Gaudy Boy

24/07/2025

Last week to submit! Don't miss your chance! 📅

We are open to submissions until July 31st, 2025.

Read the full guidelines here: https://singaporeunbound.org/opp/2025-gaudy-boy-open-call-for-novel-manuscripts

19/07/2025

‼️ VENUE CHANGE ‼️ We hope to see you at Book Bar (57 Duxton Road) next Wednesday for the Singapore Launch of EKE by Wahidah Tambee.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 7.00-8.30 pm (SGT)
Featuring Wahidah Tambee, Yeow Kai Chai, and Noor Iskandar
Free and open to all

16/07/2025

Saturday saw the Singapore book launch of Memorial Club at Book Bar SG, where author Mozid Mahmud was joined by poet AK Zilani and scholar Nur Amali Ibrahim for an evening of lively readings and discussion. Did you know? This is Mozid's first overseas book launch and the first time Gaudy Boy presented a Bangladeshi author to a Singaporean audience. Check out the photos we took at this special book launch.

Memorial Club is available at Book Bar SG, and you can also purchase it online here: https://singaporeunbound.org/memorial-club

15/07/2025

Just two weeks left to submit your novel manuscript!

Full details here: https://singaporeunbound.org/opp/2025-gaudy-boy-open-call-for-novel-manuscripts

14/07/2025

Introducing Mandy Moe Pwint Tu, the poet behind Gaudy Boy's upcoming poetry title, Fablemaker.

Originally from Yangon, Myanmar, Tu received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Her collection follows a speaker who contends with her father’s untimely death, her country’s crisis, and her de facto exile to the United States. Through Burmese folklore, formal invention, and addresses to a “dear fellow fablemaker,” Tu strives to
imagine a self and a world that, after their devastation, recover.

Fablemaker will be published in September 2025 and is available for preorder now. https://singaporeunbound.org/gaudy-boy/fablemaker

08/07/2025

In conjunction with Gaudy Boy’s November 2025 publication of Sharmini Aphrodite’s THE UNREPENTANT, SUSPECT is holding its 2nd flash fiction contest with a call for submissions inspired by the title of this bold story collection. We are looking for flash fiction of 100-150 words on the theme of unrepentance interpreted in any imaginative way. When should we repent and why don’t we? When should we not repent? What do we hope to obtain by not repenting? Integrity? Praise? Or just plain sustenance?

Read more here: https://singaporeunbound.org/opp/flash-fiction2

07/07/2025

We're thrilled to share our newest poetry title, FABLEMAKER, out in September 2025.

Born out of a myriad of griefs in the wake of Myanmar’s violent return to military rule, FABLEMAKER alchemizes the pains of a fractured life into heart song.

Selected by Ng Yi-Sheng as the winner of the 2024 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, FABLEMAKER weaves together a troubled familial history and a national reckoning.

Preorder your copy now: https://singaporeunbound.org/gaudy-boy/fablemaker

03/07/2025

1 month left to submit! ☝

We are currently open to submissions of unpublished adult novels by authors of Asian heritage residing anywhere in the world. One or more selected manuscripts will be published in 2026 or 2027. Each author will receive book publication and an advance of USD1,500.

Please submit the first 30 pages of your novel manuscript and a cover letter to our Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Jee Leong Koh, at [email protected]. We will contact you if we are interested to see more. Please do not submit your work unless you have a completed draft.

Full guidelines here: https://singaporeunbound.org/opp/2025-gaudy-boy-open-call-for-novel-manuscripts

02/07/2025

Join us for the Singapore Launch of Mozid Mahmud's novel MEMORIAL CLUB; a bilingual English and Bangla event featuring Mozid Mahmud, AK Zilani, and Amali Ibrahim.

Saturday, July 12, 7.00-8.30 pm
Book Bar, 57 Duxton Road, Singapore
Free and Open to All

Acclaimed Bangladeshi poet Mozid Mahmud presents his first novel Memorial Club in Singapore. Translated from Bangla to English by the author himself, Memorial Club is an intoxicating meditation on desire, dreams, and the limits of justice. Hasan is a young journalist in Dhaka, disillusioned about his job, dissatisfied with his pregnant wife, and yearning for his independent-minded colleague, Bilu. One fateful night, he stumbles into a hapless, embarrassing situation that turns his life upside down.

Mozid Mahmud will be joined by poet AK Zilani and scholar Nur Amali Ibrahim for readings and discussion at this special bilingual English-Bangla literary event.

27/03/2025

26/03/2025

The day is here! Our booth at AWP 2025 is all set up and open for business. Drop by and say hi to us at T731!

Gaudy Boy will be at AWP 2025 from 26-29th March. Come and fill your bookshelf with new Asian literature from Singapore, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, and more!