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Stay Home Diary is a tender archive, a real-time collective diary, a memorial, a literary journal, a lockdown project. 
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From 18 March until 30 April, 2020, Asian artists and writers all over the world were invited to submit a short diary entry in any form (250 words of prose, 1 poem, or an illustration) to create an accessible online collective archive of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Contributions included recipes, photographs, doodles, playlists, comics, screenshots, collages and love poems. 


The project concluded on 30 April, 2020. Later in 2020, a selection of Stay Home Diary entries will be collected into a physical and digital zine, risograph printed by Bitter Melon苦瓜. 

Read the diary in full here. 



Contributors
Erica Isomura

Modi Deng

Minji Kim

Fathima Zahra

Monica Kam

Manya Sunkhara Chandam

Kira Wei-Hsin Jacobson

Sheelalipi Sahana

Amelia Cai

TiDo

Christy Ku

A. Shaikh

Olivia Chung

Melissa Bui

Thomas Yunhyung Kim

Haricha Abdaal

Kim Tang

Jennifer Lim

Prerana Kumar

Kimberly Alidio

Annette Liu

Nabeela Saghir

Lenora Huỳnh

Liwen Xu

Kiki Nakamura-Koyama

Adrianna Chong

Monique Joy Raranga

Megan Chew
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Aishah Kenton

Mihir K

Lily Tran

Wirunwan Victoria Pitaktong

Nic Yiu

Lucky Li

Katalina Watt

Swati Khurana

Maggie Wang

Elizabeth Chan

Jennifer Wong

Vanessa Crofskey

Miyako Pleines

Sunny Zhaokun Liu

Jacqueline Leung

Natalie Linh Bolderston

Amrita Mitra


Lily Amelia Susman 岳珍妮

Markus Celestial

Rachel Ong

Chloe Elliott

Anita Pati

Stephanie Dogfoot

Laurel Shimasaki

April Hill

Victoria Hu

Natasha Hertanto

Kiran Bath

Regina Wu | 伍嘉嫣


Kathleen Ma

Jen Lue

Pratyusha

Amlanjyoti Goswami

Melissa Ho

Lakshmi Krishnan

Jean Yoon

Grace Lee

JinJin Xu

Noriko Nakada

Jhanvi Rajagopalan

Esha Serai

Sarala Estruch

Aheli Das

Hanna Lu

Melissa Cottle

Ysabelle Cheung

Stacey Ng

Eric Jiang

Maddie Ballard

T. Le

Sanjana Khusal

Karen Ng  吳心怡

Pamela Yuen-Elkerbout

Shu-Ling Chua

Jane Chan

Haolun Xu

Nicole Tan

Cara Flores

Maryana Garcia

Lora Yip

Vayne Ong


V. Huỳnh

Jessamine Liu

​Shivani Kshirsagar

Becca Walthall 劉碧琦

​Chris Tse

Hideko Sueoka

Helen Bowell

Julie Chen

Joy Saha

Lu-Hai Ling

Sean Wai Keung

Abby Pelaez

Jessica Nguyen

Phoebe Chin

Kimberly Nguy
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Noo

Celine Dam

Rachel Lau

Jamie Jiang

Naush Sabah

paul aster stone-tsao

Tanya Pham

Jocelin Chan

Liz R

Alvin Chung

Genevieve Hartman

Aurelia Blue

Tiffany Wu

Shangyang Fang & Jiaoyang Li

Jinhao Xie

ALHS

Minying Huang

Yen Ooi

Denise Zhou

Kyla Smith

Donnalyn Xu

Valerie Wu

Lillian Fok

John Paul Martinez

Ahona Das

Claudia Yang

Ananya Kumar-Banerjee

Lydia Kim

Sarosh Nandwani

Chaelee Dalton

Weina Zhao

Vanessa Nguyen

Harmony Yuen

Sophie Cook

Archana Madhavan

Arron Luo

Anton Hur

Xi Nan

Jess Wu

Chen Chen

Alisha Siraj

Lituo Huang

Jessica Lim

Eithar M

Katherine Shapiro

Ernest Lee

Anonymous

Kaitlin Chan

Lauren Lee

Kirsten Avilla

Jessica J. Lee

Vidhi Gandhi

Balveen Hullon

Emma Shi

Moira Henry

Kwan Ann Tan

Frederika Tsai

S. Niroshini

Emily Beh

Xinyue Pan

Alissa Tu

Daryl Li

Jeni Kang P.

Jasmine Lo

Rachel Cheng

Cleo Qian

Sana Mohsin

Subha Robert William

Joel Lee

Anuja Ghimire

Sherry Zhang

Jiaqi Kang

Annina Z-H

Melanie Xu

Amanda Kraley

Pema Monaghan

Natalie Chang

Memoona Zahid
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