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Notes on Craft

Oli Hazzard

Poet Oli Hazzard on writing his debut novel Lorem Ipsum, which is made up of one single 50,000-word sentence.

Tiki Girl

Amanda Lee Koe

‘One learns not to hold on too tightly to anything in Singapore’

The Safe Zone

Nina Mingya Powles

An essay from Small Bodies of Water, the winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize.

An As-Yet-Undiscovered Land Mammal

Mariana Leky

An excerpt from Mariana Leky’s What You Can See From Here.

Licked Clean

Sammy Wright

From Test Signal: Northern Anthology of New Writers.

Pebbles

Max Porter

A new story by Max Porter – part of our series in partnership with The Arts House, Singapore.

What’s in a Name?

Victoria Princewill

‘Names do not just carry intimacy, they determine the extent of it’.

Victoria Princewill on names and consent.

Seek You

Kristen Radtke

An excerpt from Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, a new graphic novel by Kristen Radtke.

Guard / Dear Katherine

Akwaeke Emezi

An excerpt from Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: a Black spirit memoir.

Some Trouble

Sharlene Teo

Sharlene Teo on getting in trouble – part of a new series, in partnership with The Arts House, Singapore.

Have You Met Husband?

Amy Silverberg

‘It was new, that heat coming off of him, a person seeing you naked and wanting to see you again, the next day, clothed. It was definitely the beginning of something.’

New fiction from Amy Silverberg.

Black Box

Shiori Ito

Shiori Ito has become integral to the #MeToo movement taking hold in Japan.

Ceremony of Innocence

Madeleine Bunting

A journalist receives a troubling call about a friend in this excerpt from Madeleine Bunting’s new novel Ceremony of Innocence.

Three Poems

Rae Armantrout

‘When you wake up, / you will remember nothing of this.’

‘Curses’, ‘Familiar Ground’ and ‘Lions’ by Rae Armantrout.