Publications

The Second Link, Marshall Cavendish
"Causes and Ways", essay

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”, nonfiction

The Tiger Moth Review 8
“after images”, hybrid piece

Into The Spine
“Muscle Memory”, nonfiction

OF ZOOS 10.1
“Adventure Ideas for Nervous Dungeon Masters x Endless Nights”, hybrid piece

SO-FAR
“The Nostalgic Mundane of Persona 4”, nonfiction

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”, nonfiction

2021

2020

Gastronomica 20.3, University of California Press
“Before it all Goes Away”, nonfiction

Fish Publishing Lockdown Prize shortlist
“Ekphrasis”, pocket prose

Food Republic, Landmark Books
“Nausea Fruit”, essay

OF ZOOS 9.1
“How to Play a Game of Pandemic in Singapore (And Other Places), 26 March 2020”, essay

Stay Home Diary, Bitter Melon Poetry
“21 March 2020”, nonfiction

NANG, “Ten Years After” special issue
“Laughter in the Dark”, essay

2019

2014

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 13.4 (4 October 2014)
“Triptych”

Chapalang, 11 May 2014
“A Brief History of Heartache”, essay

2024

PR&TA, issue 4
"The Immolations", essay

Project InkLink, issue 1
"Perpetual Motion Machines", foreword

Into The Spine, "Stories of 2024"
On Balatro

2025

LIKE A FEVER, Asia Art Archive
"Play/Time", essay

The Bombay Literary Magazine, issue 61
"AR_CHV//FVR", essay (forthcoming)

Genetic Land, number 3
"Metamorphoses (VIII)", introduction (forthcoming)

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

2024

"Creatives Converse", dialogue event with Lizzie Wee
For the Sensory Consumptions: A Metaphorical Feast exhibition at starch

Events at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, including:
"Failure Machines", a writing workshop
"Anti-Love Poetry", an experimental reading event

"The Art of Failure"
Writing workshop at the Yale-NUS College Writer's Centre

2025

"The Inventors by Daryl Li", appearance on the Marcher entre les lignes podcast by Julie Moulin

Dialogue event with Hélène Le Chatelier for the Utopian Drama exhibition at JW Projects Gallery, moderated by Julie Moulin

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

Longlisted for the Emma Press' call for submissions (pamphlet)
Tenderly, Tenderly
Creative nonfiction collection

Finalist in the Georgia Review Prose Prize
"Killing Time", nonfiction

2024

International Writing Program, University of Iowa
Writing Fellow

Longlisted for the Anthology Flash Fiction Competition
"The Puppets", flash fiction

2025

ARCUS Research Summer Residency, ARCUS Project
Supported by National Arts Council, Singapore