Spittoon Monthly features innovative writing from or about Asia, with a focus on helping emerging writers cut through the modern noise and connect with readers. Expect fiction, poetry, and experimentation. With every feature, we pair a brief author interview, a supportive creative analysis of their work, and a custom illustrative collage. Click here to submit. Follow Spittoon on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
“He wasn’t late, this detective. She was early. She had told him to meet her at eleven. She had eaten a light breakfast at nine. Then, terrified of facing the desert of the day, she had walked over at nine thirty.”
Four poems center around the ancient port city Machilipatnam.
In 1351, on the banks of the Yellow River, in the hands of a few downtrodden laborers, history began to turn.
Vivekanand Selvaraj talks process, society, his poetic origins, and writing in both Tamil and English.
Vivekanand Selvaraj, our featured writer for February, shares a series of ten poems in the “CogVerse”—a lyrical realm more familiar than strange, and yet strangely mesmerizing.
Featured writer Thomas Wee presents us with an experiment: What if a poet taught a natural language processing algorithm to write like themselves?
Mate, oolong, jasmine . . . in this personal tale of transnational existence, author Ruru Hoong discovers tea as a throughline across continents and generations, life and death.