Jalan Besar Fellowship 2025
The Jalan Besar Fellowship invites writers, artists, collectives and cultural workers within the literary arts to propose new or ongoing projects for Sing Lit Station to support in the first quarter of 2025.
Jalan Besar Fellows will have access to a stipend of $3,000 (Singapore dollars) that will be granted in support of a project or programme that either features Singapore literature or engages with the Singapore literary community and its publics. Fellows will also be granted free access to our office and its resources from Jan to Mar of their Fellowship year.
We’re particularly interested in projects and programmes that not only fulfil the vision and mission of Sing Lit Station, but allows us to more creatively expand the ways in which we can support the development of Singapore literature. In return of our support, we ask our fellows to take part in an on-site presentation of their projects / programmes in the final month of their Fellowship.
For more info, visit: singlitstation.com/fellowship
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SING LIT STATION LTD (est. July 2016) is a non-profit organisation, registered charity and Institution of Public Character (IPC). Our core mission is to grow the local literary community. Through our programmes and initiatives, we aim to be a platform where readers and writers can meet. For more info, visit: singlitstation.com
OPEN: Issue 4 Call for Submissions
Heat
Heat: a flush in the face; the slow swoon of the tropics when the winds stand still. Sea-levels rise, and rain stops falling across hills and bays and archipelagos. The baking of bare feet on sand; sambal-grazed lips; white hot glares across an aisle. The wrong word; the mercurial gesture; a misunderstanding; a mistranslation. The flash of knife and gun; the press of bodies in protest, or against each other. The fevered pulse of your hand in mine.
From apocalyptic visions of a region on fire to a body slow-cooking across the heat-spectrum, Southeast Asia burns at every turn, from the homely warmth of pounded spices to visions and words seared on lips and tongue.
For PR&TA Issue 4, we invite creative and critical submissions that explore the theme of heat, and interrelated themes such as bodily states, climate change, political insurgencies, culinary ventures, violence, romance and other burning urgencies.
Submission deadline: 5 February 2024
As with our inaugural Issue, all submissions should be complete with a brief Critical Praxis. For an example, see here.
Submission guidelines for genre, length and cover letter are found here on our website.
Where possible, our Editorial Manager will alert you if your submission is incomplete, but we will not be able to process updated submissions after the deadline.