A.K. LEE

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...

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. - James Clear I listened to the audiobook edition of...

Hi everyone! How are we feeling as we creep out of 2021 and towards 2022? I for one am having zero expectations. Zero. Nada. Zilch. That...