About Riham

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who is Riham Adly ?

For starters I’m rebel at heart who believes in doing what she loves for a living after ditching dentistry for a career in writing and teaching and moderating book clubs.

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My History

Writing started out as an escape mechanism to cope with my father’s imminent death after his diagnosis with stage four pancreatic cancer. What I could not verbally express as a traumatized twelve year old, I did on paper. Ghost stories about hunted cabins evolved into a young adult novel that never saw the light. It wasn’t long before I had to archive my new-found passion---a total waste of time according to family and society--- to start dentistry school. The great fire was put down but the embers burned still.

In 2010, after a twelve year pause, I decided to peruse writing again, and I have to say I came back with a bang!

In 2013 my short story “The Darker Side of the Moon” was among the twelve winning finalists in the Makan Awards writing contest in Cairo and was published in a print anthology with the same name.

Been writing ever since and don’t think I’ll ever quite. Here’s a list of my most recent publications: “Prettier than a Ballerina” Published in Carpe Arte journal https://carpearte.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/prettier-than-a-ballerina-by-riham-adly/

“It’s All About The Right Key” published in Writing in a Woman’s Voice http://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2018/07/itsreally-all-about-right-key-byriham.html

“Hit and Run” Published in Writing in a Woman’s Voice https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2018/07/hit-and-run-by-riham-adly-fyi-no.html?m=1

“Diamonds” published in Connotation Press https://www.connotationpress.com/fiction/3271-riham-adly-fiction

“The Scream” published in The Ekphrastic Review http://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/the-scream-by-riham-adly

“Pancakes Will Make You Happy” published in Cafelit https://cafelitcreativecafe.blogspot.com/2018/04/pancakes-will-make-you-happy.html

“The Queen Of Cups Meets The Fool” published in SoftCartel https://softcartel.com/2018/07/09/the-queen-of-cups-meets-the-fool-by-riham-adly/

“Mama’s Shrug” published in Spelk https://spelkfiction.com/2018/08/09/mamas-shrug/

“Re-Ham” published in Spillwords http://spillwords.com/re-ham/

“Yellow” and “ Room With a View” published in Page&Spine http://pagespineficshowcase.com/riham-adly.html

“Bubble, Mermaids and Broccoli” published in Vestal Review and featured in “The Reading Life” http://www.vestalreview.org/draft-issue-52/ http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2018/06/bubbles-mermaids-and-broccoli-by-riham.html

“The Green Sock is Good” published in FictionalCafe https://www.fictionalcafe.com/green-sock-good-short-story-riham-adly/

“The Anti-Christ” published in Tuck Magazine http://tuckmagazine.com/2017/12/15/fiction-antichrist/

“The Darker Side of the Moon” A Makan Award winning story featured in The Sultan’s Seal https://yrakha.com/category/authors-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D9%84%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86/riham-adly/

“Touch Me” a 75 word micro published in Paragraph Planet http://www.paragraphplanet.com/authors_a_e.php

“Freedom” published in Visual Verse https://visualverse.org/submissions/freedom/

“I wish” first appearing in The HFC journal then getting a reprint in the 10 Minute Novelist newsletter and featured in The Reading Life and is also included in http://rereadinglives.blogspot.com/2018/01/i-wish-short-story-by-riham-adlay.html

A novel is in the works and my blog “Riham Explores” is up and running check it out.

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The Book Club.

In 2016 I decided it was high time I started doing something about those boxed dreams and ambitions I’ve been forced to believe are saved for later---forced by who? Long story, but the point is: I’m the boss of me now. I launched “Rose’s Cairo Book Club” to encourage the few but growing bibliophiles in Cairo to self-express and speak up their minds about the themes and story arcs in local and international novels/ memoirs, in a friendly, open-minded atmosphere. Why chose the name “Rose”? As cliché as that might sound, I felt like a rose and was called so by the majority of my friends but the name along with its dual personality (fragile beauty/ protective thorns) eclipsed my own identity and mission. People started thinking that “Rose” must be that godsend, foreign-looking native speaker that will make their cultural lives better. I had to extinguish that weird colonial leftover belief that only a native speaker can help anyone speak better, express better or write better, so I changed the name to “Riham’s Cairo Book Club”. The Rose morphed into a Sunflower.

