Yellow Magazine – #1 – May 2026

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 bee in currency for far too long.