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A group of women in a salon turn to look at a pigeon sitting on the widow ledge. The workers are in dark clothing with their hair in buns on the top of their heads. The customers are wearing white dresses and their blonde hair is worn down.

Fiction / July/August 2024

Pick a Colour

July 26, 2024July 30, 2024 - by Souvankham Thammavongsa

She hasn’t really looked at me. She knows I am there and what I do

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Souvankham Thammavongsa in front of purple backdrop

January/February 2019 / Poetry

Theory of Writing

December 10, 2018November 9, 2020 - by Souvankham Thammavongsa

Can the secret to writing well be as simple as a mathematical equation?

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Drunk on oil book cover

December 2015 / Poetry

Gayatri

November 17, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Souvankham Thammavongsa

I have a picture of us when we are seven but we aren’t in it. At the time it was taken we thought we were. We posed with our wide …

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