Sumitra Singam

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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”
Pic of our poem in The Engine Idling Issue 9
Picture of my tan Havanese dog Paco shamelessly on his back on a pink and white checkered beanbag
Indian man wearing banion and sarong
Picture of winning entry from Nz Nat Flash Fiction Day 2026 Micro Madness by Kate Horsley “How the strasbourg dancing plague of 1518 begins”
Picture of red-headed mouse spider in the wild
A screenshot of a text from the EIC of Lit Namjooning Hema Nataraju saying you>Namjoon.
A spider whom I found hanging out behind me one morning when I was eating brekkie
Huntsman spider just hanging out on my ceiling
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
A DM from Morena Baccarin saying I’m interesting and she wants to connect with me
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
Marker drawing by Terijian of me. It is extremely accurate and good and I’m in awe
Picture of Sumitra in a ridiculous beanie
The inside cover of a box of Cadbury’s Roses showing the reinstatement of orange creeks and the eviction of the inferior strawberry cremes
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
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"
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)
Video of "Sounds of Nature" that my awesome Korean car plays, which is clearly made for post-meltdown moments
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
Picture of Cole and me singing karaoke. It was Summer Lovin’ and we had us a blast
Picture of a FB marketplace ad for a chest of drawers spelled the Australian Standard way: “Chester draws”
Picture of my extremely silly dog Paco receiving a pat from me
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)
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
Picture of a sequence of yoga poses making up moon salutation
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
Video of me, my daughter and mum unboxing my chapbooks. Everyone talks over everyone, but we're all very happy!
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 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.
Picture of Iris Murdoch looking super hot and androgynous, her cheekbones about to cut you open
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.
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)
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)
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”
Picture of a 49-year-old woman a day after her birthday feeling pretty happy about life
Picture of my x.com account page saying “your account is deactivated”
Picture of me and Kathryn Reese
Miniskirt magazine best of the Net 2024 nominations prose: Renee Bibby "Mood Booster", Taylor de la Pena "Right Reasons", Sumitra Singam "How the Netflix Show 'Heartstopper' Made Me Cry in the Shower aged 46" (why my title got to be so damned complicated?) and Shane Wilson "Wanted: Fourth Wall Repairman"
Screenshot of my poem "Toothbrush" Golden shovel after Maggie Rogers' Alaska. Poem is right aligned. "I wanted to be with your breath and so I took your toothbrush home with me - I told you it was unknowingly, but the curve of it in my palm walked so new and precious into me, that I made off with every bristle of it - an unashamed memento of you"
Blue background, text "Hayden's Ferry Review. Fiction. "The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Hand" by Sumitra Singam, "Reputations" by Lauren Barbato" referring to their Best of the Net noms
Picture of a desk strewn with paints and painting paraphernalia. Very messy
Screenshot of me repeatedly misspelling “ginger”
Rejection letter erasure: “thank you unfortunately definitely closer to warped illusion overall. Hope you little”
Picture showing where lists are on your profile page
HAD quote-skeeting Doric Literary’s post re Duotrope’s response time for lit mags list which shows Scaffold is the fastest
The weather app that says it’s 2 degrees Celsius which explains why I can’t feel my fingers
Red Room Poetry #30in30 prompt for 9 August: Pastel sway fur bone slight flick / elder knowledge knows but does she remember /me why should she /I am unremberable in her remarkable world /View, I miss her now she is gone. Too many leaving /Too much removed Write a poem to/about/into/loss/silence Nardi Simpson
Picture of me in an outrageous purple beanie
Red Room Poetry Insta post with #30in30writing prompt “Visit one of the world’s galleries online. What impresses, surprises, angers or otherwise intrigues you? Look for what unsettles you. Lean into the discomfort. Write about it. - Amy Crutchfield
Red Room Poetry prompt day 4 #30in30 “If the human is the limit, the human is the limit” - Stan Grant. Write a poem responding to this
Screenshot of my mythic picnic micro on X
Screenshot of my mythic picnic micro on X
Red Room Poetry Instagram post, Day 3 a quote: “ nobody likes being stuck in their head. I like to be in my foot. Is it freedom or a whole new prison? Spend some time in your foot and see what you write” Suren Jeyamanne #30in30 writing prompt
This is a picture of my office floor, with my flash collection printed and laid out in the order I think it should be in. It’s probably just since no one wants collection 1 lol