Gemini Wahhaj
@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social
Author, The Children of This Madness, 7.13 Books, forthcoming.
Writer, teacher, reader.
Writer, teacher, reader.
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The Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting honors the third season of In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, which investigated the killings of twenty-five Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in 2005. Listen to the third season here.
In the Dark: Season 3
The New Yorker investigative podcast examines the killings of twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and asks why no one was held accountable for the crime.
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May 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting honors the third season of In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, which investigated the killings of twenty-five Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in 2005. Listen to the third season here.
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Happiest of book birthdays to @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social 's KATY FAMILY---a killer collection of stories about the Bangladeshi community in Houston, Texas. Smart, funny, engaging. If you order from the author's own shopify you can snag a signed copy!
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Signed copies of SHORT STORY COLLECTION: KATY FAMILY
This collection offers readers the ultimate experience of global fiction, stories bound and shaped by Katy, Texas, a place made by oil and capitalism. The stories weave between Bangladeshi characters ...
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April 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Happiest of book birthdays to @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social 's KATY FAMILY---a killer collection of stories about the Bangladeshi community in Houston, Texas. Smart, funny, engaging. If you order from the author's own shopify you can snag a signed copy!
m0gbty-vd.myshopify.com/products/sig...
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Hey #DC friends! Hope to see you tonight for this great reading with @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social & @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social @politicsprose.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Hey #DC friends! Hope to see you tonight for this great reading with @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social & @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social @politicsprose.bsky.social
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Thanks so much to Politics and Prose for a great event on Indie Bookstore Day, 4/26. Reading and signing with @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social all went smoothly. So nice to meet Jen from @jacklegpress.bsky.social and Javed Jahangir who read with us! Great to see Farooq Ahmed and Jarrod Campbell!
April 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thanks so much to Politics and Prose for a great event on Indie Bookstore Day, 4/26. Reading and signing with @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social all went smoothly. So nice to meet Jen from @jacklegpress.bsky.social and Javed Jahangir who read with us! Great to see Farooq Ahmed and Jarrod Campbell!
As I prepare for another book launch, I remembered my interlocutor Mohan Ambikaipaker last year broke his leg and still came out for me.
April 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
As I prepare for another book launch, I remembered my interlocutor Mohan Ambikaipaker last year broke his leg and still came out for me.
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"The world is bad, but a short story creates a moment of arresting beauty, moving the reader to understanding or feeling."
@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social shares the books that inspired her short story collection Katy Family (@jacklegpress.bsky.social).
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@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social shares the books that inspired her short story collection Katy Family (@jacklegpress.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/2rGjr2Y
April 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"The world is bad, but a short story creates a moment of arresting beauty, moving the reader to understanding or feeling."
@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social shares the books that inspired her short story collection Katy Family (@jacklegpress.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/2rGjr2Y
@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social shares the books that inspired her short story collection Katy Family (@jacklegpress.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/2rGjr2Y
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So happy for @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social - great feature!
"The world is bad, but a short story creates a moment of arresting beauty, moving the reader to understanding or feeling."
@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social shares the books that inspired her short story collection Katy Family (@jacklegpress.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/2rGjr2Y
@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social shares the books that inspired her short story collection Katy Family (@jacklegpress.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/2rGjr2Y
April 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So happy for @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social - great feature!
Nervous about book launch, in just over a week.
April 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Nervous about book launch, in just over a week.
Reading and noise at Beer Can House, a public art space in Houston. Organized by @gothgoof.bsky.social
#htx
#houston
Anthony Sutton
Reese Lopez
Gemini Wahhaj
Aga Zet
#htx
#houston
Anthony Sutton
Reese Lopez
Gemini Wahhaj
Aga Zet
March 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reading and noise at Beer Can House, a public art space in Houston. Organized by @gothgoof.bsky.social
#htx
#houston
Anthony Sutton
Reese Lopez
Gemini Wahhaj
Aga Zet
#htx
#houston
Anthony Sutton
Reese Lopez
Gemini Wahhaj
Aga Zet
Gemini Wahhaj's Katy Family is an exceptionally accomplished and perceptive short story collection. At times, it's also very funny. —Christine Marie Sneed, Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos
March 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Gemini Wahhaj's Katy Family is an exceptionally accomplished and perceptive short story collection. At times, it's also very funny. —Christine Marie Sneed, Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos
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Congratulations, @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social, on her new story collection, KATY FAMILY, to be published in April! Scoundrel Time was thrilled to publish her fantastic, incisive story "The English Teacher."
March 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Congratulations, @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social, on her new story collection, KATY FAMILY, to be published in April! Scoundrel Time was thrilled to publish her fantastic, incisive story "The English Teacher."
Thank you Litmags! I am nothing w/o you!
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March 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Writers are nothing without litmags and litmag editors!
Congrats, Gemini Wahhaj, former Third Coast contributor!
My short-story collection is going to be published by @jacklegpress.bsky.social in April.
Katy Family, Texas stories.
With stories from @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @scoundreltime.bsky.social
and more.
Katy Family, Texas stories.
With stories from @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @scoundreltime.bsky.social
and more.
March 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Writers are nothing without litmags and litmag editors!
