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Editor's Blog
Call for submissions!
Damselfly press, an online literary journal for women is pleased to announce the publication of our twelfth issue and call for submissions for the thirteenth issue. We are seeking electronic submissions of original fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by female writers only slated for online publication in October 2010. As always,
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Review of the Week
From the BBC
Why is India's financial and entertainment capital, Mumbai (Bombay) the favourite muse of Indian authors writing in English? The BBC's Soutik Biswas finds out.

"Indian writer Manu Joseph's debut novel Serious Men opens on Mumbai's crowded seafront promenade.
It is filled to the gills with walkers - pale
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Featured Profile
Sorayya Y. Khan
Sorayya Y. Khan is the author of the novel Noor. She was Fulbright Creative Writing Scholar in Pakistan and Bangladesh
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Reading Room
Red Dust Road
by Jackie Kay
Picador, £16.99

"Red Dust Road opens in the Nicon Hilton Hotel in Abuja. Jackie Kay is confronted by the man who is her natural father. He is a born-again Christian and self-styled faith healer who prays over her for two hours. He is disappointed by her
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