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Recent Posts

  • Artist in Residence: Mental Health June 2, 2017
  • Intersectionality – a Definition, History, and Guide February 10, 2017
  • The Ordinary Skincare Follow-Up Review February 8, 2017
  • Publication: A Room of Our Own: An Anthology of Feminist and Womanist Writing December 13, 2016
  • Review: How You Might Know Me by Sabrina Mahfouz November 19, 2016
Snippets from my piece in the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award Cheval 10 Anthology, published by Parthain Books. Rewriting/developing this piece a bit more at the moment for something else but the foundation is there. • #writing #writer #writersofinstagram #creativenonfiction #ownvoices #tellyourstory #amwriting #belonging #migration #deportation #home #welshwriters #hiraeth Freelancing + writing = hopping from coffee shop to coffee shop. @200degs Cardiff is beaut, though. A hill with a view/woo. Time: that annoying person who always says I told you so. That constant tick tocking, the ultimate ruler, the moments we try to create in time, the undoer of those moments, the dividing mechanism, and its partner, patience, and its gift, hindsight. Time is selfish. Be even more selfish with it. • #randomrambling #thoughtsincafes #writingprompts #cliché #unblocking #writing #clock #vintage #amwriting #cardiff #igerscardiff #teahouse #coffeetime #coffeehouse #time Before you ask; these are Urdu stories in English (though I can read Urdu). I've always either avoided reading books by South Asian writers incase they cater to all the stereotypes or have simply just not been aware of them enough. Trying to slowly change that. One from my large pile of to-read that I'm really curious about. Yoga was bloody difficult today, after walking for nearly 4 miles yesterday. Food plz. I was whining to a friend about unashamed, undisguised tokenism and he told me I needed to do ruthless self promotion. I told him I didn't want to do excessive self promotion because all I'm writing currently still feels too newbie. That I wanted to get better. But the more I thought about it the more I wondered how much of it was unhealthy self sabotage and self doubt and how much was healthy constructive criticism. I'm taking his advice anyway to say that I have a story in the upcoming issue of The Lonely Crowd. I know I can do better than this story, which felt more like an exercise in frustration through inner monologue than a story. But The Lonely Crowd is a mag I wanted to be in from the beginning, edited by people I look up to. This is also the same story I submitted for The Word Factory mentoring scheme that I'm now on so I guess it has some value. Still wondering why I shouldn't just take up a mundane job, buy a car and go adventuring and live off the grid but hey ho. Woke up feeling like 1 Came back with 2 (first time!) 💪 Yesssss.

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  • Artist in Residence: Mental Health June 2, 2017
  • Intersectionality – a Definition, History, and Guide February 10, 2017
  • The Ordinary Skincare Follow-Up Review February 8, 2017

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