Friends Amal and Manal Ahmed launched the Dallas chapter of the Muslim Writers Collective.
Over the summer, friends Amal and Manal Ahmed hosted a gothic-themed writing party inspired by the horror film. They gathered with friends to work on their latest pieces while eating snacks and sipping drinks.
“The stereotype about Dallas is that everyone here just has really professional white-collar jobs,” she said. “But also people have all these different sides of them and I think not having the space [to express that] is something that has been lacking.”Amal and Manal hosted the Dallas chapter’s first meeting in mid-October by a pool at a friend’s apartment complex. Around 10 to 15 people from across North Texas gathered to share short stories and prose with each other.
“I think that’ll be a really cool part of it, just like growing the kind of information and resources that we can build within our community,So far, around 40 people have signed up to join the collective. The co-founders said they’ll host monthly meetings and send out a monthly newsletter to share updates with the group.For Amal and Manal — a journalist and medical student, respectively — writing is an essential part of their lives.
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