Pandan Weekly

The first issue of @PandanWeekly is out. Grateful to SEA Lit Circle, to Rafael & Steph💚If so inclined, kindly download us here🔽 open.substack.com/pub/pandanweek…

ICYDK: We're open for subs! You can submit a SEA Lit Circle-workshopped piece *or* a previously published piece. Subs will close once we hit our cap, or on April 30 (11:59 PM, GMT+8)—whichever comes first! pandanweekly.substack.com/submit The 1st zine issue will launch in July 2024. 💚

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Hi, folks! We’re taking a break from the Pandan Weekly newsletter as we at SEA Lit Circle prepare for our month-long Writers Festival in July 2023!! (🧵)

@lalalalalalyza Thank YOU for this, Alyza! 🥰

You can read (& listen to me reading) an old, long, long poem of mine - “The Story of Love”, about love in this week’s @PandanWeekly 🥰❤️ grateful to editor Stephanie Shi

From Alyza: “I have always looked at this one with fondness because of its candor—a quality that I realize chafes off along with one’s youth as the years roll on. The questions I asked in this piece I still haven’t been able to answer. Maybe I’m not meant to.”

This week, read Alyza Taguilaso’s long poem “The Story of Love,” an expansive, intergenerational piece that explores desire and unrequited love. (@lalalalalalyza) Read it at: sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

My smol essay, originally published in @JellyfishReview, is reprinted in @PandanWeekly ! 👀🫣

From Ai: “I had been warned that not having an English name might decrease my employment prospects. But every time I’ve tried to change my name, I’ve failed to. And for that I’m glad, because I think I’ve grown to truly appreciate my name, its roots, and my identity.”

This week’s featured work is the flash personal essay “Name: Aye-Aye,” by Ai Jiang, who opens up about hating her non-English name and being teased for it in her school days. (@AiJiang_) Read it at sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

This April, we'll be sharing the final few pieces before we take a break: works by Ai Jiang (@AiJiang_) and Alyza Taguilaso (@lalalalalalyza), which *will* gut you. Subscribe to get their works in your inbox! sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly

Some men were covering the bodies with banana leaves. Others were taking pictures. There were so many bodies that Ria ran out of fingers before she could count them all. She counted up to twenty before she stopped. Isa Lorenzo, ⁦@PandanWeekly⁩ sealitcircle.wixsite.com/pandanweekly/p…

@allieswalking Gotchu fam 👯‍♀️💖🫶

@PandanWeekly Awww you my new bff 🤝 👯‍♀️ 🥰

Had me gagging so hard I be sending to every single friend I have 🥵🥵🥵

@KwanAnnTan They need to read "Medieval Romance"!! And other writings of people of color 😁

good times. i wonder what those students are up to. (spoiler alert, most of them are still in academia while myself + the other classmate who was also the only other poc in the entire course noped out of there. RIP)