What it is
Quarterly · English and Urdu
- Mental health written from the inside, rather than explained from outside it
- Poetry, essays, short fiction and memoir, including writing about caring for someone else
- Anxiety, grief, recovery, therapy, sleeplessness, and the ordinary days in between
- Written in English or Urdu, by writers at any stage of their work
- Work that stays with the difficulty is as welcome as work that finds its way out
The editions
Every edition, newest first
Each edition gathers new writing around the theme, in print and digital.
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Kya Ham Azaad Hain?
An Independence Day edition on freedom, published every 14 August.
Deadline
9 August 2026
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