So proud of this one, friends. Stories are resistance, and so worth fighting for.

SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITY: The Upper New Review is looking for short stories/nonfiction pieces for a special issue on Myanmar. Themes/issues of interest include ecology, culture, history, and politics of Myanmar. Max 20,000 words. Deadline's July 1st tho. uppernew.submittable.com/submit

@penamerica.bsky.social has a Trump travel ban reading list on @bookshop.org . Nice to see Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint's 'Names for Light', Charmaine Craig's latest 'My Nemesis' and the excellent post-coup anthology 'Picking off new shoots', ed. by Ko Ko Thett and Brian Haman bookshop.org/lists/a-trav...

Here's what the 2013 English version looks like. In Than Shwe's time, anthologies of english-language pro-regime articles were particularly popular, mostly directed at the US, Thailand, EAG's and communists.

A brief (but good) breakdown on how successive Myanmar regimes have used literature for propaganda. Article features U Hla Min's The Way I See It: Myanmar and Its Evolving Global Role, published by Zin Yadanar Saw Publishing House www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/anal...

Watch this powerful video about our book Women’s Voices from the Revolution youtu.be/9sqZGll3HEg?... Then download the book 🡻 bit.ly/3QlM2bc (BUR) bit.ly/3EFvPLr (ENG) Watch the PEN America launch tinyurl.com/2aspxehp Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA Cobra Column

It was indeed a good session & when the video goes up will share it. In the mean time @altsean.bsky.social have now released PDFs of the book "Burma Women's Voices from the revolution" which I really recommend. Read women's stories of the struggle in their own words. (Links in next post)

GAS Featured #Musician and #Poet: San Lin Tun! #Myanmar gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com/2025/05/gas-...

new Lintner book releasing soon 👀 "exposes the betrayal of the 1947 Panglong Agreement, the military’s iron grip on Myanmar, & the unyielding struggle of the country’s ethnic minorities" via the life of Chao Tzang Yawngmyanhwe, "son of Burma’s first president & last Saohpa (prince) of Yawnghwe".

Burmese author A Phyu survived arrest and interrogation by Myanmar's military after the 2021 coup. Processing her experiences through storytelling, she writes, “I don’t owe them anything so why should I answer? Instead I asked, ‘Are my friends ok, sir?’” pen.org/first-i-have...

Aung Naing Soe, a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Burma living and working in exile, joined the DVB Newsroom to discuss the new book he co-authored with Joe Freeman called Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar’s military. Read more: english.dvb.no/resistance-a...

Join us online on 5/29 for the launch of WOMEN’S VOICES FROM THE REVOLUTION. Moderated by @mathida.bsky.social with @altsean.bsky.social's Debbie Stothard and writer A Phyu, this conversation will explore the power of storytelling in human rights advocacy in Myanmar. RSVP: pen.org/event/womens...

Mohingha Matters "Freedom memoirs" is back with a new volume covering #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar with deep dives into the earthquake & it's aftermath, The Return of Lashio into the Junta, an interview with NUG minister, poetry & more. mohingamatters.com/2025/05/02/f...

#SamiraSurfs - a Rohingya refugee girl finds empowerment in a girls' surf club, Cox's Bazar Bangladesh. Read Rukhsanna Guidroz's interview in DiVERSE Conversations with YA & Chn's Verse Novelists @aaslala.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

Poetry reading tomorrow in support of those impacted by the earthquake in Myanmar

New event! 📆24th April 🕖7pm BKK time Join Aung Naing Soe, Joe Freeman & Verena Hoelz for the launch of book "Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar's military" at FCC Thailand. Book looks at long history of poetry & popular uprising in Myanmar. www.fccthai.com/events/495

Join CISAR for this Book Sale in support of the UBC Myanmar Student Association’s fundraiser for earthquake relief. All proceeds will be donated to "Better Burma", a non-profit providing assistance those effected by the catastrophic earthquake in Myanmar. sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

“We will not be lost forever.” In her poem Death or Life, Inside or Outside the Maze, Ma Thida reflects on repression and resilience in Myanmar. Her words, written during unrest and revisited after the earthquake, are a call for hope. PEN International stands with all those affected.

My book is called ‘MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen’ because Mandalay is where my heart lies. My father and my brothers were all born in Mandalay, and my parents met at Mandalay Medical School. My tastes, my food, my vocabulary are that of a Mandalay-thu (မန္တလေးသူ - ‘Mandalayan’).

I am re-upping my recent book on Myanmar. It is completely free to download from University of Hawai’i Press (2024). In it you will find - 1st ethnography on Muslims & Hindus in Myanmar - an alternative theory on community manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/ret... #OA #socialtheory #anthropology

March 27 is Armed Forces Day in Myanmar. Going back to at least the 90’s the regimes have celebrated it with a propaganda literary competition and anthology of pro-military poetry, short stories and essays. The submissions are rancid. Here’s one for 2025 published by the GNLM as a taster:

Here's a short graphic novel that embodies the spirit of the people despite #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar "...amidst this nightmarish darkness that seems to stretch forever, our acts of resilience continue to shine through every day," wrote Songbird, one of our fellows. kite-tales.org/en/article/f...

