the livestream: bit.ly/3Im6cBd
@nyculture.bsky.social
@pw.org
July 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
On August 5th, @astoriabookshop.bsky.social and I are co-hosting an evening of readings in honor of the Bangladeshi community on 36th Avenue in Astoria, NY and Bangladesh's 2024 student movement.
In-person tickets SOLD OUT. Tune into the livestream: bit.ly/3Im6cBd
@nyculture.bsky.social
@pw.org
In-person tickets SOLD OUT. Tune into the livestream: bit.ly/3Im6cBd
@nyculture.bsky.social
@pw.org
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Mandy Shunnarah discusses writing about love and Palestine in an interview with Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed (@sumaiya.bsky.social).
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Mandy Shunnarah Cannot Separate Love From Palestine - Electric Literature
The author of "We Had Mansions" on their intersectional identity, the language wound, and the poppy as a metaphor for Palestine
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July 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Mandy Shunnarah discusses writing about love and Palestine in an interview with Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed (@sumaiya.bsky.social).
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I’m a Queens Arts Fund recipient! With the grant, @astoriabookshop.bsky.social and I are co-hosting an evening of readings on August 5, 2025 in honor of the Bangladeshi community on 36th Avenue in Astoria, New York and Bangladesh's 2024 student movement. Details TK. Thank you @nyculture.bsky.social!
July 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I’m a Queens Arts Fund recipient! With the grant, @astoriabookshop.bsky.social and I are co-hosting an evening of readings on August 5, 2025 in honor of the Bangladeshi community on 36th Avenue in Astoria, New York and Bangladesh's 2024 student movement. Details TK. Thank you @nyculture.bsky.social!
For @washingtonpost.com, I wrote about André Aciman's collection of novellas, ROOM ON THE SEA.
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Review | From the author of ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ three dreamlike romances
André Aciman once again celebrates imperfect, unconventional relationships in the three novellas that make up ”Room on the Sea.”
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June 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
For @washingtonpost.com, I wrote about André Aciman's collection of novellas, ROOM ON THE SEA.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
For The Metropolitan Review, I wrote about Mayukh Sen's poignant biography of Merle Oberon, a South Asian Hollywood actress who passed as white.
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The Pain of Passing
On Mayukh Sen's 'Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star'
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April 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
For The Metropolitan Review, I wrote about Mayukh Sen's poignant biography of Merle Oberon, a South Asian Hollywood actress who passed as white.
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-pain-o...
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-pain-o...
I'm so grateful for this workshop, which I joined last summer. @asaldrake.bsky.social shared the many forms a book review could take and demystified the process of writing criticism for me.
Looking to become a more active literary citizen? In this generative workshop, we’ll cover essential elements of long and short form reviews, with a special focus on essay-length reviews!
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April 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I'm so grateful for this workshop, which I joined last summer. @asaldrake.bsky.social shared the many forms a book review could take and demystified the process of writing criticism for me.
"In my family, as in many immigrant households, food is how we show our care. I love you does not easily pass the lips of my elders, but rather, have you eaten?" @crystalhanak.bsky.social
@crystalhanak.bsky.social on the many uses of food: “To pay attention to the meal in front of you is to commit your hope and faith.”
Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food
The Stone Home took me eight years. Set in a 1980s South Korean reformatory center, the emotional and psychological heart of the novel pivots around humanity’s profound immorality as well as the in…
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April 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"In my family, as in many immigrant households, food is how we show our care. I love you does not easily pass the lips of my elders, but rather, have you eaten?" @crystalhanak.bsky.social
Thank you, @tobiascarroll.bsky.social, for the opportunity to write about QUARTERLIFE by Devika Rege for Vol. 1 Brooklyn! www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/04/01/l...
Lives Upended In an Election’s Wake: On “Quarterlife” by Devika Rege
Devika Rege begins her timely, layered, and inquisitive debut novel Quarterlife with an epigraph by Kabir, a 15th century Indian poet. The inscription carries urgency, especially in Hindi. At a lit…
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April 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Thank you, @tobiascarroll.bsky.social, for the opportunity to write about QUARTERLIFE by Devika Rege for Vol. 1 Brooklyn! www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/04/01/l...
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Our CNF Discord is officially up and running!
Now that #THWW is over, it’s great to have a space to talk with other nonfiction writers.
If you write creative nonfiction and want to join, let me know—I’ll send you the link.
Now that #THWW is over, it’s great to have a space to talk with other nonfiction writers.
If you write creative nonfiction and want to join, let me know—I’ll send you the link.
April 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Our CNF Discord is officially up and running!
Now that #THWW is over, it’s great to have a space to talk with other nonfiction writers.
If you write creative nonfiction and want to join, let me know—I’ll send you the link.
Now that #THWW is over, it’s great to have a space to talk with other nonfiction writers.
If you write creative nonfiction and want to join, let me know—I’ll send you the link.
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Make sure to check out #THAlum @agneschew.bsky.social's amazing first fiction collection "Eternal Summer of My Homeland"!
Agnes, thanks so much for writing with us!!!
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Agnes, thanks so much for writing with us!!!
Link: epigrambookshop.sg/products/ete...
March 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Make sure to check out #THAlum @agneschew.bsky.social's amazing first fiction collection "Eternal Summer of My Homeland"!
Agnes, thanks so much for writing with us!!!
Link: epigrambookshop.sg/products/ete...
Agnes, thanks so much for writing with us!!!
Link: epigrambookshop.sg/products/ete...
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People say keep sharing the pub news, even though the world is broken. So here is a new anthology of poetry about our broken world, beautifully edited, where a poem of mine sits alongside poets who lit the way for me.
ATTACHED TO THE LIVING WORLD, available here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
ATTACHED TO THE LIVING WORLD, available here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology
A New Ecopoetry Anthology
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March 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
People say keep sharing the pub news, even though the world is broken. So here is a new anthology of poetry about our broken world, beautifully edited, where a poem of mine sits alongside poets who lit the way for me.
ATTACHED TO THE LIVING WORLD, available here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
ATTACHED TO THE LIVING WORLD, available here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Join our friends @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for their third online poetry reading featuring Sarah Ghazal Ali, George Abraham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion and Q and A. Can't wait to see you there!
February 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Join our friends @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for their third online poetry reading featuring Sarah Ghazal Ali, George Abraham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion and Q and A. Can't wait to see you there!