A penguin reading beneath a lamp
“Written gently, remembered deeply.”
The writer

Dua Fatima

Dua Fatima is a writer of poetry, prose, and quiet reflections. Her work moves between the intimate and the philosophical, small observations that open into large questions about love, memory, time, and what it means to be tender in a loud world.

Penguin Writes is her literary home: a soft, snow-lit corner of the internet where her poems, short stories, essays, and anthology contributions gather like letters on a writing desk.

She writes slowly, and reads slowly, and prefers the sound of a page turning to almost anything else.

Her Journey

A literary journey

A gentle timeline of the moments that made Penguin Writes what it is, one page at a time.

2022

First poem, first winter

The earliest surviving pages of Penguin Writes.

2023

A small following

Readers gathered quietly around the notebooks.

2024

First anthology invitation

A poem travelled into a shared volume.

2025

Penguin Writes, a home

The site was built as a soft literary home.

2026

New rooms, new chapters

More stories, essays, and short fictions on the way.