Coming October 2023
Out on 12 October 2023.
“These are women on the cultural front line. Their diary is an archive of yet another milestone in the volatile history of Afghanistan.”
Financial Times
What we do
Support emerging writers
We provide support to develop writers' skills and connect them to each other, online and within their communities. We believe all writers should be able to tell their own stories, in their own voices.
Contribute to local creative industries
We connect and support emerging literary editors and translators, to contribute to the development of local cultural landscapes.
Reach new audiences
We build new audiences for writers we have supported – both locally and globally – via different platforms and in various languages.
New fiction by Afghan women
“Powerful, profound and deeply moving, these stories will expand your mind and elevate your heart”
Elif Shafak
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird (MacLehose Press) is a landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women, with an Introduction by Lyse Doucet.
Shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature 2022.
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Untold is a Community Interest Company (company number 12654173). Prospero World (UK registered charity number 1163952) receives charitable donations in support of our work through its fiscal sponsorship programme, and receives tax efficient donations from UK donors on our behalf.