Publications


Fiction

“The Rupture”
Finalist, 2024 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award

“A Kinder Home”
Pulp Literature, Issue 31, Summer 2021

“The past catches up”
The Puritan, Issue 53: Spring 2021

“Tomorrow you will be my best friend”
The Humber Literary Review, Volume 8, Issue 2

“The Sense of It”
TOK Magazine, November 2019

“Waiting for Adnan”
The Journey Prize Stories 31, September 2019

“Waiting for Adnan”
Joyland, May 2018

Nonfiction

“This Is Not My Story to Tell”
PEN Transmissions, October 2025

“The Invitation: A Decade of Longing”
MuslimMatters, March 2024

“Afsos”
Canthius Issue 10, 2022
(You can read an interview about the essay here)

Hajera Khaja is holding some sheets of paper and reading into a mic in front of an audience. Behind her is a wall of books.