T. S. Hidalgo (46) holds a BBA (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), an MBA (IE Business School), an MA in Creative Writing (Hotel Kafka), and a Certificate in Management and the Arts (New York University). His work has been published in magazines in the USA, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Barbados, Virgin Islands (USA), Germany, the UK...
Zhou Jianing – “I sighed, gently” (translated by Ed Allen)
Zhou Jianing 周嘉宁 was born in Shanghai in 1982, and is the author of the full-length novels Barren City and In the Dense Groves, and the short story collections How I Ruined My Life, One Step At A Time and Essential Beauty. Zhou has translated works by Alice Munro, Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I sighed, gently 《轻轻喘出一口气》 My mother was already out by the...
David Huntington – ‘I’d left my city open that night’
David Huntington is managing web editor at SpittoonCollective.com. His work is published or forthcoming in the likes of Spittoon Literary Magazine, Literary Hub, and Post Road; his screenplay ‘New Violence’ was selected for the 2018 Middlebury Script Lab. I’d left my city open that night and when I woke I closed it. I tidied my pages and crossed the streets...
David Huntington – ‘May the Smuggler’
David Huntington is managing web editor at SpittoonCollective.com. His work is published or forthcoming in the likes of Spittoon Literary Magazine, Literary Hub, and Post Road; his screenplay ‘New Violence’ was selected for the 2018 Middlebury Script Lab. May the Smuggler One day I simply awoke within an enemy— Even to crouch home would...
Shelly Bryant – Two Poems
Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry (Alban Lake and Math Paper Press), a pair of travel guides for the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai (Urbanatomy), and a book on classical Chinese gardens (Hong Kong University Press). She has translated work from the Chinese for Penguin Books, Epigram...
Theophilus Kwek – “Pearl Bank”
Theophilus Kwek is a prize-winning writer and researcher based in Singapore. The author of five volumes of poetry, he has been shortlisted twice for the Singapore Literature Prize, and serves as co-editor of Oxford Poetry. His essays, poems and translations have appeared in The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, and the Mekong Review. Pearl Bank i.m. 1976-2019 ...
Habib Mohana – “The Florist”
Habib Mohana was born in 1969 in Daraban Kalan, a town in the district of Dera Imsail Khan, Pakistan. He is an assistant professor of English at Government Degree College No 3, D. I. Khan. He writes fiction in English, Urdu, and Saraiki (his mother tongue). He has four books under his belt, one in Urdu and three in Saraiki. His Saraiki novel forms part of the syllabus for the MA in Saraiki at...
Millicent A. A. Graham – Three Poems from “The Way Home”
Millicent A. A. Graham lives in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of two collections of poetry The Damp In Things (Peepal Tree Press, 2009) and The Way Home (Peepal Tree Press, 2014). She is a fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, 2009 and an awardee of the Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship to Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, 2010. ...
Millicent A. A. Graham – Three Poems from “The Damp in Things”
Millicent A. A. Graham lives in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of two collections of poetry The Damp In Things (Peepal Tree Press, 2009) and The Way Home (Peepal Tree Press, 2014). She is a fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, 2009 and an awardee of the Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship to Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, 2010. ...
REVIEW: “Professor Su Jing’an in His Later Years” by Dong Jun (Patrick Schiefen)
It is fundamentally human to disregard our own mortality, to believe – especially through our younger years – that we’re indestructible, even immortal. Yet Death is undeniable; it casts its shadow across every aspect of our daily lives whether or not we dare to look. After all, all things must come to an end. So it is appropriate that death plays a large but quiet role in Dong Jun’s Professor Su...