The Poetteer

Yasmeen is back in school after winter break and is depressed. She's tired of change and having to adjust to a new schedule. There is a bright moment when she takes her favorite class, creative writing. She then meets a young man. He doesn't make her weary of him but weary in her belief of herself and her faith. Once she finds the balance of love and faith everything will fall rightly in place. MAYBE LOVING YOU is a novel in verse of light romance. It is complete at 20,600 words. First 250 Words: Winter break over back to routine it's not so easy keep having to adjust Change is hard for me. Arriving to school it's all about rush... rush... rush. try to remember my homeroom check the master list go in circles I soon find mine. Ten minutes in homeroom get my schedule rush rush rush again to my locker to look for my first class. In between Walking to the lockers I see Daania I go say hi stand awkwardly until her friends come say hi I observe as they all give her and each o...

Hello, Even though there is a day left in the contest I think it's safe to talk: It's no surprise when I didn't get picked. It's sad, but honestly, I'm used to it. I know why. My story was short. And just by putting myself out there I'm more subconscious of it. With or without help I noticed the errors I had of tense and age. Just by putting myself out there I found new friends. With and without professional help I came out with an improved readership and story. But... I'm still good. I'm entering another contest and I even got a free pass for it! I can't wait! Love, Fida Islaih (all writing is mine & copyrighted unless stated otherwise).

Hello readers, Through the luck of the Rafflecopter draw, I got picked to enter the Writer’s Voice, a multi-blog, multi-agent contest hosted by Cupid of Cupid’s Literary Connection , Krista Van Dolzer of Mother. Write. (Repeat.) , Monica B.W. of Love YA , and Brenda Drake of Brenda Drake Writes . (You can read all about it here .) As part of the contest, here are my query + 250! My Query: DECIDING HIJAB is a 15,100 worded multicultural, girly YA. 15 year old Yasmeen recently started wearing the headscarf. Along with covering up comes problems. She faces an atheist teacher giving mis-information and getting unwanted attention from a boy. Some good comes out of this, Yasmeen meets a faithful Christian girl named Jenna and she has a load of questions for her interest in their religion, Islam. They faces many problems, yet that doesn't stop them from being who they are and want to be. I'm a muslim college student and poet. I have been published in two small Muslim girl...