Electronic Journals. Singapore never had and to date still does not have a nationally or internationally established print literary journal devoted to literature, literary criticism and reviews, let alone one devoted only to Singapore literature in English. The occasional valiant attempts to produce such a journal (eg, Impression, Hardpressed; Focus) were either unsustainable or not sustained. Even the multilingual Singa: Literature and the Arts in Singapore sponsored by state agencies, lasted only 20 years. But in recent years, young writers and literary critics taking advantage of the relatively cheaper, more flexible and wider reach of an online medium, have founded and maintained e-journals to fill this void. Like their print predecessors they, too, can be transient (indeed, some are no longer to be found and or others are no longer current since the appearance of the print version of the Annotated Bibliography). But they, no less than the print journals, merit a mention. Indeed, the surviving e-journals probably represent the future of literary periodicals and the digitized Annotated Bibliography will continue to track them, identify and record new ones as and when they emerge.
