soh yong xiang is an undergraduate. He suspects that “I’m Like A Bird,” by Nelly Furtado, may be one of the greatest songs ever released.
purbasha roy is a writer from Jharkhand, India. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, The Margins, Strange Horizons, Reckoning Magazine, Notch Review as of late. Attained 2nd Position in 8th Singapore Poetry Contest. Best of the Net Nominee. https://linktr.ee/Purbashawrites
k. magboo is a literary artist based in Metro Manila, Philippines, writing about the world that forces itself upon the body. He is in the process of completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon city. Currently obsessed with Nelson Sullivan’s footage of young RuPaul. You can reach him on Instagram @kaimgbo.
suranjana sinharoy’s always slow to say anything about herself because then she needs to come up with something definitive because, frankly, who knows. Everything might change tomorrow. She’s intrigued by dreams and nightmares, of surreal lucidity and fantasy. Her words misbehave in her mind and she’s always got a cheeky glint in her eye. She wishes to write with a flair that is smooth, contemplative, sincere, but not clumsy. You can find more of her musings at https://dangpankoozie.substack.com/.
wu liangyu is a teenage artist and poet. Her work has been exhibited at Singapore Art Week, Science Centre Singapore, School of the Arts (SOTA), and the Visual Arts Centre. In 2024, she founded Project InkLink, a youth organisation dedicated to forging connections through literature. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in journals including Eunoia Review, The Empty Inkwell Review, This Is Southeast Asia, and Sine Theta Magazine.
ace chu is a stray dog from Singapore—his recent work can be found in lovely places like Subnivean, Pithead Chapel, The Hopper, and elsewhere. Look for him at acechu.com.
varsha sivaram is a writer and editor. Their work can be found in publications including Mekong Review, Jom, Mynah Magazine, Esplanade’s Offstage, and the National Gallery’s Perspectives Magazine. They co-edited the anthology What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian (2022). In 2024, they participated in Sing Lit Station’s Manuscript Bootcamp (Nonfiction).
kate rogers’ poem “False Spring” is forthcoming in the Caitlin Press anthology, Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice. Kate won first prize in subTerrain Magazine’s Lush Triumphant Award for her five-poem suite, “My Mother’s House.” Kate’s new poetry collection, Baba Yaga and the Girl Who Ate the Rope, debuts with Frontenac House in April 2026. It is her fourth poetry collection.
jocelyn tan loves to write about feelings; poetry remains the most ephemeral of art forms, immortalized by words. She explores her relationship with writing and visuals, projecting and shrinking her problems all at once. It feels surreal to let the world glimpse a piece of her, but she lives for this bliss. Her poems have been published in online zines such as Rainbow Fictioneers (2025) and Not Quite Sure Lit (2025).
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crispin rodrigues is the author of four collections of poetry and a co-editor of an anthology of young Singapore-based poets. He works in education.
marcus slingsby was born in Yorkshire in 1973. During his 20s and early 30s he travelled the world, working the 1st to wander the 3rd. His work has appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, Jasper’s Folly, and The Poetry Lighthouse. He lives in Friesland with his family.
ying lee is a Singapore-born Canadian writer (parents are from Ipoh and JB). Her poems have been finalists for various awards in Canada, the US, and Australia, and her first full-length poetry collection, Rebuke the Ghosts (Brick Books), will be published in 2027.
jessa c. suganob is a translingual practitioner working with image, text, and ephemera. She writes and translates in English, French, Filipino, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Kinaray’a in her works. Her works can be found in ANMLY, Kritika Kultura, Petrichor, TLDTD, and elsewhere. She is currently the Director of Literary Arts for the art gallery Carmen Art District. She is currently based in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.
christian yeo xuan is a writer based in Singapore by way of Beirut and Paris. His chapbook, So Rain, won the 2025 Sundress Chapbook Competition. His work has been published or is forthcoming in EPOCH, ANMLY, Sundog Lit, Foglifter, Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Oxford Poetry, among others. He has placed or been a finalist for NYU's Washington Square Review New Voices Award, the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize, and the Bridport Prize, among others. A Fall ’25 Brooklyn Poets fellow, he has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, McCormack Writing Centre, and the Fine Arts Work Centre in Provincetown. Find out more at christianyeoxuan.com.
bill wolak has published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe, The Passionfruit Review, Inside Voice, and Barfly Poetry Magazine.
charles toh is a student of literature and philosophy. Their work is, at present, inspired by serialist music, Borges, Bolaño, and the Oulipo and Nouveau Roman movements. This is their first published story. They can be reached at charlestohx@gmail.com.
