2018 Hawker Prize submission #1
As promised, here's one (out of the six) of our submissions to the 2018 Hawker Prize—poem "yuan liang 原谅" by Joshua Ip, published in...
2018 Hawker Prise
So the final results for the inaugural 2018 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry have been out for a little while now, and we couldn't...
Open call for submissions!
Hi everyone! Open call is back again—with a closing date of 10 June 2018 (if you want to make it into our upcoming Volume 6 Issue 1, if...
What goes into writing, really?
Okay, so heads up—this is going to be a somewhat personal (read: not professional-professional) post… Run now while you can! What goes...
Doldrum Saturdays
The weekend has rolled around, yet again. And your writing to-do list just keeps getting longer and longer. You have a million and one...
What's better than writing? Winning (a writing prize)!
Exciting news! The Eloquent Orifice is ecstatic to be able to announce that we have been invited to participate in Sing Lit Station's...
An almost-globality
Update—Saturday, 26 August 2017 We can't believe it's been a little more than half a year since our last issue! So much has happened...
Katsushika Hokusai
I’ve never been a particularly big fan of early Japanese art. It’s not that I didn’t like it—it just didn’t move me the way classical...
Exercise Creatively: Writing Prompts
Exercise is important, not only in the realm of physicality, but for metal optimization as well. The mind is a muscle, it must be...
Creative block?
Ever find yourself in a state of creative stagnancy? In a state where all you do is stare at a blank screen/canvas and nothing comes out...
