JMWW • 29th December 2020 Best American Essays 2021 Nomination Creative nonfiction essay "Writing About People Like Me," published on JMWW, nominated for Best American Essays 2021
Capsule Stories • 3rd December 2020 Announcing Our 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominations 'Itemizing my Identity' nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2020.
Artsy • 27th October 2020 This Painting Taught Me "The artists of the 19th century often came alive for me in my grandmother’s living room. Still, I spent many hours captivated by the artists my grandmother had tried..."
Rejection Letters • 30th November 2020 Bandicoot Summer There was a summer when big bandicoots took over. The same summer they took over you said we were better together, the summer we lived together, the summer we bought a hamster, the summer I wore my cheap metal washer, my engagement ring...
Capsule Stories • 20th October 2020 Capsule Collective Interview Rhea Dhanbhoora on Writing about Identity in the Parsi Zoroastrian Diaspora
JMWW • 27th August 2020 Writing About People Like Me "I was slowly realizing it was important for my identity to inform my work; in no small part because so little of it informed my reading." Creative Nonfiction: Writing About People Like Me by Rhea Dhanbhoora
Quiet Lightning • 10th September 2020 Quiet Lightning Board Member [Disruptors 2020] Announcing our new board members! Disruptors 2020, clockwise from top L: Tom Pyun, Anna Allen, Rhea Dhanbhoora, and Kevin Dublin.
Chronogram Magazine • 6th February 2021 A Tangled Web Sarah Pirozek’s feminist indie thriller #Like is streaming on AppleTV+. By Rhea Dhanbhoora
HerStry • 13th November 2020 Farewell to the Little Yellow Bug of My Youth Learning to say goodbye to my first car is also, at least for the moment, about saying goodbye to the city I grew up in and the people and experiences that shaped me...
Here Magazine • 28th October 2020 Nano Freedoms ... "As I stick my key in the ignition, little men run along the length of my spine with pitchforks, my left leg hesitates over the clutch, my right hovers over the brake..."
The Lit Quarterly • 22nd October 2020 "Categories we fit in" ... The principal intention is to surprise our international audience with an easily accessible, free-to-read supplementary selection of authors who submit work to us that we are eager to publish beyond the scope of our print edition.
Fly on the Wall Press • 25th September 2020 "Home" in Unite Magazine Poem "Home" featured in Unite Magazine. Unite Magazine has been selected by Tina Tamsho-Thomas, and will donate 10% of profits to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Contributors in this issue are exclusively Black and Asian writers and artists.
Audacity Magazine • 17th September 2020 My Severe Stenosis Helped My Anxiety Sometimes when I am half asleep, I curl my toes, twist my ankle, and stretch my leg till I can feel it from hip to toe. I do this often, waiting till I can feel any stretch, poke, twinge, twang…hoping none turn into spasms, aches, pains, throbs…
Capsule Stories Autumn 2020 • 1st September 2020 “Itemizing My Identity,” “Collective Shame,” and “In Diaspora” Capsule Stories Autumn 2020 Edition: Burning Up Featuring autumnal poems and prose by emerging and established writers, Capsule Stories Autumn 2020 Edition explores the theme Burning Up. POETRY “Itemizing My Identity,” “Collective Shame,” and “In Diaspora” by Rhea Dhanbhoora
sPARKLE & bLINK 106 • 6th July 2020 'Nefertiti' in sPARKLE & bLINK 106 I spent weeks looking for my sister the second time she ran away, then the day I found her, I wished I hadn't. It was on a Friday after work, I’d been passing by the church we used to go to with our mother who wasn't Catholic but liked the services, and the priest waved me down, saying a woman who looked like my sister had been bleeding over the pews. I’d made such an effort to forget about her this time, what I really wanted to do was leave her behind, kneeling there in whatever vain appeal...
Youtube • 21st May 2020 In Search of a Memory - Short Film Cast & Crew: Director: Anosh Sarkari Producer: Sabreena Sarkari Exec. Producer: Viraf & Sona Sarkari Original Story: Rhea Dhanboora Screenplay: Sabreena Sarkari & Anosh Sarkari Cinematographer: David Riviera Music: Daniel Berk Sound Design: Aashish Mayur Shah Editor: Alejandro Campos AD: Sahil Rohira Actors: Shirley Witt & Roger Browne Poster Design: Ridima Khandelwal
BLIGHT • 15th May 2020 "LOST" [from "Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair"] Welcome to Season 2 of Blight: Stories in the Key of Decay and Repair. A series of episodes on confronting our uncertain future in the time of the COVID19 Virus, through essay, interview, storytelling and song. Episode 3: Planes Come In features host Sean Williamson on worry and runways, Adam Krause on the correlations between human stress on nature and pandemic, Jake Newborn from the Wisconsin Bike Fed, and Rhea Dhanbhoora on the life of sand. “Ease Your Soul, Chapman” by LeAnna Eden. Theme music by Shawn Stephany. Mix by Shane Olivo at Bobby Peru Recording
Ancram Opera House • 2nd November 2019 Crystal Radio Sessions Upstate Crystal Radio Sessions Upstate is the new, local outpost of the NYC reading series, committed to showcasing the work of both established and emerging writers from our region. Come hear short stories by David Rabe, Ashley Mayne, Harris Lahti, Courtney Maum and Rhea Dhanbhoora, read by AOH audience favorite actors. Crystal Radio believes in the power of the spoken word and is devoted to transmitting compelling literary expression through the ether.
