Fatima ElKalay

Author of Dessert for Three: An Egyptian Collection (collaboration). Managing editor @rowayategypt 2025. Translator, shortlisted @arablit. Poet.

[Mansoura Ez-Eldin @MansouraEzEldin]

Many thanks to Mohamed Seif El Nasr and Fatima Elkalay @Fatimawrites for their skillful and seamless translation of my short story “The Museum of Mistakes”, and to @RowayatEgypt for bringing it to publication.
https://t.co/OWdfaP0MCq

[Rowayat @RowayatEgypt]

Deadline extended!
Submit to Rowayat Issue 13: Forged Kinship by Nov 7, 2025
Open to:
• Fiction
• CNF / Nonfiction
• Poetry & Flash
• Comics
• Art
• Writing Central (craft, translation, pedagogy)
🔗 https://t.co/D7eqtdVjgo
#Rowayat #ForgedKinship #CallForSubmissions

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

All the world’s literature is a #palimpsest—layered with voices that history writes over.

Our magnificent Fall 2025 issue, OUT NOW, puts many of these voices in conversation: Nay Thit, Jen Calleja, and Johanna Drucker in our Special Feature on #attention: https://t.co/qil2RFD1ig

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@kasnawaz @abierkhatib @YamaWolasmal https://t.co/XuKySqiLUD

See how she stutters here. It’s so made up Hadrian had a name for it 🙄

[Rowayat @RowayatEgypt]

🚨 Announcing Rowayat’s 2025 Poetry Contest!
Submit your unpublished poems (1–3, max 5 pages) between Aug. 1st–31stfor a chance to:
• Win $500
• Be published in Rowayat’s Fall 2025 Issue (Issue 13) • Get a mentorship session with our poetry judge @SaraFarag

[Ahmed AbdelHalim @Ahmd_abdelhalim]

Grateful to Rowayat magazine and its wonderful team for their efforts in translating and publishing the fifth chapter of my novel.

https://t.co/bKA1NM4mKv

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@unejam_ @mhdksafa Actually this widespread belief (even among Muslims) is grossly inaccurate and there’s plenty of solid evidence to confirm otherwise. She was most likely between 17 and 18 as the historical timeline points to this age. It’s about time the narrative around this topic changed

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@FasasiDiipo Hello. Please check your Rowayat submissions status on submittable. Thank you

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@FasasiDiipo Hello. Please check the status of your Rowayat submission. Thank you

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@_olakunle_ Hello, this is Fatima from Rowayat. Please check your submittable for an important update. Many thanks!

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@m_ixedbag I don’t know you, but this hurt to read. Very sorry for your loss. Sending love ❤️

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

https://t.co/SsBNAfkVYQ

Going live today, Tuesday, April 11
with week one of our staggered launch! Look out for some fabulous submissions on the theme of “Faith”

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

Only a few days left. We’re waiting! @PoetryBrum

[Mai Serhan @MaiSerhan]

Submit your best work to @RowayatEgypt issue 6: FAITH. Only 2 weeks left! #poetrylovers #story #memoir #essay #SWANA #Cairo

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

There’s still time!

[Mai Serhan @MaiSerhan]

Submit your best work to @RowayatEgypt issue 6: FAITH. Only 2 weeks left! #poetrylovers #story #memoir #essay #SWANA #Cairo

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

I’m the poetry editor here. Send us your best work!

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@kellathornton Finally published a collaborative collection after 17 years in hiding (only ever submitted it once and it was considered, but I was late responding) and while I’m not the same writer/person as I was when I started, I am ever so proud of this achievement.Never too late 💕

[Mai Serhan @MaiSerhan]

My memoir has made into @Narratively and @MemoirMonday’s a dozen excellent essays. Read an extract here: https://t.co/BRnIb16PQu

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

Seventeen years later I finally let go. Hard to believe it’s taken so long. Wish we’d made it in time for us all to still be here to celebrate, Congratulations to us! I love you both. Hope I’ve made you proud. 💕

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@kathyfish Happy birthday Kathy! Lovely, happy pic. Same smile, and it runs in the family I see 😊 Bless you x

[Fatima ElKalay @Fatimawrites]

@SmokeLong @ingram_wallace And they’re so Smokey too xxx