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Awards<\/strong>

2023<\/sub>
Peter McPhee Community \u00cfmpact Award
for A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English<\/em>

Hai-O Arts & Culture Grants Award
for A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English<\/em>

University of Melbourne, Diversity & Engagement Award
for A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English<\/em>

2022<\/sup>
ThinkCity Community Grants Award
for A Wasteland of Malaysian Poetry in English<\/em>

2021<\/sub>
Longlisted for
The Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize 2021<\/a><\/strong>

Poetry<\/strong>
\"Mantra\" & \"Pattern Recognition\" in Eternal Summer Notes<\/em>, Shuren Press 2025.

'Elsewhere than here' with Daryl Lim Wei Jie for RMIT non\/fictionLab x Mekong Review<\/a>, 2024.

'di luar parlimen (after T. Alias Taib)' in Malaysian Spaces and Places<\/em>, 2024.

'to say nothing of it, i bite my golden tongue' in The Second-Link: A Malaysia Singapore Literary Anthology<\/em>,  Marshall Cavendish International, 2023.

'ars facsimile' in MMOJ June 2023.

'trishaw driver' & 'two minds on malaysian writing' in Malaysian Millenial Voices, <\/em>Maya Press, 2021. 




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Criticism, Reviews, & Creative Responses<\/strong>

2024
<\/sub>In the Mirror<\/em>: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam,<\/em> edited by Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie, National University of Singapore Press, 2025. 

2023<\/sup>
Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI)<\/strong>
Life Cycle<\/em> \u2013 a response to Olivia Koh's Minyak Sawit Keluarga<\/a>

Liminal Review of Books
<\/strong>New Singapore Poetries<\/em> by Singapore Unbound<\/a>

Liminal x Cordite Poetry Review<\/strong>
A Wasteland of Malaysian Poets<\/a>

2022<\/sub>
The Guardian<\/strong>
Childhood <\/em>by Shannon Burns<\/a>

Liminal Review of Books<\/strong>
London Does Not Belong to Me<\/em> by Lee Kok Liang<\/a>

Fiction<\/strong>
'effigies' in The Second-Link: A Malaysia Singapore Literary Anthology<\/em>, 2023, Marshall Cavendish International

Press<\/strong> & Interviews

2024<\/sub>
Quickfire Quintet Interview
Mekong Review Weekly
10th April 2024
for RMIT non\/fictionLab x Mekong Review 

2022<\/sup>
Bandar Aktiviti Seni KL
<\/strong>https:\/\/baskl.com.my\/exhibition-encourages-visitors-to-lend-an-ear-to-malaysian-poetry\/<\/a>

The Star
<\/strong>https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/lifestyle\/culture\/2022\/08\/23\/audio-exhibition-in-kl-lets-visitors-explore-the-malaysian-poetry-scene<\/a>

The Guardian<\/strong>
https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/sep\/06\/riveting-laugh-out-loud-beautifully-written-the-best-australian-books-out-in-september<\/a>


2021<\/sup>
Liminal Magazine
<\/strong>5 Questions
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Video Art<\/strong>

A Wasteland of Our Own, in Issue 59.2_The Fever, Art + Australia, Victorian College of the Arts,<\/a>   May 2025.

<\/strong>Image Concept & Design for
\"The Language Lesson\" by Ray Langenbach, 2023<\/a>

Non-Fiction<\/strong>
2024<\/sub>
\"thank you for calling\" 
in Malaysian Writers Society
Best of Food Anthology 2024

2022<\/sub>
\"thank you for calling\"
in Against Disappearance: Essays on Memory
Paperback
Pantera Press, Sydney

\"A Wasteland of Malaysian Poets\"<\/a>
Liminal x Cordite Poetry Review

2021<\/sub>

Eksentrika.com
<\/strong>Authenticity and Malaysian Writing<\/a>
https:\/\/eksentrika.com\/malaysian-writing-in-english\/<\/a>

Editorial Positions
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2023<\/sup>
Guest Editor
Portside Review
<\/strong>Issue #11 Malaysia
Editorial: A Kindred State of Becoming<\/a>

2013-2015
Editor, Proofer and Transcriber
The Public Sentence
<\/strong>Clients include the ABC, University of Melbourne, various government bodies


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