Sunday Submissions: PalFest’s Open Call for Writers
“The deadline for applications is December 10, 2018.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
A Glance at ‘Book of Cairo,’ Forthcoming Spring 2019
The ten-story collection is set to feature work by Cairene literary stylists Hassan Abdel-Mawgoud, Eman Abd El-Rahim, Nael el-Toukhy, Areej Gammal, Hatem Hafez, Hend Jaafar, Nahla Karam, Mohammed Kheir, Ahmed Naji, and Mohamed Salah El Azab.
Friday Finds: ‘Mosul, the City with Two Springs’
“I had learned from early childhood that Mosul was a city with two springs because autumn was like a second spring.”
Lara Vergnaud Wins PEN/Heim to Translate Yamen Manai’s ‘The Ardent Swarm’
In Yamen Manai’s prizewinning third novel, the devastation of a beekeeper’s hive by a hornet attack serves as a microcosm for the aftermath of Tunisia’s 2011 Jasmine Revolution.
In Photos: Memoir and Foundation Remembering Emily Nasrallah (1931-2018)
For those wishing to find out more about Nasrallah’s personal history, and also the history of a small village in southern Lebanon, ‘Al Makan’ is a perfect source.
The 20 Entries for This Year’s Banipal Translation Prize
The winner of the 2018 prize is set to be announced late January 2019, with an awards ceremony to be held in late February or early March 2019.
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 13-book Literature Longlist
The longlist is made up of two poetry collections, a memoir by acclaimed Moroccan author Bensalem Himmich, and ten novels.
The Unique Wordplay of Sudanese Writer Bushra Al-Fadil
“Without falling victim to affectation, artificiality, or modernist arbitrariness, he has been able to coin creative expressions that have moved beyond the pages of his short stories into daily use.”
Sunday Submissions: Language-crossing Poems for New Journal ‘Harana’
“The site also promises to feature interviews with poets writing in English “as a second or parallel language.” Find submissions guidelines and more at haranapoetry.wixsite.com/mysite/.”