Category: Literary
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Celebrating Abundance: Queer + Trans Voices Virtual Reading
On January 17th, we’re celebrating our most recent issue Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices in abundance! This virtual reading features SIXTEEN AUTHORS, Dina Abdulhadi, Rasha Abdulhadi, Kamee Abrahamian, Danielle Badra, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Michael Chang, Tarik Dobbs, Hazem Fahmy, Carissa Halston, Ghinwa Jawhari, Mena Kamel, Nour Kamel, Aiya Sakr, Omar Sakr, Mejdulene B. Shomali, and…
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Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices Virtual Launch
Join Mizna for a virtual launch of the summer 2020 issue Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices. Guest-edited by Zeyn Joukhadar, this issue speaks to bodily autonomy, embodiment, and self-determination within a queer, transgender, SWANA, and Muslim lens. Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices bears witness to our rich history, and imagines futures for ourselves. Within these pages, we not…
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A Mizna Reading at Dodge Poetry Festival
Mizna brings together a powerful slate of today’s most compelling Muslim and Southwest Asian and North African poets for the 2020 Dodge Poetry Festival: Tarik Dobbs, Ifrah Mansour, Sagirah Shahid, and Moheb Soliman. Mizna is a critical space for Arab and SWANA literature, film, and art. We publish Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab…
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Worlds of Our Own Making
Zeyn Joukhadar Foreword for Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices I The camera lens is a dark blue eye. Four months have passed since my top surgery, and a friend has asked to photograph me for a Muslim photo series. We’re both in Los Angeles for a few weeks. This is in the before, so it…
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One Poem: A Protest Reading in Support of Black Lives
In case you missed it, you can watch the Poetry Coalition’s full ONE POEM Festival in Support of Black Lives on Youtube. Closed captioning is included. About the Reading On August 18, the founding members of the Poetry Coalition, a network of over 25 poetry organizations from across the United States, were honored to present…
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Calling all Arab & SWANA illustrators and comic artists!
ترجمة عربية Mizna, the only Arab lit and art journal in the United States, is seeking submissions for a special Comix Issue. This issue will be guest edited by Palestinian graphic novelist Leila Abdelrazaq. We are seeking comics submissions by Arab and SWANA artists living anywhere in the world responding to the prompt of A New World…
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FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
POETRY COALITION FELLOWSHIP– APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED UNTIL JULY 15, 2020. Mizna, a founding member of the Poetry Coalition, is accepting applications for a paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position. This position is 20 hours per week from September 15, 2020 to June 30, 2021. The stipend is $18,720 plus a $1,000 stipend toward health care. Mizna is…
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Virtual Reading: I am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing
Mizna + Asian American Writers’ Workshop partnered to present our first virtual reading! I Am Deliberate And Afraid of Nothing: Poetry, Prose, and Protest, a reading of Mizna authors went live on Facebook on Thursday, March 26, featuring authors Andrea Abi-Karam, Romaissaa Benzizoune, and Sham-e-Ali Nayeem. This livestream is a joyous first collaboration between Mizna…
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Call for Submissions: Queer + Trans Voices
Guest edited by Zeyn Joukhadar!**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 4/14!**CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOW CLOSED. Queer and transgender writers who are Arab, Muslim, and/or of Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) heritage have long made significant contributions to the literary canon and the literary community in the United States. Despite marginalization, erasure, and even violence, we have…
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Nathalie Handal: An Evening of Poetry
It’s with startling force that Handal builds an architecture for the wanderer.—Washington Independent Review of Books Join Mizna for a special reading from acclaimed Palestinian poet Nathalie Handal. To kick off a weekend of celebrations marking Mizna’s twentieth anniversary, Handal will read from her latest poetry collection, Life in a Country Album, and will sign…