The New Winter Songbook – Call for submissions

Soprano Rebecca Lea and pianist Caroline Jaya Ratnam are calling for poem submissions for the new album, The New Winter Songbook. “I bring my past, I bring my futureI bring my rights and I bring my song.” Belong by Lemn Sissay The New Winter Songbook will be a song collection for voice and piano to be written, curated and performed by living composers, poets, community …

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Earlier this month, Peanut Butter and Blueberries, the sell-out debut play from poet and playwright Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan opened at the Kiln Theatre. The Asian Writer picked up the phone for an exclusive chat with its writer to find out more about the experience of writing for stage, writing for Muslim audiences, and how theatre can …

Review: Peanut Butter and Blueberries

Writer: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan Director Sameena Hussain; Designer Khadija Raja Reviewer: Farhana Shaikh Rating: 4.5 stars What does it mean to be young, Muslim, and fall for someone when you’re not looking for love? This question is central to Manzoor-Khan’s debut play, Peanut Butter and Blueberries, which opened at the Kiln Theatre last night (14 August). …

The Partner Track: how a Netflix series won over new readers

Helen Wan’s 2013 debut The Partner Track is a clever novel that follows protagonist Ingrid Yung as she navigates love and work. It unmasks the true nature and inside workings of powerful law firms, and one woman’s willingness to rise to the top. First published in 2013, the book was critically acclaimed with the New …

How Writers Can Build A Stronger Professional Presence Online

With the help of social media and the internet, aspiring writers have a new avenue to share their stories and make themselves known to audiences and publishers. Many successful authors today actually started their writing careers online. Bestselling book authors like E.L. James and Anna Todd wrote their first published books as fanfictions online. Meanwhile, Lang …