What’s New with the Crew? A Monthly Update

Catch up with the latest from our very international staff!

Curious about what our team has been up to in 2019? Read about our staff’s many achievements in the new year, including publications, art exhibitions, and reviews. 

Writers on Writers Editor Ah-reum Han received a distinguished mention in The Best American Short Stories 2018 for a story of hers originally published in StoryQuarterly.

Communications Manager Alexander Dickow’s latest book, Appetites, was reviewed on The Blunt Post by Linda Rijel.

Guest Artist Liaison Berny Tan will be curating a group exhibition entitled Deviations in London showing from February 19-24, 2019. The show will feature ten artists from Singapore who are currently or were recently based in the UK.

Criticism Editor Ellen Jones reviewed Rita Indiana’s Tentacle (translated by Achy Obejas) in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her translation of Rodrigo Fuentes’s collection of short stories, Trout, Belly Upis also newly published by Charco Press. You can read an extract from the book in Asymptote’s new Winter edition.

Assistant Managing Editor Jacob Silkstone was a reader at LittfestBergen, Bergen’s first international literature festival.

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