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View fullsize We’re very pleased to announce the results of the 11th SUSPECT Poetry Contest. In conjunction with our launch of Mandy Moe Pwint Tu’s Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Winner, Fablemaker, this year’s contest looked for poetic fables or po
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Opinion: Remove the Residency Requirement for Overseas Voting

As Singapore headed to the polls on May 3, nearly a quarter million of its citizens were unable to vote, shut out by an outdated rule: the residency requirement for overseas voting.

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SUSPECT

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Duyung
Duyung

The sea trickles through generations and memories in this short story by Sofia Mariah Ma for our Of the Sea portfolio.

Blast Fishing for Beginners
Blast Fishing for Beginners

In Napoleon Arcilla’s explosive poems for “Of the Sea”, we are asked to “Sense everything with [our] calloused hands.”

Art, Music and Statelessness in Sabah
Art, Music and Statelessness in Sabah

Writer Erel talks to the artist Drop about art, music, protest, and power.

Editor’s Note: Of the Sea
Editor’s Note: Of the Sea

SUSPECT Editor-in-Chief Sharmini Aphrodite introduces our latest portfolio on maritime Southeast Asia.

Poetry in the Age of AI
Poetry in the Age of AI

‘What has not been spoken and remains to be made flesh’. From Gwee Li Sui’s keynote lecture at the Poetry Festival Singapore 2025.

Just Looking
Just Looking

“In one month we are/ Particles of dust”; in another, a red stain that spans an island. Mani Rao presents three poems on the expiration date of love.

Paradiso Resort
Paradiso Resort

A meeting at a bar, rites for departure: a short story by Rayji de Guia.

#YISHREADS July 2025
#YISHREADS July 2025

Southeast Asian monsters, unfaithful translations, and more – this July, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews short story collections from Hong Kong to the Filipino diaspora.

Winners of the 11th SUSPECT Poetry Contest
Winners of the 11th SUSPECT Poetry Contest

We’re very pleased to announce the results of the 11th annual SUSPECT Poetry Contest.

Kidneys and Other Poems
Kidneys and Other Poems

“A heart is an oversold gift […] But my kidney?” Four poems by Gretchen Filart.

A Self-explanatory Picture Reel
A Self-explanatory Picture Reel

An essay by Neethu Krishnan considers the contours of desire.

Wild Berries
Wild Berries

As rain pours into the valley, a boy sees the rest of his life. A short story by Gudhal.

#YISHREADS June 2025
#YISHREADS June 2025

This Pride month, Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five queer comic titles bringing readers from the Philippines to Indonesia, Japan to Singapore, and to the USA.

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After Watching E.T.

With three poems for Eco-, Dorian Merina explores when homecoming becomes possible for the displaced.

Gaudy Boy

Gaudy Boy
Fablemaker
Fablemaker

by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu
978-1-958652-18-3
$16.00 / Paperback / 6” x 9” / 122 pages
Gaudy Boy, September 2025
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Eke: Poems
Eke: Poems

by Wahidah Tambee
ISBN: 978-1-958652-17-6
$16.00 / Paperback / 6” x 9” / 106 pages
Gaudy Boy, July 2025
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Memorial Club
Memorial Club

by Mozid Mahmud
ISBN: 978-1-958652-16-9
eISBN: 978-1-958652-15-2
$19.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5” / 138 pages
Gaudy Boy, January 2025
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The Way You Want to Be Loved
The Way You Want to Be Loved

by Aruni Kashyap
ISBN: 978-1-958652-08-4
eISBN: 978-1-958652-09-1
$19.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5" / 256 pages
Gaudy Boy, October 2024
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Singapore: Word Image
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Interrogation Records
Interrogation Records

by Jeddie Sophronius
ISBN: 978-1-958652-07-7
$16.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5" / 120 pages
Gaudy Boy, April 2024
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Singapore: Word Image
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Lovelier, Lonelier

by Daryl Qilin Yam
ISBN: 978-1-958652-04-6
eISBN: 978-1-958652-05-3
$24.00 / Paperback / 6” x 9" / 424 pages
Gaudy Boy, February 2024
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Bengal Hound
Bengal Hound

by Rahad Abir
9781958652022
$19.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5" / 228 pages
Gaudy Boy, October 1, 2023
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Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight
Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight

by Jim Pascual Agustin
978-1-958652-00-8
$16.00 / Paperback / 5.5” x 8.5" / 94 pages
Gaudy Boy, April 1, 2023
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SUSPECT: VOLUME 1, YEAR 1
SUSPECT: VOLUME 1, YEAR 1

978-1-958652-01-5
$16.00 / Paperback / 8.5" x 11" / 164 pages
February 22, 2022
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New Singapore Poetries
New Singapore Poetries

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
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Submissions

Opportunities
2nd SUSPECT Flash Fiction Contest
2nd SUSPECT Flash Fiction Contest

Deadline:  September 30th, 2025
Awards: USD300, 200, and 100
No entry fee

In conjunction with Gaudy Boy’s November 2025 publication of Sharmini Aphrodite’s THE UNREPENTANT, SUSPECT is holding its 2nd flash fiction contest with a call for submissions inspired by the title of this bold story collection. We are looking for flash fiction of 100-150 words on the theme of unrepentance interpreted in any imaginative way.

"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