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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Folks, have a new breathless piece born in @smokelong.bsky.social summer up at @ambidextrouslit.bsky.social thanks to my group mates for critique, and to you for reading 🧡🙏🏽🎣 www.issues.righthandpointing.net/165

Screenshot of the first few lines of my piece - yellow background, black text: Sumitra Singam And Yet It’s Me Left Feeling Like A Landed Fish

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yesterday, @ruthabrandt.bsky.social informed us that every person has a dark side, and I discovered I like mine in a block with roasted hazelnuts in it. It went well with the wild blackberry crumble I made out of blackberries, an apple from @summermoth.bsky.social, muesli and a crumbled flapjack.

Picture of a slightly charred apple and blackberry crumble in a clear Pyrex dish sitting on top of a black induction stove top

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Getting on my Fitzwilliam Darcy bullshit in Yorkshire at @mattkendrick.bsky.social and @ruthabrandt.bsky.social’a already amazing retreat with @nomad-sw18.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾

Picture of a Yorkshire morning with bronze blue sky, few clouds, two stone cottages in the foreground.

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Aww!! All three are gorgeous!! I have a Havanese and a Maltese cross

Tan Havanese dog on the left, black and white Maltese cross on the right, both curled up together. They look as if they have never done anything naughty like steal an entire bag of treats off the table, leaving bits of chewed up plastic all over the floor

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Well that’s a kind thing for you to say! I do indeed have new work out! A flash in @lostballoon.bsky.social that you might have beta read, and a poem in abundance! lost-balloon.com

Picture of my poem “you took a trip home and I couldn’t go with you” in abundance

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Shed my introvert skin and went out to @glennorgias.bsky.social’s book launch in Naarm/Melbourne last night. Awesome to meet a writer I admire and begin reading his amazing book Teeth Kicker. Available in Oz for now: harpercollins.com.au/products/978... Highly recommend it!

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Well if I was showing off, I’d have added this photo:

Wolf spider that was just hanging out behind my chair at breakfast

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hey friends i have a poem out in Abundance today - ekphrasis after a photo by @kathrynreese.bsky.social It features pineapples and leeches 🍍🪱🧡🧡🧡 online.fliphtml5.com/FunInTheZine...

Green graphic “Great News! My work is in volume 3 of Abundance Literary Magazine: Ekphrastic Creation” with 3 repeating pictures of the front cover featuring a lamp lit park

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

One lovely person has already preordered my NiF from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social! @claudineliterary.bsky.social were kind enough to review it: www.claudineliterary.com/motherkarma Get yourself a copy at @flashficfestuk.bsky.social at the special low of £8!

Screenshot of Claudine’s reviews page with a picture of the front cover of my NiF Mother Karma (yellow background, black line drawing of mother holding baby) with the caption “Family drama with big epic poetry vibes”

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Lads, chuffed to have a collab poem with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in our favourite home @the-engine-idling.bsky.social’s 🔥 Collab issue. Hope you’ll give it a read 🧡🏳️‍🌈 static1.squarespace.com/static/650c3...

Pic of our poem in The Engine Idling Issue 9

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

In *my* movie, the shape turns out to be my dog Paco who wants to know if you want to: A. Play B. Scratch his tum C. Feed him D. Play

Picture of my tan Havanese dog Paco shamelessly on his back on a pink and white checkered beanbag

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Banion, Sumitra (Do you all know what a banion is? It isn’t an osseous overgrowth of your first metatarsal)

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Think hist fic can’t be done in a micro? Here’s @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social in @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social proving you wrong. Inspo for @welkinpress.bsky.social Genre Prize closing June 30!

Picture of winning entry from Nz Nat Flash Fiction Day 2026 Micro Madness by Kate Horsley “How the strasbourg dancing plague of 1518 begins”

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Here to resurrect this thread @tomljanovic.bsky.social and @lorifontanes.bsky.social with this cute little red headed mouse spider I spotted on a bushwalk. Awww

Picture of red-headed mouse spider in the wild

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our EIC @m-ixedbag.bsky.social loves Namjoon so much she started @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, but she loves YOU MORE! Send us your self-care themed flash fic and CNF <500words! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit

A screenshot of a text from the EIC of Lit Namjooning Hema Nataraju saying you>Namjoon.

