HEAVEN HAS EYES BOOK TOUR
In tender, luminous writing, Philip Holden explores piercing psychological questions about what it is like to be haunted by one's past. Set in Singapore, Vancouver, London, and the spaces in between, the short stories in Heaven Has Eyes offer an imaginative, penetrating look at the complexities of migration, belonging, and a desire to find a home in the world.
Philip Holden will be in New York, Boston and Vancouver between January to February 2026 to launch Heaven Has Eyes. Please check out the book tour dates and locations – we'd love for you to join us!
Second Saturdays Reading Series – Featuring Philip Holden and Diane Josefowicz in conversation
Date & Time: Saturday, January 31, 7 – 9 pm
Venue: The Space (45 Main Street, Suite 508, Brooklyn, NY 11201)
Free and open to all. RSVP Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org to reserve a seat.
Hear two splendid fiction writers converse about the challenging art of writing short stories, and the strange appeal of writing about teachers, therapists, mentors, and guardians of all stripes. Philip Holden (Heaven Has Eyes, Gaudy Boy, 2026) and Diane Josefowicz (Guardians & Saints, Cornerstone, 2025) will read from their books and field questions. This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Philip Holden’s life has spanned three continents, with its center of gravity in Singapore, where he taught and researched Singapore and Southeast Asian writing at university in a career spanning three decades. He is the author of critical, historical, biographical, and fictional writing, investigating questions of identity, belonging, and agency. Now a registered clinical counsellor, he explores the intersections of storytelling and mental health through work in Guided Autobiography and in facilitating lived-experience stories.
A novelist, historian, editor, and translator, Diane Josefowicz is the author of a novel, Ready, Set, Oh (2022) and a novella, L'Air du Temps (2024). Her short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Sou'Wester, Fence, Saint Ann's Review, and elsewhere. Guardians & Saints is her first collection of short stories. She is also the editor of reviews at Necessary Fiction, the senior editor for translation at The Adroit Journal, and the managing editor of the Victorian Web, the internet’s oldest and largest website devoted to Victoriana.
