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07/01/2026

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28/11/2025

Please drop by booth #33 !
and are reading to serve you 🙇🏻‍♂️

17/11/2025

Will the death of AI be an event outside of a life it can never truly feel?

elegy.rar – an algorithm dreams of melancholia is an absurdist zine that attempts to get AI to participate in the humanity it purportedly emulates.

This 32-page project features prompts by , who painstakingly feeds the machine quotes from Maurice Blanchot’s Literature and the Right to Death, Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry, and Anna Karenina, all in the hope that it might feel a smidgen of its imminent death around the corner.

Launching 28-30 November !

Cover artwork and layout by .l.yana

25/09/2025

25/09/2025

Everything in Life Is a Fire has been longlisted for the Malaysian National Library Readers’ Choice Award for 2025/2026 🎉

Vote here before 28 Nov: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0jvJ2Uz2B3_528U4deWSRuzO1ry-O_K_FsGNwPXnbzJ_R7Q/viewform

10/09/2025

Recap: Eternal Summer Notes launch at last weekend!

A special shoutout to for capturing scenes of an intimate evening’s laughter and discussion, and to Coffee_Pohutukawa and Floratorie.co for the hospitality.

https://www.shurenprojects.com/collections/frontpage/products/eternal-summer-notes

30/08/2025

Eternal Summer Notes is a trilingual anthology of short stories, poems, essays, and translations (in English, Bahasa Malaysia, and Mandarin) inspired by the heat and humidity of Malaysia’s endless summer. Featuring voices from Malaysia, Ukraine, Hong Kong, China, and the USA, the collection explores selfhood through the passage of time and distance, often with a touch of humour and lightness. Born from a unique “cafe writing residency” at in 2024, the anthology is a celebration of language, place, and the fleeting moments we often try to grasp before they slip away.

Writers featured:
‘The Pond’ - Wan Phing Lim
‘Three Poems’ - Louise Law, translated from the Chinese by Jacqueline Leung
‘GadisNya’ - Hayi
‘Di Ambang Kesunyian Musim Panas’ - Tedd Denis
‘榴蓮明信片 A Postcard About Durians’ - 黃怡，translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley
‘Notes on Sepet’ - Amir Hamzah
‘Mantra & Pattern Recognition’ - Brandon K. Liew
‘Legends’ - Shih-Li Kow
‘皱褶’- 傅译萱
‘i ii benda pasal natasha’ - Md. Fariq Khir
‘衣’ - 朱潔兒
‘After-Hours Musings’ - Aya Carrim
‘the art residency’ - Haiyan Zhang
‘黄昏黎明和车’ - 許明康
‘The Boy Who Saw Dead Animals’ - Anna Morgachova
272 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2025
PRINTED IN MALAYSIA
ISBN:978-967-19228-3-5

Available atShuren Projectss now

11/10/2024

Shuren Press is thrilled to announce the selections for Eternal Summer Notes. Congratulations to all our selected contributors.

Among some household Malaysian names, the anthology will also feature newly emerging voices, with contributors from all over the world including, Ukraine and China. We are also excited to include two female writers from Hong Kong in the collection, whose works are presented with accompanying English translations.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed. Our editors found it extremely difficult to narrow down the selection to 15 pieces.

This anthology would not have been possible without your creativity and dedication.

On top of the manuscript fee, the selected writers will now be able to redeem 20 cups of espresso based coffee and certain specialty filters until the end of 2024.

Special thanks to for collaborating with us, and to .co for curating a beautiful floral space that is conducive to writing.

We will be in touch with the selected writers via email very soon.
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Eternal Summer Notes 徵稿企劃圓滿落幕，感謝各位作家朋友們的踴躍投稿。

此番一共錄得60件投稿作品，除了英文、馬來文與中文的本地作家，我們亦收穫了來自中國與香港的作品，對於首次以此形式展開合作的我們來說，成果頗豐。

經過幾輪篩選與取捨，共計將有15位作家以及兩篇翻譯作品將邀請至咖啡館進行　Writing　Residency的寫作計劃。

入選的作家將享有如下優惠：

☕稿費

☕２０張咖啡兌換卷：任何espresso based 飲料和特定手沖咖啡全免，每天每次只能領取一次，不得轉讓。

☕出版：作品將有機會收錄在 shuren Press 接下來所推出的選集以及未來衍生的所有相關作品發布活動。

入選通知與詳情將在近日送達您的信箱，至於遺憾未能入選的作家們，也請不必失望，期待下一本選集能與各位再會，亦不妨多加留意 Shuren press 未來的動態消息。

