Publications
The Inventors (forthcoming)
Full-length collection of literary nonfiction
TrendLit Publishing
OF ZOOS 11.1
"Loose Ends", with Tse Hao Guang, hybrid piece
2023
2022
Into The Spine, "2022 in Games"
On Trombone Champ
Unwinnable Monthly 154
“The Chaos Detective”, non-fiction
The Tiger Moth Review 8
“after images”, hybrid piece
Into The Spine
“Muscle Memory”, non-fiction
OF ZOOS 10.1
“Adventure Ideas for Nervous Dungeon Masters x Endless Nights”, hybrid piece
SO-FAR
“The Nostalgic Mundane of Persona 4”, non-fiction
Galangal, digital zine
Experimental essay series
“The River One Must Cross”, Issue 1 with Maddison Colvin
Kitaab
“Refractions”, book review Review of Laura Jane Lee’s flinch & air
The Lengthened Shadow anthology, ed. Quek See Ling
“Conversation”, non-fiction
2021
2020
Gastronomica 20.3, University of California Press
“Before it all Goes Away”, non-fiction
Fish Publishing Lockdown Prize shortlist
“Ekphrasis”, pocket prose
Food Republic, Landmark Books
“Nausea Fruit”, non-fiction
OF ZOOS 9.1
“How to Play a Game of Pandemic in Singapore (And Other Places), 26 March 2020”, non-fiction
Stay Home Diary, Bitter Melon Poetry
“21 March 2020”, non-fiction
NANG, “Ten Years After” special issue
“Laughter in the Dark”, non-fiction
2019
2014
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 13.4 (4 October 2014)
“Triptych”
Chapalang, 11 May 2014
“A Brief History of Heartache”, non-fiction
Events and Oddities
2022
Failure Machine
Literary event at Puck Provisions
9 and 16 December 2022
Loose Ends
Literary event with Tse Hao Guang
21 May 2022
2021
Poetry reading for the With You Here Between: Defamiliarizations exhibition at Objectifs, tekad kolektif
“Marginalia”
23 October 2021
SAD Tales for Sad Kids
Literary event
20 December 2019
Supported by the Substation under the A Public Square campaign
2019
Dorscon Document
A collaborative COVID-19 document
2020
Awards + Nominations
Shortlisted for The Emma Press’ call for submissions (pamphlet)
Past Lives
Short fiction collection
Perennial Press Chapbook Award longlist
Galangal #1 (with Maddison Colvin)
Creative Laureate
Storytelling Collective
2022
Singapore International Film Festival Youth Critics & Jury Programme
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves“
“Finding Home, Building Home“
“Notes on the Afterlife“
2021
2018
Australian Book Review Calibre Essay Prize longlist
“Metamorphoses”, non-fiction
National Arts Council Writer-in-Residence programme at the Singapore Botanic Gardens
April – September 2015
2015
Paper Planes 2014, 50 Words for 50 Years contest “Justice”, microfiction
Merit Award
2014
British Council Writing the City contest (Utopias/Dystopias)
“Perfect”
First Prize
Golden Point Award
National Arts Council
“A Secret Literature”
Short Story in English, Second Prize
2013
2020
Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize longlist
"Ghost"
2023
Finalist in the Georgia Review Prose Prize
"Killing Time", nonfiction