{"product_id":"the-epigram-books-collection-of-best-new-singaporean-short-stories-volume-four","title":"The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Editors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/BNSSS4_sample.pdf?1007\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLook inside the book\u003c\/a\u003e   |   \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/farisbooks.com\/book\/705\/The-Epigram-Books-Collection-of-Best-New-Singaporean-Short-Stories\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGet the E-book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContaining the best short fiction published by Singaporean writers in 2017 and 2018, the entries in \u003cem\u003eThe Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four\u003c\/em\u003e was selected by guest editor Pooja Nansi from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanying the stories are the editor’s preface and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The stories range from intimate family portraits to speculative science fiction, but every piece speaks to universal experiences of love, loss, desire, and disappointment ... If you've either never read Singaporean literature, this would be a good place to start. If \u003cem\u003eCrazy Rich Asians \u003c\/em\u003ewas the last thing you read by a local author, even better.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e— \u003cem\u003eWonderwall.sg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePooja Nansi\u003c\/strong\u003e (guest editor) is the author of two collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eStiletto Scars\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eLove Is An Empty Barstool\u003c\/em\u003e (2013). Her key performance work includes her one-woman show \u003cem\u003eYou Are Here\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), which explores issues of migration through personal family histories. She also wrote and performed \u003cem\u003eThick Beats for Good Girls\u003c\/em\u003e with Checkpoint Theatre, which opened in April 2018 and explored the intersections between feminism, identity and Hip Hop. Her work has been described as “unflinching, lyrical and quietly honest”. She was a recipient of the Young Artist Award in 2016, and co-founder of Other Tongues, a literary festival of minority voices that ran its first edition in 2018. She teaches creative writing at Nanyang Technological University and is the current festival director of the Singapore Writers Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Erik Lundberg\u003c\/strong\u003e (series editor) is the fiction editor at Epigram Books. He was born in New York, grew up in North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. He is the author and anthologist of over twenty books, including \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.epigrambooks.sg\/products\/diary-of-one-who-disappeared\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiary of One Who Disappeared: A Novella\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2019), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.epigrambooks.sg\/products\/most-excellent-and-lamentable\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMost Excellent and Lamentable: Selected Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2019), and the \u003cem\u003eBo Bo and Cha Cha\u003c\/em\u003e picture book series (2012–2015); he is also the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eLONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (2012–2018), editor of \u003cem\u003eFish Eats Lion\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eA Field Guide to Surreal Botany\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) and \u003cem\u003eScattered, Covered, Smothered\u003c\/em\u003e (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Epigram Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29367364124785,"sku":"9789814845465","price":26.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/BNSSS4-CVF-300.jpg?v=1627005423","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/the-epigram-books-collection-of-best-new-singaporean-short-stories-volume-four","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}