Interview #121— Gabby Loo

‘To painstakingly pencil, ink and shade my memories made them feel more real and valid.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh4 November 2019

Interview #120 - Eugenia Lim

‘ …the art world speaks of progressiveness and equality, but in practice, is a brutal and unforgiving place for parents and carers, particularly women.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh27 October 2019

Interview #119 — Greg Ng

‘…our government systematically incarcerates and tortures the most vulnerable humans in the world and keeps it secret, and the music you make is not separate from that.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh20 October 2019

Interview #118—Nathania Gilson

‘My biggest fear as both a writer and an editor are that good ideas die when there’s no one to see value in their earliest articulations, or defend them.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh13 October 2019

Interview #117 — Manisha Anjali

‘We are living in the Age of the Immigrant, the Refugee and the Nationless Wanderer for whom poetry seems like the only home.’

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh7 October 2019

Interview #116—Jamie Marie Lewis

I’m interested in communitas, intimacy and conversation - and what better vehicle for all that than being around a table full of food, and being given the simple task to savour the meal?

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh29 September 2019

Interview #115 — John Young Zerunge

‘Art is best created when we shift our own paradigmatic interpretations.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh22 September 2019

Interview #114 — Joey Bui

The larger part of the work is empathy. How can I put myself in somebody else’s shoes as much as possible?

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh15 September 2019

Interview #113 — Natesha Somasundaram

‘I learned to use humour as a literary tool to disarm and engage an audience…’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh8 September 2019

Interview #112— Camha Pham

‘Our compulsion to tie our sense of belonging to something concrete is linked to our innate desire to be accepted or to be perceived in a certain way.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh2 September 2019robertwood

Interview #111 — Anchuli Felicia King

‘It’s an ongoing question for me: how do you explore racism without perpetuating it?’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh29 August 2019

Interview #110— Chris Lin

‘Carving out time to attend and facilitate discussions about books, to float in the realm of ideas, is like oxygen.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh26 August 2019robertwood

Interview #109—Elizabeth Tan

‘I think our other task as writers is to understand, and treat seriously, the feedback loop of stories and reality.’

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh19 August 2019robertwood

Interview #108—Zainab Zahra Syed

‘There was a time when I wondered if opening my heart to other places made me less Pakistani. If writing poetry in English, and not Urdu, made me less authentic. But over time, something has changed.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh12 August 2019robertwood

Interview #107—Caroline Wood

‘Living as a minority in two multicultural societies has brought challenges, but not adversity.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh5 August 2019robertwood

Interview #106 — Jessie Tu

I suppose writing every day meant I was always giving myself the space to show up on the page, rather than in person.

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh29 July 2019

Interview #105 — Ra Chapman

‘I’m sick of looking to international TV shows and podcasts to see and hear myself.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh21 July 2019

Interview #104 — Julie Koh

‘At the start, it’s hard to know what rejections mean. Is your writing shit, or does the editor just not understand your work? Persist and stay true to your vision.’

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh14 July 2019