We at Peril, an online Asian Australian journal, are seeking your submissions for our second issue. The theme is “heroes”. Feel free to challenge the theme. Maybe you’re anti-hero. Maybe you’re interested in yesterday’s heroes. Maybe your hero doesn’t exist.

To some, ‘Hero’ is a Jet Li film. To others, it’s a song by Enrique Iglesias. What does ‘hero’ or ‘heroic’ mean to you? What are the dangers of seeking heroes? And what’s with all these male heroes anyway? Feel free to

Peace in Aceh
A Personal Account of the Helsinki Peace process

By Damien Kingsbury

Following nearly three decades of conflict and a series of failed ceasefire agreements, on 15 August 2005, the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Government of Indonesia reached an historic peace agreement to end the fighting and to give Aceh a high degree of genuine autonomy. The catalyst for the talks that produced this agreement was the devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004,

Select Books warmly invites you to the launch of Cyril Wong’s latest
poetry collection:

LIKE A SEED WITH ITS SINGULAR PURPOSE

6.30pm, (Fri) 18 Aug 2006
at Select Books, Tanglin Shopping Centre (Singapore)

“Singapore has found the pre-eminent visionary love poet of our age.”
- The Straits Times, Life!

“The poems in Cyril Wong’s collection are indeed seeds - each one starts
something vibrant and new growing in the world. And though he may write
of disaster, it is with

The NSW Writers’ Centre welcomes three visiting Indonesian writers, RICHARD OH (see editorial Newswrite November 2005) and DEWI LESTARI.  Richard, Ketut and Dewi will read from their work and will be talking about the state of creative writing in Indonesia.

RICHARD OH is the founder and owner of a chain of book stores called QB World in Jakarta and several cities in Java.  He has written three novels: Pathfinders of Love (1999), Heart of the Night in (2000) and The

The Charles Pick Fellowship is a 6 month residential Fellowship, designed to give support to the work of a new and, as yet, unpublished writer of fictional or non-fictional prose, with an award of £10,000 and free accommodation at the University of East Anglia. The Charles Pick Fellow takes up their position on 1st September 2007.  http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/fellowships/pick.shtml

The David TK Wong Fellowship competition is open to published and unpublished writers planning to