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This guy might be a house spider or wolf spider not sure which. But she was hanging out just behind me while I was eating breakfast. Just a cute girl saying hi

A spider whom I found hanging out behind me one morning when I was eating brekkie

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

As an Australian I was like who the fuck she think she is writing about spiders. But then: “TRY MOVING TO AUSTRALIA OUR HUNTSMAN COUSINS WILL FUCK YOU UP FOR DAYS” Glad she got a sensitivity reader

Huntsman spider just hanging out on my ceiling

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Book mail!! @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social’s amazing flash collection in my hot little hands. You should all RUN to get this collection. Gill is a powerhouse, and an amazingly supportive friend 🧡🧡🧡

Cover of Salt City Run Away, flash collection by Gillian O’Shaughnessy. The cover is a blue/grey, the font is orange and there’s a picture of some kind of bird on it

Inside page of Salt City Runaway with Gill’s inscription in it saying “Dear Sumitra, you are such a light. Thank you for all you do” Gill O x

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Quote skeet with the album that is your villain origin story

Cover of the album Automatic for the People by REM. A greyscale picture of a cube with spikes coming out of every surface with he white words “REM” on it

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

@bangiigekek.bsky.social said they’d draw a pic from a photo and I was like okay. Then I was like 🤯🤯🤯😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰😳😳😳🥹🥹🥹 inSANE talent. Thank you

Marker drawing by Terijian of me. It is extremely accurate and good and I’m in awe

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

In important writing-related news, I am pleased to report that Cadbury have reinstated the orange cremes in boxes of Roses, and evicted the decidedly inferior strawberry cremes. I have bought a box for research purposes and will be otherwise occupied for 3-5 hours. Sekian berita.

The inside cover of a box of Cadbury’s Roses showing the reinstatement of orange creeks and the eviction of the inferior strawberry cremes

The inside of a box of Cadbury’s Roses showing that I have received my allocation of three (3) orange cremes

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Book mail! @dehm000.bsky.social’s IRL from @stanchionbooks.bsky.social - this is a banger and I highly recommend it. @stanchion.bsky.social is also a reliable producer of banging indie books, and best of all Jeff is so good at communicating and posting everything in a timely fashion. 🧡🧡🧡🧡

Picture of me holding Danielle McMahon’s poetry chapbook irl - cover picture by Jeff Bogle of a close up of some grains of wheat (I think) against a sunset

Close up of poem Pining with the line “with the midnight-blue burning/of this last/cigarette”

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

MOTHER KARMA IS BACK IN STOCK!! ORDER FROM ME HERE. I CAN SIGN IT AND GIVE YOU SWAG! PEOPLE READ IT AND LIKED IT! (see thread) docs.google.com/forms/d/1MK4...

A picture of my novella-in-flash Mother Karma - yellow cover with a black line drawing of a mother with a bindi holding a baby. It says "Mother Karma A Novella-in-Flash Sumitra Singam"

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In my most proud writing moment, I have converted @claudiamonpere.bsky.social and @hanakhalique.bsky.social to chicken salt! (there is no gif for chicken salt however, this might be my next gofundme)

A picture of a tub of Mitani chicken salt, with its classic pinstriped elegance, minimalist design and tubiness, hiding the absolute flavour explosion that is chicken salt (put on anything, but particularly hot chips)

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"Sounds of Nature", if you are interested or in need

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

To understand colonialism you have to know that for an embarrassing number of years I thought the Julian calendar was made by The Famous Five

Picture of the cover of “Five on a Treasure Island” one of the Famous Five books by Enid Blyton where I learned that girls should stay home and cook and boys make all the decisions

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Handsome fella Chester. God bless Strayan Standard Spelling

Picture of a FB marketplace ad for a chest of drawers spelled the Australian Standard way: “Chester draws”

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Please may I present this specimen for your delectation?

Picture of my extremely silly dog Paco receiving a pat from me

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

How absolutely cowardly. And what an insult to Randa. Slanderous really. Almost equating her with a terrorist. Richard Flanagan said this in The age today, and I have to agree:

Picture of Richard Flanagan’s op Ed in The Age newspaper today in response to the ousting of Palestinian-Australian writer Randa Abdel Fattah from Adelaide Writers Week (in response to Bondi)

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Would anyone like to order my NiF Mother Karma directly from me? Please fill out this form: forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7C... I can sign it if you like, and you get swag! 15 copies left!

Picture of my NiF Mother Karma - yellow book with a black graphic of a mother with a bindi in a sari holding a baby. Words "Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash Sumitra Singam", postcard and sticker with same graphic lying on top of book

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Does anyone have a fainting couch I could borrow for the year?

