Muslim Writers Collective 🎤

A grassroots initiative promoting storytelling, creativity, and the arts. Monthly open mics in cities across the US and Canada. Founded in 2014 in NYC.

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

MWC is back in New York this Friday night! Come through for community, vibes, and an evening of storytelling, poetry, and spoken word - and chai & samosas too!

[MIPSTERZ @Mipsterz]

Eid Mubarak to all of you and your loved ones! If you happen to be far away from home this Eid or just want experience some amazing Muslim art, performances & more be sure to stop by our annual Eid Mic! Details & tickets here! https://t.co/SNyVSt5D5b

[Ethar El-Katatney @etharkamal]

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[زهرءzahra @zahracadabra]

:’) so grateful i could do this
@muslimswrite

[زهرءzahra @zahracadabra]

muslim writers collective nyc is such a wholesome and encouraging space :’)

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

🎭 MASKS: A storytelling open mic is happening TONIGHT! (we’ll have samosas & chai & 😷s too!) Come listen to @sabeenmsadiq @HamdanAzhar & more!! Thanks to @BitcoinCenterNY & @BlockchainCntr for hosting us. Doors open 6:30pm, limited tix left! https://t.co/srVYwYLS85

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

Join us for the next MWC Chai Chat with @amalykinz of The Texas Observer! Spots limited, register at https://t.co/nxX6F38vny!

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

Great initiative by our friends at @MuslimAdvocates!!!

[Muslim Advocates @MuslimAdvocates]

CALL FOR ART: Create the images, sounds, words, fashions, cultures of a just future!

Up to 20 artists of all mediums featured in a digital exhibit. Each receives $600. Deadline is July 26th.

https://t.co/UzgAnkDXuq
#AmericanMuslimFutures

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

We were so honoured to have you - a real delight and so inspirational alhamdulillah 💚

[Shubnum Khan | Order The Djinn Waits @ShubnumKhan]

This was so great! Thank you so much for organising @muslimswrite I loved being a part of it.

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

Interested in learning how to become an award-winning novelist? Seeking community while in quarantine? Then join MWC tomorrow for a Chai Chat with award-winning South African author Shubnum Khan. Shubnum’s first… https://t.co/bINbrEWaEx

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

Interested in learning how to become an award-winning novelist? Seeking community while in quarantine? Then join MWC tomorrow for a Chai Chat with award-winning South African author @ShubnumKhan. Limited spots. Register at https://t.co/nxX6F38vny #MWCChaiChats

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

Interested in a career in journalism? Seeking community while in quarantine? Looking to make like-minded creative friends? Then join MWC for a Chai Chat with award-winning South African journalist @QaanitahHunter. Limited spots. Register at https://t.co/QzHzyFM8iJ #MWCChaiChats

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

MWC is excited to announce a Chai Chat with Qaanitah Hunter, the acclaimed South African political journalist, specifically geared towards young people interested in careers in journalism and the media.

MWC Chai… https://t.co/o6UsKVU9DG

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

We hope you'll join us this Sunday at 8:15 pm (est) for another open mic insh'allah! There is no theme, however, we thought we would try something a little different this time. We want everyone to participate as much… https://t.co/GTtMuO5ROO

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

We have been singing along with, laughing, and crying with sheikh.kashif since our earliest open mics in 2014. We were initially taken aback when he asked to perform for the first time. “But I thought you were a… https://t.co/T9ik7dnAIl

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

Julde Ball, a graduate of the 2018 MWC Writing Workshop held in partnership with @TheMoth, reads from her book “Growing Up An American Muslim Army Brat.” 📸: hadzzz_29. @ Asian American Writers' Workshop https://t.co/nuGqYVhkIp

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

MWC has always been driven by love and purpose so how fitting that from the earliest days, we’ve been overwhelmed by love from all over the world. People have opened their hearts and minds, their event spaces, their… https://t.co/XmTSZGe63D

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

Recently, a young man went to the Middle East to study Arabic and learn more about Islam. He met an old man in a village one day.

"Why did you come here?" asked the old man. "To get closer to God," my friend… https://t.co/FBh8K9PtIn

[Muslim Writers Collective 🎤 @muslimswrite]

In an untitled piece, Aden shares learning of her birth story at the last MWC NYC open mic. Told from her mother’s point of view, what she understood to have been an uneventful night was transformed by language and… https://t.co/OJZSZvaYGs