Still preparing, still gathering.
PR&TA remains open for submissions to Issue 6, themed “Makan,” with an extended deadline following requests from contributors.
Makan (Bahasa): To eat; to take
We welcome poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual work, reviews, and research articles, especially those with connections to Southeast Asia.
New deadline: 5 April 2026
Full details and submission link:
/open-call-issue-6
PR&TA is still open for submissions to Issue 6, themed “Makan.”
Makan (Bahasa) To eat; to take
We invite submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual work, reviews and research articles on the theme, particularly if they feature a connection with Southeast Asia.
Deadline: 21 March 2026
You can find details about the open call and the submission link here: /open-call-issue-6
PR&TA is currently open for submissions to Issue 6, themed “Makan.”
Makan (Bahasa) To eat; to take
We invite submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual work, reviews and research articles on the theme, particularly if they feature a connection with Southeast Asia.
Deadline: 21 March 2026
You can find details about the open call and the submission link here: /open-call-issue-6
PR&TA is now open for submissions to Issue 6, themed “Makan.”
Makan (Bahasa) To eat; to take
To eat; to consume, is a fundamental human activity. What, how and when we do so are distinctive markers of culture: particularly in Southeast Asia, with its confluence of histories, geographies and cuisines. We eat what we are given, what we can afford, what we desire and what we are forbidden to have. Food travels across borders in tiffin boxes; wrapped in banana leaves; across time in recipes; it arrives salvaged from dumpsters; plated with legends. Food is made, hoarded, shared, bought, sold, wasted, denied. The need to makan has spawned industries and sparked wars.
Food consumes us; and we consume one another in expressions of power and pleasure. We worry about others stealing our lunch. Sudah makan. Cari Makan. Kena makan. Have you eaten. Earned what you’ve eaten. Been eaten.
For PR&TA Issue 6, we crave creative and critical responses to Makan: contributions engaging with food in all its tastes, textures and contentions.
We invite submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual work, reviews and research articles, particularly if they feature a connection with Southeast Asia.
Deadline: 21 March 2026
You can find details about the open call and the submission link here: /open-call-issue-6
Our team out in full force at the Singapore Writers’ Festival panel celebrating PR&TA’s five-year milestone ISSUE RE:. To many, many more years of community, connections and conversations! 🥂
Join us at the Singapore Writers Festival on 9th November, for a conversation on “PR&TA @ FIVE: Reading, Writing and Relating Southeast Asia.” The event will be held from 7:30pm - 8:30pm, The Arts House at The Old Parliament, Screening Room.
PR&TA journal’s Coordinating Editor Dr Gopika Jadeja and Founding Editor Dr Alvin Pang will reflect on their experience of curating and publishing five issues of innovative work, and discuss possibilities for the future. There will be readings from journal contributors, who will also discuss how the unique PR&TA process of critically reflecting on their creative work, with thoughtful editorial guidance, has transformed the way they think about their creativity in relation to their past practice and to the broader region.
For more event details, please see: /swf-2025/programmes/programme-details-2025/panel-discussion/pr-ta-five-reading-writing-and-relating-southeast-asia.
Come listen to PR&TA’s editors and writers at the upcoming Singapore Writers Festival, 7th - 16th November 2025.
PR&TA journal’s Coordinating Editor Dr Gopika Jadeja and Founding Editor Dr Alvin Pang will reflect on their experience of curating and publishing five issues of innovative work, and discuss possibilities for the future at a panel discussion on “PR&TA @ FIVE: Reading, Writing and Relating Southeast Asia.” The event will be held on 9th November from 7:30pm - 8:30pm, The Arts House at The Old Parliament, Screening Room.
Join PR&TA’s editors and writers at the upcoming Singapore Writers Festival, 7th - 16th November 2025.
Our editor Theophilus Kwek will be reading his work alongside other journal contributors, Chrystal Ho, Mohamed Shaker and Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal, at our event on “PR&TA @ FIVE: Reading, Writing and Relating Southeast Asia.” The event will be held on 9th November from 7:30pm - 8:30pm, The Arts House at The Old Parliament, Screening Room.
For more information about the event, see here: /swf-2025/programmes/programme-details-2025/panel-discussion/pr-ta-five-reading-writing-and-relating-southeast-asia.
Come listen to PR&TA’s editors and writers at the upcoming Singapore Writers Festival, 7th - 16th November 2025.
PR&TA journal’s Founding Editor Dr Alvin Pang and Coordinating Editor Dr Gopika Jadeja will reflect on their experience of curating and publishing five issues of innovative work, and discuss possibilities for the future at a panel discussion on “PR&TA @ FIVE: Reading, Writing and Relating Southeast Asia.” The event will be held on 9th November from 7:30pm - 8:30pm, The Arts House at The Old Parliament, Screening Room.
Join PR&TA’s editors and writers at the upcoming Singapore Writers Festival, 7th - 16th November 2025.
Our editor Jonathan Chan will be moderating a session on “Linguistics, Cultures and the Poetic Voice,” on 15 November (Saturday), 7:30pm - 8:30pm, at The Blue Room.
The panel will discuss how language and cultural identity shape the way we write poetry. It will explore how poets from different cultural backgrounds embrace cultural hybridity, and the challenges of crafting poetry that reflects linguistic wordplay and family histories.
Join us at the Singapore Writers Festival on 9th November, for a conversation on “PR&TA @ FIVE: Reading, Writing and Relating Southeast Asia.” The event will be held from 7:30pm - 8:30pm, The Arts House at The Old Parliament, Screening Room.
PR&TA journal’s Coordinating Editor Dr Gopika Jadeja and Founding Editor Dr Alvin Pang will reflect on their experience of curating and publishing five issues of innovative work, and discuss possibilities for the future. There will be readings from journal contributors, who will also discuss how the unique PR&TA process of critically reflecting on their creative work, with thoughtful editorial guidance, has transformed the way they think about their creativity in relation to their past practice and to the broader region.
For more event details, please see: /swf-2025/programmes/programme-details-2025/panel-discussion/pr-ta-five-reading-writing-and-relating-southeast-asia.
In our latest, 5-year milestone issue of PR&TA, we bring even more wonderful new writing across genres from and around the region. Read at Issue 5 RE:, at pratajournal.com or click the link in the bio.
