The Cruellest Month (and an update)
I’ve gotten something like three messages in the last two days to say that I've made it in life because my picture has been spotted in an IG ad but for some reason no one thought to save the link to pass to me! After a lot of scrolling on the Public Libraries Singapore Facebook page, I finally found said interview article about being the editor for the Singapore Poetry Writing Magazine, which I had completely forgotten I had done.
Interview here
As always, it is April, which is National Poetry Writing Month, and I’ve put aside my writing project (cough a novel-length Pokemon fanfic) to attempt to churn out a poem a day. I’ve also gotten 15/17 so far - so not too bad a backlog so far. It’s also really interesting to track how I’ve gone from writing a lot of breakup poems, and now I’m just writing a lot of horror and of course, COVID-19 related poems. I’ll put up a list of all my previous
On another note prose poem of mine has also been published in Of Zoo’s rolling issue, ‘T O G E T H E R A P A R T’. There’s an open call for poetry during this strange/bizarre/frightening period. I ended up writing something about being haunted. It’s my first publication for a while, because I really didn’t write or submit much last year, but given the weekly updates on Archive of Our Own, small poems I did not hate before SingPoWriMo started this year, 2020 will hopefully be a much more productive year.
You can read ‘Why Are You Haunted?’ here.