Category: Literary

Note: Submissions for the Experimental Issue are now closed Call for submissions for Mizna: The Experimental Issue, Winter 2021. Due August 20, 2021. Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, we have…

Mizna is a proud sponsor and presenter of this year’s RAWIfest, a free virtual program celebrating Anglophone SWANA (Southwest Asian & North African) literature and performance art. RAWIfest takes place June 10–13, 2021. In addition to presenting a virtual Hafla, Mizna will co-present two readings which highlight and celebrate queer SWANA artistry. +Queer Voices Reading…

UPDATE: A recording of the launch event of Mizna: The Comix Issue is available here. Join us in launching Mizna: The Comix Issue virtually! Guest editor Leila Abedelrazaq will host a conversation with some of the artists in the issue, discussing their work in this special collection and reflecting on their art practice. Including Merieme…

Mizna is proud to present a reading exploring poetry and environmental justice featuring the powerful poets Samiya Bashir, Leila Chatti, and Amir Rabiyah on Saturday May 15, 2021. This reading’s theme was collectively chosen by members of the Poetry Coalition, of which Mizna is a member, and the is titled after the line “It is…

This notebook is a special partnership between Mizna and Asian American Writers Workshop, guest-edited by Mariam Bazeed. Full submissions guidelines here.Trigger warning: Suicide In her suicide note, composed in the mute solidarity of the asylum of forced exile—and by a hand whose skin had yet to wrinkle—Sarah Hegazy apologizes. On a simple, lined, spiral-bound notebook,…