This week, read Tejaswinee Roychowdhury’s poignant story “Jacaranda,” which is about family, broken promises, and praying for a miracle. (Tejaswinee 🖤⚖️🖊) Read the piece and listen to Tejaswinee recite it here: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

This week’s featured piece is Mark Anthony Cayanan’s poem “Give me a reason to abandon everything,” which wrestles with wanting to be intimate and keeping things to oneself. (Mark Anthony Cayanan) Read this marvelous piece alongside Mark at: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

This week, check out Mugdhaa Ranade’s flash speculative essay, “Pitching A Scene To My Dad”—a cutting grief piece that longs for comfort, that asks questions left unanswered. (Mugdhaa Ranade) Read it at: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

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This week’s featured work is Ploi Pirapokin’s personal essay “Here’s Your Grandchild,” which traces the author’s journey to self-love after surgery—and years of dealing with body issues and debilitating cultural norms. (Ploi de Vivre⁷) 📖🔉: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

Aaah, it's here! Thank you, The Lumiere Review, for putting this issue together & giving my grief essay a beautiful home alongside other heartfelt works!🤍

"We are essayists, our specialty is making wild things work." --max pasakorn แม็ก ภาสกร 🦄 (2022) 💖 A note to self!!!

To kick off 2023, we'll send thoughtful & compelling works your way! Think: themes of revolution, self-interrogation, privilege, and truth. Subscribe by the 3rd to get them in your inbox! sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly

My personal essay about reading (with a sprinkle of friendship breakup) is in Spellbinder's Winter 2023 issue!! Thank you, Spellbinder, for giving this piece a home 💖

This week, read “The Call of Cadiz,” a historical fiction piece about war, liberty, and madness. Set in the Philippine Isles in the early 1800s, the short story is a treat to fans of history, revolution, and anti-imperialism. Check it out here: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

This week’s featured work is Ysabelle Cheung’s seething story, “Ex / Re / Patriate.” Set in Hong Kong, the piece examines privilege in an expat’s life, written from an expat’s point of view. (Ysabelle) Read it at: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

This week, read Andy Lopez’s flash fiction piece “Boba Talk.” It plays into the words for “milk tea” and an insult in her mother tongue “to exacerbate the vast divide language can create, in sometimes invisible, hurtful ways.” (andy ⭐️ lopez) sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

Thanks so much to Pandan Weekly Stephanie Shi 🏴, and longleaf review 🍃 for first publishing this flash 2 years ago! Still one of my faves 💗

This week’s featured work is “Sleight,” an English translation of Saksiri Meesomsueb’s poem กล. For translator Noh Anothai, the poem questions the boundaries between truth, exaggeration, and outright deception. Read “Sleight” at sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

Today, read “Blooming, Bloomed, Withered,” Gene Png’s translation of a Lee Wonha poem. According to Gene, “The poet once confessed she never felt an affinity with nature until she moved to Jeju seeking respite from an unrequited love.” (@robinbythedoor) sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

This week’s featured work is a short story about three friends and their relationship with their home: a jungle exploited by various groups and institutions. Read Damhuri Muhammad’s “Jungle Kids” here: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p… (damhuri muhammad)

My new short story "Jungle Kids," has live on Pandan Weekly, about childhood friendships around the tropical forests of Sumatra, Indonesia. Thank you so much Stephanie Shi 🏴 for giving me a chance #WritingCommunity Maya Wulan Dedy Tri Riyadi #SEAvoices

5 writers & 5 things you might find in my writing, courtesy of a tag from Allison Thung: 1. Mummy issues 2. Unassumingly erotic language 3. Fragmented selfhood 4. Gay romance 5. Chinese and Thai words lae 🫶🏼 im the coldest Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat Stephanie Shi 🏴 Héctor w/acento

ICYDK: We're open for subs! You can submit a SEA Lit Circle-workshopped piece *or* a previously published piece. Subs will close once we hit our cap, or on April 30 (11:59 PM, GMT+8)—whichever comes first! pandanweekly.substack.com/submit The 1st zine issue will launch in July 2024. 💚

Comin' out of my cage & I've been doin' just fine coz In Short has published a micro essay of mine! It's under a pseudonym, so if you wanna read it, my clue is Asian mom love language 😉 so many pieces in the debut issue have moved me, so check it out! Feel human & alive again 🥰