25 April 2011
Now Out: Philippine Genre Stories - The Special Crime Issue
The PGS Special Crime Issue guest-edited by F.H. Batacan (cover art by Josel Nicolas) is now available at Comic Quest Megamall, Comic Quest SM North Edsa, and Avalon.ph.
The 74-page issue features:
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Website: http://philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com/
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The 74-page issue features:
- Less Talk, Less Mistake by Xin Mei
- God Is The Space Between by Maryanne Moll
- Grenadier by Dominique Cimafranca
- The Last Time I Saw Uncle Freddie by Crystal Koo
- Blogcaster by Alexander Osias
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Website: http://philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com/
21 April 2011
Saraba Literary Magazine: Issue 8 and Call for Submissions
Saraba, an electronic literary magazine, currently based in Ile-Ife, Nigeria is in its 8th Issue. In these issues, we have exlpored themes as diverse as Family, City Life, Economy, Niger Delta,
Religion/God,Technology, and Fashion.
Our goal, from the onset, has been to encourage young emerging writers - although our contributors have ranged from unknown writers to well-known ones. We are proud to assert that our contributors are mainly young writers, whose writing are previously unknown, and whose talent and promise are overt in their works.
We have published writers mostly from Nigeria. But in addition, our contributors are writers resident in London, Paris, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, USA, Zimbabwe, Russia, Cameroun, Australia, and so forth.
Our 8th Issue, which is our most recent, was released on 15th April 2011. It is our proudest effort till date. In the Issue, we explore the knotty issue of fashion, and state that "... we failed in securing a unanimous perspective for fashion; how we succeeded in multiplying the richness, the effusiveness, the feverishness and sometimes agonizing details of fashion."
Writers in the issue include Yemi Soneye, Donald Molosi, Michael Lee Johnson, Chitzi Ogbumagba, Emmanuel Uweru Okoh Luso Mnthali, Lauren Henley, Victor Olusanya, Yolanda Mabuto Sokari Ekine, Damilola Ajayi, Tola Odejayi, Emmanuel Iduma Karen Chandler, and Kesiena Eboh.
The issue can be downloaded from http://sarabamag.com/featured/issue-8-fashion/
Our Issue and Chapbooks are published on www.sarabamag.com and can be downloaded free. We call on literary enthusiasts and the general reading public to explore the wide talent on offer. More importantly, we encourage readers to subscribe to the magazine. From our next issue, only subscribers would have access to the full content of the magazine. Subscription is free.
Submissions
Entries are received only for the e-magazine and chapbooks. Our site is improved continually to represent and reflect the best of emerging writing from Nigeria, Africa and the world. Interested contributors should read the following guidelines carefully.
Saraba’s staff is a small number of committed and enthusiastic but busy professionals. As such, entries that do not conform to these guidelines would not be considered. Our goal is to give emerging writers a voice and confidence, to give them the opportunity of having their works published.
For the magazine, we would, from the June Issue, publish content in two ‘portfolios.’ The first portfolio would be theme-based. Please see our themes for the year. We would publish, also, content of a general literary nature, but this portfolio would be smaller in size than the first.
Please send your work in an attachment in any of our three major categories: Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction. Send no more than one work at a time, and wait for our response before you send another. Word count for fiction works is 5,000, except otherwise announced. We’d accept no more than 3 poems at a time. For Non-fiction, we expect a broad range of new creative writing, including short memoirs, interviews, reviews, creative non-fiction, creative journalism, etc. Word count for this is 2,500.
We are also open to digital art including photographs, illustrations, paintings and so forth. Please send in high resolution jpeg files (not larger than 4 MB).
Please send alongside a bio of not more than 50 words (in third person).
Unsolicited poetry would not be considered for the chapbooks. If interested, please send a query and we would reply accordingly. Poems submitted would be generally considered for the magazine, on either of the portfolios.
Although we strive to highlight the talent and hard work of contributors, please note that we cannot afford to pay contributors.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: publishers@sarabamag.com
For submissions: http://saraba.submishmash.com/
Website: http://sarabamag.com
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Religion/God,Technology, and Fashion.
Our goal, from the onset, has been to encourage young emerging writers - although our contributors have ranged from unknown writers to well-known ones. We are proud to assert that our contributors are mainly young writers, whose writing are previously unknown, and whose talent and promise are overt in their works.
We have published writers mostly from Nigeria. But in addition, our contributors are writers resident in London, Paris, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, USA, Zimbabwe, Russia, Cameroun, Australia, and so forth.
Our 8th Issue, which is our most recent, was released on 15th April 2011. It is our proudest effort till date. In the Issue, we explore the knotty issue of fashion, and state that "... we failed in securing a unanimous perspective for fashion; how we succeeded in multiplying the richness, the effusiveness, the feverishness and sometimes agonizing details of fashion."
