Maryam Piracha is an author, editor, and communications specialist who also runs an international art and literary magazine called The Missing Slate.
Blog
A Brave New World
Through the Crucible is finished. A preliminary draft of it is, at least. This is the first time I’ve been solicited to write something for a literary journal and to start off with a piece about two women in love in Pakistan is not a typical plot point I thought I’d tackle, but if working …
Through the Crucible
My only barometer that the novel is well and truly over is that I’m writing short pieces again… and that I’m getting ideas and concepts for them again. I’d started wondering if I was just a one-trick pony, having concentrated almost exclusively on writing this thing for the better part of six years. I am …
Baby Steps (or Hello, World!)
I confess: this isn’t the first time I’ve built a website or run a blog–ambition always seems to belong to a younger me, though persistence and determination are hallmarks of an older, less idealistic, more cynical me. A me who knows the road to publication is long and arduous, and never the goal. The goal …
About
Writer, reader, editor, development sector communications professional, occasional couch potato, and social entrepreneur.
You might have read some of my work or the work I’ve solicited. In 2011, I graduated with distinction with an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University’s competitive writing program. The degree cemented the commitment to craft that already existed; in 2005, I helmed a writers’ collective and magazine for writers from the South Asian diaspora, called ‘Desi Writers Lounge’. In 2010, I founded ‘The Missing Slate’, an international art and literary magazine that has published work from over 80 countries and featured writing from over 40 languages, including work from Jhumpa Lahiri, Ilya Kaminski, Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid, Muhammad Umar Memon, Jeet Thayil, Rahul Soni, Anuradha Roy, among others.
I currently work in the international development sector as a communications specialist.
Contact
I can be reached at either contact@maryampiracha.com, or for matters concerning The Missing Slate, at chiefed@themissingslate.com.