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Showing posts with label Short stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Short stories. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 August 2023

Award-winning writer Saras Manickam dishes about authorial ego, complicated women and race discrimination in Malaysia in My Mother Pattu

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  Courtesy of Author About the Book My Mother Pattu  (Penguin SEA, 2023).   Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this col...
Tuesday, 1 August 2023

Food glorious food – a feast of stories from Read Paper Republic

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Nicky Harman writes: Paper Republic is a registered  charity/ non-profit website dedicated to promoting enjoyment and understanding of Chin...
Thursday, 27 July 2023

Eternal Summer of the Homeland: Agnes Chew talks about writing a story collection and being the Asia Winner of the CSSP

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Courtesy of Author Book Synopsis The stories in Agnes Chew’s first fiction collection illuminate the complexity of choice when duty and desi...
Thursday, 25 May 2023

Elaine Chiew Interviews Khanh Ha, author of prize-winning short story collection All The Rivers Flow Into The Sea.

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About the Book: From Vietnam to America, All the Rivers Flow into the Sea is a short story collection, jewel- like, evocative, and layered,...
Thursday, 24 February 2022

Small London Indie Press Leopard Print Releases First Anthology of Asian Stories

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This week's Contemporary Voices column is written by Ivy Ngeow as guest writer for Asian Books Blog.  Ivy is a true Renaissance woman ...
Saturday, 20 November 2021

Guest post from Jayanthi Sankar

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Though Jayanthi Sankar is a native of India, where her books are published, she lives in Singapore.  Her fiction often explores the diversit...
Sunday, 14 November 2021

Mrs Pinto Drives to Happiness guest post by Reshma Ruia

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  Reshma Ruia is an award winning British Indian writer. She is the author of two novels, Something Black in the Lentil Soup and Still Lives...
Thursday, 28 January 2021

Contemporary Voices: Elaine Chiew Chats with Jenny Bhatt, Author of Each of Us Killers

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  Photo Credit: Praveen Ahuja Bio: Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and the host of the Desi Books podcast. Her de...
Thursday, 26 November 2020

A brilliant grappling with history through interlinked stories: Asako Serizawa's sterling debut 'The Inheritors'

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Bio:   ASAKO SERIZAWA was born in Japan and grew up in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. A graduate of Tufts University, Brown University, and ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Nicky Harman on The Book of Shanghai: some exciting writing talent and excellent translators

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As a follow-up to Rosie Milne's post on THE BOOK OF SHANGHAI , I have been thinking about what makes a good introduction to contempora...
Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Shreya Sen-Handley Talks the Strange and Unexpected in her Short Stories with Elaine Chiew

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Credit Stephen Handley Bio:  Former television journalist and producer Shreya Sen-Handley is the author of two books with HarperCollins...
Friday, 29 May 2020

Short story writer Janet H Swinney Chats With Elaine Chiew

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Credit: Janet H Swinney; Design: Kay Green Bio:   Janet H Swinney is a former education inspector who grew up in the North East of Eng...
Friday, 13 December 2019

500 words from Noelle Q De Jesus

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Noelle Q De Jesus is a Filipino American short story writer who explores issues of identity, belonging, and attachment. Her stories are inti...
Thursday, 31 October 2019

4 Edogawa Ranpo Horror Stories

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Edogawa Ranpo is synonymous with Japanese horror and mystery fiction. Using a pen name based off of Edgar Allen Poe, (try saying it three t...
Friday, 25 October 2019

Call for short stories on everyday life during Khmer Rouge era

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The Khmer Writers Association is collaborating with the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) to organise a short story competition on t...
Wednesday, 3 July 2019

O Thiam Chin Talks to Elaine Chiew about Vampires, Teenage Girls and His Sixth Book of Short Fiction, Signs of Life.

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Photo courtesy of the Author and Alan Siew O Thiam Chin is the author of five collections of short fiction: Free Falling Man , Never Be...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

A New Kid on the Block for Literary Nonprofits

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Paper Republic is proud to announce that it is now a UK-registered charity no. 1182259 . Paper Republic was set up by Eric Abra...
Friday, 8 February 2019

May We Borrow Your Country guest post by Catherine Menon

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The Whole Kahani (The Complete Story), is a collective of British fiction writers of South Asian origin. The group was formed in 2011 to pro...
Friday, 6 July 2018

500 words from C.G. Menon

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C. G. Menon is a British Asian writer born in Australia. Her debut collection of short stories,  Subjunctive Moods , is published b...