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Best New Singaporean Short Stories
Volume Three
2017
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The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three gathers the finest Singaporean stories published in 2015 and 2016, selected by guest editor Cyril Wong from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. Accompanying the stories are the editor’s preface and an extensive list of honourable mentions for further reading. Contents: Preface | Cyril Wong Introduction | Jason Erik Lundberg These Foolish Things | Yeo Wei Wei The Thing | Yeoh Jo-Ann See It Coming | Jennifer Anne Champion Walking Backwards Up Bukit Timah Hill| Jon Gresham Salvation Solution | Ovidia Yu A Century of Loneliness | Andrew Cheah Thing Language| Daryl Qilin Yam The City Beneath the City | Jason Wee Last Night I Dreamt That Harry Was In Love With Me | Amanda Lee Koe Prices | Sam Ng Dark Shades | Yeow Kai Chai Love in a Time of Dying | Andrew Yuen Junk Mail | Joelyn Alexandra Falling Water | Leonora Liow Claire | SC Gordon Madam Jamilah’s Family Portrait | Nuraliah Norasid Better Places | Jollin Tan In the End | Noelle Q. de Jesus Peelings | Su Leong The Sensualist | Verena Tay Baba Ganoush | Eva Aldea It Happened at Mount Pleasant | Melissa De Silva Campfire | O Thiam Chin Want Less | Clara Chow Library | Philip Holden The Tigers of Bengal | Manish Melwani

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Author

Cyril Wong
Cyril Wong
Author · 21 books
Cyril Wong is a two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning poet and the recipient of the Singapore National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature. His books include poetry collections Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light (2007) and The Lover’s Inventory (2015), novels The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza (2013) and This Side of Heaven (2020), and fiction collection Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me (2014). He completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. His works have been featured in the Norton anthology, Language for a New Century, in Chinese Erotic Poems by Everyman’s Library, and in magazines and journals around the world. His writings have been translated into Turkish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese and Japanese.
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