Announcing Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three

Cover design by Yong Wen Yeu

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I am very proud to announce the contents and cover design for the third volume of the Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series, guest edited by Cyril Wong, to be published in October 2017 by Epigram Books, and launched at Kinokuniya later that month.

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2015 and 2016, selected from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s preface and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading.

Here is the table of contents:

1. Cyril Wong | Preface
2. Jason Erik Lundberg | Introduction
3. Yeo Wei Wei | These Foolish Things
4. Yeoh Jo-Ann | The Thing
5. Jennifer Anne Champion | See It Coming
6. Jon Gresham | Walking Backwards Up Bukit Timah Hill
7. Ovidia Yu | Salvation Solution
8. Andrew Cheah | A Century of Loneliness
9. Daryl Qilin Yam | Thing Language
10. Jason Wee | The City Beneath the City
11. Amanda Lee Koe | Last Night I Dreamt That Harry Was In Love With Me
12. Sam Ng | Prices
13. Yeow Kai Chai | Dark Shades
14. Andrew Yuen | Love in a Time of Dying
15. Joelyn Alexandra | Junk Mail
16. Leonora Liow | Falling Water
17. SC Gordon | Claire
18. Nuraliah Norasid | Madam Jamilah’s Family Portrait
19. Jollin Tan | Better Places
20. Noelle Q. de Jesus | In the End
21. Su Leong | Peelings
22. Verena Tay | The Sensualist
23. Eva Aldea | Baba Ganoush
24. Melissa De Silva | It Happened at Mount Pleasant
25. O Thiam Chin | Campfire
26. Clara Chow | Want Less
27. Philip Holden | Library
28. Manish Melwani | The Tigers of Bengal

Please join us for the book launch at Kinokuniya Neo SIMS (the main store on Orchard Road) on 28 October at 2:30pm. Cyril and I will be co-moderating, and the event will feature contributors Nuraliah Norasid, Clara Chow and Melissa De Silva.