Khadijah AbdulHaqq
Fiction writer and essayist. The daughter of the African diaspora lives in Memphis, Tennessee, and holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, where she received the 2022 Lynda Hull Scholarship for BIPOC writers.
She is also a 2023 VONA, a 2023 Bread Loaf, Katherine Bakerless-Nason Contributor, and a 2022 Roots. Wounds. Words fellow. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in HerStry, Torch Literary Art, Haute Hijab, and elsewhere. Khadijah is currently a reader of Hunger Mountain Literary Journal. She has a weekly literary podcast, From the Margins. Her work in progress is a hybrid collection of short stories and essays. When Khadijah isn’t writing she is having fun and exploring life with her family.
Nanni's Hijab
Nanni’s Hijab is the story of Nanni, a little girl who loves wearing her hijab. She wears a different hijab every day. Her classmates enjoy seeing all the colors and designs of Nanni’s hijabs, except Leslie. Leslie doesn’t like Nanni or her hijabs. She tries to bully Nanni for wearing her hijabs to school. Leslie humiliates Nanni in the schoolyard in front of all their classmates by snatching Nanni’s hijab off of her head. Nanni, not unlike any other Muslim girl, gets very upset with Leslie’s bullying. In her heart, she wants to fight Leslie, but she knows there has to be a better way. Instead of fighting, she goes home to think about the best way to handle Leslie’s bullying. Read about how she handles the situation
