Rose Books is open for submissions

Books submissions will be open for the first time ever in November.

Renewing Local Metaphors through Hades

Join Aishah Zainal at Abe Books for an exercise in defamiliarisation.

Shopkeepers of Chinatown

Loh Kah Seng and Stephen Dobbs trace the history of Singapore's often overlooked shopkeepers.

Invisible No More

Former HR minister Steven Sim offers his account of the passage of the landmark Gig Workers Act.

Red Tiger

Arveent Kathirtchelvan explores would it mean to build socialism in the context of 21st-century Mala…

Run, My Daughters, Run

Lee Su Kim returns with a full-length novel set against the backdrop of Occupation-era Malaya.

Renewing Local Metaphors through Hades

Join Aishah Zainal at Abe Books for an exercise in defamiliarisation.

#KitaKawan with Gerakbudaya

Gerakbudaya launches its #KitaKawan campaign with fellow indie bookstores.

Launch | Run, My Daughters, Run

Catch Lit Book's Fong Min Hun in conversation with Lee Su Kim at the launch of her latest novel.

Talk | Rumi: Captives of the Light

Evren Sharma reads from and discusses her latest novel on the Sufi mystic and his mentor.

Rose Books is open for submissions

Books submissions will be open for the first time ever in November.

The Hemlock’s One Sentence Story Contest

Tell an amazing story in one sentence, twenty words or less.

The Bandung Spirit

The Bandung Spirit wants your contributions on grassroots struggles against imperialism.

Women With Weapons

Blaft is seeking short fiction about women with weapons that fails the reverse Bechdel test.

Granta feeds alleged AI story to AI

The magazine fed Nazir's story to Claude, and concludes that its provenance cannot be known.

Commonwealth Prize tainted by AI slop allegations

The Hindu reports that a notice went up on the CF site promising a 'thorough, transparent' review of…

Adelaide Writers’ Week called off

AWW 2026 completely called off after withdrawal of over 180 participants and the resignation of its …

Adelaide Festival fallout continues

The Adelaide Festival fallout continues as Abdel-Fattah issues a legal demand.