Thank you Caroline!!

This conversation with Madeleine and Liam was truly fun. (Really appreciate the work Liam put into the episode)

Want to know about some exciting books publishing soon - don’t forget the 2026 preview with Madeleine Dunnigan and @farah-ali.bsky.social

We spoke about their books JEAN @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and TELEGRAPHY @cbeditions.bsky.social

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Night and night

'Telegraphy' at Burley Fisher Books, on January 15.
Lara Pawson (of Spent Light) and I will be there.
Come by.

6:30pm
400 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AA
burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

@cbeditions.bsky.social

The beginning of poetry by Adonis, translated by Khaled Mattawa

💜💜💜 thank you Lara, so very much.

Erin!! Hi!! 💜

William at four days old by Jack Underwood

Many thanks to Richard Lea @fictionable.bsky.social for this enjoyable conversation!

Got my copies of 'Telegraphy'

@cbeditions.bsky.social

Pre-order link:
www.cbeditions.com/FarahAli.html

'Telegraphy' is out on January 15, 2026, in the UK.

(Massive thanks to those who have already pre-ordered.)
(Different postage at checkout for orders to outside the UK.)

Seamus Heaney - In a Loaning

Wasafiri and Tagore's Salon are delighted to be co-hosting an event with writers Dur e Aziz Amna and @farah-ali.bsky.social, titled Writing Through Pain: On Labour and Literature.

When: Wed, 15 October, 7pm
Where: @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social, London
Tickets: £6

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Kaveh Akbar

One of our 2025 Gaza Literary Translation Workshop participants, Baraa'h Qandeel. Read the poem here: arablit.org/2025/06/25/n...

& support her ongoing education: gofundme.com/f/help-baraa...

Lol! Not surprising, unfortunately!

Lara thank you so much 💜

Zines are great.

💜 thank you!!

'Telegraphy', a novel, will be out in the UK in January 2026 from CB Editions. That cover – that I love – is courtesy of Charles at the press.

If you would like to review the novel/talk about it/question it/ask me about all its earlier names, let me know.

ArabLit Quarterly invites your submissions: Write a letter to someone who will never receive it. Over the past year and a half of US-funded genocide in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli occupation, we have witnessed an entire world turn away as lives were erased in real time. Each one we lost is an echo, an unfinished conversation, a dream interrupted mid-sentence Write to someone who is no longer here. A letter, a note, a voice message never sent. It could be to someone you loved, someone you admired from afar, someone whose name you only learned after they were gone. It could be to a stranger whose last words reached you through a screen, a child you saw in a photo, a poet whose final lines still haunt you. Or to someone beyond Gaza-to a political prisoner in Egypt, forcibly disappeared. To the buried in Assad's dungeons, still unfound. To the protester shot in the street in Sudan, their blood still staining the pavement. To the mother in Libya, in Yemen, waiting for a son who will never come home. To the ones who died when the port exploded in Beirut. To the port in Beirut. Across borders, across griefs, across histories that keep repeating. What do you wish they knew? What do you carry of them? Do you ask them what to do now? Do you need their forgiveness, their guidance, their answers, their rage? Send your letters to: info@arablit.org DEADLINE FOR INCLUSION IN OUR GRIEF ISSUE: March 17, 2025. DEADLINE FOR INCLUSION ONLINE: April 17, 2025

You can still submit to @arablit.bsky.social's GRIEF issue for inclusion online.

Photo of a beige cat sitting on a placemat on a dining table.

Photo of a beige cat looking to a side

Just a little kitten.

Chowk is open for submissions!
🔶 The 2025 theme is "Borders/Boundaries – سرحدیں/حُدُود".
🔶 Send in your essays, art, photography, and original poetry.
🔶 Visit lakeermag.com/submissions for guidelines.
🔶 And check out other incredible work at lakeermag.com/chowk2025.

(Artwork by Maliha Hasan)

The skies/scapes in reverse. Also: Ramadan has started.

- Teaching online at MWPA in March! Link to sign up:
www.mainewriters.org/calendar/pul...
- Some books I taught from recently at Tin House and Kenyon
- Cat

💜 lithub

Thank you so much for reading this conversation between me and @shzehuitjoa.bsky.social! And we're so glad it resonated with you! Your time away writing sounds lovely.