Hey @menapitch.bsky.social participants (& any other aspiring SWANA writers)!
I’d love to start a Discord where all of us can chat, talk about our projects, peer review, etc. If you’re interested, interact w/this post!
It would be awesome to have a hub where we can all support eachother☺️ #menapit
I'm just now checking out #Menapit and will be going through pitches today and tomorrow! If I like your pitch please feel free to query me using the link below! This link never closes so you can submit when you're ready 😊
QueryTracker.net/query/Morgan...
Thank you all so much for supporting our #MENApit posts! It was amazing to see how much support there is for SWANA voices. And THANK YOU @ptissem.bsky.social, @krystalelkhoury.bsky.social & @yaldacollection.bsky.social for hosting @menapitch.bsky.social ✨ I’m extremely grateful! ❤️
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Egyptian gods divided the Staff of Maat -a weapon with the power to transform reality- into 3 pieces: 1 for Ra, 1 for Ptah, and 1 for the traitor god Amon. Now their descendants will fight for the pieces, ignoring a conspiracy in the shadows to kill them all #MENApit #YA #F #QU
EVEN GODS DIE. Even Gods bleed. Anuki learns it the hard way. She can't save her brother's life or stop the war. She's been exiled to another realm, and the war goddess Sekhmet wants Anuki to free her. If she accepts, she could save her father... or burn out #MENAPit #YA #QU #F
#menapit writers how we doing? 👀Last push to the finish line! The event ends at 11:59 PM EST, get your pitch in one last time!
PALESTINIAN X CITY OF BRASS X TPW
Cursed by the blood-soaked decisions of their ancestors, a banished prince, a brooding commander, and warrior woman must save their empire from a genocidal king.
🕊️ jinn blood parchment magic v. elemental magic
🕊️ sentient sword
🕊️ slowburn
#MENAPIT #Qu #A #F #R
Ayesha dribbles through Texas, dodging prejudice as a Muslim-American teen.
Decades earlier, her teen grandmother fled the fields of 1947 India during the violent Partition.
Bound by struggle across generations, both must reclaim who they are or be lost to a world coming undone.
#MENApit #YA
Imagine moving to New York City with your best friends in search of romance and adventure—everything you’ve avoided for the first 22 years of your life. Only for the boys across the street to quickly become your rivals—in business and otherwise. #menapit #qu #NA #literaryagent
#menapit #NA #psychthriller #Qu
HIDDEN CRACKS is a dual-POV psychological thriller that follows the unraveling relationship between Michael Huang and Amali Rai, exposing how obsession distorts love—and how control can turn deadly.
Malia plans to quit captaining when a distress signal has her rerouting her starship to save her ex.At his behest, they work a series of jobs,rekindling her love for her ship&him.When he reveals a lead in her father’s☠️,she must choose b/w a chance for vengeance or protecting her crew #A #SF #MENApit
moodboard: smart glases, grimoire, futuristic world embedded in nature, voodoo doctor
WARCROSS X BLOOD DEBTS
While tech-savvy Viva uses magic and coding to stop the army of undead, her twin sister, Tasia, is resurrected by witches forcing her to kill.
🧟 magic with Necromancy/Voodoo
👩🏽💻Girls in STEM
👯♀️Magically bonded twins
❤️ Slow burn friends to lovers
#MENApit #SF #F #YA #Qu
Tropes and treats: QPOC MMC & LI (#own), transdimensional smuggling, stabby X cinnamon roll, magical mafia, friends-to-lovers, anticolonial. Fanart by Ikki.
THE CROOKED JACKAL features magical mobsters like Fonda Lee’s “Green Bone Saga,” with the technological advancements of Kate Dylan’s “Mindwalker,” and an LGBT+ cast similar to Makana Yamamoto’s “Hammajang Luck.”
Rep: @laurenbieker.bsky.social
#MENApit #AG #OWN #LGBT #A #NA #SFF #F #SF
@menapitch.bsky.social #MENAPIT #menapitchevent
A desperate writer accepts an invitation to an elite retreat that guarantees publication...and slowly realizes what it's *actually* harvesting from its residents.
#Pub #Qu #H #SF #A #NA #OWN
The Centre x Catherine House x Bunny
Professionally edited.
Only by teaming up with her best friend Mari and the mysterious ancestor who visits her dreams can 17yr old Azadeh get to the root of a generations-long family curse, before it claims her too.
THE VANISHING STATION x LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM
#MENApit #Qu #YA #MY #MR #OWN
Princess Alehandra de Landor leads her nation to its first defeat in 300 years.
Now dishonered, she must confront the infernal magic of the Shepherd of Souls to redeem her succesion.
#MENApit #QU #F #A
A KINGDOM TO DROWN ME
6 Keys 🔑
5 Centuries of magical politics ✨
4 Djinn on a mission ⚔️
3 Threats Mona Al’Maii must navigate 💀
2 Hot-headed, kindred souls 🖤
1 Secret that could ruin it all 🧭
The Knight and the Moth x Heavenly Bodies
#MENApit #RF #Qu #NA
@menapitch.bsky.social
#MENAPIT #Pub #Qu #H #SF #A #NA #OWN
On a remote Trinidadian island, surrounded by douen, the soucouyant, La Diablesse, and the devil in the silk cotton tree, a grieving sister makes a deal she can't take back.
