introducing
QISSA
A membership sanctuary for aspiring authors and writers
THE JOURNEY OF A WRITER IS SLOW AND SOLITARY
If you’re looking for a community where you can find flow and flourish as a writer
Welcome to Qissa: A Sanctuary for Stories
The word Qissa means ‘a story, a fable, a narrative’ in Urdu and it is the ethos of this membership community.
Stories develop with patience, support, and self-belief. Qissa membership is designed to support you to gain confidence as a writer and help progress your unique writing aspirations.
With slow writing at its heart, nothing is forced or feigned inside Qissa.
Qissa is designed intentionally to offer you a space where you can progress through different stages of becoming a writer while building your confidence and connection with the craft. Qissa will help you grow your writer’s voice, find compassion for your inner doubts, gain confidence, and build your platform as a writer - slowly.
Here you’ll find space to weave writing holistically into your life while building your career as a writer.
THE STORY INSIDE QISSA
CORE VALUES
The Writer’s Draft holds Qissa’s core values in eight Chapters. These form the core path for a writer to find flow and flourish.
These are meant to be taken in slowly, The Writer’s Draft is there for you to dip in and out of in your own time.
CREATIVE FLOW
The Monthly Edit is hosted live each month where I share a topic to support your growth as a writer. These topics will change each month to create slow, structured progress. This takes place live each month, and the recording is posted with a workbook.
COMMUNITY AND COACHING
The Literati is our community forum where you can make connections and support each other.
There are 3 other live sessions: Allusion Hour (quiet co-writing), Aspiration Hour (goal-setting ritual), and a quarterly Author Quarter (conversations with expert.)
I will help you progress your writing slowly - from working on writing practicalities, platform building, supporting your mindset and nurturing your creativity.
my promise to you
If you’ve ever wanted to find support to help build your writing or dreamed of becoming an author, then Qissa is right for you.
Inside, I will support your writer’s dreams intentionally and intuitively
and help you achieve your dreams for a writing career or just make time for your writing in a nourishing and nurturing way
BECOME A MEMBER
Let me help you turn from
WRITER TO WORDSMITH
About Sumayya
Your mentor and guide
I’m Sumayya, I believe in slow writing.
I became an author in my forties, but before this I was a high-flying lawyer but the higher I climbed the ladder, the further I moved away from my calling - my passion for writing and creativity. I tapped into what inspired me the most, which was my heritage cooking and I began writing about it. All I did was share my stories with authenticity and soul. I grew from a food writer to a creative writing mentor. Now as fifty-one, I stand before you - a writer, a mother, a free spirt, a nuturer.
Building a writing career can be overwhelming. I know this because I have been through the same struggles. This is why I created Qissa, to help aspiring authors and writers like you to find support, community, mentoring to build and nurture your creativity.
I am here to help you find your way out of the overwhelm and into the calm of creativity.
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WHAT’S INSIDE THE MEMBERSHIP
The Writer’s Draft: 8 Chapters for a writer’s nurturing growth
The Monthly Edit: Monthly writer-themed topics delivered live, with a task workbook
Live Allusion Hour: A monthly live writer’s hour
Live Aspiration Hour: A goal-setting live hour a few times a year
Live Author Quarter: A quarterly live with an expert or direct access to me
Live Author Quarter: quarterly expert talks with authors, marketers, publishers, agents
The Literati: An online writer’s community to support you
The Edit: monthly opportunity to send me 500 words of writing to edit for you
HAVE YOU GOT QUESTIONS?
I have answers for you
Do you have any other questions about Qissa? Please contact me here.
START YOUR STORY
If you’d love to be a part of a nurturing and nourishing writer’s membership inside Qissa, pick the option that works best for you.
PAY MONTHLY
Recurring payment, cancel with four weeks notice
£24
PAY QUARTERLY
3 months investment, then recurring every 3 months.
£74
PAY ANNUALLY
12 months upfront then recurring every 12 months.
£264
14 DAYS promise
Why don’t you try Qissa for 14 days? If you don’t feel Qissa is for you, I’ll happily return your investment - no questions asked.
“I would highly recommend working with Sumayya to anyone who is committed to improving their writing and wants nurturing support to create in their own voice.”
- Shauna H
KIND WORDS FROM MEMBERS
“Qissa has provided me with a community of supportive writers where we can sit down and write. It has a wealth of resources for anyone looking to start their writing journey. After 2 months of being a member, I signed up to Sumayya’s one on one mentoring as well - I started with nothing I now have seven chapters!”
- Aleena P
“Sumayya is a generous and creative soul with a steady guiding hand. She has a unique way of honing in on just the right points with clarity and honesty, in a gentle and thoughtful way.”
- Sonya P
“Qissa is a beautiful program that makes your writing journey not as a strict guidance but a beautiful companionship to hone your inner writer’s spirit. It is exquisitely sensuous and it has Sumayya's nurturing mentorship in it and its visually so aesthetic. I did not expect it to be such a rich and wholesome experience. As the name denotes, its is a beautiful storytelling journey in which Sumayya literally holds your hand and takes you along but gives you the ownership in this self-paced program. I would high recommend this to anyone who believes in taking things slowly and doesn’t want overwhelm or time constraint challenges.”
- Shaza K
START YOUR STORY
If you’d love to be a part of a nurturing and nourishing writer’s membership inside Qissa, pick the option that works best for you.
PAY MONTHLY
Recurring payment, cancel with four weeks notice
£24
PAY QUARTERLY
3 months investment, then recurring every 3 months.
£74
PAY ANNUALLY
12 months upfront then recurring every 12 months.
£264