Sinθ Magazine is pleased to announce the launch of Issue #12 “THUNDER 雷” on August 1, 2019.

"Are the fish truly trapped in the pond? The minute they meet the storm, they become dragons." -Qian Cai (Story of Yue Fei)

In this issue:

— Grace Song and Jasmine Gui think about summer weather in vastly different ways in their poetry
— Dorothy Cheng uses science fiction to meditate on identity and language in Malaysia
— Chunfeng Lu sends us more photographic dispatches from his travels
— Illustrations and artwork from Natalie Mark, Ray Hwang, and Kathi Ha, as well as returning contributors Diana Chan, Anita Yan Wong, and Juliette Wu, come together to make a visual bestiary
— Claire Soh explores the rise and fall of Singaporean xinyao music
— Editor-in-chief Jiaqi Kang speaks with nature writer Jessica J. Lee about community, genre, craft, and her upcoming book, “Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration, and Taiwan” (2019) –– a full version will be uploaded onto Medium
— In “Homecoming”, staff contributor Chelsea Shieh dives into her dreams for her last piece for Sine Theta
— Our second student spotlight features Lucy Li Chenhui, a hobby painter and founder of Oxford University Art Club
— A photo essay by Kimberly Kiong engages with the semantics of “thunder” in the sinophone world.
— The winners of our summer writing contest: in poetry, “Self-Portrait as the Dead Fish in Some Guy’s Tinder Profile Picture” by Erin Jin Mei O’Malley; in fiction, “Auntland” by K-Ming Chang
— A selection of shortlisted pieces from the contest: “Red Massacre in a Jar” by Alice Yang; “Butter Knife” by Hannah Han; and “Refallen” by returning contributor Albert Lee. More shortlisted work will be published in subsequent issues.