Featured Authors
Nikolai Shved
Latest book burned by three different governments. Taking it as a compliment. Currently: haunting the borderlands between fact and fiction, memory and myth, probably being watched (or even read)....
Adeline Ng
Between drowning in readings and hoarding washi tape, I run a rogue creative writing group in the back of my favorite Hong Lim Park cafe. We're just sleep-deprived students writing about void deck spirits and heartland magic, fueled by too much kopi ...
Yuki Tanaka
Words found me in the spaces between midnight street lamps and vending machine hums. Tokyo, 1989: I was that kid who wrote stories on the backs of convenience store receipts, who filled margins with haiku while my father taught me to slice fish at ou...
Amelia Thornton
I honestly never saw myself becoming a novelist - funny how life works out. For years, I was perfectly happy geeking out over antiques in London, putting together exhibitions and getting way too excited about old jewelry and furniture. But you know h...
Octavio Fuentes
Most people look at you funny when you tell them you left a career as a travel photographer to write books, but honestly, it makes perfect sense to me. After two decades of capturing stories through a lens – everything from Oaxacan cooking traditions...
Ravi Chandrasekhar
I never planned to become a writer – my first career was spent in the chaotic world of emergency medicine, working nights in busy urban hospitals across Mumbai and later Chicago. It was during those long shifts that I began jotting down stories in be...
Lydia Blackwood
Before finding my voice as a novelist, I spent nearly a decade as a rare book conservator at university libraries across New England. Those quiet hours spent with centuries-old manuscripts deeply influenced my approach to storytelling. My debut novel...
Zara al-Mansour
CURRENT STATUS: Writing my fourth novel from a 24-hour café in Dubai Marina, fueled by too much Turkish coffee and the weird energy that hits at 3 AM. PREVIOUS PLOT TWISTS: - Earned a PhD in CS (computer science, ofc) from Oxford while secretly...
Finn O'Sullivan
FIELD NOTES: FINN O'SULLIVAN OBSERVED IN HIS NATURAL HABITAT DUBLIN, IRELAND [PERSONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL] --- DAY 367 OF BOAT LIFE: The houseboat experiment continues. "Storyteller" hasn't sunk yet, despite dire predictions from my mother. H...