NutMag Volume 3: Island Living

When she’s not writing or dreaming, Aathhini Adithan is always curled up at home binge-watching her favourite TV series or K-pop music videos. She also loves sunrises, sunsets, and midnight drives on empty roads.

Anna Tan grew up in Malaysia, the country that is not Singapore. In 2015, she traded in a life of annoying other bean counters for one of annoying the online world with questions about life and death and everything in between. The answer is sometimes 42. Sometimes they try to eat you.

Newly unemployed or just graduated university (depending on how you want to look at it), Celine Wu now has too much free time on her hands. She is currently wondering what to do with her life and which of her hobbies she would like to pick back up. Celine should stop being lazy and yet probably won't. Don't be like Celine.

Diyaa Mani is based in Penang Island. Her works are usually found under her pseudonyms, Serendipity and NightShade. She writes about fantasy, feminism, human rights, the environment, and poetry. She is currently dreaming about completing her novel while running the rat race to sustain a living.

 Lucille Dass is a former lecturer, currently freelancing in teacher development. She enjoys word-work with coffee for company—a composition that has helped her publish several poems! She has three poems published in the Asian Centre Anthology of Malaysian Poetry in English; another four published in LangLit – An International Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal. She has also a published book on inspirational sayings with built-in reflections that encourage a response. She dabbles in poetry when mood, muse or madness prompt (“O! that way madness lies” – Shakespeare, King Lear). The resulting effort may be:

- the vaguely vacuous verse

- the purely puerile

- the occasionally contemplative

- simply FUN!

A millennial by age, old soul by heart, Maygan Ong is starting to dip her toes into the vast sea of writing, in hopes of being able to glide across even the choppiest waves one day.

Red Beanie, author of poetry zine Black Ribbons and Pearls, is a translator of hearts to words. Born and bred in Penang, she finds solace and passion in writing whilst studying Psychology for her Bachelor’s degree, and advocates its benefits in self-discovery and connection. Not only that, baking can be therapeutic, too. She balances her life in being a romantic as well as a cynic.

Wan Phing Lim was born to Malaysian parents in 1986 in Butterworth, Penang. Her short stories have appeared in Catapult (USA), Ricepaper Magazine (Canada), Kyoto Journal (Japan) and anthologies by Monsoon Books (UK), Ethos Books (Singapore), Fixi Novo (Malaysia), and Gerakbudaya (Malaysia). Her story 'Snake Bridge Temple' was selected for Kitaab's Best Asian Short Stories 2017 and Buku Fixi's New Malaysian Writing 2017.

More than a zine author, publisher, and an obvious oddball, Wilson Khor W.H. is a friend, whose words to a treasured few will always carry the scent of blooming flowers.

Apart from his love for writing, Oxford commas, food, and lively antics, he has a bad habit of cracking the wrong jokes at the wrong time, and the notoriety for abusing long sentences, em dashes and semi colons.

Winnie AKA ERYN is a visual artist who plays primarily with surreal and dreamlike imagery in her work. She enjoys reading fiction and is especially fond of horror stories that chill the soul. Winnie is our resident artist who designed the covers for NutMag Volume 2 to 4.