Merilyn Chang is a journalist and digital media manager based between New York and Berlin. She’s studied comparative literature and creative writing for her bachelor’s and has since been working on her first novel. Her work has been published by Dazed, Resident Advisor, Fact Mag and more. God’s Seat The day August died was just like any other day. It was all the days...
Amanda has lived in Singapore, the United Kingdom, China and Taiwan. She has a BA (Hons) in Chinese and Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, and an MFA in Art and Design. She has taught English and creative writing for over ten years. She is also a Chinese-English translator, as well as chief storyteller to her son. She was a winner of the 2022 Writing the City Showcase...
Srinjay Chakravarti is a writer, editor and translator based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. A former journalist with The Financial Times Group, his creative writing has appeared in over 150 publications in 30-odd countries. His first book of poems Occam’s Razor received the Salt Literary Award in 1995. He has won one of the top prizes ($7,500) in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Poetry...
Corey Miller was a finalist for the F(r)iction Flash Fiction Contest (’20) and shortlisted for The Forge Flash Competition (’20). His writing has appeared in Booth, Pithead Chapel, Third Point Press, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere. He reads for TriQuarterly, Longleaf Review, and Barren Magazine. When Corey isn’t brewing beer for a living in Cleveland, he likes to take his dogs for adventures...
Marcus spent 18 months in Shanghai’s former French Concession. He is the author of two novels, German Justice, which was published by Blackspring Press in 2020 and Sarabande, published in 2008. This short story is part of a collection of stories titled “Loneliness”. Marcus works in development-finance and writes and paints in his spare time. The proceeds of his writings and art sales go...
Laetitia Keok is a poet, writer, & English Literature student from Singapore. Her work has appeared in Vagabond City Lit, Tongue Tied Magazine & elsewhere. Memorabilia Shanghai is so much like Singapore—another cityscape brimming with new beginnings. You step out of a six-hour flight into a world that still seems unchanged, your entire life stuffed into a single luggage...
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. ...
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...
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...
Choo Yi Feng is currently an undergraduate majoring in life sciences at the National University of Singapore. He has previously been published in Curios, the annual student journal of Tembusu College at NUS. He also a volunteer who gives tour guides and conducts intertidal surveys on Singapore’s diverse seashores. Brightest Day In the dawn before the sun had fully risen, my bedroom...