Happy new year! We've been making some changes around here, so here's what you can expect from MYWriters Penang and NutMag zine in 2023! Meet our new editors Since 2016, each year's zine has been a team effort. This meant that the team would read all the submissions and vote on the 10 pieces to make it into print. Final decisions and editorial work then fell to Anna Tan. This year, we are expanding the team by introducing our Fiction Editor, Wan Phing Lim and our Poetry Editor, Yee Heng Yeh. Anna will still be looking at the creative nonfiction submissions. We're hoping that this will further refine the curation and editing process to bring you the best writings from Penang. Opening to blog submissions With these new editors on board, we've decided to utilise this blog space a little more! You can now submit your short stories, creative nonfiction, and reviews (up to 1,000 words) and poetry (up to 20 lines). There's no submission deadline or theme for this; entries will be read on a rolling basis, probably once a month. Any selected pieces will be posted at a rate of once a month as well. Note: to increase your chances of getting selected, go look up our editors' profiles and see what they like! Penang Writers Workshops
It's been a while since we had one of these! We're still working out the details, but we're planning on running our writer's workshops again, building from our previous workshops and the Chevening Writers Series. Keep your eyes peeled for more info soon!
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In keeping with time-tested elements of blogging, it appears that we need to have an initial "Hello, World" post!
What this post really is about is to say that we've done some housekeeping about the website and have put in all the snazzy new banners by Winnie Cheng at a good enough resolution that it looks great and a small enough size that it doesn't take a gazillion years to load. Hopefully. *squints at the tech* We've also (finally) gotten round to putting stuff into ebook (in this case, epub) format! We did release an ebook version of NutMag Volume 1 in 2016 but that disappeared along with Pronoun when that publishing platform closed. Then we dithered a little bit about where we should upload it and how and nothing got done, and then by the time we got round to doing things, some of the authors weren't replying emails... So what we've gone ahead and done is uploaded epub versions of NutMag Volume 1 and NutMag Volume 2: Coffee or Tea? containing only the pieces where the authors got back to us. 6 each in this case. You can download these from the respective pages for free. NutMag Volume 3: Island Living and NutMag Volume 4: Transitions can be purchased via Google Play at RM5 and RM6 respectively. Not including tax, because for some reason, it's taxable? We're still figuring that out, so for now, it shows at RM5.30 and RM6.36 until it sorts itself out. Anyhow, the latest thing we've done on this website is to create this blog, mostly for ad hoc posts that can't wait until our monthly newsletter comes around. We'll also be linking these posts in the newsletter (where relevant) so either way, you'll see it somehow. Which goes to say, that if you'd like regular reminders in your email about what we do here at MYWriters Penang, you can subscribe to our newsletter by filling up the form on our Contact Page. Until next time! |