See Announcements: Winners of the Islamic Fiction Stories contest and the Essay contest. See Book Awards: Islamic schools receiving the 2011 Islamic School Library Books Award.
The Islamic Writers Alliance Inc. is a non-profit and tax exempt United States-based professional Muslim organization with an international membership. Members include published and aspiring writers, editors, artists, publishers, journalists, playwrights, web designers, retailers, and marketing consultants. If you are looking for a group of Muslim professionals with whom to network, gain resource information, and promote literacy and education while practicing your deen, the Islamic Writers Alliance is for you! The IWA is an inclusive organization and welcomes adult Muslim men and women of all races, ethnicities, linguistic backgrounds, abilities, and creeds.
In furthering its organizational goals, the IWA regularly awards fiction and non-fiction Islamic books to Islamic school libraries and sponsors creative writing contests for Islamic schools. The IWA sponsors three annual contests open to the public: an Islamic poetry contest, an Islamic fiction story contest and a non-fiction essay contest, which was recently instituted in 2011 for the first time. The IWA also publishes a quarterly online publication, IWA Magazine.
In addition to the above mentioned projects and Magazine, the IWA has collectively published 3 anthologies, with the newest and 4th officially published in early January 2012, with release for sales soon to follow.
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IWA Purpose
Purposes of the IWA include promotion of literacy world-wide, education, and promotion and support of its members.
Help the IWA Promote Literacy
Awareness is knowledge, and knowledge is power, and the only way to attain that is through education, which is the opposite of illiteracy. This is the main goal of the IWA, to help empower people worldwide to attain knowledge and power through the easily attainable goal of literacy.
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