Underlined by Usawa
Usawa Literary Review, Sayani Sarkar, Farah Ahamed, Anchal Soni, Nivedhitha Shree| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 85 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Not A Drop To Drink by Aparna Karthikeyan
A Drink by the Way, by John Griffiths, ca. 1876.
In Aparna Karthikeyan’s “Not A Drop To Drink”, we meet well-diggers of the drought-prone landscapes of Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu, who descend into deep pits under a relentless sun, searching fo...
Matchbox by Usawa May 2026
Camphor by Martin Frobenius Ledermüller (1764-8)
Dear readers,
This issue of Matchbox by Usawa is dedicated to the memory of Bashir Badr (1935–2026) and Shereen Ratnagar (c. 1943–2026).
Bashir Badr spent a lifetime giving language to lo...
A Mouse’s Saga by Agni Barathi
Artist: Lily Seika Jones
In Agni Barathi’s A Mouse’s Saga, an ordinary household mouse becomes a matriarch, tactician, survivor, and war legend. Moving between ecological satire, fantastical, and mock-heroic grandeur, this story transforms...
Unveiling Intimacies
Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus, John William Waterhouse, 1891
Dear Readers,
What multitudes do women carry within themselves in their roles as the muse and the mother? Are they interchangeable throughout her life? This week’s edition...
Music, Silence, and Iranian Resistance: A Conversation with Farah Ahamed
Graphic art by Persian poster designer @jalz depicting Azadi Tower in Tehran, with superimposed slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom”.
Last month, I was in conversation with author Farah Ahamed. We talked about female poets like Parwana Fayyaz and...
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The Usawa Literary Review is a bi-annual English language literary magazine dedicated to feminist literature and writings by and about underrepresented communities.
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Farah Ahamed is the editor of Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia, Pan Macmillan. Her short fiction has been published in White Review, Markaz Review, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, LA Review of Books and other journals.
reviewer, reader, writer (sometimes)
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