Asia Writes

27 February 2011

Iraq Literary Review
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Email Address: drsadek99@yahoo.co.uk
Editor/Founder: Dr. Sadek R. Mohammed
Country: Iraq/ USA
Type: Online journal

Description: Iraq Literary Review is the first Iraqi Literary journal in English with an Iraqi, Arab and World outlook. Its main aim is to be fully engaged in charting out the contemporary Iraqi literary scene and translating it into English. It will also be engaged in observing what goes on in the Arab and World literary circles and bringing it to Iraqi English readers and the whole Anglophone at large. Iraq literary output can not and should not be cut off from its Arab and World wellsprings.Iraqi culture must seek its true place in the civilized world free from past complexities and present difficulties. Our nascent free creative space needs to acculturate with all the free self-same experiences. Iraq Literary Review comes to function as a bridge that will open-mindedly convey the very best in our culture to the world. The main objective, of course, is to create more tolerance and better understanding between the national "I" and its the international "other".

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07 September 2010

Wordweavers India
Website: http://wordweavers.in
Email Address: wordweavers@dhvani.co.in
Editor/Founder: Undisclosed
Country: India
Type: Online journal

Description: As the name suggests, this is the place for those under the spell of words! A Wordweaver is the one who knows how a word can love, hate, howl, scowl and all the verbs in the dictionary! How words make you chase at times and at times choose to chase you (when you hunt for the pen and paper !) While the non-believers of the world go proton-dissecting a wordweaver sits smiling, weaving his magic, beholding wonders that open eyes cannot. A Wordweaver is the one who knows that everything in the universe is in perfect harmony, you only need the eyes to see it. You know the universe knows your songs as much as you know the song of the universe.

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27 August 2010

Out of Print: The Short Story On Line
Website: http://outofprintmagazine.co.in/
Email Address: submissions@outofprintmagazine.co.in
Editor/Founder: Indira Chandrasekhar (Founder); Samhita Arni, Mira Brunner (Editors)
Country: India/Indian subcontinent
Type: Online Journal

Description: Out of Print is an online literary journal for short fiction that appears quarterly. We are based out of India but we seek writing from or with a connection to the subcontinent. We welcome submissions from established as well as from new writers. We also look for art that we feature on our home page - work that, in the artist’s view, tells a story connected to the region.

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17 July 2010

Cerebration: Trans-cultural Journal
Website: http://www.cerebration.org
Email Address: editors @cerebration.org
Editor/Consultant: Amrita Ghosh
Country: India
Type: Online journal

Description: Cerebration welcomes submissions from across the globe. Our goal is to create a trans-cultural space for critical thought and creative work. Submissions may cover a wide variety of topics and issues ranging from Politics, Culture and Literature to Science, Art, Music, Films and so on.

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16 July 2010

Flying Fists: a Journal of Asian Writing, Art + Culture
Website: http://flyingfistsjournal.com
Email Address: submissions@flyingfistsjournal.com
Editor/Consultant: Jackson Bliss/Nicky Schildkraut
Country: USA
Type: Online journal

Description: Flying fists is a journal of writing, art + culture. Created in 2009 by a group of dedicated writers living in LA (+ the surrounding area), the magazine is a forum for new ideas, new voices and new dialogues about Asia, Asian culture + Asian writing. Each issue will bring together different (art)work + voices from around the pan-Asian world.

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15 July 2010

Anak Sastra
Website: http://www.anaksastra.com/
Email Address: editor@anaksastra.com.
Editor/Consultant: Undisclosed
Country: Southeast Asia
Type: Online journal

Description: Started in August 2010, Anak Sastra Online Magazine is a quarterly magazine which hopes to provide a venue for Southeast Asian writers to promote their writings in English. The magazine also encourages expats and tourists alike to submit writings based on their experiences in Southeast Asia. Although submissions from or about any Southeast Asian country is welcomed, preference is given to submissions from or about Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore.

