New Asian Writing hopes to invite short stories to be sent in by writers from any country in the world to be selected by an experienced panel of editors and published in a yearly anthology.
The overarching theme of the short story anthology is: All About Asia.
Selected stories will be posted on our...
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The second edition of The Rage of a New Ancestor. 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology has a new cover design by Singaporean artist Fena Lee and a few minor layout changes.
Most of these short stories are littered with vocabulary from the local...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
The train rolls out of Mandalay at four in the morning, lit only by the orange glow of cigarettes being smoked in the seats around us. It is an old wooden relic that...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
He noticed he could look at people and form a story about each of them, without ever really having a clue what or who they were. He started doing it as a teenager...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
She stirred and moaned, enjoying the sensation after the act of love. She had eloped with Benay three days ago but these days had just passed off in a wink of an eye....
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
“Faheem! Wake up. It’s almost eleven.”
Faheem rubbed his eyes for a while. Life started a few hours ago. He kept lying in the cot for he was a little embarrassed. His aunt sat...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
“… happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
(Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge)
Women had always been important in my life, especially after I arrived here two years ago....
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
Andrea had been watching the mark for over a month now. Staking out all his appearances, all his ceramahs. Blending in. Shadowing his every move. And she figured tonight would be the night...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
There was something very intriguing about the new watchman’s daughter. She was perhaps my age, about twelve years, only much thinner and shorter. She never said a word and chose to simply perch...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
The air conditioning had fizzled out and Ai Lin’s limp black hair hung in clumpy strands around her sweaty neck. Perspiration coursed down her chest and formed a deep pool in the cleft...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology
Bangkok, April 7, 1893
A blanket of rain fell to the earth, pouring from the roof of the teakwood house, forming waterfalls that cascaded to the floor below and created a percussive spatter...
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