September 2024

·       Collaboration with Cole Beauchamp: New Flash Fiction Review/fiction/ “Esme Learns Her Lesson”

August 2024

·       MPTSP/fiction/ “You Might Think You’re Bad at Interviews, But Wait Till You Hear This Story” https://x.com/MythicPicnic/status/1828459514770923638

·       Gooseberry Pie Lit Mag/fiction/”The Recipe for Ginger-Lime Juice Is In The Living Of It”/ https://gooseberry-pie.com/the-recipe-for-ginger-lime-juice-is-in-the-living-of-it/

July 2024

·       Bull/fiction/”My American Girlfriend Speaks To Me In Road Signs” https://mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-fiction/two-stories-25/

·       Bull/CNF/”Please-Sorry-Thankyou” https://mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-fiction/two-stories-25/

·       Punk Noir/fiction/”It Was Just, Like, A Loose Plan Anyway” https://punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/07/13/it-was-just-like-a-loose-plan-anyway-a-limbo-short-by-sumitra-singam/

June 2024

·       Voidspace Zine/fiction/”Stereognosis” https://voidspacezine.com/stereognosis/

·       Miniskirt Mag/CNF/”How The Netflix Show ‘Heartstopper’ Made Me Cry In The Shower, Aged 46” https://miniskirtmagazine.com/main-pages/archives/issue-27/sumitra-singam-heartstopper/ NOMINATED FOR BEST OF THE NET 2025

·       National Flash Fiction Day FlashFlood/CNF “POV: You Are The Brown One At A Table Full Of White Mental Health Workers” https://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2024/06/pov-you-are-brown-one-at-table-full-of.html

·       National Flash Fiction Day The Write-In/fiction “Night Blindness” https://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2024/06/night-blindness-by-sumitra-singam.html?m=1

·       National Flash Fiction Day The Write-In/fiction “Bhoomi Devi The Great Earth Mother Has Had Enough” https://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2024/06/bhoomi-devi-great-earth-mother-has-had.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

·       National Flash Fiction Day The Write-In/fiction “He(2) Is Lighter Than Air” https://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2024/06/he2-is-lighter-than-air-by-sumitra.html

·       Corporeal Lit Mag/CNF “Self-Portrait In Three Diagnoses” https://www.corporeallitmag.com/sumitrasingam

·       The Forge Literary Magazine/fiction/”It Never Mattered What Happened At Home” https://forgelitmag.com/2024/06/03/it-never-mattered-what-happened-at-home/

May 2024

·       A Thin Slice of Anxiety/fiction/”Taco Bell Tryptich” http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2024/05/fiction-taco-bell-tryptich.html?m=1

April 2024

·       Collaboration with Cole Beauchamp: Icebreakers Lit/fiction/ “The Disassembling Woman/ https://www.icebreakerslit.com/the-disassembling-woman

·       Anti-Heroin Chic/fiction/ “This Isn’t the Start of the Story” https://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/this-isnt-the-start-of-the-story-by-sumitra-singam Nominated for Best of the Net 2025

March 2024

·       The Hooghly Review/fiction/ “You Need a Woman of Action Only, Isn’t it? https://www.thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-features/you-need-a-woman-of-action-only-isnt-it-by-sumitra-singam

·       Paragraph Planet/fiction/ “Shrunk in the Wash” https://www.paragraphplanet.com/

February 2024

·       Bending Genres/fiction/”The Many Butterflies You Were, and the One You Became” https://bendinggenres.com/the-many-butterflies-you-were-and-the-one-you-became/

·       South Florida Poetry Journal/fiction/ “The Truth of Night-Time Things” https://www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-32-feb-24.html

·       Centaur Lit/fiction/ “Trolley Rocket” https://centaurlit.com/trolley-rocket-wc-387-by-sumitra-singam/

·       The Disappointed Housewife/fiction/ “You Never Know Which Artwork Will Stay With You, Becoming Entirely Beloved, Entirely Necessary” NOMINATED FOR BEST OF THE NET 2025 https://thedisappointedhousewife.com/2024/01/22/you-never-know-which-artwork-will-stay-with-you-becoming-entirely-beloved-entirely-necessary-fiction-by-sumitra-singam/

January 2024

·       The Welkin Mini Writing Prize Shortlist – People’s Prize Winner/fiction/ “My Grandmother Paati Says We Will Show These Vellaikaarans How to Do Colonisation Properly, Isn’t It?” NOMINATED FOR THE PUSHCART PRIZE 2025 https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize/shortlist-24

December 2023

·       Ruby Literary/fiction/ “Peel, Boil, Cook” https://rubyliterarypress.com/issue-four/issue-four-food-stories/#sumitra-singam Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2024

·       Ruby Literary/fiction/ “The Food Chain” https://rubyliterarypress.com/issue-four/issue-four-food-stories/#sumitra-singam

