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A wish for better weather has unexpected consequences. A pianist finds an unlikely audience in her next-door neighbour. A girl attempts Mount Kinabalu only to regret it. Curated by editors Zhui Ning Chang and JY Tan, The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020 spans the speculative and realist to thrillers and drama. It explores the bold new directions of contemporary Malaysian writing and hints at the new heights of our future national literature.
The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020 includes: Hugo Award winner Zen Cho; 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Regional Winner Saras Manickam; Fixi Novo Contest winners Terence Toh and Chua Kok Yee; and USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw.
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Zhui Ning Chang is an editor, writer, educator, and theatre maker from Johor. Her writing for performance includes musicals Seashore Yuanfen and Asian Pirate Musical, and her nonfiction work has appeared or is forthcoming at Strange Horizons, Fantasy/Animation, New York University Press, and more. She reviews regularly for Library Journal and reads for khōréō magazine and Flame Tree Press. Currently, she is based in London in pursuit of a PhD in Southeast Asian speculative fiction.
JY Tan is a freelance translator and writer whose short stories have appeared in Home Groan: A NutMag Anthology as well as other zines in the NutMag series. She recently finished writing her first novel and hopes to get it published soon (or alternatively, to have her muse drop a second novel into her lap.) She currently lives in Penang with her cat and dog.
The Malaysian Writers Society is a society dedicated to the professional advancement of Malaysian writers, writing locally or abroad. An inclusive and non-profit initiative, it was established in September 2016 to facilitate activities and programmes related to Malaysian writing and publishing, providing a platform for Malaysian writers that transcends genre, language, function, medium, and experience levels. Find out more at www.malaysianwriterssociety.
