ASYMPTOTE Indiegogo Fundraiser

After being nominated for Magazine of the Year by 3:am, alongside The Times Literary Supplement, and pulling off a global launch--8 events in 7 countries--to celebrate our 2nd anniversary, just this January,

and more recently, after having added 10 new editors-at-large from Argentina to Kenya to Central Asia to extend its network even more, and so that it can bring even more diverse work to English readers,

and--case in point: we’ll be publishing our first work from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Latvia, Cyprus apart from an Africa Feature in our upcoming issue (slated for release in just one more week!)

ASYMPTOTE is launching a Indiegogo Fundraising campaign fro supporting its wonderful projects.

Here is a note on the e-zine and the campaign from 

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  Yew Leong Lee

  Editor-in-Chief

 What We Do
Asymptote is a free online journal dedicated to bringing together the best in contemporary literature. Our mission is simple: to unlock the literary treasures of the world. To date, we‘ve published authors working in 54 languages. Coming from 75 different countries, many of these writers are already familiar to (and well loved by) English readers: Haruki Murakami, Ruth Padel, Lydia Davis and 3 Nobel Prize winners (Imre Kertész, Czeslaw Milosz and José Saramago).

But many names may not be so familiar: Abdellah Taïa (although he won the 2010 Prix de Flore), Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Obie Award, 2011), or Toh EnJoe (Akutagawa Prize, 2012), whose award-winning novel is excerpted for the first time in English in our January 2013 issue.

We take our mission of introducing these amazing writers to readers so seriously that, apart from hosting work in all the usual genres (including visual art and drama), we even have a special section for essays in which overlooked non-English writers are concisely... MORE HERE!!!!!!