·       101 words/fiction/ “A Daughter-In-Law Has Just One Job” https://101words.org/a-daughter-in-law-has-just-one-job/#comments

·       Reckon Review/fiction/”Road Trip In A Place Where A Different You Once Lived” https://reckonreview.com/road-trip-in-a-place-where-a-different-you-once-lived/ Nominated for Best Microfictions 2024

·       Black Fork Review/fiction/”She Makes Me A Garden of Midnight Blue” https://www.blackforkreview.com/sumitra-singam

·       Black Fork Review/fiction/”The Weight of River Stones” https://www.blackforkreview.com/sumitra-singam

·       Porch Lit Mag/fiction/”The Asymptote” https://porch-litmag.com/the-asymptote/ Editor’s Pick 2023

November 2023

·       Gone Lawn/fiction/”Shoyu-Tai Sea” https://gonelawn.net/journal/issue52/Singam.php

September 2023

·       Sci-Fi Shorts/fiction/”Out of Time” https://www.scifishorts.co/premium/out-of-time/8b874bac-a8fe-470a-a784-a8da8c271f7d

·       Roi Faineant Press/fiction/”At His Wedding, The Truth” https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/at-his-wedding-the-truth-by-sumitra-singam Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2024

·       Ellipsis Zine/fiction/”Tiger Mum” https://t.co/m1gTtgMTIA

·       The Hooghly Review/ fiction/ “After Going to Foreign Only I Saw Lord Vishnu” https://www.thehooghlyreview.com/weekly-features/after-going-to-foreign-only-i-saw-lord-vishnu-by-sumitra-singam

August 2023

·       Five Minute Lit/creative non-fiction/ “Surprise Party” https://www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes/surprise-party (associated playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0KhVbzOjPyb9CTyWup5EmS?si=PAnlmbw1SJqhMYlP9nebPg&nd=1)

·       Milk Candy Review/fiction/ “There Are Four Words for ‘You’ in the Malay Language” https://milkcandyreview.home.blog/2023/08/10/there-are-four-words-for-you-in-the-malay-language-by-sumitra-singam/ (associated interview: https://milkcandyreview.home.blog/2023/08/14/two-questions-for-sumitra-singam/) Nominated and selected for Best Microfiction 2024

July 2023

·       Writing Battle Spring 2023 “Conspiracy” Genre winner/fiction/ “Pseudocyesis” https://writingbattle.com/past-winners (story and interview)

June 2023

·       Emerge Lit Journal/creative non-fiction/ “The Way You Changed How I See Things” https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-way-you-changed-how-i-see-things/ Nominated for Best of the Net 2024 and The Pushcart Prize 2024

·       Emerge Lit Journal/fiction/ “Grateful Hijabi” https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/grateful-hijabi/ Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 2024

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK The Write-In/fiction/ “They Said Not To Do It” https://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2023/06/they-said-not-to-do-it-by-sumitra-singam.html

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK The Write-In/fiction/ “All of it Within You” https://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2023/06/all-of-it-within-you-by-sumitra-singam.html?m=1

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK The Write-In/fiction/ “Pasta Three Ways” https://t.co/s0AgvNmyCv

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK The Write-In/fiction/ “Pop Quiz on the Non-Linear Social Hierarchies of the Average Australian High School” https://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2023/06/pop-quiz-on-non-linear-social.html

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK Flash Flood/fiction/ “The Year of the Water Rabbit” https://t.co/xr7sgdsqSr

·       Raw Lit/fiction/ “Heads I Will, Tails I Won’t” https://rawlit.weebly.com/issue2_10.html

·       Trampset/fiction/ “Four Birds to Announce the Birth of a Boy” https://trampset.org/four-birds-to-announce-the-birth-of-a-boy-350a2275c8ba

·       Jake/fiction/ “Please Now Submit an Author Photo, .JPG Preferred” https://jakethemag.com/please-now-submit-an-author-photo/

May 2023

·       Retreat West Monthly Microfiction Competition, May 2023, First Place and People’s Prize Winner/fiction/ “Fourth Concubine of Lee Ah Seng, Head of How Fatt Tin Mining Kongsi, Taiping, Malaysia 1874/” no longer online

·       Roi Faineant Press/fiction/ “If Your Father Dies On Holiday in India and His Brother Whom You’ve Never Met Conducts His Funeral, Then Where For You Paining?” https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/if-your-father-dies-on-holiday-in-india-by-sumitra-singam

April 2023

·       Thanatos Review/fiction/ “Sure There Wasn’t Anything in the Wallet?” https://www.thanatosreview.com/items-1/sure-there-wasn%E2%80%99t-anything-in-the-wallet%3F

·       Retreat West Monthly Microfiction Competition, April 2023, shortlisted/fiction/ “Leningradskaya” No longer online

