Stories - Journal

Funded by Copyright Agency, Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and our Founders Circle, Journal is an online column hosted on the Centre for Stories’ website showcasing writing by local, national, and international writers. The column includes stories of creative non-fiction about real personal experiences. Journal serves as an immediate response to the pandemic's effect on writers.

- Interview Collections:
- All Stories
- Where Are They Now?
- Storybound
- Breaking Blueprints
- Green Leaves
- Heartlines
- On The Table
- Five Minutes With
- Singapore Hot Takes
- Off the Shelf

Journal

DEAR BARCELONA by Emily Siggs

'I learnt how to be lonely again, and how to be good company to myself; how to notice, how to try and enjoy every moment of solitude and bustling city noise.'
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THE WORKSHOP by Boey Kim Cheng

'How to invite the moment into the span of the sentence, let the light of memory wash over the paper and the elliptical light print its shadow words on the page.'
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SOMETIMES A SHADOW, SOMETIMES A FRIEND by Zainab Syed

'I learn early on that no matter where I live, I will always be too far away to make it home.'
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SISTERS by Jay Anderson

'And every time I saw her, her arms parted for an embrace and the corners of her mouth stretched to call me sister.'
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THE SERUM, THE BLOOD AND THE WATER by Sampurna Chattarji

'I think of all the people with “weakened immune systems” walking miles and miles to reach home, without food, shelter or water.'
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MYTHS, DEMONS AND HEALING by Inez Tan

'I think becoming a writer means asking yourself again and again why you write, how to keep coming up with new ideas, how to trust yourself more, and how to keep falling in love with writing.'
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LIKE RIDING A BIKE by Laurie Steed

'It’s pretty funny, I’ll admit, for there is always something ridiculous about trying to have things in your control, only to stuff it up.'
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IT SMELLS LIKE HOME, IT SMELLS LIKE HERE by Saadia Ahmed

'Seeing how Australia dealt with this outbreak by putting people before profit made me slowly and gradually fall in love with a country that had started feeling like home.'
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1.8KM FROM TARGET by Frances An

'My Vietnamese-speaking capacities recalibrate after a few lines but if she hears my messed-up accent, she’ll assume I’m a whitewashed Asian who doesn’t care about our culture.'
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