An Australian writer of Montenegrin origin, pavle radonić spent ten years living in SE Asia, from where a disproportionate number of his publications derive. Recent work has appeared in Action, Spectacle, Sagebrush Review, QU Literary Magazine, and Hobart Pulp. Denver Quarterly and Post Road Magazine forthcoming.
yuan changming co-edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Writing credits include 16 chapbooks, 6 nominations for BOTN, 15 Pushcart nominations for poetry and fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008–17), BestNewPoemsOnline, and 2,207 other publications across 52 countries. A former poetry juror for Canada’s National Magazine Awards, Yuan began to write prosework in 2022 and has since released a ‘silver romance’ (The Tuner), a short story collection (Flashbacks), a cnf collection (Return to Roots), and anovel trilogy (Towards), all available on Amazon. https://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/
ho soon hoe is a public health researcher from Singapore. He loves to read and visit libraries in his free time. He dabbles in creative writing once in a while and has two short stories online.
A devout self-proclaimed disciple of Richard Siken and worshipper of Sleep Token, lim yi jie was a finalist in Write and Burn 2022, Youth Outreach for SWF 2025 and currently volunteers in SingPoWriMo to serve the vast writing community. He is also the proud boss of Caesura, a writing collective where budding writers become writing buddies. You may also see him perform at open mics here and there. After all, he is a passing-through poet.
nicole bruma is an aspiring wordsmith who’s kinda, sorta getting there with words. Mixing dreamscapes and the kooky with the mundane, they write with the delirious longing of a person sat in their room, unbound, yet looking out a grimy window and romanticising the outside anyway.
Technical writer by day, liv (@livically) writes poetry and micro/flash fiction by night. She is also a 2025 Paper Jam longlister.
brandon david servos is a Singaporean writer and student of English Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is an editor for The Sengkang Sci-Fi Quarterly and Margins, and has contributed to the latter. In the 2025 Hopwood Awards, he received First Place in Undergraduate Nonfiction and Fourth Place in the Novel.
the very fancy caterpillar is just that. A caterpillar that is very fancy. But what does “fanciness” mean? It just munches leaves and fancies itself as a poet and writer, a Shakespearemint perhaps. It jests. It really does not want you to know what or who it is. Trust me (the unreliable narrator), it really is nobody—or nothing. It shakes your hand with one of its many feet and offers you a leaf. It may take a very long nap. So shush… Let’s leave and not disturb it any further.
kristi koo is an English and Creative Writing graduate who likes pouring her mind and heart out, turning her splatters of emotions into gears and wheels in a clock, waiting for the moment when it strikes. May her words stir the depths of one’s soul.
chris holdaway is a poet, publisher, and translator from Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of Gorse Poems (Titus Books, 2022), and directs the poetry and arts publisher Compound Press. He has poems, essays, and translations in a variety of publications including Cordite, Landfall, Public Seminar, Shearsman Magazine, and Western Humanities Review. chrisholdaway.com
jonathan chan is a writer and editor of poems and essays. He is the author of the poetry collections going home (Landmark, 2022), shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2024, and bright sorrow (Landmark, 2025). He serves as the Managing Editor of poetry.sg. He has recently been moved by the work of Italo Calvino, Xi Ni Er, and Omar Musa. Born in New York to a Malaysian father and South Korean mother, he was raised in Singapore, where he lives and works. More of his writing can be found at jonbcy.wordpress.com.
ahmad irfan has been writing senselessly for a decade or so. Currently, he is writing intimate, restless poems about desire, memory, and identity. His work includes essays, articles, reflections.
melvin tan is a copywriter from Singapore. His poems have been featured in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Alluvium: Literary Shanghai, Singapore Writers Festival, the University of Canberra, and others. He wants to write like Cyril Wong when he grows up. Find him at @rainy_day_survivor on IG.
ng zheng wei is usually blessed by Cangjie but sometimes kissed by a Muse. Despite living in Bishan, he struggles to find a reason to queue for any chicken rice, Michelin-starred or not. He has published two Chinese poetry collections: The Child Made of White Paper (2022) and Hallucinations and Mishearings (2024).
levin tan is just another person who writes, thinks, struggles, procrastinates, and cries over spilt milk in the inflated economy. They sometimes over-worry about having early on-set dementia when all the words just flee in another direction. Still, they watch, listen—and write—then, forget.
stephanie valente is a poet, copywriter, and the author of the collection Internet Girlfriend, published by Clash Books. She is at work on a novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. @stephaniemariavalente and https://stephanievalente.substack.com
shaf ghani is largely a prose writer and wordsmith. She has published works in English and her native tongue, Malay, in various anthologies. She is an educator by trade. Being also a mother of one, she is a staunch anti-Zionist and is always looking for local and global causes to find allyship with.
euginia tan is a Singaporean writer who writes poetry, creative non-fiction and plays. She enjoys cross-pollinating art into multidisciplinary platforms and reviving stories. Contact her at eugtan@hotmail.com.
