A.K. LEE

My partner and I firmly believe that we are cursed. Not in the “let’s find an exorcist” way, just mundane commonplace curses that inconvenience us.

In 2024, I translated three children's books. These stories were about landmarks in Singapore's past that are no longer around today. I translated them from English to Chinese, and while it wasn't my first experience translating per se, it was still a learning experience.

a sunbird on a twig A pair of sunbirds visit my balcony regularly, especially during nesting season. They peel the papery dried layers...

a little six-year-old boy came up to me today, holding a plastic bag full of cold beverages, and asked me if i could help him open the...

I am announcing that after the November newsletter, Story+Story will take a hiatus until March as I wish to work on my existing short...

I had the pleasure of conducting my very first public workshop at the end of August, invited by the people of Let's Read @SG. This came...

July has been a heck of a roller-coaster. There were some high points: I moderated a Q&A with the leaders of Centre for Stories from...

I quit teaching again. To be honest, I had some concerns stepping back into the world of education after three years of COVID-19. I...

"No crisis in a people's history leaves the previous equilibrium undisturbed." This is how Léon Blum introduced this book. In his cold...

A conversation with AK Lee and Robin Mendez. AK: Robin is a friend of mine and we got to talking a little about Black Panther: Wakanda...

Well everyone, that was why I took a hiatus in October! I was on a work trip to Frankfurt for the annual Frankfurt Book Fair, and wow,...

It's been some time since I posted on my blog, but honestly, between writing the short stories and the ongoing serial and the sequel to...

Before I even begin, if you have yet to watch it, if this movie is still playing in a cinema near you, if you are comfortable with the...

It's official: I will stop my daily journaling/creative writing experiment. Since 30 Dec 2021, I wrote a one-page response to prompts...

I made an error with doing Prompt 5 in March, so I've swapped it out.

Here are the prompts for March:

This is the first chapter of Fragile Vessel, also available in my first issue of Story+Story newsletter. I will post subsequent chapters...

Every day in January, I wrote a one-page response to creative and reflective prompts. It has been a wonderful and exasperating time,...

Here are the prompts for February. Happy writing!

I've posted my journal responses for the first week of January and I have already found it to be very useful in getting my brain to kick...