Journal Watermark

Journal Watermark is a newly-launched literature/art magazine, an online magazine featuring the literary and artistic works of talented young Singapore-based creators. It looks very meaningful, so do go and check it out and start writing!

Journal Watermark is an amateur online literary journal, written by young writers and for young writers. A collaboration between students of NUS High School and Raffles Institution, it was first proposed by Asra Siddiqui in 2008 and was formally launched in 2010. We remain, nonetheless, both autonomous and wholly student-run.

Our creative works span several media forms, from prose and poetry to scripts and short films. We are looking for the unpublished, the up-and-coming, the young, and – above all – the talented. Beyond medium, genre or theme, our main criterion is quality. We aim to showcase a diversity of works and writers, and to offer our contributors a stable platform for publication.

As a quarterly publication, new issues of Journal Watermark will be released online at the start of every term; that is, at the start of January, April, July and October.

Our present editors are: Kylie Goh and Asra Siddiqui, who made this magazine possible; Annabeth Leow; and Viona Lam.

Annabeth Leow has asked CollegeTalk to reproduce the following here:

[Much thanks to the awesome people at the College Talk blog for helping us out.]

On 9 July, Journal Watermark was launched.

The product of three enterprising NUS High students and one alumnus, Watermark is a collaboration between the four editors and their fellow lit-loving peers in Raffles Institution. We publish every quarter, at the start of each academic term; and we’re open to literary and artistic works by NUS High students and Rafflesians (alumni under the age of 25 are welcome too).

Right now, we’re opening submissions calls for the second issue, which will appear in mid-September 2010. We welcome creative works of any kind: prose, poetry, drama, short films, digital and traditional art (inclusive of photography), et cetera. If you create works in a medium we haven’t listed, go ahead and send it to us anyway! Our submissions policy can be found here, and we can be contacted at this address. We’ll be reading submissions for Issue #2 until 31 August 2010.

If you haven’t checked out our work yet, now’s the time! Issue #1 is available online.

We are also on Facebook.

Journal Watermark is a student-run, student-initiated project. Contributors’ views do not necessarily reflect those of the editors or of their respective institutions.

Many thanks to Annabeth Leow for writing to CollegeTalk about this website!