Description
Praise
About the Editor

From the founder of The Diplomat and Mekong Review comes a new magazine that promises to break new ground in Southeast Asian literature.

Modelled on internationally successful magazines Granta and Paris Review, Yellow is dedicated to bringing the best and most exciting writing from the region. It features fiction, nonfiction and poetry from award-winning as well as emerging writers from Southeast Asia and beyond.

Published twice yearly, each issue will focus on a topic or theme. The theme of the premier edition is ‘Parents’. Twelve writers with stories about their parents and what they mean to them.

Yellow aims to contribute to strengthening the creative writing culture of the region as well as pushing back on the negative stereotypes and cliches of Southeast Asia that have been in currency for far too long.
“A lyrical deep dive into the frictions of hope within the diversity of the Southeast Asian voice.”
—Bernice Chauly, writer, poet, world builder. Former director of George Town Literary Festival and author of Once We Were There

“I read the first issue cover-to-cover one afternoon and felt like I’d travelled the world—through Asia, its diaspora, and back again. These voices from across a region tell of commonality and difference in ways that are deeply personal, sometimes political, and always compelling.”
—Emma Larkin, author of Finding George Orwell in Burma
Minh Bui Jones is the founder and editor of Yellow and the publisher of Bui Jones. Previously he was the founding editor of The Diplomat, an international magazine on Asian current affairs, and Mekong Review, a quarterly magazine on Asian literature. Bui Jones has been a journalist, editor and publisher for more than 30 years. He has worked for Melbourne University Press, Asia Times Online, the Sydney Morning Herald and SBS-TV. He has served as a judge for the ASEAN Fiction Prize and the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing.

Series

Yellow: Parents (Issue One)