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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