Migrant worker and refugee literary outreach through poems


Get writing: submissions are now open for this year’s Migrant Worker & Refugee Poetry Competition in Malaysia. Photo: Handout

Submissions for this year’s Migrant Worker & Refugee Poetry Competition are now open.

This community-based poetry initiative, which was first held in 2015 as part of the Cooler Lumpur Festival, makes a virtual return for the second time due to the pandemic.

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