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THE LATEST ISSUE OF LAKEER MAGAZINE IS HERE! ISSUE EIGHT, SUMMER 2026 SPECIAL - THE CLIMATE & HUNGER ISSUE! In it is a landscape of related, overlapping concerns: human-made climate catastrophes; questions about injustice and pushbacks on violence.
lakeermag.com/issue-eight/
Fatima Jafar's poem 'One Lasting Desire in Spite of It All' is a lush assemblage of observations of changing external realities, and the narrator's own internal shifts.
Read it in our Summer 2026 Special Issue:
lakeermag.com/fatima-jafar-o…
🎈 Submissions are open now until 15 December!
🎈 Works in translation are always extremely welcome.
🎈 Works in any language spoken in Pakistan are extremely welcome.
🎈 Please follow the guidelines here: lakeermag.com/submissions.
It answers all your questions, promise.
🎈 Celebrate Hera Naguib's stellar debut poetry collection 'Rupture Anthem' with Lakeer!
🗓️ 24 October, Saturday
🕰️ 12 noon US EST // 9pm Pakistan
📍 Online
🎫 Tickets are free. Reserve your spot:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-voice…
Omair Danish spoke with Ali Baluch, a Baloch lens-based artist from Malir, Karachi. They talked about the impact of the Malir Expressway on the Malir River, sandmining, and how development projects have affected the lives of people and animals.
lakeermag.com/death-and-flow…
📣 Submissions will be opening shortly for Lakeer Magazine! Get your short stories, essays, poetry, translations, art, and photography ready.
📣 Details will be on our website.
📣 We're so glad to share we will be paying our contributors a modest amount for our Spring 2027 issue.
In his essay "Ghuttan: A Sociocultural Illness," Muhammad Khuzaima Nizami talks about ghuttan as a malady brought on by the way cities are built. He compares capitalist-centric lives there to the more nature-centric ones in Cholistan.
In Issue Eight:
lakeermag.com/khuzaima-nizam…
Malaika Rai's powerful poem گِدھ simmers with rage, published in Issue Eight. Read the full poem here:
lakeermag.com/malaika-rai-gi…
We are thrilled to introduce our brilliant lineup of speakers for the upcoming event on September 20th!
Get tickets for “Voices Across Borders: Who Gets Represented?” here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-ac…
Read 'God Story' by Irta Usman, about Awais Bhai who lives in a Lahore divided into the North and the South, and his love for the city.
This story appears in Issue Eight – The Climate & Hunger Issue.
lakeermag.com/irta-usman-god…
Hammad Rind, writer, translator, and the translation editor at Lakeer, talks about the upcoming event "Voices Across Borders: Who Gets Represented?". Here, he speaks about the continued importance of working with South Asian languages.
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Tickets:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-ac…
In September, National Translation Month, join Lakeer in its virtual event "Voices Across Borders: Who Gets Represented?" about translating from underrepresented South Asian languages.
🗓️Sunday, September 20
⏲️6 PM PKT (9 AM EST)
📌Online
Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-ac…
Malaika Rai and Umayr Aamir work with poems heavy with imagery. Qamar Abbas Araji, Eisha Tur Raazia and Mahin Wahla reckon with different hungers. Shadab Zeest Hashmi and Sakina Hassan write about existing in a time of gross injustices.
Sarah Ahmad's art, 'Landscapes of Imagining, II', appears in Issue Seven.
Sarah lives and works between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Lahore, Pakistan. At the core of her work is transformation...and renewal, just as the earth continually seeks to heal itself. sarahahmad.com
