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Every essay on this website is about a place. Each writer tells us what they see and what they hear, how they feel about the place, what it means to them, and what they think the place suggests about the society in which they live.
We're beginning this website with voices from Indonesia. Our plan is to move slowly north, adding writing from other Southeast Asian nations. Before we publish essays from a country we intend to first have the resources and expertise to do it justice, including the resources and expertise to commission and edit writing in local languages and translate it into English. To help us do this, please consider becoming a member or donating.
We're beginning this website with voices from Indonesia. Our plan is to move slowly north, adding writing from other Southeast Asian nations. Before we publish essays from a country we intend to first have the resources and expertise to do it justice, including the resources and expertise to commission and edit writing in local languages and translate it into English. To help us do this, please consider becoming a member or donating.
We're beginning this website with voices from Indonesia. Our plan is to move slowly north, adding writing from other Southeast Asian nations. Before we publish essays from a country we intend to first have the resources and expertise to do it justice, including the resources and expertise to commission and edit writing in local languages and translate it into English. To help us do this, please consider becoming a member or donating.
We're beginning this website with voices from Indonesia. Our plan is to move slowly north, adding writing from other Southeast Asian nations. Before we publish essays from a country we intend to first have the resources and expertise to do it justice, including the resources and expertise to commission and edit writing in local languages and translate it into English. To help us do this, please consider becoming a member or donating.
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The places written about on this website can be as large as megacities or as small as plastic stools. They can be neighbourhoods, towns or villages, universities, restaurants, houses of worship, coffee shops, offices, streets, public parks, mountains, beaches, rivers, farms or forests.
Young Southeast Asian writers are our focus. We want to offer them a platform to have their voices heard internationally. We see a need for more people to view their worlds through their eyes.