Writers in the issue include Yemi Soneye, Donald Molosi, Michael Lee Johnson, Chitzi Ogbumagba, Emmanuel Uweru Okoh Luso Mnthali, Lauren Henley, Victor Olusanya, Yolanda Mabuto Sokari Ekine, Damilola Ajayi, Tola Odejayi, Emmanuel Iduma Karen Chandler, and Kesiena Eboh.
The issue can be downloaded from http://sarabamag.com/featured/issue-8-fashion/
Our Issue and Chapbooks are published on www.sarabamag.com and can be downloaded free. We call on literary enthusiasts and the general reading public to explore the wide talent on offer. More importantly, we encourage readers to subscribe to the magazine. From our next issue, only subscribers would have access to the full content of the magazine. Subscription is free.
Submissions
Entries are received only for the e-magazine and chapbooks. Our site is improved continually to represent and reflect the best of emerging writing from Nigeria, Africa and the world. Interested contributors should read the following guidelines carefully.
Saraba’s staff is a small number of committed and enthusiastic but busy professionals. As such, entries that do not conform to these guidelines would not be considered. Our goal is to give emerging writers a voice and confidence, to give them the opportunity of having their works published.
For the magazine, we would, from the June Issue, publish content in two ‘portfolios.’ The first portfolio would be theme-based. Please see our themes for the year. We would publish, also, content of a general literary nature, but this portfolio would be smaller in size than the first.
Please send your work in an attachment in any of our three major categories: Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction. Send no more than one work at a time, and wait for our response before you send another. Word count for fiction works is 5,000, except otherwise announced. We’d accept no more than 3 poems at a time. For Non-fiction, we expect a broad range of new creative writing, including short memoirs, interviews, reviews, creative non-fiction, creative journalism, etc. Word count for this is 2,500.
We are also open to digital art including photographs, illustrations, paintings and so forth. Please send in high resolution jpeg files (not larger than 4 MB).
Please send alongside a bio of not more than 50 words (in third person).
Unsolicited poetry would not be considered for the chapbooks. If interested, please send a query and we would reply accordingly. Poems submitted would be generally considered for the magazine, on either of the portfolios.
Although we strive to highlight the talent and hard work of contributors, please note that we cannot afford to pay contributors.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: publishers@sarabamag.com
For submissions: http://saraba.submishmash.com/
Website: http://sarabamag.com
24 March 2011
Kritika Kultura Literary Issue Now Available for Viewing
The Kritika Kultura Literary Issue is now available for viewing, linking, and downloading. You may check it out at http://kritikakultura.ateneo.net/index.php/literary-editions, or you may choose to access the home page at http://kritikakultura.ateneo.net/.
About the Issue
The Philippine literary community has a relatively longstanding tradition of releasing anthologies focusing on young writers. However, it can be gleaned that the notion of the “new” remains unarticulated, as recent anthologies simply focus on the “young,” and what becomes apparent is the persistent maintenance of an aesthetics solidified in various creative writing institutions and workshops, a notion that is rapidly rendered inaccurate by a healthy production of writing that these anthologies do not include.
What this issue of Kritika Kultura intends to accomplish is to represent the kind of writing that is rarely published, the kind that is not often legitimized by mainstream publications. The kind of writing that we can confidently call “new.”
New, in this case, as the word that most succinctly describes literary texts that are mindful of—by way of formal response/appropriation and/or thematic confrontation—several cultural phenomena such as the preponderance of piracy, the simultaneous/schizophrenic sociopolitical conditions of the nation, the “new” government that includes so many of the old names, the highly provisional stances in criticism pertaining to society and art, the currency and increasing value of topicality and ephemera (as evidenced by BPOs, SEOs, and Facebook), the persistent dominance of celebrity culture, and the gossip paradigm of discourse. The anthology welcomes contributions that transgress genre boundaries, revise traditional modes and forms, formally engage with the largely oral, nontextual/extratextual literary practices of the Filipino audience, and display a technical alertness to the quandaries presented by blog-driven writing, Facebook fiction, protest poetry, the malleability of languages, the hegemony of academic publishing in “legitimate” literature, the dominion of western literary models, and, in light of these, the strategic and arguably fictionalizing construction of Filipino identity.
Edited by Mark Anthony Cayanan, Conchitina Cruz, and Adam David, Kritika Kultura Literary Issue features new work by: Arbeen Acuña, Liana Barcia, Maria Pia V. Benosa, Lawrence Bernabe, Mae Cacanindin, Catherine Candano, Joseph Casimiro, Marrian Pio Roda Ching, Jose V. Clutario, Isabela Cuerva, Paul S. de Guzman, Jun De La Rosa, Dana Lee F. Delgado, Daryll Delgado, Arlynn Despi, Katrina C. Elauria, Francis Murillo Emralino, Rey Escobar, Apo Española, EJ C. Galang, J. Pilapil Jacobo, Florianne Jimenez, Phillip Kimpo Jr., Pauline Lacanilao, Christine V. Lao, Isabelle Lau, Petra Magno, Johnina Martha Marfa, John Revo Ocampo, Anna Oposa, Zosimo Quibilan, Jr., Carlos Quijon, Jr., Eris Ramos, Ramon Niño T. Raquid, Kristine Reynaldo, Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez, Sandra Nicole Roldan, Chiles Samaniego, Katrina Stuart Santiago, Oscar Tantoco Serquiña, Jr., Vincenz Serrano, Christian Tablazon, Alyza Taguilaso, Rapunzel Tomacder, Eileen F. Tupaz, Vyxz Vasquez, and Eliza Victoria.
