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

“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.

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

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

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

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

An essay by Neethu Krishnan considers the contours of desire.

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

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.

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

A dead fawn on the side of the road prompts an awakening in this short story by Mir Arif for Eco-.

What would an angry frog call “your problem”? Three poems for Eco- on amphibians and becoming by L Kiew.

Will the jungle offer an answer to a man’s deepest desire? Find out in Jon Gresham’s short story for Eco-.

A ship appears one day in a village. What does it bring? A story by Khải Đơn for Eco-.

As eggs boil in the morning, Maggie Wang gives us a bird’s eye view of the lives that we abandon and the ones to which we return. Three poems for Eco-.

Jess Jacutan considers power, agency, and tourism in the Philippines’ ‘Healing Island’ for Eco-.

A constructed homeland falls apart and is pieced together again in a story by Jack Wolflink.

Plunge into poetry this May with as Ng Yi-Sheng reviews five collections from Asian writers.

A short story by Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray that bubbles with kaypoh aunties and the persistence of being kiasi.

From Northern Ireland to Pakistan to Cambridge, Ali Abbas weaves a love story that pierces through time.

Voice, longing, language, and sisterhood collide in an essay by Shumin Tan.

Anna Tan reviews the fantasy novel These Deathless Shores by P.H. Low.

What do you do with a debt that takes lifetimes to repay? A short story by E. P. Tuazon.

Thea Liu brings us on a moonlit journey in this short story that weaves between the lyric and the lucid.

A Chinese phone, a cup of water, and the future’s “incisor”: Abdulbasit Oluwanishola presents us with the ways grief is felt, then held.

Amidst a season of renewal this April, Ng Yi-Sheng takes us on a journey through the literature of mainland Southeast Asia.

“This is not a disease/ you isolate yourself to fix.” Three poems by Ryan Yeo on how to keep going.

Taylor Taeyeon Song reviews Hwang Jungeun's dd's Umbrella.

Good food-based advice for Poetry Month: find it in yourself to love flies, but don’t leave them any lychee pieces… and don’t talk to bears about mahua. Three poems from Kunjana Parashar.