UNCANNY YISHUN

An Anthology of Poetry, Flash Fiction & Flash Creative Non-Fiction

Welcome to Yishun. Home of the wild, weird and downright WTF. Over the last few years, this unheralded town in the north of Singapore has become a magnet for all kinds of strange phenomena. Is it a curse? Is it a confluence of ill-fated winds? Or is it just a series of unfortunate coincidences?

Uncanny Yishun is an open call for creative work about Yishun.

This anthology of poems, flash fiction and flash creative non-fiction seeks to respond to Yishun through a literary lens.

From residents to visitors to people who only know Yishun from all the weird stuff that’s been happening, Uncanny Yishun hopes to capture the town as living experience.

Your creative work can respond to Yishun as a geographical place, as a site for phenomena, or as a concept.

The anthology will take the form of an online platform where selected poems will be located in the form of a map. QR codes will also be physically displayed at significant places of interest in the Yishun area. The editors will also organise readings that may take the form of guided tours around Yishun.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a maximum of TWO creative works across any genre, e.g. two poems, one flash fiction and one creative non-fiction, etc.

Want to read a sample?

The word limit for flash fiction and creative non-fiction is 250 words each while there is a 25-line limit for poems.

Submit your creative work to the Editors at yishunanthology@gmail.com by 30th June 2019.

In the Subject Heading, please type “Submission to Uncanny Yishun (Genre) (Your Name).” Title your Word document “Your Name: Uncanny Yishun (Genre)”. Use standard typefaces, font size 12. Include a cover letter in your email, with a contributor biography of no more than 30 words.

THE EDITORS

Marc Nair is a poet and photographer. He is a recipient of the 2016 Young Artist Award. Marc has published six solo volumes of poetry and has released another three books in collaboration with visual artists, photographers and graphic artists. His latest collection of poetry is Vital Possessions. Marc was the 2016-17 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence and is the co-founder of Mackerel, a culture magazine. He previously co-edited This Is Not A Safety Barrier (Ethos, 2015) with Yen Phang.

Crispin Rodrigues’ poems, short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in Kepulauan, From Walden to Woodlands and A Luxury We Must Afford, along with online journals such as The Kindling, The Tiger Moth Review and Eunoia Review. He is the author of two poetry collections, Pantomime and The Nomad Principle, both published by Math Paper Press. He is currently co-editing an anthology of poems by youth poets as well as an online anthology of poems and flash fiction about Yishun.

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