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About the Issue
The Philippine literary community has a relatively longstanding tradition of releasing anthologies focusing on young writers. However, it can be gleaned that the notion of the “new” remains unarticulated, as recent anthologies simply focus on the “young,” and what becomes apparent is the persistent maintenance of an aesthetics solidified in various creative writing institutions and workshops, a notion that is rapidly rendered inaccurate by a healthy production of writing that these anthologies do not include.
What this issue of Kritika Kultura intends to accomplish is to represent the kind of writing that is rarely published, the kind that is not often legitimized by mainstream publications. The kind of writing that we can confidently call “new.”
New, in this case, as the word that most succinctly describes literary texts that are mindful of—by way of formal response/appropriation and/or thematic confrontation—several cultural phenomena such as the preponderance of piracy, the simultaneous/schizophrenic sociopolitical conditions of the nation, the “new” government that includes so many of the old names, the highly provisional stances in criticism pertaining to society and art, the currency and increasing value of topicality and ephemera (as evidenced by BPOs, SEOs, and Facebook), the persistent dominance of celebrity culture, and the gossip paradigm of discourse. The anthology welcomes contributions that transgress genre boundaries, revise traditional modes and forms, formally engage with the largely oral, nontextual/extratextual literary practices of the Filipino audience, and display a technical alertness to the quandaries presented by blog-driven writing, Facebook fiction, protest poetry, the malleability of languages, the hegemony of academic publishing in “legitimate” literature, the dominion of western literary models, and, in light of these, the strategic and arguably fictionalizing construction of Filipino identity.
Edited by Mark Anthony Cayanan, Conchitina Cruz, and Adam David, Kritika Kultura Literary Issue features new work by: Arbeen Acuña, Liana Barcia, Maria Pia V. Benosa, Lawrence Bernabe, Mae Cacanindin, Catherine Candano, Joseph Casimiro, Marrian Pio Roda Ching, Jose V. Clutario, Isabela Cuerva, Paul S. de Guzman, Jun De La Rosa, Dana Lee F. Delgado, Daryll Delgado, Arlynn Despi, Katrina C. Elauria, Francis Murillo Emralino, Rey Escobar, Apo Española, EJ C. Galang, J. Pilapil Jacobo, Florianne Jimenez, Phillip Kimpo Jr., Pauline Lacanilao, Christine V. Lao, Isabelle Lau, Petra Magno, Johnina Martha Marfa, John Revo Ocampo, Anna Oposa, Zosimo Quibilan, Jr., Carlos Quijon, Jr., Eris Ramos, Ramon Niño T. Raquid, Kristine Reynaldo, Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez, Sandra Nicole Roldan, Chiles Samaniego, Katrina Stuart Santiago, Oscar Tantoco Serquiña, Jr., Vincenz Serrano, Christian Tablazon, Alyza Taguilaso, Rapunzel Tomacder, Eileen F. Tupaz, Vyxz Vasquez, and Eliza Victoria.
27 February 2011
Launch of Balite Zine: Ideya, Kultura, Mystika
Date: 5 March 2011, 5:00pm
Location: Espasyo Siningdikato
Balite zine (ideya, kultura, mystika) is an indigenous exploration of the idea, culture, and mystique of the term Balite in the form of an art zine that blends pop/everyday art into the realms of mythology and folklore. Balite Zine is produced by Espasyo Siningdikato and Balite Falls, Amadeo.
English Literary Editor: Jeanilyn Kwan
Filipino Literary Editor: Enrique Villasis
Managing Editor: Ayn Frances dela Cruz
Performers during the launch are: Elemento, The Jedds, Blender, Skies of Ember, Biscochong Halimaw, Erich Diolola, Gapos, Lala and Rob, Gonzo Army, Ayn, Chopping Board, Lala Pena, Petecracc, Ronald Verzo, Sir Ricky and company, Balite ziners, hosted by Jen Kwan
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Location: Espasyo Siningdikato
Balite zine (ideya, kultura, mystika) is an indigenous exploration of the idea, culture, and mystique of the term Balite in the form of an art zine that blends pop/everyday art into the realms of mythology and folklore. Balite Zine is produced by Espasyo Siningdikato and Balite Falls, Amadeo.
