New Voices Writing Competition: Pakistan
Presenting the first writing contest exclusively for writers in Pakistan. Guest judge: Sabyn Javeri. Deadline: May 15, 2017!
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Don’t cry like a girl. Be a (wo)man.
Why holding up the women in our lives can help build a nation, in place of tearing it down.
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The Groupthink of Marital Discourse
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.
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We’re moving to print…
If the magazine has any chance of surviving and more importantly, expanding, it needs the funds to do it. Take the next step with us… campaign backers will receive free copies of the anthology, artwork and other goodies.
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A Word from the Editor
Dear Readers, Some might argue that for an almost all-woman team of a magazine run by a woman, sexual and emotional power plays, such…
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A Word from the Editor-in-Chief
On politics, art, and why The Missing Slate breaks its promise to never “do” politics…
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Editor’s Letter: “On Freedom”
In a first for the The Missing Slate’s Editor, Maryam Piracha writes what “freedom” means for a head scarf wearing Editor of a liberal arts magazine in Pakistan.
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Winter 2013: Editor’s Letter
A love letter to literature from the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief
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Fall 2012, Letter from the Editor
A word from the Editor-in-Chief about the seventh issue
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