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We are a student-run literary journal.
Margins was launched in 2013 by a group of NUS students to celebrate the works of the NUS literature community and foster a stronger sense of pride among literature majors and minors. Those were the aspirations of our seniors.
After a brief hiatus during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, wherein the editorial team took time to review and reimagine Margins, the journal is back with a vengeance, creative writing, and a brand new look to boot.
meet our team
Ryan
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Ryan is a fourth-year undergraduate student at NUS studying English Literature. His literary career peaked when he was ranked nationally in the Harry Potter Quizup category after PSLE, and since then he has just been chasing that glory. Nowadays, his literary interests lie in Romanticism, Christian poetry and SingLit. However, most of his time is spent being chronically online, indulging in an array of eclectic passions. Please contact him if you see any cool birds, or want to talk about the NFL.
Ryan
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Faith is a fourth-year Literature major. Growing up, she had a long-held belief that prose was the only literary genre she could access. In Junior College, she made the pivot to poetry, where she became captivated by Surrealism, Imagism and Romanticism. She has published a pamphlet of five poems with Paper Jam, a Jalan Besar fellowship run by Tse Hao Guang. Going for ballet lessons, listening to French music, and making friends with stray cats are some of her favourite things.
Faith
Editor
Ranjana is a third-year English Literature major. When she’s not procrastinating on writing her novel, she can be found agonising about the future — contemplating what the most ethical career to pursue is, and whether she’ll perform the mid-twenties Move To Japan, or go to grad school, or both. She enjoys reading explorations of magical realism and messy relationships, preferably simultaneously. Her hobbies include dance, and dissecting what makes her favourite work good, so that she may replicate it to poor results.
Ranjana
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Gabrielle is a fifth-year undergraduate currently pursuing a double degree in Chemistry and English Literature. Much of her time between classes is, unironically, spent running across both faculties, or being holed up in a practice room learning the piano duets she has been procrastinating on. Her interests include Chinese science fiction, metaphors related to sound and physiology, and Park Chan Wook’s films. She has a soft spot for Schubert’s music, and has recently been reading Vladimir Nabokov’s poetry.
Gabrielle
Editor
Brandon is an is an English Literature graduate. He is interested in issues of coloniality, queerness and power, and has a soft spot for gothic horror. He believes strongly in the moral imperative of art, and loves lucid, slightly neurotic writing. In his free time you can find him writing short stories and making psychedelic art, but really what he wants most is a quiet hidden spot in this loud city where he can read, alone.
Brandon
Editor
Hong Jun is a is a fourth-year Philosophy major with a minor in English Literature. He likes reading and writing.
Hong Jun
Editor
Kai Li is a third-year English Literature major with a second major in Linguistics. Against all rationality, she is also minoring in Film Studies and Communications & New Media. Sylvia Plath’s fig tree analogy haunts her every move, so she spends her time chasing hyperfixations and daydreaming about the next one. You can find her on AO3 at 2am doomscrolling hurt/comfort fics.
Kai Li
Editor
Sarah is a final-year double majoring in English Literature and Theatre Studies. They are currently fuelled by their fascination with hybrid texts, interactivity, and the miniature worlds of how people struggle to get what they want. Sarah also loves insects, lime green, performing, and fibre arts. This past summer, they explored Bangkok while interning at an arts organisation.
Sarah
Editor
Olivia is a final-year English Literature major. Currently, she is fascinated by confessional poetry, the spoken word and how the Singaporean experience is translated into literature. She is deeply and continuously disturbed by the idea that language is a structured set of arbitrary signs, and wrestles often with the idea of meaning making in life and literature. In her free time, she can be found indoors: writing poetry, watching anime, gaming or convincing herself that just one more fanfiction before bed won’t hurt.
Olivia
Editor
Yushan is navigating a career transition from the private to public sector. Though she has paused submissions to edit her manuscript (which she hopes to share during her lifetime), some of her poems have been published in Kopi Break and Blue Marble Review. Recently, she has been pondering about AI and writing, while being haunted by the recurring thought: “I want to read human”. Other than writing, she loves trees, cats, words, music, admiring large bodies of water, being hopelessly cheesy, and the short story collection "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God" by Israeli writer Etgar Keret.
Yushan
Advisor
Ranen is a third-year undergraduate student studying English Literature at NUS and Fiction Editor with Burnings Magazine. He enjoys reading and writing and plans to teach what he enjoys as a career. His recent interests include Jungian thought, Fernando Pessoa and the high-speed offensive strategies of AFC Bournemouth. He considers himself a novice in all three areas.
Ranen
Editor
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