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13 July 2010

Opus Cosmos
Website: http://opuscosmos.com/
Email Address: inspire@opuscosmos.com
Editor/Consultant: Opus Cosmos
Country: UK
Type: Online journal

Description: Welcome to a showcase of exclusive novella’s released on a fortnightly basis written by OpusCosmos. See a selection of entertaining stories, some still works in progress. Please take caution that content contains adult material that may offend you. If you are easily offended, please do not venture any further. The theme is grindhouse/sci-fi/comdey/supernatural and I will release episodes on a fortnightly basis or on demand. My current piece of work is "Sons of Man" an thrilling journey through mental and cosmic states revealing mysteries, conspiracies and crazy aliens on the way. The story begins in Cancun, Mexico but makes it way over to London then into Outerspace. The main aim is to promote reading in young male adults, 16+ but stories are available for all to enjoy.

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06 July 2010

Islamic Poetry
Website: http://www.islamicpoetry.org
Email Address: reviewers@islamicpoetry.org
Editor/Consultant: Shaykh Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf
Country: Middle East
Type: Online journal

Description: IslamicPoetry.org is a new internet poetry site entirely dedicated to Islamic poetry. Our mission is to encourage poets of all ages, nationalities, and cultures to submit their poetry on various Islamic themes in order to have their heartfelt inspirations heard and serve as a means to benefit readers from different communities around the world. Poems in praise of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), and a variety of other Islamic topics, are found in abundance in the various lands and languages of the Muslim World such as Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Malay, Pashto, Turkish, Urdu, among many others. The great significance of encouraging others to strive and apply themselves in composing such poetry should not be belittled or forgotten. It is a symbol of Islamic renaissance, and we hope to encourage people in the West and abroad to take part in its preservation and revitalization. Since many Muslims living in the West, consider English to be their first language, we hope this website will, God willing, help to promote and advance Islamic poetry in the English language. Although the goal of this website is quite simple and transparent, the benefits derived from its atmosphere of healthy competition and co-operation will be far-reaching.

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21 June 2010

Pyrta Journal (Shillong)
Website: http://www.pyrtajournal.com/
Email Address: pyrtasubmissions@gmail.com
Editor/Consultant: Janice Pariat
Country: India
Type: Online journal

Description: Pyrta is a journal of poetry and other things based in Shillong, a small hill-station town in Meghalaya, India. It's a little bit local, and mostly universal. Pyrta aims to be a multi-cultural space - we'd like voices from all over to contribute quality work, which we can enjoy and learn from. We want to provide authors/photographers/artists, whether new or established, a platform to share what they love doing best.Literature, art, music, travel, politics, cities, stone, the environment, fireflies...well, we're interested in everything in the world.

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11 June 2010

Taj Mahal Review
Website: http://www.cyberwit.net/subs.htm
Email Address: editorpoems@yahoo.com
Editor/Consultant: Karunesh Kumar Agrawal
Country: India
Type: Online journal

Description: Taj Mahal Review by Cyberwit is devoted to Literature and Arts so that the writers may live in perpetuity to be appreciated for all times. The Journal is devoted to the cause of poetry so that our planet may be a better place to live in. What Taj Mahal Review asks the poet is to be stimulated and moved by the visual and the aural imagery. The poems reveal the remarkable variety of life, and a faith in life, blended by a healthy skepticism.

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30 May 2010

Nether Magazine
Website: http://netherprint.wordpress.com/
Email Address: Undisclosed
Editor/Consultant:
Country: India
Type: Online journal

Description: We are an independent collective of writers looking to spread out and build a plexus of more writers/artists in India and across. Our publication nether will soon be in print. Nether will be a quarterly magazine focused on all the potential variations in the sphere of contemporary writings. So literary experiments, digressions or other unlikely forms are welcome and will definitely be considered.

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24 May 2010

Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies
Website: http://aas.stanford.edu/journal/index.htm
Email Address: oceanictongues@gmail.edu
Editor/Consultant: Gordon Chang
Country: USA/Asia
Type: Online journal

Description: The Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies (SJAAS) is an online journal featuring excellence in the field of Asian American Studies. The Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies seeks papers from a wide range of perspectives and covering a breadth of topics. Examples of topics include Asian Americans in drama, literature, and film; Asian American issues; and Asian American history. Papers should represent a substantial amount of work, such as a term paper or research paper resulting as the cumulative work of a course.

