We’re only a month away from the release of LONTAR issue #7! And I’m proud to reveal both the cover and contents for the new issue, which presents speculative writing from and about Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia and Korea.
Fiction
七星鼓 (Seven Star Drum)
Zen Cho
The Four Deaths of Taylor Ngo
TR Napper
Blind Date
Melissa De Silva
Candlenut Farm
James Penha
Ink: A Love Story
Vida Cruz
The Tigers of Bengal
Manish Melwani
Poetry
This Island, New Laos
Bryan Thao Worra
Eden and Our Habits
Zeny May Recidoro
Funduk
The Sultan’s Tent
Brandon Marlon
The organisation sends a suicide bomber with their best regards
Subashini Navaratnam
In His Own Words
Russ Hoe
Une Nouvelle Vie
Ichthyosaur Birth
Christina Sng
from “The Anti-Art Anti-Evolution of Manic Piggy Dream Gurrl”
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
The Other Universe
Cyril Wong
Non-Fiction
In Suspicion of Beauty: On Eka Kurniawan
Tiffany Tsao
Sequential Art
Falling
Elvin Ching
The issue will be available in mid-October in bookstores all over Singapore, on the Epigram Books website, and as an ebook through Weightless Books.