Fiction Writing Workshops

In 2016 I started working as a volunteer editor in 101 words magazine and a first reader/marketing coordinator in Vestal Review magazine. I had to admit that I tried to look for stories written by writers from the Middle East. While I did find exquisite stories that I accepted or approved, I also found stories lacking in basic knowledge of the craft and its basic elements. I yearned to spot stories by Egyptians like myself but found none. Writing in all its forms had been and is, yet, still viewed, as a privileged pastime, a nuisance, something that is necessarily unnecessary. Someone had to do something about it, right? So…
I started giving my workshops introducing the basic elements of fiction, and the art of the short story, in Maktoob-Egypt in 2016 with the hope of passing down my experience, mentoring and empowering budding young talents in Egypt.

Writing Coach

I also provide coaching services in writing. I mentor authors and help them structure their manuscripts, providing lengthy line to line critique and feedback. For pricing and enquiries, fill out the form in the Contact us section.

Flash Fiction

I am a poet at heart. My poetry is an act of baring my open, bleeding, wounds to the whole world to see, perhaps that’s why I’ve been drawn irrevocably to flash or sudden fiction.
In started writing Flash in 2017, had a couple of pieces published, but to be honest I lacked a proper understand of the form. I wanted a proper solid definition, definite rules to follow.
I attended Kathy Fish’s Fast Flashers workshop in January, the Bending genres workshop in March with Jonathan Cardew, Into The Flash I with the wonderful Katey Shultz, Sculpting Flash with Nancy Stohlman, and recently Flash fiction with Meg Pokrass.
If anything, after all those workshops , I realized that there’s really no solid definition to flash, perhaps some structure, but no definite rules contrary to what some might believe.
I’ve taken to the beauty of brevity, and the art of omission. Flash is really a collaborative work between the writer and the reader. There’s always room for experimentation and innovation, the sky is your limit. Trying to create a template will kill the form. You can’t have a solid beginning, middle and end of a proper story in less than 1,000 words. Flash is and will never be a complete story, like I said before, a collaborative story.
In all earnest, I am all for the abstract and the metaphorical when I write, that’s why I started out saying flash pulled me in because it is very much like poetry, sometimes.
If you are into the surreal and the abstract like I am into Picasso and Salvador Dali and Escher, don’t miss out on my upcoming online flash workshop. I’m working on creating material, prompts, and lesson that will help you write flash inspired from the archetypes in Tarot and Dream symbolism. So look out for future announcements in my newsletter.

“Riham’s class “The elements of writing fiction” is one of the best writing classes I took. In it you don't only get to learn the elements, but you get to practice them and give and receive feedback all the time. I have learned so much from the class. I would recommend it for anybody who wants to transition from an amateur writer to somebody who can persuade writing on a more professional level”

- Aya Ahmed   English Teacher at Le Verte International School

“Riham Adly is such a talented writer who has a great passion about it, which can be easily displayed through her marvelous publications, who have all been well- recognized in several magazines. With her remarkable skill and passion, she can definitely get the best out of her students, and can make them much more better writers themselves ! This workshop is not to be missed ! ”

- Riham Wafaey  

“I'm so glad that this workshop is being made again and wish i can attend it everytime. It has been one of my best experiences and i was lucky to attend and benefit a lot from it. I absolutely recommend it for whoever loves writing. Even if you have a glimpse of a talent, you'll receive the support that will grow this further and deeper. Thanks a lot Riham Adly for your efforts and support. You believe in your students and that what makes us keep going.”

- Menna Hany Helmy  

Riham's Blog

Blogging about Egypt’s Historical Landmarks had been something I wanted to do for a very long time. A good excuse to visit extraordinary place I’ve never had the time to check out, and to dig up hushed and buried secrets and stories about these places. The blog will help me go back in time to Egypt’s glory days and share everything I find out with you. There’s much more to the country than ancient Egypt.

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For starters I’m rebel at heart who believes in doing what she loves for a living after ditching dentistry for a career in writing and teaching and moderating book clubs.

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I am a poet at heart. My poetry is an act of baring my open, bleeding, wounds to the whole world to see, perhaps that’s why I’ve been drawn irrevocably to flash or sudden fiction.