TMS Staff, Author at The Missing Slate

A Word from the Editor, Special FeaturesMarch 10, 2017

New Voices Writing Competition: Pakistan

By TMS Staff

Presenting the first writing contest exclusively for writers in Pakistan. Guest judge: Sabyn Javeri. Deadline: May 15, 2017!

In the IssueMay 8, 2016

Issue 14 – Summer 2016

By TMS Staff

A Word from the Editor, MagazineMay 8, 2016

Don’t cry like a girl. Be a (wo)man.

By TMS Staff

Why holding up the women in our lives can help build a nation, in place of tearing it down.

A Word from the Editor, MagazineOctober 13, 2015

The Groupthink of Marital Discourse

By TMS Staff

At a time where “femininity” is weighed by the proclivity of procreation, the author ponders what place “the white picket fence” fantasy merits in Pakistan today.

Commentary, EssaysOctober 13, 2015

In Search of the Pakistani Author

By Momina Masood

“The Author dies, along with his world. The Reader is born into a different universe, and confronts the text as rootless and wayward as the autumnal wind brushing through his hair.” Momina Masood searches for the Pakistani author.

In the Issue, MagazineOctober 12, 2015

Peeling the Onion of Central European Writing

By TMS Staff

Commentary, Essays, MagazineOctober 12, 2015

How Adult Are You?

By TMS Staff

Ghausia Rashid Salam assesses young adult fiction and asks why grown adults are so drawn to the genre.

Featured Articles, MagazineOctober 12, 2015

More Than 50 Shades of Grey

By TMS Staff

“Certainty needs to be upheld and so all inquiry in its midst must be regulated so as not to topple some invisible, delicate balance of floundering egos insisting upon their “only truth”.”

Featured Articles, MagazineOctober 12, 2015

Literature & Individuality in the Classroom

By TMS Staff

“Unfortunately, in a country with a rich tradition of literature, and one that has and continues to produce prolific writers and poets, the pursuit of literature suffers.”

Commentary, Essays, MagazineOctober 12, 2015

Examination of the Unchained: What Makes A Mob?

By TMS Staff

“The definition of a mob, or protest, and how the two vary relies on intent as it does the outcome — what starts peacefully can end in tragic violence, or it can revolutionize a nation.”