MALAISE

08/10/2014

baby malaise: we made a playlist of what we've been playing on repeat in the press room the last 9 months. welcome to the internet baby.

Hi there. This is a list of songs that have marked our curatorial process (and by mark we mean have been on repeat sometime in the past nine gestatory months). The time we have taken to listen to...

23/09/2014

soon on the press!

15/09/2014

dear allies in the nonexistent but greatly heinous war...
Entries are now closed. Thank you so much for all your contributions and we'll contact y'all soon! Stay gold, stay alive, stay writing. All day up in the valley that is existence, experiences make themselves for you to write them. No such thing as a dull moment. See you soon. x- MALAISE

25/08/2014

Dear friends,

You seem to be a chronically procrastinating bunch! We've received some entries past the deadline and thought, how could we ever deny anyone a chance because of the exasperatingly basal concerns that are space and time, right?!

Therefore: deadline extended to Sept 10! Get those knuckles cracking, stat!

10/07/2014

¡PROMPT ALERT! | MALAISE NOMOR DUA

a wrinkle in time
creases may be crimes
does that mean we’re past our prime?

saggy folds in skin. confronting your own mortality. an aged publication’s spine. cracks showing in your refined voice. creasing a smooth surface - destructively, or for greater good?

what stories can you weave about wrinkles? how do they figure in your existence and how do you feel about them? are wrinkles quantitative or qualitative? how do they fit your singapore narrative?

wax the answers to these lyrical, and shout them out.

submit: [email protected] by august 16 2014!

04/07/2014

O hai! MALAISE checks in from good ol' BooksActually! Have you gotten your copy of #1 yet?

Stay tuned, prompts for the next issue coming veeeeery soon! + (it'll be packaged ever, ever so delightfully!)

Hand courtesy of: our good friend qi neng

13/05/2014

MALAISE says hi! It's been a wonderful journey. We're now officially physically available at the following locations: BooksActually, Cat Socrates, and Grey Projects for their Print Lab Exhibition. Please drop by these wonderful places to get your one-of-a-kind, hand-threaded copy.

Journey's far from over - stay tuned for issue #2's themes! Thank you ever so much for the support.

24/04/2014

Hi all! Thanks to the lovely response had over the past few days, we'll be extending the submission deadline to May 1! As always, thank you for your continued support :)

13/04/2014

Hello everyone!

Submissions will be closing on Thursday, 17 April. A great big thank-you to those who have already submitted any form of work - those whose works have been shortlisted for publication will be notified shortly!

We're also in the midst of finalizing our publishing details. Incredibly pleased to say that BooksActually will be an official carrier of our journal! Other retailers will be announced when they've been confirmed.

Thank you everyone for making this idea come alive. Spread the word!

03/04/2014

ISSUE 1 - ennui, transition, & the constant illusion

to be listless, brimming with futuristic yearnings
to be perpetually terrorised by hopes and dreams irredeemable
we live in a void that is ennui
and for that, your right is to be with fury.

Jean-Paul Sartre and hipsters both taught us that freedom is an illusion. We've lived years under constant scrutiny, if not by others then our far-flung aspirations. To transit into new phases knowing that you had or hadn't achieved your goals, then - what does that feel like to you?

Contain it in limited words and let it simmer with all who feel similarly.

Submit: [email protected]

03/04/2014

Hi everyone!

Some of you have been writing in with queries as to the submission criteria: it's rather flexible! There's no limit to the number of works you can submit. We do ask for you to consider the following during submission though:

poetry: limit 40 lines (incl. spaces)
prose: 800 words/1.5x of A4-sized paper, font size 12
visual art & photography: ideally full a4 or a5 sized

Please direct any other queries you may have to [email protected].

Have the loveliest weekend ahead!

02/04/2014

Submission for the first issue is still open! Email [email protected] with your poetry, prose, and visual art revolving around the theme of ennui and - you guessed it - malaise. ROLL 'EM IN!