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  • All Issues
    • Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
    • Issue 4 (April 2025)
    • Murals (December 2024)
    • Issue 3 (April 2024)
    • Wee Hooghly, Issue 1 (January 2024)
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    • Humour
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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    “As Strong as a Yak: Review of Jess Butterworth’s Running on the Roof of the World” by Sandhyaa Venkatachalam

    2 October 2026

    Adventures set in places of wilderness and inspired by real events are the nuts and bolts that signalize children’s author Jess Butterworth.

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    “The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir

    8 October 2026

    “The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha

    2 October 2026

    “Channelling the Wellspring of Energy: Review of Madhu Gangopadhyay’s Alien Terrain & Other Poems” by Chitra Gopalakrishnan

    23 September 2026
  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

    Peter Lilly’s poetry DESTROYS modernist empiricism with FACTS AND SCIENCE!

    1 October 2026

    I’m British, I live in France, and enjoy Russian literature… My natural habitat is camp tragedy.

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    Comedic Terrorist Dan Dellechiaie, The Brains Behind Shitbot, Writes Silly Antifa Stories—And They’re Accidentally Saving Real Lives!

    8 October 2026

    Archivists Hate Her! Government Watchlists Love Her! Knights Fear Her! (No wonder Emma Pei Yin’s characters don’t know where to look…)

    24 September 2026

    Nadia Hashimi is not an arsonist, but if she were, she believes patriarchy would make excellent kindling…

    3 September 2026
  • Best Small Fictions - Nominations

    Best Small Fictions 2027 Nominations

    29 September 2026

    We are thrilled to announce our nominations for the 2027 Best Small Fictions anthology, in addition to the 2025 publications we have already nominated in early 2026.

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    Best Small Fictions 2026 Nominations

    29 January 2026

    Best Small Fictions 2025 Nominations

    25 January 2025
  • BOTN - Nominations

    Best of the Net 2027 Nominations

    29 September 2026

    We are thrilled to announce our nominations for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology 2027.

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    Best of the Net 2026 Nominations

    29 September 2025

    “Self-Portrait of My Father as James Baldwin Reading Me Notes of a Native Son” by I Echo

    29 September 2024

    “A Map of the Welsh Coast as Seen by My Mother” by MJ Huntsgood

    29 September 2024
  • Culture - Faith - Weekly Features

    “Lord Shiva in Singapore” by Pavle Radonić

    27 September 2026

    The bathing of the black lingam had also been seen from the footpath of Sri Manmatha. For a newcomer almost totally ignorant of Hindu ritual, it was quite something.

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    “The Wife in the Corner Frame” by Namrata

    4 October 2026

    “In Search of Lost Spectres” by Paromita Patranobish

    27 September 2026

    “The Day You Came” by McLord Selasi

    30 August 2026
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