Author of the Month: Eliot Hudson
“The first book I ever read was Alice in Wonderland, and the surreal has taken captive of my imagination ever since…” Eliot Hudson, our February Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.
Read Moreinterviews
Author of the Month: Nadia Kabir Barb
“…as a writer, one should never be bound by the constraints of gender, age, race, religion, economic background, or social status when telling a story.” Nadia Kabir Barb, our January Author of the Month, talks to Casey Harding.
Read More
Spotlight: Girls at Dhabas
“We were acting on personal frustrations we faced as women navigating Karachi and Lahore, by simply sharing our stories — a political act in its own right — and saying, this is important too…” The Missing Slate’s Afshan Shafi talks to the team behind Girls at Dhabas.
Read More
Poet of the Month: Priya Sarukkai Chabria
“Yours is a large question to which I provide partial answers, like fireflies going off…” In our February 2016 Poet of the Month interview, Priya Sarukkai Chabria talks to Pratyusha Prakash.
Read More
From the Margins to Centre Stage: A Sangam (Confluence) of Three Indian Women Poets
“Poetry is, and has always been, the art of uttering multiple truths in a single line. It’s a celebration of plurality, of contradiction… Poetry compels us to confront uncertainty. That makes it the very antithesis of the fundamentalist impulse…” A Sangam (confluence) of three Indian women poets, featuring Arundhathi Subramaniam, Meena Alexander and Priya Sarukkai Chabria.
Read More
The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective: Building Community Through Poetry
“In the U.S… it’s easy to feel like a non-entity in the publishing world which is still dominated by cishet white men (though some aspects are changing). In India, what I’ve experienced is almost the opposite, a lot of openness and welcoming of new ideas…” A roundtable discussion with the members of The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective.
Read More
Spotlight Poets: Zainab Syed & Zohab Khan
Afshan Shafi talks to Zainab Syed and Zohab Khan, the co-founders of the Pakistan Poetry Slam.
Read More
Author of the Month: Zino Asalor
“What others see of us and vice versa is often the result of a great and ongoing internal struggle to appear consistent.” Zino Asalor, our December Author of the Month, talks to Haseeb Ali Chishti.
Read More
Poet of the Month: Nancy Anne Miller
“…every poet writes from exile. For myself, it took me a long time to acknowledge I was an immigrant.” Nancy Anne Miller, The Missing Slate’s November 2015 Poet of the Month, talks with Afshan Shafi.
Read More
Author of the Month: Michal Hvorecký
“My country is turning into a police state and nobody cares, people just continue with their Christmas shopping…” Michal Hvorecký, our Author of the Month for November, talks to Casey Harding.
Read More