Yellow Paper – An Anthology

Yellow Paper, a creative writing anthology, was launched by Level 2, Group 12 foundation students, at the Preparatory Studies Centre, on December 11, 2024.  The launch was attended by many teachers from the Centre.  It was a great turnout. 

It has been a pleasure working with Group 12.  They are sensitive, open to new ways of doing things, and they are original thinkers.  We shared a camaraderie that made me a better editor. 

About the group’s writing: It was never about content.  They had a grip on what they wanted to write about.  What flummoxed them were the bionotes!  There was a lot of what . . . what . . . say what?  But the fog lifted. 

Another thing I enjoyed as the editor of Yellow Paper was the writers witnessing their content in a flipped format: text into poetry, or how italics, as a type style, popped up their writing.  Reading their final reworked drafts aloud to me, they would not show emotion (not opening gifts in public kind-of-a-thing) but when I insisted, “Did you like it?”, or “Does this work for you?” I saw a twitch of their Mona Lisa lips, their eyes a tad dreamy, their bodies in a bit of a sway.  The event ended with writers signing copies of their anthologies, just like writers do!

Bionote:  Yasmin Ladha teaches English language skills at the Preparatory Studies Centre.  She is also a fiction and non-fiction writer. Currently, she is finishing a book of essays about domicile, death and re-departures

Editor’s Note by

Yasmin Ladha