Editorial: Not another Asian Australian anthology?
In 2008, Alice Pung edited a groundbreaking anthology, Growing Up Asian in Australia which featured short stories and poems by over fifty Asian Australians. However, prior to the book’s publication,...
View ArticleThe Amok of Omar Musa (unfinished)
I have been arrested by the moral police. I think. They whisper whisper through a chink in the wall – “sedition”… “immorality”… “vice!” Face face down on wet clay & blood on the teeth left. A...
View ArticleBinaries/Dualities editorial: prose
Peril’s upcoming issues 16 and 17 are themed on binaries and dualities. We have named one issue ‘binaries’ and another ‘dualities’, however, the content doesn’t necessarily reflect neat...
View ArticleWriters Victoria CALD Mentorships 2013 mentee: Lian Low
When I saw applications for Writers Victoria’s CALD Mentorship program, I hesitated in applying, as the emphasis was on being from a non-English speaking background (NESB). I wasn’t sure if this was...
View ArticleWriters Victoria CALD Mentorships 2013 mentor: Maria Tumarkin
We have many writers in today’s Australia – they are almost an underclass – who cannot, or cannot be stuffed, answering concisely generic questions about home and identity, marked as they are by what...
View ArticleHyperreality & A Wife’s Revenge
Opening this Friday 21st February for the Australasian Chinese Theatre‘s summer season are two short plays – Hyperreality by Lian Low and A Wife’s Revenge by Moni Lai Storz. In this double bill of...
View ArticleThe Australia I want to call home
Ed’s note: I was invited to speak at Blak Dot Gallery at the opening of 18C – a quick response exhibition to the proposed amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. Here’s the full transcript...
View ArticleMelbourne Writers Festival’s inaugural Asia-Pacific Writers Forum: Part 1
In a closed industry event, Writers Victoria and the Melbourne Writers Festival have invited poets, writers, translators and literary sector workers from Australia and the Asia-Pacific region to gather...
View ArticleWrICE – in conversation with Jhoanna Cruz and Suchen Christine Lim
Last year, Peril‘s Lian Low stole an hour or so of highly acclaimed writers Suchen Christine Lim (Singapore) and Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz (the Philippines) Melbourne Writers Festival time to chat about...
View ArticleFairytale
Fairytale Once upon a time, in the land where I was born, a king sat stunned when a little white mousedeer outwitted his fierce hunting dogs. A nation was birthed under his tree shelter: Malacca,...
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