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.
What’s On
Op-Ed
Acclaimed Singaporean playwright Haresh Sharma was due to teach a play-writing course at the National University of Singapore (NUS), but five days before the start of the new school semester he was informed that NUS did not approve his appointment but he was not given any reason. We call on NUS to provide a clear and satisfactory explanation for this abrupt and late cancellation.
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With his poems on consumption and fear, Christian Hanz Lozada lays out a powerful three-course meal using ingredients from a caged crocodile, an insulted street food vendor, and a supermarket aisle.
A relationship with an electric character lands a university student into a startling new world in which the typical rules don't apply, in this story from Michael Balili.
What do a pearl, a bell and a dropped pipe tell us about colonial violence? Three poems from Kapil Kachru.
In times of political upheaval, what are we touched – or left untouched – by? Matt Reeck’s translations of Leeladhar Jagoori show us what happens when opposites collide.
A sharp new story by Christian Yeo interrogates the state of surveillance.
As the new year beckons, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five books, whose topics range from the genocide in Palestine to the Sino-Japanese War in Chungking, that remind us of the moral necessity of hope.
In this essay on the films of Iranian director Alireza Khatami, Robert Hirschfield isolates the qualities and influences that distinguish this body of work.
Ashley Marilynne Wong reviews Elaine Chiew’s novel The Light Between Us.
For 2024, SUSPECT’s My Book of the Year features recommendations from 28 writers, artists, scholars, and thinkers, who share the reads that have stuck with them this year.
What is it like to be exiled from a colony, tribe, group and to be chained to a false name? Read the new story by Krystalle Teh.
Eunice Lim reviews A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa (Hamilton, Ontario: Buckrider Books, 2023).
Kwan Ann Tan reviews Cannibals by Shinya Tanaka, translated by Kalau Almony (United Kingdom: Honford Star, 2024).
Darkly subversive, as appropriate to the times, five works of speculative fiction from South Asia and the diaspora, reviewed by Ng Yi-Sheng.
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
N. America: Amazon / Bookshop
Singapore: Word Image
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by Rahad Abir
9781958652022
$19.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5" / 228 pages
Gaudy Boy, October 1, 2023
N. America: Bookshop / Amazon
Singapore: Word Image
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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
N. America: Bookshop / Amazon
Singapore: Word Image
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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
N. America: Bookshop / Amazon
S.E. Asia: In the best bookstores
UK: Good Press (Glasgow)
Distributed by Ingram
Contests
Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2025
Payment: USD100.00 and a copy of EKE
To highlight the collection’s unique qualities, we invite artists who work in the fields of (but not limited to) visual art, animation, sound, textile, photography to submit works in response to EKE.
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
Payment: USD100.00
SUSPECT invites submissions exploring the theme of “Eco-” for our special portfolio, which is scheduled for publication starting 5th June 2025 to commemorate World Environment Day.
"It is difficult to overstate the importance of literary organizations like Singapore Unbound. The healthy mind is curious about the imagined worlds in which SU traffics. SU brings us literature of profound interest, lively debate, and beautiful sound."
—Harold Augenbraum, honorary advisor and Former Executive Director, National Book Foundation
The violence of unwanted motherhood. Elise J. Choi reviews Lojman, by Ebru Ojen.