The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020

By Anis Rozalina Ramli, Foo Sek Han, Chua Kok Yee, and more

2022

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The Malaysian Writers Society presents a decade of quality short stories in The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020. A wish for better weather has unexpected consequences. A pianist finds an unlikely audience in her next-door neighbour. A girl attempts Mount Kinabalu only to regret it. Curated by editors Zhui Ning Chang and JY Tan, The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020 spans the speculative and realist to thrillers and drama. It explores the bold new directions of contemporary Malaysian writing and hints at the new heights of our future national literature. The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020 includes: Hugo Award winner Zen Cho; 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Regional Winner Saras Manickam; Fixi Novo Contest winners Terence Toh and Chua Kok Yee; and USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw.

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Sharmilla Ganesan is a Malaysian writer who does feature stories and reviews for The Star newspaper, primarily on books, arts and film. She also writes a literary column called “Booked Out”, which aims to create accessible conversations about books and reading. She is a former Fulbright/Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. Sharmilla’s short stories can be found in “KL Noir: Yellow” and “Cyberpunk: Malaysia”, and in the "Eastlit", "Rambutan Literary" and "Thief" journals.

Ivy Ngeow was born and raised in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. She holds an MA in Writing from Middlesex University, where she won the 2005 Middlesex University Literary Prize. She is a novelist and short story writer. Her debut, Cry of the Flying Rhino (2017), was awarded the International Proverse Prize in Hong Kong. Her novels include Heart of Glass (2018), Overboard (2020) and White Crane Strikes (2022). She is the commissioning editor of the Asian Anthology New Writing series. Her fifth novel, The American Boyfriend, is a psychological thriller longlisted for the Avons x Mushens Entertainment Prize for Commercial Fiction 2022 and is coming out on Penguin books in July 2023. She lives in London.

Ted Mahsun is an award-winning science fiction author who writes comfortably in both Malay and English. In 2017, he was awarded both the 3rd and Consolation prizes in the prestigious biannual Malaysian science fiction novel-writing competition, Sayembara Novel Fiksyen Sains & Teknologi UTM-Utusan. His book reviews have been published in The Star, and his fiction included in Australia's Griffith Review as well as in various Malaysian anthologies. He was co-editor of the 2016 and 2017 editions of Little Basket, a literary journal of new writing, and he also runs a science fiction resource website for Malay language writers at penasaifai.com.

I'm a Malaysian fantasy writer based in the UK. Find out more about my work here: http://zencho.org

Cassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer. Their recent novella Nothing but Blackened Teeth was a British Fantasy, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker Award finalist. Their debut collection Breakable Things is now out.