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Anthology series: Best New Singaporean Short Stories

Editors (alphabetically listed):  Balli Kaur Jaswal  |  Jason Erik Lundberg (series editor)  |  Pooja Nansi  |  Cyril Wong

Language:  English

Bibliographic comments: Biennial anthology series.

Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Volume One

Jason Erik Lundberg, ed.

2013

<  First edition, October 2013

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-981-076234-6

Trade paperback, 288 pages

S$24.90

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).

>   Library edition

Fiction: Dave Chua, The Tiger of 142B  //  Vinita Ramani Mohan, The Hearing Aid  //  Alvin Pang, The Illoi of

Kantimeral  //  Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Lighthouse  //  Stephanie Ye, Seascrapers  //  Felix Cheong, Because I Tell  

//  O Thiam Chin, Sleeping  //  Ng Yi-Sheng, Agnes Joaquim, Bioterrorist  //  Karen Kwek, The Dispossessed  //  

Jeremy Tiang, Harmonious Residences  //  Amanda Lee Koe, Randy’s Rotisserie  //  Koh Choon Hwee, The Protocol

Wars of Laundry and Coexistence  //  Cyril Wong, Zero Hour  //  Verena Tay, Walls  //  Eleanor Neo, Copies  //  Wei

Fen Lee, Welcome to the Pond  //  Ann Ang, Scared for What  //  Justin Ker, Joo Chiat and Other Lost Things  //  

Phan Ming Yen, Anniversary  //  Alfian Sa’at, The Borrowed Boy

Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Volume Two

Jason Erik Lundberg, ed.

2015

<  First edition, October 2015

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-981-461592-1

Trade paperback, 368 pages

S$24.90

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).

Fiction: Evan Adam Ang, A Day in the Death  //  O Thiam Chin, The Cat That Disappeared  //  JY Yang, Patterns of a

Murmuration, In Billions of Data Points  //  Jeremy Tiang, Toronto  //  Tania De Rozario, Certainty  //  Samantha Toh,

White Noise  //  Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Visiting  //  Cheryl Julia Lee, A Red Meteor in the Margins  //  Amanda Lee

Koe, Why Do Chinese People Have Slanted Eyes?  //  Gemma Pereira, Mama at Owen Road  //  Andrew Cheah,

Anaesthesia  //  Kirstin Chen, Foreign and Domestic  //  Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, I m d 1 in 10  //  Wong Shu

Yun, A Short History of the Sun  //  Ng Yi-Sheng, The Crocodile Prince  //  Jennani Durai, Tenali Raman Redux  //  

Jinny Koh, Off Duty  //  Daryl Qilin Yam, A Dream in Pyongchon  //  Stephanie Ye, Meat Bone Tea  //  Karen Kwek,

The Moral Support of Presence  //  Sharlene Teo, Coast  //  Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Reel  //  Joshua Ip, The Man Who

Turned Into a Photocopier  //  Claire Tham, The Judge

Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Volume Three

Cyril Wong, ed.

2017

<  First edition, October 2017

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-981-478528-0

Trade paperback, 336 pages

S$24.90

Notes:

  •  Preface by Cyril Wong, Introduction by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).

Fiction: Yeo Wei Wei, These Foolish Things  // Yeoh Jo-Ann, The Thing  //  Jennifer Anne Champion, See It Coming  

//  Jon Gresham, Walking Backwards Up Bukit Timah Hill  //  Ovidia Yu, Salvation Solution  //  Andrew Cheah, A

Century of Loneliness  //  Daryl Qilin Yam, Thing Language  //  Jason Wee, The City Beneath the City  //  Amanda Lee

Koe, Last Night I Dreamt That Harry Was In Love With Me  //  Sam Ng, Prices  //  Yeow Kai Chai, Dark Shades  //  

Andrew Yuen, Love in a Time of Dying  //  Joelyn Alexandra, Junk Mail  //  Leonora Liow, Falling Water  //  SC

Gordon, Claire  //  Nuraliah Norasid, Madam Jamilah’s Family Portrait  //  Jollin Tan, Better Places  //  Noelle Q. de

Jesus, In the End  //  Su Leong, Peelings  //  Verena Tay, The Sensualist  //  Eva Aldea, Baba Ganoush  //  Melissa De

Silva, It Happened at Mount Pleasant  //  O Thiam Chin, Campfire  //  Clara Chow, Want Less  //  Philip Holden,

Library  //  Manish Melwani, The Tigers of Bengal

Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Volume Four

Pooja Nansi, ed.

2019

<  First edition, October 2019

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-981-484546-5

Trade paperback, 240 pages

S$24.90

Notes:

  •  Preface by Pooja Nansi, Introduction by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).

Fiction: Balli Kaur Jaswal, Limassol, Cyprus  //  Patrick Sagaram, The Tunnel  //  Rachel Heng, Fusings  //  Daryl

Qilin Yam, Just the Green Bit  //  Cyril Wong, Blindness  //  Jennani Durai, Regrettable Things  //  Barrie Sherwood,

The Angel Tiger  // Ikmaliah Idi, Not Yet Pekak  // Zhu Yuan Laura, In Between Houses  //  Nidhi Arora, Love in

Singapore  //  Inez Tan, Edison and Curie  //  Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, As If We Could Dream Forever  //  Lydia

Kwa, Oh-Chien  //  Shreya Acharya, Wings for Marie  //  Jinny Koh, Land of a Thousand Smiles  //  Ng Yi-Sheng, SIN

Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Volume Five

Balli Kaur Jaswal, ed.

2021

<  First edition, October 2021

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-981-490114-7

Trade paperback, 240 pages

S$24.90

Notes:

  •  Preface by Balli Kaur Jaswal, Introduction by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).

Fiction: Cyril Wong, Harihara  //  Ashish Xiangyi Kumar, Fish  //  Wisha Jamal, The Prayer Mat  //  Jon Gresham,

The Visit  //  Jayashree Panicker, Fling  //  Wayne Rée, To Ashes  //  Prasanthi Ram, The Panasonic  //  Yu-Mei

Balasinghamchow, The Prisoner  //  Suffian Hakim, Who’s Your Daddy? / Siapa Bapak Kau?  //  Diana Rahim, A

Minor Kalahari  //  Ng Yi-Sheng, Xingzhou |   //  Anittha Thanabalan, Sacred Scalp  //  Adeline Chia, Buddha Was an

Aries  //  Barrie Sherwood, A Trip to the Beach  //  Patricia Karunungan, The Kapre  //  Samantha Toh, The Best of

Times  //  Arin Alycia Fong, The Unsullied Tongue of Saint Anthony