JACELYN YAP

Jormundgand-01

The Jörmungandr is known in Norse Mythology as the World Serpent and it encircles the Earth. I first learned about it when I read Jormungand, the Japanese manga. In both stories, the serpents were slain (by Thor and Koko respectively), thus preventing the transformation that the serpents represented and were to usher in. In my illustration, I’ve portrayed the serpent in a children’s fairytale style, just as it is about to be slain.

297 x 210 mm, digital illustration, January 2022

Jacelyn Yap is a digital illustrator from Singapore. She started focusing on her art proper, having persevered through an engineering major and a short stint as a civil servant. Her artworks have appeared in adda, Sine Theta Magazine, Olney Magazine, Barren Magazine, and more. She can be found at jacelyn.myportfolio.com and on Instagram at @jacelyn.makes.stuff.

Exodus Brownlow, The Wanting Season, the Rayon Christmas Roast, the Soft-Stained Glass Meal, the Frankenstein Failure, and the Secret of the Sewing Stamina

JACELYN YAP

Jormundgand-01

Poetry

Cody Smith, Walking My Grandfather’s Garden Gone to Weeds

Ellen Zhang, Snapshots of Grief

Hiba Tahir, Stolen

Iheoma Uzomba, The Kitchen as Slaughterhouse where Crucifixion is just another Permutation of Loss

Marc Di Martino, Hey, Joe

Tamara Panici, Three Nights

Verna Zafra-Kasala, Painted Lady

Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb, Death by Prime Rib

Prose

Amanda Kooser, How to Drown a Kraken

Beth Hahn, Paul Finds Himself in Miniature

Erin Vachon, Sparrow Arm

Exodus Brownlow, The Wanting Season, the Rayon Christmas Roast, the Soft-Stained Glass Meal, the Frankenstein Failure, and the Secret of the Sewing Stamina

Hannah Glickstein, And Is It Too Late Now To Learn Hebrew

Art

Jacelyn Yap, Jormundgand

Michelle Granville, A Simple Revolt

Phillip Temples, Late Afternoon Railroad

Rahul Kumar, Flower

Vivian Calderon Bogoslavsky, Vertigo de La Soledad