Tag: middle grade

• “Writing about grief is supposed to be difficult, but…it was ready to be told. All the love I have for my dad and watching his struggle with cancer, it wanted to be on the page.”

• Salma Hussain Recommends Twelve Canadian Writers Creating Stories Around Muslim Characters

• “As an adult they seem incongruous, but as children we knew seemingly opposite things can co-exist…as long as we made the space”

• “I wanted a brown kid at the center, the protagonist of her own life, abolishing the misconstructions society has of Desis and Muslims”

• “I wanted to explore Aafiyah’s denial, acceptance, and guilt…but also show that she is much more than a bad habit”

• “I honestly don’t think it’s possible for me to write a story that doesn’t have a healthy dose of family drama”

• “An Urdu phrase I loved including was ‘aaj jaane ki zidd na karo,’ which…loosely translates to: today, don’t insist on leaving”