The non/fictionLab is an interdisciplinary research ecology based at RMIT University, Melbourne, bringing together creative experimentation, critical practice and social engagement. Our writer-researchers aim to reimagine and transform contemporary realities through language, mediations, poetics and collaborations. The non/ fictionLab is proud to partner with Mekong Review to commission a new series of short, collaboratively written literary works and criticism; this series will examine the notions of space and place through creative exchange and collaboration between writers from Australia and SE Asia..
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This piece was produced collaboratively in Daryl’s apartment in Potong Pasir, Singapore, on 17 June 2024, using three large vanguard sheets, a red and a blue marker and three whiskies from three countries
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Brandon K. Liew writes in, on, and about Malaysian (?) literature. Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰 a Singaporean, is the author of Anything but Human (Landmark Books) and editor of The Second Link (Marshall Cavendish).


