FemAsia

07/07/2025

Submissions Now Open!

We’re thrilled to invite contributions for FemAsia Magazine’s July 2025 issue!

Are you a storyteller, poet, artist, or photographer?
Do you have a voice that deserves to be heard?

Please send us your unpublished stories, poems, artwork, photography, or essays by 15 July 2025.
This is your chance to be featured in a powerful platform that celebrates the creativity and experiences of Asian women and global majority voices.

We welcome emerging and established writers and artists alike.

📩 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: www.femasiamagazine.com

Let’s create something unforgettable together.

14/06/2025

On Crossing Borders – Courage, Conflicts and Consolations by Sana Ally

FemAsia - April 2025

Seema… Sarhad… Border.

I was three when I first understood what ‘border’ literally meant. Thanks to my father, an officer of the Border Security Force of India. Protector of the country’s borders.

Us siblings and many other (para)military brats would gleefully swing our hands, left-right-left, jumping up and down in uncontainable excitement from our seats in the audience, keeping time with the marching brigade as it passed us at the parade grounds every 1st of December, the BSF raising day. We would squeal in delirious joy on spotting the sniffer dog platoon, wagging their bums to a metronomic precision, cutely saluting us as they passed us.

Seema… Sarhad… Border.  I was three when I first understood what ‘border’ literally meant. Thanks to my father, an officer of the Border Security Force of India. Protector of the country’s borders.  Us siblings and many other (para)military brats would gleefully swing our hands, left-rig...

14/06/2025

Funerals and Little Flower Collectors by Roshni S

FemAsia - April 2025

There are some sights and smells that hit a rewind button in your mind and your body responds to it. The sight of a river, the smell of smoke from firewood stoves in a humid part of the country, and the chembakapu (Frangipani flower), take me home, instantly. As a child on vacation, I spent many hours clomping around our homes and the neighbourhood, collecting flowers. This was usually a part of our contribution to funerals and death anniversaries in the family. We were well acquainted with death. Do you remember the moment in your childhood when you learned that people were mortal? I don’t. Did we just know? Did the first death just happen around us, and we connected the dots from the conversations adults were having?

During our annual visits home to Pala, the biggest gatherings of people we saw were for funerals. Long, long processions of people walking from the church to the cemetery. The nuns piled into jeeps with loudspeakers, singing in the nasal tone reserved for songs of death.

There are some sights and smells that hit a rewind button in your mind and your body responds to it. The sight of a river, the smell of smoke from firewood stoves in a humid part of the country, and the chembakapu (Frangipani flower), take me home, instantly. As a child on vacation, I spent man...

14/06/2025

Courage in (Re)making Home by Doel Jaikishen

FemAsia - April 2025

It was a dark room full of voices. I sensed their buzz and energy even before I made anyone out. Maybe I was taken in by the sudden change, too. We had travelled for some time and finally, suddenly arrived.

H and I had travelled for over an hour in the afternoon heat. First I discovered he walked with a tremendous speed. And as his new, much younger colleague, I was keen to keep up. Luckily, we just walked about 20 minutes. Then a bus, then an auto, another walk. I thought we were only going from one part of Navi Mumbai, our NGO office, to another, where M lived. But as we travelled, I wondered how much longer.

It was a dark room full of voices. I sensed their buzz and energy even before I made anyone out. Maybe I was taken in by the sudden change too. We had travelled for some time and finally, suddenly arrived.  H and I had travelled for over an hour in the afternoon heat. First I discovered he walked w...

14/06/2025

Holding Him with Both Hands

By Cordelia Lee - FemAsia April 2025

A Memoir of Breath, Fear and Becoming
My eyes were wet with tears, upon the memory’s return; a jaundiced-looking baby with a feeding tube in his nose. Then I turned my head to the voice which changed my life forever.

When my baby was born, I was a mixture of happiness and exhaustion. Before I could enjoy motherhood, within a month or so of his birth, I was informed that my baby had a rare disease that may lead to liver failure.

A Memoir of Breath, Fear and Becoming My eyes wet with tears, upon the memory’s return; a jaundiced-looking baby with a feeding tube in his nose. Then I turned my head to the voice which changed my life forever. When my baby was born, I was a mixture of happiness and exhaustion. Before I could enj...

10/03/2025

FemAsia Magazine's April 2025 issue is now open for submissions and we’re looking for your unique voice. Send us your unpublished masterpieces by March 31, 2025, and join a community passionate about changing narratives and breaking boundaries.

write to [email protected]

27/12/2024

We Are Open for Submissions!
Share your voice and stories with us! FemAsia Magazine calls for unpublished stories, poems, photo stories, and essays for our January 2025 Issue.
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📅 Deadline:15th January 2025
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Let’s amplify our voices together!

12/11/2024

Discover powerful voices in our latest issue...
https://femasiamagazine.com/2024/10/

27/10/2024

Proud moment at the in Manchester! Truly humbled and filled with gratitude. Standing alongside incredible Asian talent and seeing FemAsia Magazine shortlisted was a powerful reminder of why we do what we do.

FemAsia strives to amplify the voices of marginalised and ethnic minority communities, uplift underrepresented women, challenge stereotypes, and create space for stories that deserve to be told.

We are no longer invisible. We are felt, seen, and heard.

A heartfelt thank you to our dedicated editorial team, our contributing writers, and our passionate readers.

18/09/2024

We are thrilled to announce that FemAsia Magazine has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Best Blog/Website category at the Asian Media Awards 2024!

This recognition is a testament to the hard work and passion of our incredible team and to our commitment to amplifying diverse voices, stories, and perspectives across Asia and beyond.

Thank you to all our readers, contributors, and supporters who have been with us on this journey!

29/07/2024

Fictional Arts·Literature·Poetry Echoing Mothers July 25, 2024 by Bhaswati Ghosh I hear mothers,young and old,rich and not-so-poor,Believers, atheists, heathenI hear their staggering stepszigzagging throughformer husbands,current flings,the faltering economy.I hear their symphonies–son’s first...

23/06/2024

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