Eleanor Goodman’s book of translations, Something Crosses My Mind: Selected Poems of Wang Xiaoni was the recipient of a 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Grant and was shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Prize. Nine Dragon Island, a book of her original poetry, will be published this coming year
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“China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.”
– Charles de Gaulle
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A writers' colony of stories about China, founded by Alec Ash. We publish non-fiction sketches, fiction, poetry, translation and photography
If you want to write for the Anthill, check out our submission guidelines. Anything with a sense of story is game, both short and long form
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“People fortunate enough to live in China have a front-row seat to an astonishing transformation. Alec and the crew at the Anthill have been there to give voice to their musings on China, in all its weirdness, wonder and warts."
- Kaiser Kuo
"Everyone who lives in China has a story. The Anthill colony of writers have the foresight to write theirs down for the entertainment and enlightenment of all of us engaged in putting the pieces of the China puzzle together.”
- David Moser
