Your Burning Questions Answered Here

We’re an arts & culture community for you to share creative ideas, make friends with artists nearby, share your art, list your arts & culture events, and collaborate with other creatives. Join us here!

We have an artist registry for a list of people to collaborate with in music, literature, theatre, and other art related initiatives.

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Our event listing provides information on the events, auditions, and other activities in Malaysia and other locations.

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The forum is a space for creatives to share ideas, connect with each other, and collaborate.

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We also offer ad placements on the website, sponsored posts, social media and newsletter shoutouts, and consultation services. Click here to learn more.

It’s super easy! There are two ways:

1. You can sign up to be listed here (please register as a user and log in to view the form)
2. Or you can email us at [email protected] with a profile image, a short bio, and links to your socials and website.

You must produce more than three works on your own personal website or social media page in order to be listed.

Eksentrika is a platform for creatives to voice their opinions, ideas, and share their creative works.

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Due to this, we publish works of our contributors regardless of their political or creative affiliation, religious ideology, philosophical belief, race, age, language, gender, and sexual orientation so long as their works are cultural and creative in nature and don’t incite violence, hatred, or slander against a particular person/group/community.

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Plagiarised materials will not be entertained.

Yes, we do accept submissions.

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Poems, short stories, opinion pieces, essays, and reviews, are accepted on a complimentary basis.

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Insightful features, interviews on arts & culture personalities, listicles related to the arts will be paid. Starting July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, we’ll be paying RM500 for an article with a minimum of 800 words.

Poems, short stories, opinion pieces, essays, and reviews, are accepted on a complimentary basis. In return, we will list you under Eksentrika’s Artist Registry.

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Since we’re an arts & culture community platform, all submitted pieces must be relevant to our readers.

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We only accept original writings belonging to the author. Plagiarism and writings that incite violence and hatred towards a particular person/group/community will not be published nor entertained.

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If you had submitted your piece on another platform prior to ours, please obtain written approval from the editor/owner of the platform before submitting. Do include a link to the platform where the piece was originally published so that we can credit them accordingly.

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Your piece can be submitted to other platforms as well once it’s submitted on Eksentrika. You retain full copyright of your work.

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Be sure to credit Eksentrika as the first publisher of the story if you reproduce it elsewhere.

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Submit here. Please give us up to 2 weeks for the piece to be published.

Paid submissions must meet our two objectives:

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1. Beneficial and useful to the arts & culture community.
2. Document and list creatives under Eksentrika’s Artist Registry.

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Can you share some examples of the types of submissions you guys are looking for?

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Sure! Here are some examples that’ll give you a perspective on the types of submissions we’re looking for:
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• How To Approach Literary Agents To Get Published Overseas?
• Submit Your Short Stories And Poems To These Asian Literary Journals
• Seasoned Playwright Leow Puay Tin Reveals How To Write Better Scripts

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How much will writers be paid for such submitted stories?

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Starting July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, we’ll be paying RM500 for an article with a minimum of 800 words.

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Can you share a tip to craft a solid pitch?

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Sure! Ask yourself the following question: What specific challenge is the arts & culture community facing and who can I speak to and where can I look for answers?

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Do I have to send a draft of the story, including the artists’ names I plan to interview first, for your side to approve? Or do I write and submit it once done?

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Please pitch to us first together with the angle, direction, and share with us the artists you’ll be featuring (this is for us to double-check if they’ve been featured on Eksentrika before). Once it’s approved, you can proceed to write. The first submission will be treated as a first draft and we will go through the piece together via email for grammatical editing, factual checks, and tweaks to the headline and visuals. For the visuals, we usually request them from the artists themselves. Please get them to accurately credit the visuals.

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Is there a progress check requirement for this?

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There will be no progress check as we value the autonomy and creative liberties of our writers. However, should you feel the need to update us on your progress, please do so. Should there be any delays or cancellations, we would appreciate at least 2 weeks of notice.

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Will I only receive the payment once your side decides to publish my story?

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Once the angle and direction of your feature are confirmed, we will email you a Purchase Order form which you’ll need to fill up and sign. This document essentially means that your article is meant to be published solely on Eksentrika, provided it meets our editorial policy. The form will list the amount you’ll be paid for your story (RM500 in this case). Payments are issued on the 28th of every month once the article is ready to be published.

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Here is a step by step breakdown of what to anticipate as a writer for Eksentrika:

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1. .Upon confirmation of the agreed angle, direction, and deadline of your pitch, you will receive a Purchase Order form to sign and return to Eksentrika.
2. You may proceed to work on your article for delivery within the agreed deadline.
3. Upon finalisation of the article and invoice submission, we will proceed with issuing payment on 28th of that month. For example, if you submit your feature and invoice in July, you’ll tentatively be issued payment on July 28. Should there be any delays or unforeseen circumstances that prevent this, your payment will be issued the following month on August 28.
4. Once you receive payment, we expect to receive a “payment received” notice as a record of our safekeeping and we’ll email the signed invoice to you.

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Pitch to us at [email protected] 

Typically we avoid using images of other users or platforms unless we’ve obtained written permission from them or if these images were posted on social media publicly.

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If you’re submitting a post to us, we recommend obtaining your images from either Unsplash, Pexels, or other websites that offer free-to-use, high-definition photos. Please credit the photographers.

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If you’re submitting a paid article, please obtain the visuals from the individuals you’re featuring and credit the photographers.

Yes, we do and we do it for free. Since we’re an arts & culture community platform, all submitted events must be relevant to our readers.

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Submit your event here. Please give us up to 24 hours to list the event.

If the website is loading extremely slowly or if you’re experiencing a weird glitch, please let us know by dropping us an email at [email protected]

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Please do include screenshots or videos of the issues you’re facing so that we can accurately identify the issue and solve it.

Eksentrika does not require you to provide any personal information or PII in order to access the site www.eksentrika.com.

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However, if you choose to register on our platform as a user, your email will be included in our monthly newsletter.

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Also, if you choose to fill out any reader surveys or giveaways, you will be asked to supply some information about yourself, including your name, address, phone number and email address.

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Eksentrika keeps track of the number of visitors to the site, the pages they visit and how long they stay.

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In addition, Eksentrika collects information from visitors who click on advertisements so that we are able to measure interest in the various areas of our site and inform advertisers as to how many visitors have seen or clicked on their promoted or advertorial content.