English Literary Editor: Jeanilyn Kwan
Filipino Literary Editor: Enrique Villasis
Managing Editor: Ayn Frances dela Cruz
Performers during the launch are: Elemento, The Jedds, Blender, Skies of Ember, Biscochong Halimaw, Erich Diolola, Gapos, Lala and Rob, Gonzo Army, Ayn, Chopping Board, Lala Pena, Petecracc, Ronald Verzo, Sir Ricky and company, Balite ziners, hosted by Jen Kwan
More information here.
01 February 2011
New Issue: Lantern Review Journal of Asian American Poetry Winter 2011
The editors of Lantern Review are pleased to announce the launch of their second issue, featuring:
Poetry by: Kimberly Alidio, JoAnn Balingit, Lek Borja, Kathleen Hellen, W. Todd Kaneko, Wendi Lee, Kenji C. Liu, Rajiv Mohabir, Aryanil Mukherjee, Michelle Peñaloza, Aimee Suzara, and Marc Vincenz.
Visual art by: Paul Csonka, Anannya Dasgupta, Jason Fang, Bethany Hana Fong, Lena Kim, Larissa Min, and Deven Sansare.
Community Voices section featuring a collaborative piece (presented in both print and audio formats) by Sulu DC artists: Alex Cena, Gowri Koneswaran, and Jenny C. Lares.
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Poetry by: Kimberly Alidio, JoAnn Balingit, Lek Borja, Kathleen Hellen, W. Todd Kaneko, Wendi Lee, Kenji C. Liu, Rajiv Mohabir, Aryanil Mukherjee, Michelle Peñaloza, Aimee Suzara, and Marc Vincenz.
Visual art by: Paul Csonka, Anannya Dasgupta, Jason Fang, Bethany Hana Fong, Lena Kim, Larissa Min, and Deven Sansare.
Community Voices section featuring a collaborative piece (presented in both print and audio formats) by Sulu DC artists: Alex Cena, Gowri Koneswaran, and Jenny C. Lares.
Read the issue here.
25 January 2011
Winter/ Spring 2011 Issue of The Asian American Literary Review Now Available
AALR's new winter/spring 2011 issue is now available for purchase. For a limited time, it is being offered with shipping and handling charges waived (25% savings).
The issue features:
• New writing by Joy Kogawa
• Forum on Census 2010 and multiracialism
• Translations of work by Japanese Peruvian poet José Watanabe
• Chang-rae Lee interviewed by Maud Casey
• Photo-essay on post-Katrina NOLA Vietnamese American urban gardens, by Kari Lydersen
• Video short and essay by Kip Fulbeck
• New AALR-Library of Congress initiative to restore “lost” APIA works: a bibliography of “lost” small magazine and journal publications by Carlos Bulosan, 1935-1948
• New poetry by Kimiko Hahn and Prageeta Sharma and new fiction by Eric Gamalinda and Shawna Yang Ryan
Anyone interested in ordering a single issue ($12) or a 1-year subscription ($20 for 2 issues) can go to www.aalrmag.org/subscribe/. Or direct any inquiries to editors@aalrmag.org.
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The issue features:
• New writing by Joy Kogawa
• Forum on Census 2010 and multiracialism
• Translations of work by Japanese Peruvian poet José Watanabe
• Chang-rae Lee interviewed by Maud Casey
• Photo-essay on post-Katrina NOLA Vietnamese American urban gardens, by Kari Lydersen
• Video short and essay by Kip Fulbeck
• New AALR-Library of Congress initiative to restore “lost” APIA works: a bibliography of “lost” small magazine and journal publications by Carlos Bulosan, 1935-1948
• New poetry by Kimiko Hahn and Prageeta Sharma and new fiction by Eric Gamalinda and Shawna Yang Ryan
Anyone interested in ordering a single issue ($12) or a 1-year subscription ($20 for 2 issues) can go to www.aalrmag.org/subscribe/. Or direct any inquiries to editors@aalrmag.org.
Subscribe here.
20 December 2010
New Issue - Our Own Voice # 33: Chinese-Filipino Heritage
Welcome to Our Own Voice! http://oovrag.com/. For a few of you, this may be your first time in viewing our issue. This 33rd issue features articles on the Chinese heritage of Filipinos. A robust bibliography accompanies the essays, poems and short stories. This issue also features the recipients of the Global Filipino Literary Awards for books published in 2008 and 2009.
On behalf of the staff, a Blessed Christmas to you and yours.
Happy Reading!
Remé-Antonia Grefalda
Editor
Our Own Voice # 33 Contributors: Dean Francis Alfar, Catherine Gueguen, Eusebio Koh, Maningning Miclat, Rene Navarro, Evelyn Sebastian, Teresita Ang See, Stephen Shey and Eileen Tabios.
View the new issue here.
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On behalf of the staff, a Blessed Christmas to you and yours.
Happy Reading!
