We are dedicating this issue of Eastlit to all those jailed for what they said or wrote, to all those censored and to all those forced by fear to self censor.

Table of Eastlit Content August 2016:

We hope you enjoy the work in the August 2016 issue of Eastlit as much as we did. Southlit Supplement as usual is also included in the middle of this month’s issue.

Eastlit Literature Journal Cover: This month’s cover picture features Black by Graham Lawrence. This issue is dedicated to freedom of expression. The Eastlit August 2016 cover design is by Graham Lawrence.

Fated I: Utter Terror by Andrew J. West. Installment one of a five part series that will be serialized over the coming months.

Migration Story & Other Poems by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan.

Po Po’s House by Sandra Faith Tan.

Red City by Lawrence F. Farrar.

Southlit Supplement August 2016

Southlit August 2016 contains work focused on South Asia by Preh Memon, Prem Prakash Limbu and Yousuf bin Mohammad.

Starving Children In China by Lita Kurth.

Maharajah & Dear Simona by Müesser Yeniay.

The Heart of the Land by Jesse Sessoms.

This month’s random republication is:

Random Kindness & Other Poems by Khor Hui Min is our Random Republications in this issue. Random Kindness & Other Poems featured in Eastlit August 2015.

Contributors: An alphabetical list of all the contributors to the August 2016 issue of Eastlit complete with biographies of all the writers and poets can be found in this section.

Note on Work:

Please note that we publish work as received. We do not edit work for minor errors. We regard these as decisions made by the author. The one exception is that we may work with second language writers to help them say what they want to say.

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