Published
Interviews, Mentions and Publications
“This is How You Lie”, Fiction, Summer 2021, Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 14.
“Nothing to Note in the Aftermath of War,” Micro Fiction, Summer 2021 (Online & Print), The Cormorant, Issue 6: July 2021.
“When Writing Becomes the Way Out of One’s Well”, Conversation/Interview with The Letters Page content team, Spring 2021, (Online), The Letters Page Content Team.
“Letter to Anne”, Letter-Essay, Spring 2021 (Online), The Letters Page, Vol.5 #11.
“Books That Shaped Me”, Interview, February 2021, (Online), The Common Breath.
“As if Between Countries or Parts of My Life”, Creative Nonfiction, Winter 2020 (Print), Zahir: Desire and Eclipse– Zeno Press
“A 1000 Year Old Fakir’s Dream”-Prose Poem, Winter 2020 (online), Love in the Time of Covid.
“Alphabets of War”- Micro Fiction, Fall 2020 (print), Restore to Factory Settings: Bath Flash Fiction Vol 5
“Other People’s Memories” – Short fiction, Fall 2020 (online), The Common Breath
“Boys Who Make Music Need to Go Far Away” – Short fiction, Summer 2020 (online), FlashFlood Journal.
“The Underserving” – Short fiction, Fall 2019 (online), The Honest Ulsterman
“The Cartography of the Mind” – Short fiction, Fall 2019 (online) Menacing Hedge
“Dear Teacher…” – Non-fiction, Fall 2019 (print & online, page 37), Voices from the Middle (NCTE)
“Walking Along 145th Street in the New New York”- Poetry (online), Visual Verse- Volume 6, Chapter 11
“She Writes”- Poetry, (online) in Visual Verse – Volume 4, Chapter 10
“On Music and Writing” – Essay, Fall 2019 (online) The Fiddlehead
“Landscape Through the Body” – Creative Nonfiction, Spring 2019 (print) The Fiddlehead
“On the Border of Twilight” – Short Fiction, Feb. 2019 (online), Fictive Dream
“Invisible People” – Short Fiction, Winter 2018 (online), Blue Fifth Review
“Exile is a Fire No One Can Put Out” – Short Non-Fiction, Fall 2018 (online) Burning House Press
“The Day I Become An Animal” – Short Fiction, Summer 2018 (print) Tahoma Literary Review
“The Centre for Examining Memories, Visions, and Insomnia during Full Moon” – Creative Non-Fiction, Summer 2018 (Print) Ellipsis Zine
“First Language”- Poem, Spring 2018 (Online) Bangor Literary Journal: Issue Two
“Colors of Reincarnation” – Short Fiction/Poem, Spring 2018 (online), Blue Fifth Review
“Silent Protest” – Short Fiction, Winter 2017 (online) Ellipsis Zine
Collection of Auguries
The darkness belongs to no one between the hours of three and four. It is a suspension of theories, feelings, and conclusions that adhere neither to the night nor to the day. It is a podium wreathed with dreams, memories, and thoughts that are not quite yours to claim. What can’t be deciphered in those hours is invented for coherence.
Winds carry stories in them.” – from “Engram” in Collection of Auguries
“Syed presents a rich and engaging collection of short shorts that reveals hidden truths about the human condition and encourages readers to search for fuller understanding of themselves and their place in the universe.” ~ Publishers’ Weekly
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