Muslim Literary Festival @MuslimLiterary
Dedicated to amplifying & celebrating Muslim storytellers 📚🎙️ linktr.ee/muslimliterary… Toronto, Ontario Joined December 2023-
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Muslim Literary Festival is seeking volunteers for our fast approaching festival day! Apply here: forms.gle/4gLWZc3HRTDebw… #MuslimLiteraryFestival #TorontoEvents
Sooo, I've decided I will be going to this for any Muslim Torontonian friends who wanna come hang out at a cool festival 👀
Sooo, I've decided I will be going to this for any Muslim Torontonian friends who wanna come hang out at a cool festival 👀
Presenting our third sponsor: The Excellent Sign Group! The Excellent Sign Group has been specializing in custom signage and fabrication since 1965. Muslim Literary Festival is proud to be sponsored by the Excellent Sign Group in our inaugural year. #canlit #torontoevents
Your girl is on the team for the most exciting festival coming your way IN TORONTO on JUNE 8th! If you're Muslim and have always wanted to write...COME!!
Your girl is on the team for the most exciting festival coming your way IN TORONTO on JUNE 8th! If you're Muslim and have always wanted to write...COME!!
It’s meee 🤓 It is truly the highest of honors to plan a whole event for Muslim writers & I cannot waitttt to meet everyone in person 🥹✨ A huge shoutout to the growing volunteer team at MLF for all their hard work & my family + friends for their constant encouragement 🫶🏽🪴
It’s meee 🤓 It is truly the highest of honors to plan a whole event for Muslim writers & I cannot waitttt to meet everyone in person 🥹✨ A huge shoutout to the growing volunteer team at MLF for all their hard work & my family + friends for their constant encouragement 🫶🏽🪴
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🎟️ Early bird tickets available now for our first Muslim Literary Festival on June 8th! 📚✨ Calling all Muslim writers: connect with fellow storytellers, learn from industry pros, and make your dreams reality. Let's fill the bookstores with our stories! 🪴shorturl.at/duF56
Your girl is on the team for the most exciting festival coming your way IN TORONTO on JUNE 8th! If you're Muslim and have always wanted to write...COME!!
It’s meee 🤓 It is truly the highest of honors to plan a whole event for Muslim writers & I cannot waitttt to meet everyone in person 🥹✨ A huge shoutout to the growing volunteer team at MLF for all their hard work & my family + friends for their constant encouragement 🫶🏽🪴
Behind every vision is a village! 🌟 Meet the first half of the Muslim Literary Festival executive team who, along with our wonderful volunteers, make it all happen! #canlit #torontoevents #muslimliteraryfestival
The writer in me is SCREAMING bc so many amazing agents are coming to MLF???? 💃🏽💃🏽 Limited sessions available, friends, run to get your tickets now 🏃🏽♀️🏃🏾♂️ #WritingCommmunity
When you buy an all-day festival pass to the Muslim Literary Festival, you have the option to add on a live session to PITCH YOUR BOOK TO AN AGENT!!!🗓️🎟️✨ #literaturefestival #muslimliteraryfestival #torontoevents #currentlypitching
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Come hang out with me on June 8! ✨📚 #WritingCommmunity I wanna hear all about your WIPs🪴
Our workshop on June 8 will be followed by a… 🥁 🥁 🥁 Creative Lab! A collaborative hub where writers can explore their ideas, and share their pitches and projects with each other with desserts provided! #literaryfestival #canlit #toronto #torontoliteraryevents #torontoevents
Join @MuslimLiterary Executive Director Narjis Sheikh and two Muslim writers, @salma_h_writes, and @thealinakhawaja for NAVIGATING NEW NARRATIVES: INSIGHTS FROM MUSLIM DEBUT AUTHORS virtually on April 30, at 4:00pm ET. Register today at thefoldcanada.org/register!
Tune in at 4 pm on April 30th for a discussion on what’s it like to be a Muslim writer navigating the publishing industry ✨🪴
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Quick #KidLit4Ceasefire Fundraiser Update: We're waiting for donation confirmations from about 100 people. If you won an item, please check your spam folders for an email from us! We have about 40 item winners in the queue to be connected with item donors. THANK YOU ALL! 💛
✨Pls RT: The #KidLit4Ceasefire Fundraiser has been extended so it doesn’t intersect with Eid celebrations! It will now end on the 11th at 7PT/10ET PM! $20k raised | 350+ items up for auction from authors, illustrators, agents, editors, and more! bit.ly/KidLit4Ceasefi… ✨
Shout out to @CookeMcDermid for sponsoring our very first Muslim Literary Festival🥁 #WritingCommunity my friends looking for true advocates for your work, check out their agents & their wishlists 👀
Presenting our second sponsor: CookeMcDermid Agency! CookeMcDermid is an internationally focused literary agency with nearly 50 years of experience representing authors and their complete creative rights.
Reminder that I'll be speaking on a panel at this festival and would leave to see you iA!!
🎟️ Early bird tickets available now for our first Muslim Literary Festival on June 8th! 📚✨ Calling all Muslim writers: connect with fellow storytellers, learn from industry pros, and make your dreams reality. Let's fill the bookstores with our stories! 🪴shorturl.at/duF56
Me: Posts ticket link 🎟️ Me: ✨30 mins later✨ how come we haven’t sold any tickets 😜 🪴Muslim Literary Festival’s Early Bird tickets are LIVEEE 🏃🏽♀️
🎟️ Early bird tickets available now for our first Muslim Literary Festival on June 8th! 📚✨ Calling all Muslim writers: connect with fellow storytellers, learn from industry pros, and make your dreams reality. Let's fill the bookstores with our stories! 🪴shorturl.at/duF56
Toronto book lovers!! Check this festival out!
We’re excited to share the full program for Muslim Literary Festival on Saturday, June 8!🌟 Early bird tickets will go live this weekend. 🎟️✨ Mark your calendars, & come connect with fellow Muslim writers & celebrate Muslim stories! Can't wait to see you in a couple months!🎉
MLF 2024 program is OUT ✨📚 #WritingCommmunity
We’re excited to share the full program for Muslim Literary Festival on Saturday, June 8!🌟 Early bird tickets will go live this weekend. 🎟️✨ Mark your calendars, & come connect with fellow Muslim writers & celebrate Muslim stories! Can't wait to see you in a couple months!🎉
LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO GO! I am so grateful for everyone who has donated, bid, boosted, cheered this fundraiser on. We only have one life and we get to decide to either help people with it or tear people down. I see everyone who chooses to do good and it offers me so much hope.
✨Pls RT: The #KidLit4Ceasefire Fundraiser has been extended so it doesn’t intersect with Eid celebrations! It will now end on the 11th at 7PT/10ET PM! $20k raised | 350+ items up for auction from authors, illustrators, agents, editors, and more! bit.ly/KidLit4Ceasefi… ✨
eid mubarak, friends! 🌙 it's a weird one for many of us this year. i hope we all find time to spend with and ability to hold the ones we love close today 💕 of course, i'm also thinking of everyone who can't, and praying for liberation and justice, in this life and the next 🤲
✨Pls RT: The #KidLit4Ceasefire auction is now LIVE!✨ Bid on over 325 items from amazing publishing creatives and professionals from signed books to mentorships from now until April 10th! bit.ly/KidLit4Ceasefi…
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