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๐ˆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ 2024

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Postscript:

Thanks again to Lian Connect and the British Fantasy Society for inviting me to participate in this wonderful festival. Here’s a screen shot from the event:

Please join us tomorrow, Sept 22, 2024, from 11:00am to 4:30 pm BST, for ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ: ๐€ ๐ƒ๐ž๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐›๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐„๐’๐„๐€ ๐’๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐…๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ, an online Zoom conference with Lian Connect in partnership with the British Fantasy Society, in honour of ESEA Heritage Month. 

Join Xueting Christine Ni (โ€œSinophagiaโ€, โ€œSinopticonโ€), illustrator Sinjin Li, P.H. Low (โ€œThese Deathless Shoresโ€), and myself with Elaine Chiew (moderator) as we explore if an “East South East Asian speculative fiction aesthetic” exists — or if can one even be defined.

Panel info here.  

More info on the event here.

SWF WRITER FOCUS: Elaine Chiew interviews Singapore-based Filipino writer Victor Fernando Ocampo

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Award-winning writer and editor Elaine Chiew interviewed me last year for her Contemporary Voices column at the Asian Book Blog:

“For every writer, once in a rare while, a book comes along and really shakes you up, where (instead of that height/ceiling metaphor) Iโ€™d like to say instead, the floor drops on which you thought the legs of fiction stood. Victor Fernando Ocampoโ€™s The Infinite Library and Other Stories did that for me. The ideas that power this collection are not just incredibly imaginative, they also weave a hybrid crossing through magical realism, allegory and science fiction, that โ€˜synchronicityโ€™ Ocampo mentions in one of his stories. Rendered in prose that bears a unique voice, and also dark subtle humour in surprising turns of phrases, this collection is an invitation to a labyrinth for thought.”

You can read the whole interview over at theย Asian Books Blog.

“The Infinite Library and Other Stories” was also shortlisted for the Asian Book’s literary award: the Asian Books Blog Book of the Lunar Year. This award highlights books of particular interest in, or especially relevant to, Asia, excluding the Near West / the Middle East.

Thank you to Elaine and to editor Rosie Milne!

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