Journal
Essays, short stories, notes, announcements, and editorial fragments from Senliz.
Collapse! is inviting Persian / Farsi and English-language writers from anywhere in the world to submit a literary response to the world as it is now.
Deadline: 18 August 2026
Censorship does not only remove words from books. Over time, it enters the writer's mind, changes the direction of thought, and teaches the pen to avoid certain words before anyone else crosses them out.
A journalistic look at The Shepherd's Palace, Canker, and Tannic — how Fatima Abdolhamid's work confronts Iranian censorship, religious taboo, sexuality, and the politics of literary silence.
A clear guide for authors on the difference between ethical self-publishing services and vanity publishing models that exploit writers' hopes.
A literary and cinematic review of Full Moon by Yas Is, examining its poetic road-film structure, female protagonist, Iranian displacement, fragmented narration, visual language and recurring metaphor of incompletion.