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Editorial Note: Republished from the original AnankeWLF site. Stay tuned for our new website and upcoming details on the Ananke Literature Festival. Born in 1965 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Myriam Tadessé has lived in Paris since 1978. She studied theatre, philosophy, dance, music, and internal martial arts. An actress...
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Editorial Note: Republishing Review of Naveen Kishore’s Book of Poetry Knotted Grief from old AnankeWLF website. New website and information about Ananke Literature Festival Coming Soon. Meditative pauses, abrupt halts, soulful variations, and metaphoric juxtapositions weave the lilting fabric of lyricism that makes up Knotted Grief. More than a book...
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The car crash in a Paris tunnel. The fallout. The updates. I remember only Cartoon Network being unaffected. I sat in my pyjamas with a bowl of Shreddies and watched Cow and Chicken. Gran had just had the carpets washed, so when the second plane hit I was removing...
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Dubai, UAE: Dubai-based publisher, The Dreamwork Collective, has launched a powerful new novel confronting the complexities of adult friendship against the backdrop of childhood trauma. Written by acclaimed author, Safinah Danish Elahi, Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light, explores how the past can continue to shape lives, long after relationships...
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Pakistani novelist Faiqa Mansab has reached an exciting international milestone, with the Italian rights to her novel The Sufi Storyteller officially acquired by Newton Compton Editori, a prominent name in Europe’s publishing industry. Established in 1969 in Rome, Newton Compton Editori has grown from producing affordable editions of classic...
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There is, at the heart of The Tree, the Well & the Drag Queen (Red River Press, 2026), a trembling proposition: that inheritance is not land or memory, but a rehearsed, enforced, and, occasionally, resisted script. In this slender yet resonant novella, Salini Vineeth conjures a world where myth...
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Alpa Arora is a former journalist/content writer who has been writing articles, poetry and short stories for the last 25 years. Her work has been published in The Times of India, Bengaluru Review, Kitaab, Borderless Journal and 1455 Arts. In 2025, she published a collection of poetry titled Please...
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“Aren’t you tired of running by now, Ruby?” It is the kind of question that sounds accusatory at first, until the reply reframes everything: Sometimes you run out of fear, and sometimes you run because you finally can. Like a horse loosed into a field. Like freedom. This quiet,...
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‘In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems – including the injured stranger – and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love...
Editorial Note: Republished from the original AnankeWLF site. Stay tuned for our new website and upcoming details on the Ananke Literature Festival. Born in 1965 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Myriam Tadessé has lived in Paris since 1978. She studied theatre, philosophy, dance, music, and internal martial arts. An actress...
Editorial Note: Republishing Review of Naveen Kishore’s Book of Poetry Knotted Grief from old AnankeWLF website. New website and information about Ananke Literature Festival Coming Soon. Meditative pauses, abrupt halts, soulful variations, and metaphoric juxtapositions weave the lilting fabric of lyricism that makes up Knotted Grief. More than a book...
The car crash in a Paris tunnel. The fallout. The updates. I remember only Cartoon Network being unaffected. I sat in my pyjamas with a bowl of Shreddies and watched Cow and Chicken. Gran had just had the carpets washed, so when the second plane hit I was removing...
Dubai, UAE: Dubai-based publisher, The Dreamwork Collective, has launched a powerful new novel confronting the complexities of adult friendship against the backdrop of childhood trauma. Written by acclaimed author, Safinah Danish Elahi, Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light, explores how the past can continue to shape lives, long after relationships...
Pakistani novelist Faiqa Mansab has reached an exciting international milestone, with the Italian rights to her novel The Sufi Storyteller officially acquired by Newton Compton Editori, a prominent name in Europe’s publishing industry. Established in 1969 in Rome, Newton Compton Editori has grown from producing affordable editions of classic...
There is, at the heart of The Tree, the Well & the Drag Queen (Red River Press, 2026), a trembling proposition: that inheritance is not land or memory, but a rehearsed, enforced, and, occasionally, resisted script. In this slender yet resonant novella, Salini Vineeth conjures a world where myth...
Alpa Arora is a former journalist/content writer who has been writing articles, poetry and short stories for the last 25 years. Her work has been published in The Times of India, Bengaluru Review, Kitaab, Borderless Journal and 1455 Arts. In 2025, she published a collection of poetry titled Please...
“Aren’t you tired of running by now, Ruby?” It is the kind of question that sounds accusatory at first, until the reply reframes everything: Sometimes you run out of fear, and sometimes you run because you finally can. Like a horse loosed into a field. Like freedom. This quiet,...
‘In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first snowball in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems – including the injured stranger – and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love...
