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PR&TA remains open for submissions to Issue 6, themed “Makan,” with an extended deadline following requests from contributors. New deadline: 5 April 2026 Full details and submission link: pratajournal.com/open-call-issu…

For PR&TA Issue 6, we crave creative and critical responses to Makan: contributions engaging with food in all its tastes, textures and contentions. We invite submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual work, reviews and research articles.

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Join us at the Singapore Writers Festival on 9th November, for a conversation on “PR&TA @ FIVE: Reading, Writing and Relating Southeast Asia.” The event will be held from 7:30pm - 8:30pm, The Arts House at The Old Parliament, Screening Room.

PR&TA Issue 5 RE: is now live! We have an exciting line-up of new poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, academic writing, and art. Time to RE:AD! pratajournal.com

Congratulations @prAtajournal Coordinating Editor Gopika Jadeja for the release of her long-awaited volume of poetry: WHAT PARVATI DOES NOT SAY! It's been two decades in the making---and may there be more to come soon! redriverpress.in/product/what-p…

DEADLINE EXTENSION 📆 We noticed a lot of submissions close to our open call deadline, so here’s one final chance to submit your work for PR&TA’s Issue 5! Send us your poetry, fiction, essays, art and criticism around the theme “Re:______” by 14 APRIL at pratajournal.com/open-call-issu…

PR&TA Issue 5 Open Call ANNOUNCEMENT We are facing technical issues on our submissions platform. If you have yet to send in your work, please submit via the submission link on our website after April 1. Accordingly, the deadline for this open call will be extended to April 10.

Submissions for PR&TA Issue 5 closes in one week! This is your reminder to submit your works for consideration before 31 March. Read the open call, guidelines and submit at pratajournal.com/open-call-issu…

PR&TA Journal is now open for submission to Issue 5, themed “Re:___”. Read more about our open call and submission guidelines at pratajournal.com/open-call-issu… Submit at: singlitstation.submittable.com/submit/319882/… Submission deadline: 31 March 2025

What is the state of translation in Southeast Asia, and how is it different from translation scenes in other parts of the world? Read this insightful interview of translator Dr Harry Aveling by Ann Ang at pratajournal.com/harry-aveling-…

Read it along with other creative and critical works responding to the issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

Nang T. Hanni’s poem is a searing meditation on her grandmother’s burn wound, the bonfires she used to make on the side of the street to get rid of dead leaves, the dust and Southeast Asian sun, and the thousands of young people in Myanmar who protested in a restless revolution.

Stephen Menon’s striking art provokes thought on the marginalisation of minority communities as outsiders and foreigners. View his artwork in PRATA’s latest issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

Cheng Nien Yuan’s review of Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors (2023) and Elaine Chew’s The Light Between Us (2024) discusses how these historical novels display the impossibility of time travel in the Malacca Strait. Read it in PR&TA’s latest issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

Two poems by Vince Agcaoili transform a weighty grief into sharp images that show the thrumming heart of the speaker. Read “What’s in a Heart” and “Q&A” in PR&TA’s latest issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

Carlo Laurena's gripping short story grapples with the axes of desire — beauty, gender, and power — but also laments the unequal conditions that create imbalances of power even in innocent friendships. Read "Desire" at pratajournal.com/desire

Melizarani T.Selva (@melizarani)’s essay “Watershed” recounts a tumultuous time in Malaysia’s politics using Mahathir’s final election campaign speech as a framing device. Read this brilliant essay and other works of creative and critical writing at pratajournal.com

David Wong Hsien Ming's review of 2 new poetry collections - Khairani Barokka’s amuk and Tricia Tan’s Patient History - reminds us of the aesthetic, linguistic and cultural journeys poetry collections take us through. Read more in our latest issue HEAT at pratajournal.com

PR&TA writers (Mohamed Shaker, Toh Hong Jin and M N Shehryar) and editors (Dr Ann Ang and Lawrence Ypil) in action at a joint reading with Kopi Break at Yale-NUS College on 6 February 2024, Tuesday for Diversity Week!