WoW Literary Festival – Reminder
Just a quick reminder that i will be appearing at the Writing on the Wall Lockdown literary festival online tomorrow at 6.00 pm UK time/11.30 pm Myanmar time …
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WoW Literary Festival – Reminder
WoWFest Lockdown – An Online Literary Festival
I am delighted to announce that I been invited to appear at the Writing on the Wall literary festival on 21st May. With the global lock-down, the Liverpool based festival has moved online and is free for everyone to watch …
Sadaik
A sadaik is a wooden chest, bound in lacquer and used for centuries in Myanmar, both in monasteries and the Royal court, to hold palm-leaf manuscripts – sermons, poetry, prayers, orders. This sadaik is a hybrid site. It’s a place for my work as a writer, my books, articles, news, etc but it’s also a […]
Year of Asian Reading Challenge
Since I started Sadaik back in 2012, its always been about one thing. To promote literature in English translation from a country that had objectively suffered from the longest, state sanction literary censorship regime seen in the world since World War 2 other than North Korea …
Free E-book of Short Stories from Myanmar
The e-book of the Hidden Word, Hidden Worlds anthology is finally here!! In 2012 the British Council sought to take advantage of new freedoms in literature and travel through a programme of workshops. The aim of the five-year literature programme in Myanmar was to give a voice to unheard and aspiring writers from the ethnic states […]