PR&TA is still accepting submissions for Issue 4: Heat 🔥 Dust off the writing you've been sitting on, and send us your best unpublished work that explore the theme of heat and interrelated themes. Closing Date: Feb 5 2024 Check out the link in our bio for more details 🔗

Thinking of submitting Critical Work to Issue 4? Consider sending us Surat Serba-Serbi (Letters from the Wind). We are open to other materials that inform the context of creative practice, including interviews with authors, excerpts from writers’ notebooks and archival materials.

The deadline for Issue 4: Heat, is fast approaching! 🔥 Send us your best creative and critical submissions that explore the theme of heat, and interrelated themes. Closing Date: Feb 5 2024 Check out the link in our bio for more details 🔗 Submit here: pratajournal.com/open-call-issu…

🔥 LAST CALL! 🔥 Feeling the heat yet? It's the last weekend to submit to PR&TA Issue 4: Heat! Closing Date: Feb 5 2024 Check out the link in our bio for more details 🔗 Submit here: pratajournal.com/open-call-issu…

PR&TA writers (Mohamed Shaker, Toh Hong Jin and M N Shehryar) and editors (Dr Ann Ang and Lawrence Ypil) in action at a joint reading with Kopi Break at Yale-NUS College on 6 February 2024, Tuesday for Diversity Week!

David Wong Hsien Ming's review of 2 new poetry collections - Khairani Barokka’s amuk and Tricia Tan’s Patient History - reminds us of the aesthetic, linguistic and cultural journeys poetry collections take us through. Read more in our latest issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

Melizarani T.Selva (Melizarani)’s essay “Watershed” recounts a tumultuous time in Malaysia’s politics using Mahathir’s final election campaign speech as a framing device. Read this brilliant essay and other works of creative and critical writing at pratajournal.com

Carlo Laurena's gripping short story grapples with the axes of desire — beauty, gender, and power — but also laments the unequal conditions that create imbalances of power even in innocent friendships. Read "Desire" at pratajournal.com/desire

Two poems by Vince Agcaoili transform a weighty grief into sharp images that show the thrumming heart of the speaker. Read “What’s in a Heart” and “Q&A” in PR&TA’s latest issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

Cheng Nien Yuan’s review of Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors (2023) and Elaine Chew’s The Light Between Us (2024) discusses how these historical novels display the impossibility of time travel in the Malacca Strait. Read it in PR&TA’s latest issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

Stephen Menon’s striking art provokes thought on the marginalisation of minority communities as outsiders and foreigners. View his artwork in PRATA’s latest issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

What is the state of translation in Southeast Asia, and how is it different from translation scenes in other parts of the world? Read this insightful interview of translator Dr Harry Aveling by Ann Ang at pratajournal.com/harry-aveling-…

PR&TA Journal is now open for submission to Issue 5, themed “Re:___”. Read more about our open call and submission guidelines at pratajournal.com/open-call-issu… Submit at: singlitstation.submittable.com/submit/319882/… Submission deadline: 31 March 2025

Submissions for PR&TA Issue 5 closes in one week! This is your reminder to submit your works for consideration before 31 March. Read the open call, guidelines and submit at pratajournal.com/open-call-issu…

PR&TA Issue 5 Open Call ANNOUNCEMENT We are facing technical issues on our submissions platform. If you have yet to send in your work, please submit via the submission link on our website after April 1. Accordingly, the deadline for this open call will be extended to April 10.

DEADLINE EXTENSION 📆 We noticed a lot of submissions close to our open call deadline, so here’s one final chance to submit your work for PR&TA’s Issue 5! Send us your poetry, fiction, essays, art and criticism around the theme “Re:______” by 14 APRIL at pratajournal.com/open-call-issu…

Congratulations PR&TA Coordinating Editor Gopika Jadeja for the release of her long-awaited volume of poetry: WHAT PARVATI DOES NOT SAY! It's been two decades in the making---and may there be more to come soon! redriverpress.in/product/what-p…