A bilingual literary magazine that collects diasporic artwork and writing in Chinese and English. The annual print and digital publication welcomes poetry, prose, visual art, and works that move fluidly between forms.

Apus雨燕 is an independent literary magazine and global writers’ community working bilingually in Chinese and English. We publish poetry, prose, visual art, and works that move fluidly between forms. With particular attention to diasporic voices, Apus cultivates emerging creative impulses, reflective thoughts, and intriguing storytelling.

Each issue is conceived as a site of experimentation, where content and form exist in deliberate equilibrium. Our practice represents a contemporary continuation of East Asian aesthetic heritages. Guided by principles of attentiveness, restraint, and resonance, our design ethos reinterprets these values within present-day artistic languages. Narrative is not simply presented, but surface gradually through structure, material, and craft.

Apus雨燕 is a publication for the diaspora. Scattered across the world, we are drawn together by a shared love of literature and art. Home lingers in the spaces between words, in the shadows of ink, in the quiet weight of paper and pigment. With Apus, we craft a small sanctuary, inscribed with the traces of time and space.

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Apus Literature

There are moments in life when we find ourselves suspended: between places, identities, relationships, languages, futures, or versions of ourselves. We drift. We hesitate. We remain unfinished.<div><br></div><div>Suspension can feel like weightlessness, disorientation, or stillness. It may emerge in the silence before collapse, in the pause before transformation, in the strange calm of no longer belonging entirely to what once held us.To be suspended is not always to be lost. It can be a refusal to settle too quickly into certainty — an unsettling space where desire, memory, and selfhood take shape.</div><div><br></div><div>For our third issue, we invite works that dwell in states of suspension — emotional, bodily, political, spatial, linguistic, or otherwise. We welcome work that lingers in ambiguity, experiments with form, and resists easy resolution.</div>

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