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.
“Yet the water-taxi captain didn’t budge. Instead, with his beady eyes shining full of wonder, he only stared and stared some more, and finally stared so unthinkably hard that he tipped face-first into the harbor.”
“The whole ritual is like, you’ve got this idea in your mind. And the idea will be there for a couple days, sometimes a couple weeks. It’s like it’s always there. You’re haunted. If you cannot get it out, you feel really bad. You cannot eat. You cannot sleep.”
Hurry up, a lion that dies at noon
Must be skinned before sunset
For March, Spittoon Monthly takes a look back over all the amazing writers who’ve graced our pixels in the past year and a half.
Jade Riordan’s poetry is a gentle exploration of a self lost in the clutter of words and things. Read December’s featured poet now.
Something’s gained and something’s lost with every bar we enter, but for no bar is this more true than for the Firefly, the stage of November’s featured story by Francesca Violich Kennedy.
The work of Brady Riddle, October’s featured poet, probes the complex relationships between “Fathers and Sons” with tender clarity.
In which Earl discusses the normalcy of his past. Spittoon Monthly is proud to feature the work of Bradford Philen.