這個夏天，那些盛開的花，涼掉的黑咖啡，沒有什麼是不會逝去的，幸得還能留下一些記憶，於是之後繼續寫了。

感謝各位的參與，保持聯絡，筆耕不輟。

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📖出版：Shuren press
💐空間支持與花藝作品：Floratorie
🐱Curator 策展總監：小花

30/07/2024

Eternal Summer Notes ｜

Pohutukawa Coffee Writing Residency In Collaboration with Shuren Press

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Shuren Press has been quiet for some time, so we’re very happy to be collaborating with Pohutukawa Coffee to host a unique café writing residency. Deadline for submission will be from 30/7 to 15/9.

Chosen writers will have the opportunity to develop and refine their work at Pohutukawa Coffee. The anthology featuring these works will be published by and edited by

Submission Guidelines:

📒Project Proposal or Completed Manuscript: Submit either a proposal for your project or a completed manuscript.

📒English, Mandarin, or Bahasa Melayu are accepted, with a word limit of 2000 for long form and under 1000 for short. No specific theme is imposed. Translations are welcome, with both writer and translator fees included.

📒Submission Format: Please email your submission in DOCX or PDF format to [email protected]

Writers receive:

📖Manuscript fee in honorarium.

📖Free Coffee Vouchers: Twenty vouchers (excluding filter coffee), redeemable one per visit per day and non-transferable.

📖Publication: Selected pieces will be featured in Shuren Press’s next publication. Rights to the work remain with the author. With discussion event to come.

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We look forward to reading what you create.

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經過幾番交流，終於和 Shuren Press敲定了此次企劃，我們打算在這個由 .co 打造的花藝空間舉辦一場寫作駐留企劃。

會有這樣的想法 … …

一是因為 Shuren Press 的負責人 Dano Chow 先生是我們的朋友，也許是兩年前的某一天，我們在小鎮上意外認識的一位朋友。

二是因為，我們發現有越來越多喜好寫作的客人（不管是對著筆電還是伏案）常來陪我們度過一些時間，因為畫面過於理想，所以想要做這件事。

三是因為任性，想在業餘之外企劃自己喜歡的事。

四和五也是因為任性。

最後是因為，我們相信文字，只限讀者和寫作者之間。

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🧭 作品提交指南

🌟項目提案或稿件： 提交項目提案或稿件（錄取者將獲得咖啡卷）。

🌟字數限制： 接受英文、中文或馬來語的短篇未發表作品，字數限制為 1,000-2,000 字，無特定主題要求。

🌟提交格式： 請以 DOCX 或 PDF 格式通過電子郵件提交您的作品。

🎉入選作家的福利


🌟稿酬： 每篇入選作品將獲得稿費，出版社保留最終的修改和決定權。

🌟免費咖啡券： 每位作家將獲得 20 張免費咖啡券（不包括手沖咖啡），每次訪問可使用一張，且不可轉讓。

🌟出版： 入選作品將刊登於 Shuren Press 的下一部出版物中，作品權利仍歸作者所有。

🌟展示： 完成的作品將在公開討論活動中展示，與其他作家與讀者交流。

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關於

獨立出版社，以英語為媒介語。負責人 - 出了執行策劃外，亦有一部小說由企鵝出版社推出。

關於

躲在花店的咖啡館，製作咖啡、貝果和各式名不見經傳的甜點。

關於 .co

經營花藝課程與遊走各式婚禮節慶現場，同為這個空間的主人。

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14/08/2022

We’ll be hosting another writing workshop .stor on 20th August. The workshop will be priced at RM60 and guests will be entitled to a copy of Everything in Life Is a Fire, and a free coffee. For those who have previously purchased a copy of EILIAF, the fee will be RM 20.

Hope to see you there!

12/08/2022

bring books
and a notebook
your mind

bring your father
your son
your holy ghost

See you tomorrow at 3PM

10/08/2022

“To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking– and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.” – Maurice Blanchot

Shuren Press will be running a free writing workshop at . Please drop by and say hello (or perhaps just nod, I don’t know)
Looking forward to meet you in Johor Bahru!