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Category: fiction

  • New Course – Beginning this September

    Hi lovelies,  I hope you’re all well! Some of you have been part of this journey for a long time. You’ve read my books, taken my free courses, shared kind messages, and reminded me why community matters. Whether you’re here to write, read, listen, or simply stay close to something creative — you’re so welcome…

  • Invest in yourself and live your dream writing life!

    What are you waiting for? Join Inkspiration for adults, today! Invest in yourself and live your dream writing life! Let’s say you can see yourself a year from now. You’ve take action, and finally joined a writing group. You have writing buddies, a writing coach, and you’re no longer alone on your journey to becoming a…

  • Birmingham Muslim Lit Festival

    Join me at the Birmingham Literature Festival this weekend!

  • Talk with Sana

    Hello lovelies, Here’s a throwback to 6 months ago when I was interviewed by Sana Khan on her channel, ‘Talk with Sana’. I didn’t share it at the time because I felt self conscious and embarrassed but it just shows how things change, because listening to it now on the brink of submitting my novel…

  • Stories for Eid by Sidra Ansari 😃

    Totally blown away by the audiobook reading of my Stories for Eid collection by the awesome Nabil Elouahabi, @Actornabil! Thank you! What a treat to listen to these with my family this evening. Not allowed to share with anyone yet, but they’ll be out just in time for Eid this Spring 🤩@ladybirdbooks. If you’d like…

  • Bring Them Flowers

    To the Writer’s Friend: If you know someone who is writing a novel take them out for lunch. If they’ve finished one- even if it never gets published- it’s a great feat and a huge sustained effort. Bring them flowers.My students laugh. I say I’m not kidding.” Natalie Goldberg Here is a reminder to appreciate…

  • Fiction: Yes, She Was Different

    Fiction: Yes, She Was Different

    Yes, She Was Different All she wanted was to be treated as a human. When Leila’s face was covered they turned away. The invisible woman. When her head was covered, a passenger in a nondescript white van shouted out of his window, tyres hissing in the rain. He spat at her whilst driving by, leaving…