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Collab for @the-engine-idling.bsky.social’s amazing collage call in progress! With @kathrynreese.bsky.social

Picture of Kathryn Reese and me at our laptops trying to write a collaborative response piece for The Engine Idling’s Issue 8 collage call

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Umm so because I only know how to do things the wrong way round, here is my (chaotic) unboxing video which happened a week after the launch of Mother Karma 😁 Link to buy (Phx US only, ebook worldwide) jakethemag.com/books/ If you are outside the US and you want a copy, please DM me!

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Oh hello hi! I wrote a NiF. My totally unbiased cousin said this! I’m having a launch on zoom and you should come because I will reveal the truly awful line drawing I did that led to @nmals.bsky.social amazing cover! Zoom rego link for launch sat Dec 13 3pm EST us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Screenshot of texts from my cousin:
Text 1: 3 crying face emojis then text: “it’s such a lovely story”
Text 2: “love you lots and so proud of you”

Picture of the cover of my novella-in-flash. Golden yellow colour. Text: mother karma a novella-in-flash. Sumitra Singam” line drawing of a mother in a sari with a Hindi, her hair in a bun with flowers, holding a bay

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

FIRST PICTURE OF MY BOOK IN THE WILD!!!! So apt that it’s from my writing mum @amymarques.bsky.social! Link to buy: jakethemag.com/books/ Zoom launch Sat Dec 13 3pm EST, all welcome! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Picture of my chapbook “Mother Karma a novella-in-flash”. Book is on a blue surface with a cream crochet throw next to it. Book is yellow with a line drawing of an Indian mother cuddling a baby.

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Quote with your model of masculinity

Picture of Iris Murdoch looking super hot and androgynous, her cheekbones about to cut you open

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

RELEASE DAY FOR MOTHER KARMA @publishedbyjake.bsky.social! I'm so excited to bring this story to you. I've seen some photos in the wild, and I would love it if you could share yours as your copies come in! jakethemag.com/books/ Zoom launch Sat Dec 13 8pm BST/3pm EST: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Image of an email confirming Mother Karma download. Text: JAKE: The Anti-Literary. Thank you for your order! Mother karma Download Inside! Dear Reader, Thank you so much for your purchase of Sumitra SIngam's excellent Novella-in-Flash. JAKE is proud to have helped with getting Sumitra's work out into the world and we all hope you love this book as much as we do.

Picture of the front cover of my book. Ochre yellow background, line drawing of an Indian mother with bindi on, hair in a bun with flowers holding a baby. Text Mother Karma a novella-in-flash Sumitra Singam

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with five (5) animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Photo of my notes app with the following text:

Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild:
1) The Adelaide bikie (his name was “Tiny”)
2) The guy completely strung out on bath salts (synthetic amphetamines) who was sure his eyeballs were being eaten
3) Your garden variety narcissist in a suit
4) The Indian Aunty Who Wants To Know Why You Aren’t Married
5)The Indian Aunty Who Wants To Know Why, Now That You Are Married, You Don’t Have Any Kids

(Last two by far the most fearsome)

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun! Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Picture of the cover of my novella-in-flash Mother Karma. Ochre yellow background with a line drawing of a woman with a bindi and her hair in a bun holding a baby. The lettering is “Mother Karma a Novella-in-flash” above the picture and below the picture Sumitra Singam (which is me, that is my name. On the cover of an actual BOOK)

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Preorder link for physical and ebook for Mother Karma by Sumitra Singam (who is she?) @publishedbyjake.bsky.social

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Apparently a few of you are, so without further ado, here is the cover of my forthcoming NiF Mother Karma. It’s a wee piece of my heart, and I hope you’ll all love this family as much as I do 🧡🧡🧡. Cover art @nmals.bsky.social Publisher @publishedbyjake.bsky.social Forthcoming in December

Cover of my Novella-in-Flash “Mother Karma” rich, dark yellow background with a line drawing of an Indian mother with black bindi and hair in a bun with flowers in it, holding a baby. Text “Mother Karma A Novella-in-Flash Sumitra Singam”

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Thank you all so much for your lovely wishes yesterday. This is 49, and quietly happy on a Sunday making a banging playlist for a cool kid 🧡

Picture of a 49-year-old woman a day after her birthday feeling pretty happy about life

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