Issue 01 · 2025 · In memory of S. M. Shahrukh

Stories the river
carries with it.

A digital home for essays, fiction, poetry and lifestyle writing from Dhaka and beyond — because the way we tell stories shapes the way we live, and the way we live shapes the stories we tell.

The River's Child, Issue 01, 2025 — cover
New Issue

"Our identity lingers in the smoggy air of Dhaka, flashing advertisement panels of sky high buildings, in the vastness of crop fields and in dialects of many known and unknown."

Sumaiya Tasnim, Executive Editor

Call for submissions

Have a story the river hasn't carried yet?

We're reading essays, fiction, poetry and lifestyle pieces for the next issue. Contributors retain all rights to their work.

Read the guidelines & submit