When we were Birds x Mexican Gothic
Professionally edited.
SHAD HADID X THE SHADOW PRINCE
Layla and the Secrets of the Sands
📚Middle grade📚
🇸🇾Syrian-inspired fantasy🇸🇾
✨Magical school ft. sand magic✨
🤫Secret society🤫
🔥Magical trials🔥
🐦🔥Mythological creatures🐦🔥
✊🏽Brewing rebellion✊🏽
#WIP #MENApit @menapitch.bsky.social
With the death of her starship's mechanic, Captain Malia prepares to give up both her dreams&avenging her father. But when her ex appears w/ a lead in her father’s death, Malia must choose whether to take one final chance at finding the murderer or protecting what remains of her crew #A #SF #MENApit
#menapitchevent #MENApit #SPF #A #NA #syrianvoices #QU #PUB
Haneen works for a Company that shows people the lives they were too afraid to want. A Syrian calligrapher gluing boot soles. A refugee building for a brother who'll never see it. She's guided them all home.
Until her last case.
SEVERANCE x INDUSTRY
🕴️Hunger Games for burnt-out millennials who are too tired for revolution🕴️
A rebellious young woman struggles to hold on to both her morals and her life in a country ruled by a Big Tech company that executes people deemed unemployable.
#MENAPIT #WIP
A photo of a young woman with one eye purple and a small drop of blood by her mouth. There is text overlaid that says, "I don't know what it is. I don't even know if it has a name. But its only wish is to consume."
There is something wrong with Maha.
Her eye changes color and that's when the visions begin. She must travel back to her family's small village in Palestine to learn how to stop it. But what is real, and is the truth worth the price of Maha’s sanity? #MENApit #AG @menapitch.bsky.social
They Hate Each OtherXLove Simon
Ares is a nice Cypriot boy. He’s the star of his basketball team & is dating his childhood best friend.That is until his rival, his sister-in-law’s brother, comes to stay with him upending his life&heart.
✨Big 5 impr. editor interest
#MENAPit #YA #C #R #LGBT #OWN #Qu
Pitch: When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her disabled and gutsy ex-girlfriend, Sy, must triumph over a dysfunctional family of ancient gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods’ eternal slave and weapon against mortals. 94,000 words Crossover Fantasy Comps: T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone Damsel (2024 film) Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller Margaret Owen’s Little Thieves
Themes & Tropes: - Forbidden Love - Hot Banter - Feminine Rage - Anti-Chosen - Found Family - Second Chances - Dark Humor - Identity - Friends-to-lovers - Faustian Bargain - Choosing vs. being chosen - Dual-Timeline Representation: - LGBTQIA+ - BIPOC - Mental Health - Disability - Neurodivergence - Chronic Illness
Moodboard: Dark fantasy Victorian vibes with purple color composition. Top row, left-to-right: a Byronic handsome man in black, a palace, a dark figure burning in hellfire, a masked female assassin of dark complexion holding a dagger, a serpentine forest trail at night marked with red flowers. At the center, next to a silver plume, is the text: “This world, my dear, is the slaughterhouse of noble ideals.” Bottom row, left-to-right: a dark gaslit street, a gaslit city blanketed in coal smog at night, a young woman in a Victorian gown, wrought-iron gates opened to a foreboding foggy estate in the dark, a trail of red petals leading to a dark stone temple gate.
A gaunt mouse snatched bread crumbs from my lunch tray. I did not have the heart to give her a name, afraid I might lose her, too. The lingering scent of mud and mildew hung in the air, a long-forgotten tomb. Through the thin mattress, the bed’s cast-iron rods dug into my ribs. I clenched my jaw to keep my teeth from chattering and pulled the threadbare blanket tighter around my body, hugging my knees to my chest. It did little against the chill creeping into my bones. The raging blizzard had transformed the courtyard into a churning white sea, rattling the broken window shutters hanging askew. I was not allowed visitors or to set foot outside. My only reminder of life beyond these walls was the peeling wallpaper’s faded floral pattern. The medications I was forced to swallow left a cotton taste in my mouth and a dull ache in my skull.
An engineer. A Dragon hoarding romance books. A dysfunctional family of gods. Not the start of a joke, but Sy's undoing. When her ex, the chosen one, is murdered, gutsy Sy fights the gods to escape a fate worse than death: becoming the god's eternal slave
#MENApit #Qu #F #OWN #LGBT #POC #disability
Malia is ready to quit captaining when her ex enters her life w/ promises of lucrative jobs. As they go from one to another, she falls back in love w/ her ship&him.When he reveals he knows who ordered her father’s murder, she decides if her bright present is worth letting the past go #A #SF #MENApit
