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Huma Qureshi is an award-winning author and journalist. Her memoir How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Indie Readers Award. Her short story collection, Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love was longlisted for several awards. She has also worked and written for The Guardian and The Observer, among other publications. Today we’re discussing her debut novel, Playing Games. Our interview begins at 24.00 We've got a Substack publication now! On the last day of the month, we share recommendations for two things we reckon you should read/watch/listen to. The beauty of Substack is you can revisit all our old editions and comment on our episode updates to share your thoughts. Come say hi! Caitlin recommends: Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More A fascinating look behind the scenes of some of the most iconic TV sitcoms including Cheers, Frasier and Friends . Michelle recommends: Brooklyn by Colm Tobain An emotional journey as a young Irish woman chooses between two lives in the 1950s. One of Michelle's all-time favourites – what did she think of it six years on from first reading it? *Note: Michelle says it was published in 2019, but she meant 2009. In this interview, we chat about: Our obsession as readers with knowing whether a novel is inspired by real-life Where is the line between stealing a story and being inspired by it? Huma's focus on creating a nuanced portrayal of sisters and their complicated relationship How to represent the creative process on the page The beauty of short stories and how it started Huma's journey to publication Huma's creative writing courses and how it enhances her craft Books and other things mentioned: Long Island by Colm Tobain Cat Person (short story) Bad Art Friend (short story) Holly Bourne on Emma Gannon's Ctrl Alt Delete Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang Between Us by Mhairi McFarlane Alice Munro (author) Follow Huma @humaqureshiwriter Playing Games is available now. Thank you to Sceptre for providing us with copies of the book in preparation for the interview. Connect with us on Instagram: @betterwordspod

Ahead of the release of season 2 of the SonyLIV show Maharani, Rohini Ramnathan speaks to Huma Qureshi about playing the titular character for the second time, completing 10 years in the industry, roles for women, and more.

The BLB Podcast is a new project from Brick Lane Bookshop where we interrogate the short story form. We talk about why we love short stories, the writing process and how to get published. In this eighth episode, Kate and Peter talk to Huma Qureshi about her debut short story collection Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love . Show Notes: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au Expectation by Anna Hope Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

In this episode I chat with author Huma Qureshi about her fiction and nonfiction, and her memoir HOW WE MET. We talk about the stories that opened her eyes to what books can do, the freedoms of fiction and how you go about taking real people's rights and feelings into account when you write nonfiction. We also talk about expectations readers bring to texts by authors of different background, and resisting those expectations. Grab a copy of HOW WE MET: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-we-met/huma-qureshi/9781783966110 The short story collection THINGS WE DO NOT TELL THE PEOPLE WE LOVE is here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/things-we-do-not-tell-the-people-we-love/huma-qureshi/9781529368673 Pre-order signed copies of my new book, COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It from Storysmith Books here: https://storysmithbooks.com/product/coward-tim-clare/ And if you'd like to support the show drop me a few beans here: www.ko-fi.com/timclare Finally, if you want to get in touch, click on the 'Contact Me' button here: www.timclarepoet.co.uk

