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The TWS Review

Our annual literary magazine — the finest pieces we published, read all the way to December.

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 issue English and Urdu
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Latest: Issue No. 01
What it is Annual · English and Urdu
  • An annual gathering of the year’s best writings from across Pakistan
  • Poetry, short fiction, essays, criticism and reflective non-fiction
  • No single theme — the issue 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
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The issues

Every issue, newest first

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

Issue No. 01Print and digital
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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.