Fahmidan Newsletter-March 2025

March 2025

Dear Reader,

Welcome to this latest instalment of the Fahmidan newsletter where our mission is always to be drivers of diversity in action! We’re humbled by your continued support and look forward to reading your work. As we continue to read 1000s of poems, prose and non-fiction pieces, we are extremely grateful to be able to engage with your writing.

You can expect reviews, reader wishes, as well as submission opportunity updates and other monthly musings. We have also recently launched our Chapbook Editing/Feedback Service, Editor Consultations and offer Editorial Feedback. As a completely self-funded literary journal and publishing house, we appreciate all support to continue our mission of practicing Diversity in Action.

You can request Chapbook Editing/ Consultations: here

Issue 21 is now out! Why not check it out for free here.

You can also check out our archive of issues here.

Launching Fahmidan Education

Workshops by Elizabeth M Castillo, Donna J. Vorreyer, Cass Garison, Aly Ang & A.R.Arthur

Sign Up: here.

Launching the Inagural Fahmidan Amsterdam Retreat 2025

Join us for the Fahmidan 2025 Amsterdam Retreat – a unique literary getaway where creativity and culture converge in one of Europe's most inspiring cities. From July 27th to August 3rd, immerse yourself in workshops, excursions, and an enriching literary experience like no other! With three different packages ranging from Bare Bones to the Full Experience, we want to make this retreat accessible to all!

With talented international literary citizen facilitators A.R.Arthur, Cass Garison, Rashna Wadia, Yasmine Dashti & Elizabeth M Castillo!

Some Workshop Titles include: "Writing with Purpose, finding the extraordinary in the Mundane", Finding words in Far-flung Places: Craft on the Move", "Becoming a Global Literary Citizen: Writing beyond our Society", A Chapbook/Full Length Workshop and others!

Sign up & Find out More here.

Things our Readers would like to read more of!

Prose reader René Zadoorian would like to read more prose and non-fiction that reflects the intersections of culture and desire, specifically in terms of queer identity.

Poetry reader Fran Fernández Arce would like to read more poetry that addresses the nature of language, how words can be organic creatures, and the relationship between the self and history in all its different shapes.

Poetry reader Abu Ibrahim would like to read more poetry that pushes the boundaries of language and creatively engages the human experience.

Poetry reader Christa Fairbrother would like to read more poetry that engages with the musicality of language and pushes formal boundaries to explore poetry's creative potential.

Prose reader Taskin Quagliani would like to read more prose and non-fiction that delves into the complexities and absurdities of existence along with richly descriptive narratives that capture the nuances of human experience.

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If you’re looking for new collections to read, then checkout the Fahmidan Bookstore for E-Chapbooks galore + check out the launch of the Second Edition of About Devotion by Sarah Al Zuraiqi here.

March 2025 Reading (Press the links below on ‘Monthly Review’ to read:

Review 1- Team Fahmidan

Every Wreckage by Ian C. Williams read here.

Bio: ​Ian C. Williams is a poet and teacher from Appalachia. He is the author of the full-length collection of poems, Every Wreckage (Fernwood Press 2024).
He is also the editor-in-chief for Jarfly: A Poetry Magazine and his chapbook, House of Bones, is available in person or from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
He currently lives with his wife and two sons in Fairmont, West Virginia.

Review 2- Team Fahmidan

Red Handed by JLM Morton read here.

Bio: JLM Morton is a writer and poet based in Gloucestershire, England. Winner of the Laurie Lee and Geoffrey Dearmer prizes, her poems appear in The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Magma, Living With Water (MUP, 2023), and elsewhere. Morton's work explores rural experience and belonging, ancestry, place and practices of care, repair and solidarity across human and other-than-human worlds. Red Handed is her first poetry collection.

New Series: Anonymous Anomalies

A new series where anonymous members of Team Fahmidan reflect on the difficult, comical, sublime and shocking in their lives.

Read here.

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Check out our friends over at the European Writers Salon

European Writers Salon is a new non-profit organisation set up to connect writers across Europe. On 27 March, they are hosting an open-mic salon night in Berlin. This will be a fun and friendly evening that will attract a mixed crowd of local Berlin writers and people travelling from elsewhere.

Prices start from £0. You don’t have to read, but if you want to, please book quickly and let the organisers know as places are filling up fast! Full details here. You can also subscribe to their newsletter for future events including Brussels, London and Paris here.

Check out all their forthcoming events here.

We are open for Summer Issue 22 submissions until March 15th 2025:

• We pay $25.

• We have a guaranteed 25 day response time.

• We accept Poetry, Fiction & Non-Fiction.

• We accept simultaneous submissions.

• We offer both reader & editorial feedback.

Submit to Fahmidan Journal here

We hope to read your writing this coming month!

Will you be submitting?

Warm Regards

Team Fahmidan

Diversity in Action