A transnational literary organization based in New York City, Singapore Unbound envisions and works for a creative and fulfilling life for everyone through the arts and activism.
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As independent media organisations and practitioners, we stand in solidarity with Ariffin Sha, the founder and administrator of online news platform Wake Up Singapore (WUSG), as he faces a criminal defamation charge for publishing falsehoods in 2022 about KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH).
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He is so sure, and she is full of doubts, in this new story, “Chiak Kantang,” by Emilia Ong.
With this set of three watery poems, Jessie Raymundo meditates on what it means to return—to a place, a loved one, or a promise.
For this month’s column, Ng Yi-Sheng explores the short story from different parts of the world.
According to reviewer Suhasini Patni, Usha Priyamvada’s novel Won’t You Stay, Radhika?, translated by Daisy Rockwell, “opens the possibility of inhabiting multiple lives and feeling unhappy in all of them.”
Can we bear to consume beauty in a world seemingly intent on consuming it too? Ananya Shah shows us how she makes peace with her dead.
Ann Ang reviews Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore by Cheryl Naruse (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2023).
To celebrate Pride month, let’s speculate about queer Asian futures with Ng Yi-Sheng as our guide.
What do dating apps, border control, and HRT documentation have in common? Find out in Winter Chen’s explosive movement between the forms and functions that draw a life’s rawest borders.
Anna Tan reviews Bone Weight and Other Stories, by Shih-Li Kow, and finds the stories in the collection weighted down by losses familiar to Malaysians.
Have you ever been late to an appointment, or haunted by someone’s late arrival? Sayan Aich Bhowmik’s poems present us with seasons and people who have taken their time.
In this story by Casper Ho, a young boy is excited to fill in his new journal, but with what?
Read some creative non-fiction by Southeast Asian authors or about Southeast Asia lately? Ng Yi-Sheng recommends five titles to peruse.
In the wake of a departure, what has – and is – left? Two poems by Oindri Sengupta.
Gaudy Boy
by Jeddie Sophronius
ISBN: 978-1-958652-07-7
$16.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5" / 120 pages
Gaudy Boy, April 2024
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by Rahad Abir
9781958652022
$19.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5" / 228 pages
Gaudy Boy, October 1, 2023
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edited by Marylyn Tan and Jee Leong Koh
978-0-9994514-9-6
$22.00 / Paperback / 6" x 9" / 320 pages
Gaudy Boy, December 1, 2022
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by Jhani Randhawa
978-0-9994514-7-2
$16.00 / Paperback / 6" x 9" / 144 pages
Gaudy Boy, April 1, 2022
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Submission deadline: August 1st, 2024
Judith Huang reviews Dinner on Monster Island: Essays, by Tania De Rozario (USA: HarperCollins, 2024).