Write a short story or poem from the perspective of a pair of shoes. What kind of shoes are they? What kind of life have they lived? How many miles have they walked? What do these shoes have to say about their owners?
Take inspiration from the season and nourish your own signs of green on the page.
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The Kurdish writer Ava Homa is the author of Daughters of Smoke and Fire (Overlook/Abrams, 2020), a novel about a Kurdish girl’s creative and literal coming of age amidst oppression and statelessness. We asked her to recommend five works from Middle Eastern writers.
