Aneeta Sundararaj
Aneeta Sundararaj is the recipient of the Trisha Ashley Award in 2022 and the 2022 H.E. Bates Short Story Prize. She was longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize in 2023 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2024. The stories for these prizes / nominations are included in Aneeta’s latest collection of short stories, ‘Tapestry of the Mind and Other Stories’ (Penguin Random House SEA, June 2024). To date, she’s worked multiple book projects and has contributed articles and stories to a national newspaper, magazines, ezines and journals. Her most recent and bestselling novel, The Age of Smiling Secrets was shortlisted for the Anugerah Buku 2020 organised by the National Library of Malaysia. Throughout, Aneeta continued to pursue her academic interests and, in 2021, successfully completed a doctoral thesis entitled ‘Management of Prosperity Among Artistes in Malaysia’. To know more, please visit http://www.aneetasundararaj.com. She occasionally tweets at @httags.
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The Moth Box
Landscape and nature take centre stage in this practised collection. Here we have a bird’s – or perhaps moth’s – eye view of the natural world and the ways in which we interact (and often fail to interact) with it. The Moth Box also interrogates our various environments: ecological, linguistic, national – even astrological and philosophical. Camouflage, too, plays a role; certainly with creatures such as the eponymous moth, but also the disguises in which we cloak ourselves. This is a collection teeming with life, but for all the cats, moths, birds, trees, The Moth Box never forgets what it is to be human.
How To Tell A Great Story
How To Tell A Great Story will equip you with powerful storytelling techniques that master storytellers have used throughout time to amaze and engage their audiences. This simple, but powerful beginner’s guidebook, makes learning storytelling techniques easy and explains things in simple language. When you read this book, you will learn how to start telling your own story quickly and effortlessly; construct a fascinating, well-structured story from scratch; use powerful master storytelling techniques to amaze your family and friends; find interesting ideas and inspiration for your stories; and, vividly and expertly describe the characters and settings in your stories.
The Age of Smiling Secrets
"No woman should ever have to lose her child. And not in the heart-breaking way that Kamini lost hers." Malaysia is in a unique position where both the laws of Syariah and the Civil Law are practised concurrently. This has given rise to a conflict in jurisdiction in certain cases. For instance, where a non-Muslim couple is married under the provisions of the Civil Law, confusion arises when one party converts to Islam and converts their children as well. A custody battle often ensues where the Syariah Court can grant custody of the children to their newly converted Muslim parent while the High Court of Malaya can grant custody to the non-Muslim parent. THE AGE OF SMILING SECRETS is a work of fiction that is based on this legal position.
These Pages Sing: Autumn 2024
Published in 2024 Autumn 2024 Issue of These Pages Sing Literary Magazine: a curated collection of poetry and short fiction from writers with a Welsh connection. Autumn 2024 Wordsmiths: Sue Moules, Gareth Writer-Davies, Carolyn Thomas, George Sandifer-Smith, Sheila Jacob, Catrin Mari, Sue Regan, Angela Graham, Elizabeth Lockwood, Angela Arnold, Charly White, M.R.Smith, Barbara Hughes-Moore, Guinevere Clark, Catrin Lawrence, Rebecca Elizabeth Roberts, Rosy Adams, Jonah Jones. Cover Illustrated by Kornelia Urbaniak.