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Learn more about some of our readers below!

Choo Yi Feng (he/him) is an intertidal explorer, climate activist, ecologist and fiction writer. The Waiting Room is his debut short story collection. Elsewhere, his short stories have previously been published in Foglifter Journal, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Queer Southeast Asia and Alluvium, the journal of Literary Shanghai. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2022.

Clement Yue is a Singaporean essayist exploring queerness, religion and family. His work has been featured in The Slow Press, the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and won the Columbia Journal Online Nonfiction Contest in 2024. He is currently working on a full-length memoir and is completing his MFA in Creative Nonfiction at New York University.

Conan Tan (he/they) is living out his brat summer reading depressing queer literature. Their poems have been published in Rattle, Alien, West Trade Review, Lumiere Review, QLRS, and elsewhere. He is an undergraduate at the University of Oxford. Say hi to them @tmyconan on Instagram and Twitter.

Jack Xi (they/he) is a queer wheelchair user and member of the writing collective /Stop@BadEndRhymes (stylised /s@ber). They’ve appeared in several poetry journals and anthologies. Find out more at “jackxisg.wordpress.com”.

Max Pasakorn (he/she/they) is the author of creative nonfiction chapbook A Study in Our Selves (Neon Hemlock Press, 2023). Max’s writing has won the 2024 swamp pink prize in Nonfiction and the Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers’ Contest in Poetry. Their works are in Split Lip Magazine, SUSPECT Journal, Foglifter Journal, Eunoia Review and others. Read more at maxpasakorn.works or follow Max on Instagram at @maxpsk_writes.

Noonherd is a brown writer based in Singapore. She is a third-year student at the National University of Singapore, studying at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her works have been published in online magazines such as Sploosh, Pareidolia Literary, and Antifragile Zine.

Si-Min Chong is a writer and translator from Singapore. She makes work about vessels: women, trees, and snakes. Based in Singapore and O’ahu, Hawai’i, she holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University.

Zeha (b. 2000) is a multi-disciplinary artist. They are interested in dissecting memories to reimagine the past and the humans of the now. They enjoy how malleable language is and loves to construct and deconstruct mainly the malay and english language to conjure microscopic imageries and paint soundscapes. Their performances centre around the relationships between family, queerness, ethnicity, familiarity and reconcilation. They have been a part of Pooja Nansi’s 2020 Biennale commision activation, ‘Coping Mechanism’ and has also read at the 2022 Singapore Writers’ Festival’s closing event, ‘…Only to Arrive at the Same Place Together’.

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