My friends over at Heuristic Halo Press are currently open to submissions. Based in Myanmar but open to writers and creatives everywhere! hhpresscom.wordpress.com/submissions/ #Myanmar #Burma #global #writers #writing #subsopen

Wai Moe Naing is profiled in @peninternational.bsky.social 2025 case list. A writer and PEN Myanmar member, the 'Monywa Panda' was arrested in the weeks following the 2021 coup, leading protests in his home city. Has been sentenced to nearly 75 yrs in prison.

when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u

Really grateful to be able to get copies of ALTSEAN-Burma's latest book "Burma Women's Voices from the Revolution" Over 40 pieces from women from diffrent ethnicities & walks of life telling their stories in their own voices.

Podcast with our co-founder @thinink.bsky.social that touches on the work we've been doing to support Myanmar's storytellers as well as the origin story of how The Kite Tales started...

Myanmar Writers Association are once again ‘deeply honoured and thrilled’ to show how far they can bury their collective heads up Min Aung Hlaing’s arse

I wrote about Clare Hammond’s impressive debut book, about her travels across Burma in the 2010s lareviewofbooks.org/article/hope... via @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

This International Women’s Day, March 8, ALTSEAN Burma launched the book Burma Women’s Voices from the Revolution, which is a collection of writings by first-time writers from Myanmar #WhatshappeninginMyanmar english.dvb.no/burma-womens...

"Independent Myanmar media house Mizzima fights for the truth" The story of Mizzima is one of extraordinary courageous journalism and personal difficulties. Available at Amazone Book store now! amzn.in/d/5n9Lkhd

Nice series of depictions of stories from the resistance in Myanmar

MAKING SILENCED LANGUAGES VISIBLE Day 15 Poem 22: Karen Jasmine: When The Great Revolution Is Over - Karen PEN Myanmar Karen languages are spoken by 4.5 million. They live mainly in Kayin State, in the south and southeast of Myanmar. youtu.be/GwMRpyz7b7c?...

Our Burmese/Myanmar friend, Htet Woon Yan, is visiting Taiwan later this month and will be delivering an event at a brilliant community library in Zhutian. Htet runs a project called ‘White Tales’.

This diary is about the perilous journey home by a young Myanmar woman who had been working in China without a valid visa. She was compelled to return, amid COVID-19 restrictions and insecurity, when her father became very ill in Oct 2022. kite-tales.org/en/article/w...

Revolution and tea leaf salad: The story of Mizzima Media In 1990, Myanmar dissident Soe Myint and another student hijacked a Thai Airways flight to Yangon, forcing the plane to divert to Kolkata to highlight their demands for an end to military rule in Burma. www.facebook.com/events/34141...

Rights Refused Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar www.sup.org/books/anthro...

Since the coup, the Myanmar regime has waged a different kind of war to silence writers, publishers, booksellers, and printers, from book bans to licence revocations to imprisonment to murder.

A sample of books on Myanmar from foreigners since the coup include former Frontier journalist, @oliver-slow.bsky.social Return of the Junta: ‘Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks’, published by Bloomsbury in January 2023 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/return-of...

Other books by Myanmar authors published outside of Myanmar included Moe Moe Inya’s ‘Born and Bred in Myanmar’. A small anthology of five short stories published by Penguin South East Asia in May 2022 www.penguin.sg/book/born-an...

Myanmar: WANT. "To mark a milestone in the life of this leading independent news service, a book has been released entitled: “Resisting Military Rule in Burma (1988-2024) Story of Mizzima Media: Born in Exile, Banned in Myanmar” by Nandita Haksar & Soe Myint." eng.mizzima.com/2025/02/04/1...

Book bans and censorship had no place in the 1600s. They have no place now. #bookbans #bookbanning #SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #PublicEducation #EllenWeaver #JohnMilton

New Naratif, in collaboration with BEBESEA, presents “430 Kilometers”, a poem by May Myat Zaw. Listen to the full poem on Spotify, YouTube or our website here: https://newnaratif.com/430km/

The latest roundup of book censorship news courtesy of Book Riot. bookriot.com/religious-fr...

Another rotten nugget of MAL wisdom in today's GNLM

Hence, we are excited to announce the selected Fellows who have been accepted for the program!

1/ Despite everything, Rohingya poets and writers are still getting their words out there. Here’s Mayuu Ali featured in a Fortify Rights profile from April 2022 www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-pro-...

2/ Editor of Rohingya Folktales, Mohammed Rezuwan, was commissioned by Comma Press, to write a short story for ‘All Walls Collapse’, an anthology ‘exploring the impact of dividing lines on people’s lives, as well as their communities’ published in the UK in June 2022 commapress.co.uk/books/all-wa...