1. Melissa De Silva
(October 2018/Contributors)

Melissa De Silva is the author of ‘Others’ is Not a Race, awarded the Singapore Literature Prize 2018 in the Creative Non-fiction category. Her fiction has been published in Best New Singa

2. Mother Tongue
(October 2018/Creative non-fiction)

by Melissa De Silva We are studying peribahasa, idioms. There are many lists to learn in Malay, seerti-seiras (synonyms), berlawan (opposites) and peribahasa. In primary school, my favourite Malay id

3. Meeting with the Sea
(June 2016/Creative non-fiction)

by Melissa De Silva I am nine. I am in Primary Three, in social studies class at the all-girls Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus. Not all of us are Catholic (we even have some Muslims in the enrolm

4. Melissa De Silva
(June 2016/Contributors)

Melissa De Silva has enjoyed a career in magazine journalism in Singapore. She has had short stories published in The Wilderness House Literary Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and the upc

5. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(Front Page/Welcome)

...Goh and Sharlene Teo CREATIVE NON-FICTION: ​Eugene Ong, Robert Yeo, You Yenn Teo, Wesley Leon Aroozoo, Eddie Tay, Melissa De Silva and Cherian George VISUAL ARTS: Yanyun Chen (Cover artist), Sebast...

6. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(June 2016/Front page)

...ie Lee​, ​Siddharth Dasgupta​,​ Karen Kao​, ​Damyanti Biswas​, ​Xylene Tandoc Creative non-fiction: Melissa De Silva Photography & art: Rushda Rafeek​,​ Suzanne Lai​,​ Ana...