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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PR&TA Issue 3
In the spirit of opening u, of seeking to go beyond borders, PR&TA opens up our call for Issue 3. We invite submissions of both original work in English and translations into English from Southeast Asia, on any theme. Send us your most interesting unpublished work! Deadline: 13 March 2023.
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.
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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.
We are happy to award Fellowships to individuals, groups, collectives and sole-proprietorships; conversely, we are unlikely to award them to institutions, for-profit companies and non-profit organisations of a certain size/budget. International applicants are welcome to apply, although the company will endeavour to award no more than 1 out of the 3 Fellowships to people who aren’t based in Singapore.
Projects/programmes can take on any format or scope (i.e. literary creation, inculcation of criticism/editorial services, multimedia/multi-disciplinary/multi-genre), so long as it engages with Singapore literature and/or the Singapore literary community. We’ll also be interested in proposals that can creatively expand our organisation’s ability to fulfil its vision and mission.
Applicants will also be asked by way of both the proposal and budget to suggest how the $3,000 will be spent / allocated over the Fellowship period; this can go to any combination of personal and project-related needs. We will favour proposals that are well-written, feasible and can either provide evidence or demonstrate promise, expertise and/or excellence through past experience, already-ongoing activities, etc.
We will be expecting the following materials to accompany each application:
- A proposal that includes the following aspects of the proposed project/programme: name/title; aims/objectives; timeline (with especial focus on Jan-Mar 2025, i.e. the period of the Jalan Besar Fellowship); envisioned outcomes; list of collaborators (if any).
- A budget that details how the $3,000 stipend will be utilised. The stipend ought not to comprise the entirety of the project/programme’s expenses; rather, it ought to be function as a source of funding for the project/programme’s overall expenses.
- CVs of all people involved; if the applicant encompasses more than 5 individuals, a compilation of the core team/main leadership’s CVs will be sufficient.
- Any supporting media/material, especially for projects/programmes that are not new and are already ongoing.