Introducing our newest MENA Muse
🌟Sophia Vahdati🌟
Sophia shares some absolute gems in her interview & it was an honour to get an insight into how her own lived experience fed into the wider themes of belonging in her bestselling novel, The Girl with the Fierce Eyes. 🧵
*MENA muses is an ongoing series showcasing SWANA authors and their amazing stories. If you’d like to be featured in a future segment please reach out via DM or email: menapitch@gmail.com
🌊THIS WOVEN KINGDOM x PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN🌊
In a retelling of the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad the Sailor, a snarky pirate must accompany a cheerful princess across the monster-filled Indian Ocean to rescue her fiancé from a mysteriously moving island #MENApit#Qu#OWN#F
Inspired by the extensive nautical history of the Muslim world, ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES is about finding home in unexpected places and how you sometimes have to venture beyond your comfort zone in order to discover the person you truly are 🌙 #MENApit#Qu#OWN#F#YA
ALT Moodboard of Indian palace, elephants, seashells, horses, pirate ships, and the ocean. Quote: "The trajectory of our lives may have been written down even before the creation of the universe, but that does not mean we lack the ability to make decisions—to influence our destinies, whatever they may be."
A reminder that we've got so much planned beyond the #menapitch event! Be sure to follow us on all our socials for news, opportunities, interviews, book recs, community support and more!
Hey #WritingCommunity we wanted to share some of our goals with #MENApit 👇
Before and after the pitch event we'll be posting about SWANA writers and their books, spotlighting our ongoing MENA Muses interview series, and sharing opportunities in the industry.
Six strangers are invited to the north of Sweden and forced into twisted games that expose them. But this isn’t random, each of them is tied to the same buried crime, and someone is making sure they finally pay for it. #A#QU#MENApit#Thriller
#MENApit writers if we somehow missed your post (you didn't get a like/repost/comment from us) let us know (DM or tag us in a reply under your pitch). We want to make sure agents see all your brilliant work when they view your posts on our main page!
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