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Salwa's play U-Haul Mesbians was a semi-finalist in the Eugene O'Neill National Musical Theatre Conference. 

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Salwa's play Word Play had a reading in the Once and Future Festival in Chicago.

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Salwa’s feature screenplay, The Strangest Part of the Forest, had a reading on January 20th in Chicago. The script is Salwa’s thesis for her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University.

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In this animated feature for children, twins Juniper and Clementine are drawn into a magical forest that only gets stranger the deeper they go in. They travel alongside Alder, a tree-boy, and Beet, a giant beetle, to rescue their sister Rosemary and return home braver and better equipped to handle the huge, unnameable feelings we all experience.

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The recording of the livestream is available here.

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Salwa is currently an MFA candidate in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University. She will graduate in June.