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Congrats, Gemini Wahhaj, former Third Coast contributor!
My short-story collection is going to be published by @jacklegpress.bsky.social in April.
Katy Family, Texas stories.
With stories from @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @scoundreltime.bsky.social
and more.
Katy Family, Texas stories.
With stories from @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @scoundreltime.bsky.social
and more.
February 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Congrats, Gemini Wahhaj, former Third Coast contributor!
@jacklegpress.bsky.social @fulmerford.bsky.social Thank you, litmags! @karenrile.bsky.social @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @thirdcoastmagazine.com @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social @superpresent.bsky.social @terrainorg.bsky.social @pleiadesmag.bsky.social @valleyvoices.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Congratulations, @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social ! Read “The Patent Guy” on RS Online: www.riverstyx.org/fiction/the-...
January 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Congratulations, @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social ! Read “The Patent Guy” on RS Online: www.riverstyx.org/fiction/the-...
Selling my kid's toys so I can afford Submittable.
January 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Selling my kid's toys so I can afford Submittable.
My short-story collection is going to be published by @jacklegpress.bsky.social in April.
Katy Family, Texas stories.
With stories from @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @scoundreltime.bsky.social
and more.
Katy Family, Texas stories.
With stories from @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @scoundreltime.bsky.social
and more.
January 31, 2025 at 5:04 AM
My short-story collection is going to be published by @jacklegpress.bsky.social in April.
Katy Family, Texas stories.
With stories from @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @scoundreltime.bsky.social
and more.
Katy Family, Texas stories.
With stories from @thirdcoastmagazine.com @riverstyxmag.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social @scoundreltime.bsky.social
and more.
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Daily #SmallPress #book:
The Children of This Madness (2023) by @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social (7.13 Books)
As the US war in Iraq plays out a world away, Beena struggles to belong to Houston’s tony Bengali American community.
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💙📚 #BookSky #reading #fiction 📚🌎
The Children of This Madness (2023) by @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social (7.13 Books)
As the US war in Iraq plays out a world away, Beena struggles to belong to Houston’s tony Bengali American community.
713books.com/our-books/
💙📚 #BookSky #reading #fiction 📚🌎
January 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Daily #SmallPress #book:
The Children of This Madness (2023) by @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social (7.13 Books)
As the US war in Iraq plays out a world away, Beena struggles to belong to Houston’s tony Bengali American community.
713books.com/our-books/
💙📚 #BookSky #reading #fiction 📚🌎
The Children of This Madness (2023) by @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social (7.13 Books)
As the US war in Iraq plays out a world away, Beena struggles to belong to Houston’s tony Bengali American community.
713books.com/our-books/
💙📚 #BookSky #reading #fiction 📚🌎
Becky Tuch's Substack article about how to submit and place a nonfiction piece. Hint: start with the New York Times. open.substack.com/pub/litmagne...
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@danieljonesnyt.bsky.social
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Q: How do you decide where to submit your writing?
"...with any submission strategy, it’s good to define for yourself what your goals are."
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November 24, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Becky Tuch's Substack article about how to submit and place a nonfiction piece. Hint: start with the New York Times. open.substack.com/pub/litmagne...
@danieljonesnyt.bsky.social
@beckyltuch.bsky.social
@danieljonesnyt.bsky.social
@beckyltuch.bsky.social
I actually liked it.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
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November 22, 2024 at 3:01 AM
I actually liked it.
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James Reich has done A LOT for a lot of folks in our literary community. He's also written a great novel called THE MOTH FOR THE STAR. You could take a few seconds out of your day to rate/review it on someplace like Goodreads, couldn't you? 7.13 Books www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
The Moth for the Star
At once a gripping metaphysical mystery of Depression-e…
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January 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM
James Reich has done A LOT for a lot of folks in our literary community. He's also written a great novel called THE MOTH FOR THE STAR. You could take a few seconds out of your day to rate/review it on someplace like Goodreads, couldn't you? 7.13 Books www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
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@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social's THE CHILDREN OF THIS MADNESS published by 7.13 Books covered by Electric Lit here. And look for Gemini's debut collection, KATY FAMILY coming soon from @jacklegpress.bsky.social. Whee!
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15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Fall - Electric Literature
As the leaves fall, curl up with these books.
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November 21, 2024 at 3:01 PM
@geminiwahhaj.bsky.social's THE CHILDREN OF THIS MADNESS published by 7.13 Books covered by Electric Lit here. And look for Gemini's debut collection, KATY FAMILY coming soon from @jacklegpress.bsky.social. Whee!
electricliterature.com/15-small-pre...
electricliterature.com/15-small-pre...
"Gemini Wahhaj is a Bangladeshi writer based in Houston. Her debut is a novel told in voices, set partially in the time of America’s invasion of Iraq and, at other times, in Bengal’s past through the Partition and later Bangladesh’s independence." @electriclit.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 1:58 PM
"Gemini Wahhaj is a Bangladeshi writer based in Houston. Her debut is a novel told in voices, set partially in the time of America’s invasion of Iraq and, at other times, in Bengal’s past through the Partition and later Bangladesh’s independence." @electriclit.bsky.social