On this episode, Cyrus is joined by actress and writer Huma Qureshi, to talk about her new show 'Maharani' on SonyLiv. Maharani is the story of a village woman whose life changes overnight when her husband announces her as the next Chief Minister of Bihar. Huma talks about how the production and the SonyLiv teams pulled off making the show during the pandemic, how this was the first time she got a narration over Zoom, and tons more. Huma also talks about her father running a restaurant business for the last 44 years (Saleem's Restaurant), how he has been keeping it going through the pandemic, Delhi food and how awesome it is, letting women rule the world, how she landed her role in Gangs of Wasseypur by doing an ad directed by Anurag Kashyap, watching Gangs of Wasseypur for the first time at Cannes Film Festival, her father finsing Gangs too 'abusive', and tons more. This and a lot more on this entertaining episode of Cyrus Says. Follow Huma on Twitter & Instagram: humasqureshi and https://instagram.com/iamhumaq Also, subscribe to Cyrus' YouTube channel: Cyrus Broacha You can follow Antariksh on Instagram @antariksht: https://instagram.com/antariksht Do send in AMA questions for Cyrus by tweeting them to @cyrussaysin or e-mailing them at whatcyrussays@gmail.com Don't forget to follow Cyrus Broacha on Instagram @BoredBroacha ( https://www.instagram.com/boredbroacha ) In case you're late to the party and want to catch up on previous episodes of Cyrus Says you can do so at: www.ivmpodcasts.com/cyrussays You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcasts App on Android: IVM Podcasts - Apps on Google Play or iOS: ‎IVM Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode, Cyrus is joined by actress and writer Huma Qureshi, to talk about her new show 'Maharani' on SonyLiv. Maharani is the story of a village woman whose life changes overnight when her husband announces her as the next Chief Minister of Bihar. Huma talks about how the production and the SonyLiv teams pulled off making the show during the pandemic, how this was the first time she got a narration over Zoom, and tons more. Huma also talks about her father running a restaurant business for the last 44 years (Saleem's Restaurant), how he has been keeping it going through the pandemic, Delhi food and how awesome it is, letting women rule the world, how she landed her role in Gangs of Wasseypur by doing an ad directed by Anurag Kashyap, watching Gangs of Wasseypur for the first time at Cannes Film Festival, her father finsing Gangs too 'abusive', and tons more. This and a lot more on this entertaining episode of Cyrus Says. Follow Huma on Twitter & Instagram: https://twitter.com/humasqureshi and https://instagram.com/iamhumaq Also, subscribe to Cyrus' YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCHAb9jLYk0TwkWsCxom4q8A You can follow Antariksh on Instagram @antariksht: https://instagram.com/antariksht Do send in AMA questions for Cyrus by tweeting them to @cyrussaysin or e-mailing them at whatcyrussays@gmail.com Don't forget to follow Cyrus Broacha on Instagram @BoredBroacha (https://www.instagram.com/boredbroacha) In case you're late to the party and want to catch up on previous episodes of Cyrus Says you can do so at: www.ivmpodcasts.com/cyrussays You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcasts App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Huma is a writer, a journalist and an award-winning author, and she writes about the extraordinary joy and beauty that can be found in ordinary little things, creating a home, navigating motherhood, and living simply and purposefully. In this episode, we talked about her love for the written word, how her south Asian heritage has influenced her as a person and as a writer as well, learning to say no and navigating writing, life, and motherhood all at the same time. Huma and I share the same cultural heritage as we are both from Pakistan. I grew up in Pakistan and she didn't but still, our experiences are quite the same in many ways. We also talked about inclusion, why representation matters and why we need to hear, see and read more stories in which we can see ourselves reflected to create space for what's possible for us. Here's what we talk about in this episode: how it all begun and what influenced her desire to write journalism and moving on to writing for herself motherhood and the struggle with self-doubt becoming a freelance writer developing reading as a habit how having an Asian heritage has influenced her as a person and as a writer while living far from the culture itself Inclusion: we need more stories we can relate to because representation matters inclusivity in the book publishing world, the media publishing world and also on the micro levels of blogs, Instagram and social media why do we need to hear and share those stories really? expectations from girls who grow up in Asian culture and how it can feel heavy South Asian culture and marriages her personal story of looking for examples when she fell in love with an Englishman how did Huma allowed herself to not let those societal and cultural pressures decide how she chooses to show up in the world the struggles of finding a balance between motherhood and her love for writing learning to say no how her blog came to be the failures along the way finding her way back to her writing why she writes what does her day to day creative process look like teaching writing courses online not seeing herself as being the expert Find links to the resources we discuss in the full show notes. Huma's website and Instagram Hira's website and Instagram