Remé-Antonia Grefalda
Editor
Our Own Voice # 33 Contributors: Dean Francis Alfar, Catherine Gueguen, Eusebio Koh, Maningning Miclat, Rene Navarro, Evelyn Sebastian, Teresita Ang See, Stephen Shey and Eileen Tabios.
View the new issue here.
29 October 2010
World Literature Today November Issue: "Writing from Modern India" (guest edited by Sudeep Sen) Now Out
Writing from Modern India headlines the November 2010 issue of WLT, guest edited by Sudeep Sen, with contributions by over 30 writers, including Amit Chaudhuri, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Amitava Kumar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, and Vikram Seth as well as a list of 60 essential English-language works of modern Indian literature in the print edition. The issue also includes the following web exclusives:
* The complete text of “Palisades,” a short story by Beena Kamlani
* Additional poems by Anita Nair, Neelanjana Banerjee, Subodh Sarkar, Ashok Vajpeyi, J. P. Das, Daljit Nagra, Kazim Ali, and Anamika
* “The Tale of a Coward,” a short story by Bengali author Premendra Mitra, which served as the basis for Satyajit Ray’s 1965 film The Coward
* The full text of Ziaul Karim’s interview with Sudeep Sen
* Plus a bonus section celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of India’s Nobel Laureate in Literature, Rabindranath Tagore
To complement the focus on India, join the WLT Book Club discussion of Rajmahal, the second novel by Kamalini Sengupta. As the executive director of the Surya Trust, Sengupta filmed documentaries aiming to correct misconceptions about Indian life. In this month’s book club, you’ll find an interview with the author.
Additional highlights of the print edition include new poems by Clemens Setz (Austria), interviews with Aharon Appelfeld (Israel) and Rayda Jacobs (South Africa), and a short story by Sefi Atta (Nigeria/US). In an online bonus, Clemens Setz discusses the in-betweenness of writing both poetry and fiction in an interview with Peter Constantine.
In the final installment of our year-long series “Emerging Authors,” in which world-renowned writers were asked to introduce an author whose work they think deserves attention – and will gain prominence – in 2010 and beyond, Maxine Hong Kingston presents an excerpt from Benjamin Bac Sierra’s forthcoming novel, Barrio Bushido.
As always, notes on new books and book reviews from around the world are included along with “Nota Bene,” a listing of recent and recommended titles in our book review section, and the next installment in our Editor’s Choice selection, a series of recommended readings by WLT’s editorial staff.
More information here.
01 October 2010
Pyrta Fall Issue #2 Now Live
Pyrta Fall Issue #2 is out now and delivered right to your doorstep. We have:
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- Fabulous poetry by 18 poets.
- Brave new prose by Francesca, Deepika, Joseph and Saudha, a take on salt by Diya and a piece on the greatest serial killer names by Michael.
- Three distinctive Photo essays by Zishaan, Dhruba and Ameya.
- Evocative sketches by Francis and Amrit.
- And a hilarious little anecdote straight off the streets of Rome by Kaushik, the lucky bugger who lives in the eternal city.
26 September 2010
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal #12 is HERE
From the Asian Cha blog:
We are pleased to announce that the September 2010 issue of Cha has now been launched. We would like to thank Royston Tester for returning to the guest editor post and reading the submissions with us. We would also like to thank our Reviews Editor, Eddie Tay, for curating the special section of essays by children's book writers about their profession and for the usual fine selection of reviews. The issue also features a new editorial on children's literature by Jeff Zroback entitled "The Mortuary and the App".
The following writers/artists have generously allowed us to showcase their work:
Poetry: Phill Provance, Kim-An Lieberman, Eddie Tay, Fiona Sze-Lorraine, W.F. Lantry, Peters Bruveris, Inara Cedrins, Annie Zaidi, Steven Schroeder, Helle Annette Slutz, Shirley Lee, Astha Gupta, Marco Yan, Rumjhum Biswas and Clara Hsu
Fiction: Elizabeth Weinberg, David William Hill and Robert Raymer
Photography & art: Alvin Pang (Cover artist), Mark Stringer, Yip Wai Shai and Mary Lee
Essays: Margaret Hui Lian Lim, Emily Lim, Sarah Brennan and Adeline Foo
Reviews: Reid Mitchell, Martin Alexander, Jennifer Wong, Alice Tsay and Flora Mak who review the following books:
More information here.
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We are pleased to announce that the September 2010 issue of Cha has now been launched. We would like to thank Royston Tester for returning to the guest editor post and reading the submissions with us. We would also like to thank our Reviews Editor, Eddie Tay, for curating the special section of essays by children's book writers about their profession and for the usual fine selection of reviews. The issue also features a new editorial on children's literature by Jeff Zroback entitled "The Mortuary and the App".