·       The Hooghly Review/fiction/ “I am in the Kitchen at my Brother’s Party” (Nominated for Best Microfiction 2024) and “I Dream of a Wasteland of Barbed Wire and Dust” page 233: https://www.thehooghlyreview.com/issues/issue-1-april-2023

March 2023

·       Fullhouse Literary Games Room/prose poem/ “Electronic Travel Authority (Subclass 601) to Australia Granted; 12-month Validity, Multiple-Entry, Maximum 90-Day Single-Visit Stay” https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-room-prose-poems/electronic-travel-authority-subclass-601-to-australia-grantedcont-by-sumitra-singam

·       Cutbow Quarterly/hybrid fiction/ “Echocardiogram Report of a Forty-Year-Old Female With Complaints of Holes in Her Heart and Two Extra Heartbeats” https://www.cutbowquarterly.com/issue3

·       Funny Pearls UK/fiction/ ”Massive Multi-Million Dollar Sales Pitch for Milk Sweets and Spices and Whatnot” https://funnypearls.com/2023/03/multi-million-dollar-singam/

·       Black Hare Press/fiction – horror/ “Sibling Rivalry” (paid access) https://www.patreon.com/posts/80002477

·       Roi Faineant Press/fiction/”Recipe for Almond Burfi” https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/recipe-for-almond-burfi-by-sumitra-singam

·       Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Shortlist/fiction/”Tiger Mum”

·       The Victorian Writer/fiction/” Dropped Stitch”

January 2023

·       Fifty-Word Stories/fiction/” Egg and Soldiers” http://fiftywordstories.com/2023/01/10/sumitra-singam-egg-and-soldiers/

December 2022

·       Retreat West Prize longlist/fiction/ “Recipe for Almond Burfi”

·       Voidspace Zine/fiction/ “Void/Light” https://voidspacezine.com/pick-a-word-7/

November 2022

·       Globe Soup 7 Day Story Writing Challenge #8 Honourable Mention/fiction – horror/ “The Demon You Don’t See”

October 2022

·       Mixtape Murders Podcast Episode 13/fiction/ “Tell Me How It Will Be” https://xvmq5rj6mv4xd.podbean.com/e/mixtape-murders-13/

·       Cheap Pop Lit/fiction/ “A Single Memory, Remembered Differently” http://www.cheappoplit.com/home/sumitra-singam

July 2022

·       Margaret Hazzard Short Story Competition First Place/fiction/ “Do Not Go Gentle”

·       Margaret Hazzard Short Story Competition shortlist/fiction/ “It’s A Fine (Blue) Line”

June 2022

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK The Write-In/fiction/ “How I Finally Fit In” http://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-i-finally-fit-in-by-sumitra-singam.html

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK The Write-In/fiction/ “Eleven is the Most Important Number to Keep All Three Together” http://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2022/06/eleven-is-most-important-number-to-keep.html

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK the Write-In/fiction/ “With Your Youngest at School You’ll Volunteer in Class?”  http://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2022/06/with-your-youngest-at-school-youll.html

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK Flash Flood/fiction/ “’Nng’ is the Universal Sound for Lifting Something Heavy” http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2022/06/nng-is-universal-sound-for-lifting.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

·       WOW! Women on Writing Winter Flash Fiction Contest First Place/fiction/ “The Garden of the Masseuse Noi is Fed on the Sorrows and Resentments of Her Clients” https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/downloads/printable/103-FE1-Winter22Contest-1st-printable.html

May 2022

·       Globe Soup Show Don’t Tell Challenge Honourable Mention/fiction/ “Earworm”

·       Writers’ Playground Challenge 3 winner/fiction/ “Amma Knows Best” https://www.writersplaygroundllc.com/amma-knows-best

·       Queenscliffe Literary Festival Penned Microfiction Competition Open Category Winner/fiction/ “Pyrite Love” https://twitter.com/QLFLitFest/status/1522743028926066688?s=20

December 2021

·       Voidspace Zine/poetry/ “His Ass” https://voidspacezine.com/his-ass/

·       Australian Horror Writers Association Flash Fiction Competition Honourable Mention/fiction – horror/ “Oily Man”

June 2021

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK the Write-In/fiction/ “Pick-Up Time”  http://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2021/06/pick-up-time-by-sumitra-shankar.html

·       National Flash Fiction Day UK the Write-In/fiction/ “The Family Tree”  http://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-family-tree-by-sumitra-shankar.html

May 2021

·       Writers Victoria Flash Fic 21 First Runner-Up/fiction/ “Crumple” https://twitter.com/Writers_Vic/status/1389444929374588931?s=20

March 2021

·       Jaggery Lit Mag/fiction/ “Dhirga Ayushman Bhava” https://jaggerylit.com/dirgha-ayushman-bhava/