Broadside: Herat
Broadside “Herat” designed by Roni Gross, Center for Book Art [100 copies printed & available for purchase at Center for Book Art] part of the Broadside Reading Series curated by LaTasha Diggs Advertisements
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Publishing
UpSet Press: New Releases and Upcoming Books
2013/2014 is a busy time for UpSet Press, a press co-founded by poet Robert Booras et moi. After years of learning the publishing industry, we’ve finally gained enough energy to release multiple titles. This coming year will certainly be chock full of poetry, poetics and our first full-length novel. Since we are a non-profit micro-press, […]
MoreHighlights of Fall 2012: Panel on Afghanistan and Afghan Diaspora with Tamim Ansary at Book Court
One of the highlights of this season has been to share a panel with one of my literary heroes, Mir Tamim Ansary. One of the foremost intellectuals and writers in the field of Afghanistan, it was an honor to be invited by him to be at this event. About The Event: Join Tamim Ansary, Sahar Muradi, […]
MoreFrom Zine to Indie Press: How Many Books Can a Ripe Guava SPAWN?
I’m packing up these beauties to take over to the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collections Archive. Earlier this week Alycia Sellie from the library contacted Robert Booras and I about submitting our zines. Although, at first I thought I had lost my old zines in my move — I was ecstatic after finding this humble […]
MoreSummer 2011 Editors’ Favorites List
One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American writers EDITED BY Zohra Saed AND Sahar Muradi (The University of Arkansas Press, 2010) A remarkable stand-out anthology offering poetry, fiction, essays and selections from the blogs of photographers Masood Kamandy and Gazelle Samizay. Editors Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi state in their introduction, “This […]
MoreHow to get your book published: From Writing a Query Letter to Signing a Contract Thursday, June 16, 2011, 7PM
How to get your book published: From Writing a Query Letter to Signing a Contract Thursday, June 16, 2011, 7PM Are you a recent MFA graduate trying to figure out how to turn your manuscript into a novel? Or a a journalist who dreams of publishing the next Maximum City? Or maybe you’re writing short […]
MoreUpset Press in the News
Upsetting Brooklyn by Eleanor J. Bader When Zohra Saed was a child, her father frequently spoke about two things: Islam and Afghanistan, her family’s country of origin. She found his stories riveting. In fact, she loved them so much that she started writing stories and poems of her own. “I’d go to the elementary school […]
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