The following writers/artists have generously allowed us to showcase their work:
Poetry: Phill Provance, Kim-An Lieberman, Eddie Tay, Fiona Sze-Lorraine, W.F. Lantry, Peters Bruveris, Inara Cedrins, Annie Zaidi, Steven Schroeder, Helle Annette Slutz, Shirley Lee, Astha Gupta, Marco Yan, Rumjhum Biswas and Clara Hsu
Fiction: Elizabeth Weinberg, David William Hill and Robert Raymer
Photography & art: Alvin Pang (Cover artist), Mark Stringer, Yip Wai Shai and Mary Lee
Essays: Margaret Hui Lian Lim, Emily Lim, Sarah Brennan and Adeline Foo
Reviews: Reid Mitchell, Martin Alexander, Jennifer Wong, Alice Tsay and Flora Mak who review the following books:
Fiona Sze-Lorrain's Water the Moon, Steven Schroeder's A Dim Sum of the Day Before, Cyril Wong's Oneiros, Leung Ping Kwan's Shifting Borders, Christopher (Kit) Kelen's To the Single Man's Hut: Poems and Pictures, Song Zijiang's Wiping the Dim Sky, Daisy Hasan's The To-Let House, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (ed.)'s Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults, Jennifer Ching's A Painted Moment and Patty Ho's Heart to HeartOur 13th issue is due out in February 2011. We are happy to have two old friends of the journal join us as guest editors: Consulting Editor Reid Mitchell will help with the prose and award-winning poet Arthur Leung will advise on the poetry. If you are interested in having your work considered for publication in Cha, please read our submission guidelines for details. We are also accepting submissions for "The China Issue" due out in June 2011.
More information here.
04 September 2010
Now Live: Autumn 2010 Issue of Asia Literary Review
From the editorial:
Asian writers, from Manchester to Melbourne, flourish (not being, unlike many American authors, it seems, constrained by their national geography). And that’s just writers writing in English. How many more might there be, writing in their own languages or dialects, who have no need of any US-centric teeth gnashing concerning cultural deficiency? How many, such as Man Asian Literary Prize winners Su Tong and Jiang Rong, whose work, thanks to the burgeoning business of translation, might reach English-speaking audiences?Fiction: Aqua Mors by Anna Saa-Feliciano (Philippines), The Silencer by G.B. Prabhat (India), Youth-in-Asia by Ron Schafrick (South Korea), A Little Darkness (extract) by Banana Yoshimoto (Japan), Forward by Justin Hill (China), Grasshoppers by O Thiam Chin (Singapore), It's all in the Silhouette by Steven Hirst (Hong Kong), The Maharaja and the Accountant by Jaina Sanga (India), A Most Generous Uncle by Tew Bunnag (Thailand), and Evening Meal by Nguyen Qui Duc (Vietnam).
Poetry: The Man Who Travelled the World by Louis de Bernières (Hong Kong), Before the Bones by Peauladd Huy (Cambodia), About That Man Killed Sometime Around Election Day by Goenawan Mohamad (Indonesia), Ellipsis by Laksmi Pamuntjak (Indonesia), On Gascoigne Road by Liam Fitzpatrick (Hong Kong), Aubade by Viki Holmes (Hong Kong), Old Poet by D Rege (India), A Paper House by Kate Rogers (Hong Kong), Not Sleeping by Kristine Ong Muslim (Asia), and Korean Hillside by Min K Kang (South Korea).
Read the issue here.
02 September 2010
New Issue of Muse India Now Live
The new issue of Muse Issue (Sep-Oct 2010) is a special 'Tagore 150 Commemorative Issue,' and is released now. It can be viewed at www.museindia.com. The issue pays tribute to one of India's greatest sons and a literary giant, whose voice was heard across all continents with awe and admiration. The section is edited by Dr Amrit Sen of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and examines Tagore's relevance even a century and a half after his birth.
The editors were overwhelmed by the response from contributors to this special Issue, and had to regretfully stop further acceptances beyond some point. The section is unusually large by our standards. The general sections in the new Issue offer a rich collage of poetry, fiction, reviews and criticism. It presents a number of young and new voices straining to be heard.
Muse India is also hosting a 3-day 'Hyderabad Literary Festival' on Dec 10-12, 2010 in Hyderabad. This will be a multi-lingual event with participation of many invited writers from across the country. This will be a good opportunity to participate and hear established as well as young talented voices. Several senior poets have already confirmed their participation. Mark the dates and make sure you don't miss the event. This is an advance notice to enable you to do the planning and bookings.
Read the essays, articles, reviews, and poetry included in the September issue here.
