Singapore Unbound is launching a new literary journal next year, featuring the future voices of Asia, and you can help in two important ways.

 

We want to expand SP Blog into a full-fledged journal. We will publish a new story, essay, or poems every week for your reading pleasure. There will be exciting themed months: “Archipelago Dreaming” for works exploring the virtues of flow and circulation; and “New Religions” for works examining new spiritual relationships between us and our environments. And we will continue to hold our popular poetry and flash-fiction contests and draw your attention to the most interesting books published through our book reviews.
 
We are confident of doing so because:

 

(1)   We are already publishing some of the finest emerging Asian voices. Read for yourself the penetrating story “The Return” by Faraaz Mahomed, a clinical psychologist and human rights lawyer originally from South Africa and now based in Brooklyn. And the comical story “Romeo and Juliet” by Zhumagul Solty from Kazakhstan, translated by her fellow Kazakh writer Zaure Batayeva. And the compelling story “The Room at the Rosemary” by the Nepalese writer Muna Gurung. Discover the speculative fiction of the young, mixed, transgender writer Jie Venus Cohen in “The Hawker Centres of Atlantis.”

 

(2)   We have a dynamic team of editors in place, including Marylyn Tan, the youngest winner of the Singapore Literature Prize; Sharmini Aphrodite, whose fiction has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize; and the Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic and Barbican Young Poet Maggie Wang.

 

Help us launch this exciting, new literary journal. You can do so in 1 of 2 ways:

 

(1)   Participate in our “Name Our New Journal” Challenge. Submit a maximum of THREE compelling names for a literary journal that publishes the most exciting and provocative poetry, fiction, and essays from diverse parts of Asia and its diasporas. The winner of the Challenge receives a Gaudy Boy book of their choice. Send your suggestion(s), along with your mailing address, to Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org.

 

(2)   Make a generous donation so that we can pay our authors and editors. We strongly believe that, like any other workers, authors and editors should be paid for the creative work of producing and publishing imaginative and entertaining works of literature. We hope that you share our belief and will donate generously to starting the new journal. 

 

We will pay our contributors USD100.00 for each contribution and our editors a stipend of USD100.00 per month. In order to do so, we need to raise a sum of USD21,150.

 

USD100.00 pays for a short story or essay.

USD300.00 pays for 3 book reviews.

USD600.00 pays for the top 3 winners of our poetry contest.

USD1,200.00 pays for 1 editor’s stipend for a year.

 

Two easy ways to donate:
 
1. You can donate by credit card by clicking the donation button above. Fractured Atlas is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions for the purposes of Singapore Unbound are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
 
2. If you prefer, you can also donate by check. Please send contributions to Jee Leong Koh, 3 W 122nd Street, Suite 5D, New York, NY 10027, USA. Checks should be made payable to “Fractured Atlas,” with “Singapore Unbound” in the memo line.
 
If your company has a matching gifts program with Benevity, you can find us under "Fractured Atlas Productions Inc" and then "Singapore Unbound.”
 
We also appreciate non-cash and in-kind donations. If you live in NYC, you could host a Second Saturdays event, or donate your time, a venue, and F&B. You could also help by spreading the word about this fundraising appeal. Thank you in advance for your generous support.
 
Be a champion of Asian literature. Support freedom of expression. Donate now.
 
 
Sincerely,
 
Jee Leong Koh
Founder and Organizer
Singapore Unbound