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The TWS Review

The year in writing, gathered into one annual edition.

The TWS Review is our annual magazine, highlighting the year’s most engaging writing — poetry, prose, essays and reflections — and offering a platform to the emerging and established writers who shaped the literary year.

1 edition English and Urdu
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Latest: Edition 01
What it is Annual · English and Urdu
  • An annual gathering of the year’s writing from across Pakistan
  • Poetry, short fiction, essays, criticism and reflective non-fiction
  • No single theme — the edition takes its shape from whatever arrives
  • Written in English or Urdu, by writers at any stage of their work
  • New writers are read alongside established names, in one volume
The editions

Every edition, newest first

Each edition gathers new writing around the theme, in print and digital.

Edition 01 Print and digital
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2025

Published January 2026

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Write with us

Send your work to The TWS Review.

Send one original piece for the coming Review. You keep the rights to your work, and every submission is read by our editorial team.