Urdu Fiction from India Featured in September 2010 Issue of Words Without Borders
This September we’re treated to the finest in new Urdu fiction from India. Curated by distinguished translator Muhammad Umar Memon, this stunning collection is the perfect primer on the fantastic and varied forms of contemporary Urdu writing. Naiyer Masud, master of the Urdu short story and Saraswati Samman award winner, follows the travails of a young runaway given refuge by a mysterious stranger. Celebrated fiction writer Qurratulain Hyder tracks the fortunes of a young woman who jettisons family and home on an intercontinental romp, with the past hot on her heels. Trailblazing feminist writer Ismat Chughtai gives an unsparing account of the goings-on in a maternity ward, while Anwar Khan’s protagonist discovers the comforting solitude of a shop window. Award-winning journalist Sajid Rashid sorts through a train explosion in a tale told by a severed head, and Siddiq Aalam listens in on two grumpy old men in a Kolkata park. Rounding out the issue, Sahitya Akademi Award winner Rajinder Singh Bedi gives a lesson in the art of erotic statuary, while Zakia Mashhadi recounts a troubled saga of marriage, love, and religion, and Salam Bin Razzack paints a picture of a Mumbai under siege.
The issue features translations by Muhammad Umar Memon, Faruq Hassan, Zackary Sholem Berger, and William Maynard Hutchins.
Read the issue here.
01 September 2010
The Caravan September Issue Now on Stands
30 August 2010
Babaylan Issue of Our Own Voice Now Live
An invitation from Our Own Voice:
Our 32nd issue is now online. We've opened our pages entirely on a panorama of the Babaylan landscape. Who and what is "Babaylan? For most of us it is a movement back to the indigenous past. For those of us away from the homeland, we hear the word and the sound calls up precolonial times but of what? Exotic rituals? holistic healings? Spiritual awakenings? All of the above?More information here.
In April 2010, a Babaylan Conference took place in California organized by Leny Strobel, known for her seminal book, COMING FULL CIRCLE: THE PROCESS OF DECOLONIZATION AMONG POST-1965 FILIPINO AMERICANS. We invited Leny and her conference organizers and attendees to continue their journey of epiphany on the pages of Our Own Voice.
We leave it to you, our readers and friends, to accept this invitation to experience an encounter in a vastly different landscape!
27 August 2010
Works of Rumjhum Biswas and Sumana Roy in August Issue of Brown Critique
The 'Brown Critique' is a quarterly/e-zine that showcases literary writings, works of art, music, reviews, and other forms of expressions.
The August ‘Brown Critique’ issue features Agha Shahid Ali, Ranjit Hoskote, Anthony Burge, Mahesh Ramchandani, Bibhudatta Mohanty, Anjum Hasan, Arvind Gigoo, Gopi Krishnan Kottoor, Robert James Berry, Kamal Vora (Abhay Sardesai and Avaneesh Bhatt), Vinod Das, and Amarjeet Singh (from previous issues) and new writings by Nadim Alwazzeh, Sumana Roy, Maya Sharma Sriram, Rumjhum Biswas, Abirami Arunachalam Velliangiri, Vishal Sinha (music), and Prabir Kumar Chatterjee (article).
For inquiries and to contribute to Brown Critique, mail the editors at browncritique@gmail.com.
More information here.
26 August 2010
Issue 39 of Poet's Picturebook Now Live
Issue 39 of Marne Kilates' Poet's Picturebook is now finally live, after a two-month hiatus. Called "The Catch-up Issue," the journal boasts of 20 poems from A-list contributors:
Donato Mejia Alvarez - Ulan sa Loob ng Kawayan / Rain Inside a Stick
Michael Carlo Baradi - Portrait of a Soldier, Inside Subic Bay
Aileen Ibardaloza - Lolo Claudio in Colorado, It's Love Love Love in San Francisco
Aidan Rooney - The Shoes, Twelve Labors of Hercules
Jose Marte Abueg - Rain, Vijulet Jusi, Flag
Pasckie Pascua - Ten Dollars
Vicente Soria de Veyra - For UN Worker, Lila...
R. Torres Pandan - War, Patriotism
Robin Lim - September 11, 2001: An Embryo's Perspective
Marne Kilates - Man Dying
Alma Anonas-Carpio - Channeling Shiva, Katipuneras
Nick Carbó - Arrested Pantoum, Victor Peñaranda, Start the Day
Rio Alma - Alamat ng Ulan / Legend of the Rain
Read the issue here.
01 August 2010
New Issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore Now Live
Dipping and Serving
From the editorial: "We have two very good poems from Jason Lee, one of which I had previously felt pained to decline but the improvement in it since has made it among the first names on this teamsheet. While the note of menace carries through to Holly Day's 'Room 13', the remaining poems all then carry what I see as a note of play - from the inversion of the usual active forms in J.H. Martin's 'Behind Temple Walls' to the Yeow Kai Chai's geometric passing in text. The four short stories are again the winners of another very large crop, and Lee Yew Leong then illuminates the mise en abyme further for us. There are also four reviews of recent work, all of which are - surprisingly for us - broadly positive."
