Asian Extracts Issue 5 is now available. We bring you sparkling prose, short stories, an interview with a writer/dancer, poetry, and lots of original art. Our feature prose piece is an excerpt of a play by Malaysian playwright, Sheena Gurbakhash. You will find this issue of AE has something for everyone.
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Call for Submissions
Asian Extracts Magazine invites submissions for our fifth issue coming out in October 2021.
Who Can Submit: Emerging writers from Asia are encouraged to submit. Submissions in all languages (with translation) are accepted.
Deadline: There is no deadline. However, submissions received at a later stage will be considered for subsequent issues.
General Guidelines
Thank you for considering Asian Extracts for the publication of your original creative nonfiction (essays, reviews, interviews, photo essays on travel, food, entertainment, culture, history, etc.), fiction (flash fiction, short stories), poetry, or art.
Asian Extracts publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by writers from Asia.
● We do not charge for submissions.
● Submit all your work in Times New Roman 12-point font, single spaced in a Microsoft Word document.
● Submissions in all languages (with or without translation) are accepted.
● We are assuming we have non-exclusive right to publish your submission unless you tell us otherwise. Please be sure to submit work that is previously unpublished or has permission to be republished. Tell us in your cover letter whether your submission is exclusive to us or whether you have submitted to other magazines as well. If another magazine accepts your work for publication, please get in touch with us immediately.
● There is no limit on the number of submissions made by a submitter. However, please consider the guidelines as mentioned—poetry (up to three poems), fiction (flash fiction, short stories), nonfiction (essays, reviews, interviews, photo essays on travel, food, entertainment, culture, history, etc.) or art (up to five images).
● Please send high-definition images for art submissions and/or for photographs sent along with nonfiction submissions.
● If you are sending work in more than one category, please send your submissions in separate documents.
● If you are sending more than one poem, please combine all poems in one document and start each poem on a new page. Each poem must have a title.
● If you are submitting art, please make sure that it includes a title, medium, and date.
● Please make sure to provide sources wherever necessary in your submissions.
● We respond to all submissions by email. If your work is selected to be published, we will get back to you within eight weeks.
● Please make sure to save rajiv.narang@asianextracts.org and aisalli.ayub@gmail.com
in your contacts to prevent our response being caught up in your spam folder.
How to Submit Your Work
We accept submissions only via email.
Please submit your work to aisalli.ayub@gmail.com along with a copy to rajiv.narang@asianextracts.org with a subject line Asian Extracts Submission: [Writer’s Name].
The body of your email must include the following details:
NAME (As you wish to be credited)
TYPE OF SUBMISSION(S) (Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Art)
TITLE OF SUBMISSION(S)
PAGE COUNT
WORD COUNT
IMAGE COUNT
IF THE SUBMISSION IS EXCLUSIVE TO US (If no, please share details)
A SHORT BIO (50-70 words)
HOW DID YOU LEARN ABOUT ASIAN EXTRACTS
ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE US TO KNOW
Size/Word Limit
● Fiction (Short Story): Up to 2400 words
● Fiction (Flash Fiction), Nonfiction: Up to 1200 words
● Poetry: Up to three poems
● Art: Up to 5 images
● For any queries, please write to us at rajiv.narang@asianextracts.org
In Issue 4, prose, poetry, and art blend in a quiet explosion of originality and local content. It features submissions from Asmadi Abdullah, San Lin Tun, Jacqueline Ho, Zahra, Prashant Kaushik, Jyoti Sharma Bawa, Sotthikar Preston, Heren Rajendrn, and more.
We hope you enjoy reading.
About Asian Extracts
Asian Extracts is an independent literary magazine run by volunteers who are committed to discovering new writing and art by emerging and underrepresented writers from Asia and/or Asian-origin and launch them to the world platform. We believe in publishing emerging writers alongside established authors. The magazine is published quarterly.
We look forward to your continued support.
