Saba Sulaiman

Talcott Notch Literary

Senior agent at Talcott Notch Literary. Eternally recovering from maternity leave. Probably hiding somewhere eating cake. Closed to unsolicited queries. @pocpub

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· 1 Feb 2023

the best YA feels
✨specific enough that it's speaking to teens now, using their lexicon, understanding their concerns, but also
✨universal enough to evoke a sense of nostalgia, a yearning to comfort your past teen self

(from BEATING HEART BABY by @EmoOcean, soo good) #MSWL

· 4 Aug 2020

Anj @anj3llyfish

a thread tagging/linking the people in this thread so y'all can go show them some love twitter.com/yanliism/statu…

#mswl forever and ever AND EVER

· 13 Jul 2020

BOMB Magazine @BOMBmagazine

"We're all really scared, but some of us are really scared in country houses, well-fed....And if we don't acknowledge those differences, we're fucked" —Lynn Steger

Strong Gradations of Anxiety and Precarity: @lynnsstrong Interviewed by Zan Romanoff

bombmagazine.org/articles/lynn-… pic.twitter.com/4bElPwxCNS

loved this conversation between @lynnsstrong and @zanopticon about living through uncertainty and towing lines of privilege and storytelling and the performance of confidence and damage and motherhood and personhood at large—there's so much to unpack honestly, it's so good #mswl twitter.com/BOMBmagazine/s…

· 24 Jun 2020

Saba Sulaiman @agentsaba

i love this post on looking beyond how you (or how people you know) would react to bad news when writing your characters’ reactions because there's no👏🏽such👏🏽thing👏🏽as👏🏽the👏🏽right👏🏽way👏🏽to👏🏽react👏🏽to👏🏽tragedy.

here's a non-exhaustive list: the-right-writing.tumblr.com/post/969846484… #writetip pic.twitter.com/04WwTkxANm

i think all of us fall into the trap of expecting people to react within a certain fairly small range of possible ways to bad news. i know i can be limited by my ideas of what feels like a "normal" reaction + i love complex characters that challenge me to unlearn my biases. #mswl

· 3 Apr 2020

Jael R. Bakari @jaelrbakari

#askDVPit what are some areas that are super underserved in your query boxes? What stories are you guys looking for but not getting? #DVpit

unapologetically joyful stories written by and about people from intersectionally marginalized backgrounds. #mswl #askDVpit

· 2 Mar 2020

i've had a stroke of genius today and i'd like to share it with y'all in the hope that someone will write this for me ASAP #mswl

· 11 Feb 2020

#mswl

· 10 Feb 2020

in more autocorrect misadventures, today i praised a client for how fantastic and transportive their decryptions are and now i think this is an #mswl?

· 16 Jan 2020

Carrie Mesrobian @CarrieMesrobian

in keeping with the theme of incoherent uncertainty, let me close with this: the more sure you are about your teenaged self, or your teenaged characters, and their own certainty, the more I think you need to reflect on your life, and revise your novel

i love this and agree 100%. let teens be confused and unsure and inconsistent in their thoughts and feelings and decision-making in YA because that👏🏽is👏🏽how👏🏽teens👏🏽are👏🏽 #mswl

· 1 Oct 2019

GIMME #mswl

· 30 Sep 2019

💔 #mswl

· 12 Sep 2019

Samira Ahmed @sam_aye_ahm

I recently unearthed the dusty tome that is my HS “Senior Will.”

And Holy Aquanet bangs! I’ve been on brand since 1989. 😂

For your #tbt enjoyment

* I will
-“POWER to the students”

** I will miss most
- “arguments”

*** I plan to
- “Stay myself” pic.twitter.com/vlcMU206u2

Replying to @sam_aye_ahm

dear #mswl deities please bless the inbox with teen samira's rebellion handbook, please

· 27 Aug 2019

this 🔥🔥🔥 piece examines how writing for teens means being willing to engage with

-how they negotiate their limited power
-how they use social media to fortify + break down social hierarchies
-what in tarnation they're listening to these days

#mswl

electricliterature.com/mary-hk-choi-t…

· 21 Aug 2019

Fawzia Mirza @thefawz

Muslim women - I’m developing a show about us. What would you like to see?????

Replying to @thefawz

intersectional muslims; joyful, largely unconfused muslims; muslims who aren't afraid to acknowledge and/or critique the problematic natures of many prominently accepted beliefs and practices within the community #mswl