Poetry
Kinabatangan
by Jason Lee
Rafflesia
by Jason Lee
Room 13
by Holly Day
Behind Temple Walls
by J.H. Martin
Buy Me Finery For My Funeral
by Tammy Ho Lai-ming
Why the Ghost Wears a Sheet
by Anthony Robbins
I am not similar at all
by Nicholas Liu
Begone dull care
by Yeow Kai Chai
Air Con Light in a Dark Room
by Kaiyi Tan
Short Stories
City in C Minor
by Stephanie Ye
Variations on the Theme of Coffee
by Leow Hui Min Annabeth
Learning to Swim
by Eileen Chong
The Two Hours
by Ram Govardhan
More information here.
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From the editorial: "We have two very good poems from Jason Lee, one of which I had previously felt pained to decline but the improvement in it since has made it among the first names on this teamsheet. While the note of menace carries through to Holly Day's 'Room 13', the remaining poems all then carry what I see as a note of play - from the inversion of the usual active forms in J.H. Martin's 'Behind Temple Walls' to the Yeow Kai Chai's geometric passing in text. The four short stories are again the winners of another very large crop, and Lee Yew Leong then illuminates the mise en abyme further for us. There are also four reviews of recent work, all of which are - surprisingly for us - broadly positive."
Poetry
Kinabatangan
by Jason Lee
Rafflesia
by Jason Lee
Room 13
by Holly Day
Behind Temple Walls
by J.H. Martin
Buy Me Finery For My Funeral
by Tammy Ho Lai-ming
Why the Ghost Wears a Sheet
by Anthony Robbins
I am not similar at all
by Nicholas Liu
Begone dull care
by Yeow Kai Chai
Air Con Light in a Dark Room
by Kaiyi Tan
Short Stories
City in C Minor
by Stephanie Ye
Variations on the Theme of Coffee
by Leow Hui Min Annabeth
Learning to Swim
by Eileen Chong
The Two Hours
by Ram Govardhan
More information here.
17 July 2010
Atanta Review: Iran Issue
The very first poetry from inside the pro-democracy movement in IRAN !
This explosive issue blows the cover on secrets that the fundamentalist regime has been hiding for years. These poets have endured prison and torture--they know where the bodies are buried, and in this historic issue they tell the world. Iranian poet and playwright Sholeh Wolpé takes you into the heart and soul of Iran’s ongoing struggle for freedom and human dignity.
This issue also displays the breathtaking range of Iranian and Persian poetry, from delightful humor to passionate love to mystic ecstasy. Included are FIVE new Rumi translations by Coleman Barks, who has made this ancient Persian mystic America’s best-selling poet!
This was the best-selling book at the recent Associated Writing Programs conference in Denver, where a large shipment sold out completely.
This issue of Atlanta Review is dedicated to the memory of Neda Agah-Soltan, a 26-year-old Iranian woman and student of philosophy who on June 20th, 2009, while at a demonstration in Tehran protesting the vote-count fraud in the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was targeted and shot in the heart by a Basiji.
More information here.
Read more
This explosive issue blows the cover on secrets that the fundamentalist regime has been hiding for years. These poets have endured prison and torture--they know where the bodies are buried, and in this historic issue they tell the world. Iranian poet and playwright Sholeh Wolpé takes you into the heart and soul of Iran’s ongoing struggle for freedom and human dignity.
This issue also displays the breathtaking range of Iranian and Persian poetry, from delightful humor to passionate love to mystic ecstasy. Included are FIVE new Rumi translations by Coleman Barks, who has made this ancient Persian mystic America’s best-selling poet!
This was the best-selling book at the recent Associated Writing Programs conference in Denver, where a large shipment sold out completely.
This issue of Atlanta Review is dedicated to the memory of Neda Agah-Soltan, a 26-year-old Iranian woman and student of philosophy who on June 20th, 2009, while at a demonstration in Tehran protesting the vote-count fraud in the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was targeted and shot in the heart by a Basiji.
More information here.
15 July 2010
June 2010 Issue of Asiatic Journal Now Live
Asiatic is the very first international journal on Asian Englishes and English writings by Asian and Asian diasporic writers, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality research articles and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics within its focus area.
Its June 2010 issue may be viewed here.
The issue features the following poems:
• Self Portraits, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, King’s College London, UK
• Mother; Magic, Masud Khan, Canada; Trans. Fakrul Alam, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Robert Yeo’s Seventieth Birthday: Poetic Reflections, Ismail S. Talib, National University of Singapore
• five pieces for the naked eye, Christopher Kelen, University of Macau, Macao, China
• Death of a Tiger Moth, Syd Harrex, Flinders University, Australia
More information here.
Read more
Its June 2010 issue may be viewed here.
The issue features the following poems:
• Self Portraits, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, King’s College London, UK
• Mother; Magic, Masud Khan, Canada; Trans. Fakrul Alam, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Robert Yeo’s Seventieth Birthday: Poetic Reflections, Ismail S. Talib, National University of Singapore
• five pieces for the naked eye, Christopher Kelen, University of Macau, Macao, China
• Death of a Tiger Moth, Syd Harrex, Flinders University, Australia
More information here.
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