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18 May 2010

Chinese Literature Today
Website: http://www.ou.edu/clt/
Email Address: CLToday@ou.edu
Editor/Consultant: Zhang Jian
Country: China/USA
Type: Online journal

Description: As modern China becomes an increasingly visible player on the world’s stage, it is more important than ever for the world to gain an understanding of Chinese culture, history, and perspectives. Chinese Literature Today, a new title from the award-winning World Literature Today, grants the world direct access to China—poems that have been memorized and loved by countless readers, novels that have sold millions of copies, and literary essays that illuminate the many facets of Chinese literature and culture. CLT’s mission is to provide high-quality English translations of the best of Chinese literature. CLT will feature both original literary works and groundbreaking critical essays. All genres of fiction and non-fiction are welcome, from poetry, short story, novella, and novel excerpts to literary essay and memoir. Book reviews, news, interviews, and visual arts will complete CLT’s coverage of China’s modern arts. CLT invites you to come explore China and delve into an entire literary tradition that has until now been available only to specialists.

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04 May 2010

The Nilab: A Literary Magazine
Website: http://thenilab.com/
Email Address: submissions@thenilab.com
Editor/Consultant: Undisclosed
Country: Pakistan
Type: Online journal

Description: A combination of two Persian words Nil (blue) and Ab (water), NILAB literally means "blue water." THE NILAB is the Turkic name for the Indus river and, we think, it effectively conveys the sense of cultural and literary mixing/syncretism we want to encourage by publishing the magazine.

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03 May 2010

The Pacific Rim Review of Books
Website: http://www.prrb.ca/
Email Address: editor@prrb.ca
Editor/Consultant: Richard Olafson
Country: Pacific
Type: Online journal

Description: Published three times a year, each issue features reviews, editorials, poetry, and other contributions by established and upcoming writers on the Pacific Rim. Our goal is to provide an outlet for expression that carries the unique Pacific style, understanding, and concerns. We feel strongly that this need has not been met, and the publication was born out of a desire to fill that void and make each issue's arrival like that of a welcome and trusted friend. Our editors are committed to establishing and maintaining that trust, as are our contributors.

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28 April 2010

Mythium Literary Journal
Website: http://mythiumlitmag.com/
Email Address: editor@mythiumlitmag.com
Editor/Consultant: Ron Davis
Country: USA
Type: Online journal

Description: Mythium’s goal is to gather all the diverse narratives of indigenous and diasporic ethnicities under one umbrella: African, Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Native American, African American, etc., exposing a multicultural collective to the mainstream audience.

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16 April 2010

Spaces Philippines
Website: http://www.spacephilippines.com
Email Address: editor@spacephilippines.com
Editor/Consultant: Marc Escalona Gaba
Country: Philippines
Type: Online journal

Description: Our online magazine presents conversations with and between creative Filipinos working in the fields of architecture, theater, writing, fashion, film, the visual arts, music, ideas and design. The magazine is premised on the belief that there is interesting and vital work across the disciplines in the country. Our magazine also aims to help build the local creative community by providing a platform that welcomes all the creative disciplines without prejudice. The exchange of informed perspectives in our forums aims to generate directions for individual artists. Space Philippines is not an academic journal; it is an informed, living conversation. It understands that there are problems for which art is the solution. Elitist in some ways, democratic in deeper ways, Space Philippines is an apolitical platform for an appreciative, discerning involvement with creative work in the Philippines.

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14 April 2010

Pen Himalaya
Website: http://penhimalaya.netfirms.com/
Email Address: mukulnp2002@yahoo.com
Editor/Consultant: Manu Manjil
Country: Nepal
Type: Online journal

Description: Founded in 1997 by twelve literary artists of Itahari, a small emerging town in the eastern Nepal, this circle has gained good repute in a short period of time. It has three publications, two electronic and one in print, and a book museum. The monthly poetry recital has been able to gather some of the best poets and writers of national and international repute. It's a kind of small workshop where new poets and writers learn from the comment and interaction with the established ones. Each member of this circle aspires to do something, bring new creative ideas and find space in the annals of the history of Nepalese literature. Most of the members have got their collections published and others too are getting things ready for it. The circle in this small town has created a stir and stoked the flame of thirst for creation.

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