NutMag Volume 6: Hope

Anna Tan writes fantastical stories and fairy tales, and has short stories included in various anthologies. She helps people publish books at Teaspoon Publishing, which includes yelling at HTML for epub reasons. She is also the primary editor of NutMag, an annual zine published for and by MYWriters Penang.

Celine Wu spends most of her time questioning what she’s done with her time and wondering where she’s going to find more time to do stuff she likes. Which includes reading, playing board games, and very occasionally, writing for fun. She would also like for the world to stop burning, thanks.

Diyaa is a full-time writer, editor, proofreader, and social media manager, dreaming of becoming a full-fledged digital nomad someday. When they are not writing for work, they write for fun. Their works are usually found under their pseudonyms, Serendipity and NightShade. They write poetry and prose about mental health, fantasy, feminism, human rights, and the environment. When they occasionally venture out of their hidey-hole, you might find one of their alters spouting poetry on a stage.

Or just gazing off into space.

Jenny Hor hails from a small town called Butterworth. She writes stories about human lives and the everyday scene. Jenny spends her free time venturing around Penang to explore new locations, which she records on her travel blog, Jenny's Binoculars. 

​JY Tan was born in 2000 and raised in Penang, where she learnt to love the food but hate the traffic. During her time as a Creative Writing student at Nottingham Malaysia, she learnt to tolerate Selangor's food and loathe the traffic with a burning passion.

Now free of her academic shackles, she currently works as a freelance translator/editor by day and chips away at her first novel by night. She hopes to get it published soon (ideally, before the world ends).

Miriam Devaprasana is an observer and dabbler of creative expressions. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Sociolinguistics and hopes that one day, her work will help form a new way of thinking “Malaysia”.

Rebecca Vega is an editor, writer, embroidery enthusiast, and explorer. She writes about mental health, changing social landscapes, and where her dog is currently hiding, and she plans more holidays than she can afford. Wherever she goes, there she is. 

Wahida writes occasionally when she dares to leave the land of daydreams (where inflation and pollution are mythical). She is inactive on Instagram but the account @wahidaisworking serves as her public digital footprint.

Wilson Khor W.H. is known for many things—zine poet and publisher; teacher, otaku, and an obvious oddball.

His hobbies include eating, being annoying, and fooling around in writers’ meetings. He has a bad habit of cracking the wrong jokes at the wrong time, as well as a notoriety for abusing long sentences, em dashes, and semi colons.

Yee Heng Yeh currently works  as a Mandarin-to-English translator while writing in his spare time. His poetry has been featured in The KITA! Podcast, adda, Malaysian Millennial Voices, and Strange Horizons. His translations of poetry have also been published in Mantis and Nashville Review. You can find him on Twitter at @HengYeh42