alana
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author & screenwriter
latest news
Alana Saab has been awarded the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship 2026 for her impactful screenplay 'Jaanem (My Love)'. The New Voices Fellowship is awarded to early screenwriters who are "exploring the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way."
Read the full announcement on Variety.com.
debut novel
While god is sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify demanding she break up with her girlfriend, Norma meets with a new therapist for one reason: she really needs to write again...
Suffering from Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and stuck in her own experimental narrative, Norma challenges all we've been taught about the distance between fiction and reality, sanity and insanity, mental illness and healing.
vintage books
Penguin Random House
more publications
Intertwined in Madness: On Turning Yourself into a Character in a Novel
Lit Hub '24
9 Experimental Books That Break Narrative Norms
Electric Literature '24
A letter to the impossible things which require tending to
Epiphany Magazine '22
Places we called by other names
Tiger Moth Review '22
That which is sacred
The Giving Room Review '21
Consummation
Pank Magazine '20
American Love
Eleven and a half Magazine '20
Why I Write
1888.center. November '18