WRITING

Read Amanda Chong’s poems and essays across a number of different periodicals, special projects and published anthologies.

  • Pandemic Time
    (Singapore: Art print collaboration with artist Wong Weng Yew, Dec 2020.)
    “The Hour of Lungs”

    Cordite Poetry Review
    (Australia, 31 Oct 2020.)
    “Bus 67” (translation of Isa Kamari’s Malay-language poem “Bas 67”)

    The Straits Times
    (Singapore, 7 July 2020.)
    “Lamentations by Amanda Chong”

    The Hour Before She Sleeps
    (Singapore: Exactly Foundation, 2019.)
    Keynote Poem: “Women, in waves”

    Revue Catastrophe
    (ed. and trans. Pierre Vinclair, France: 2018. Web.)
    Poems: “A Lover’s Anatomy: I. A study of your eyes (Une Anatomie Amoureuse: I. Étude de tes yeux)”; “A Lover’s Anatomy: II. Ways of Hearing (Une Anatomie Amoureuse: II. Manières D’entendre)”

    #BuySingLit
    (Singapore, March 2018.)
    “Love Letter to Chinatown”

    TODAY
    (Singapore, 20 Sep 2017.)
    "Inspirational tales from society's margins"

    Monocle Travel Guide: Singapore
    (Germany: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2016.)
    Essay: “Chapter and Verse”

    Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
    (Singapore: Vol. 14, No. 1. Jan 2016. Web.)
    Poem: “Malacca”

    Harvard Journal of Law and Gender
    (United States, 2014.)
    Academic Article: “Migrant Brides in Singapore: Women Strategizing Within Family Market and the State”

    The Straits Times
    (Singapore, 14 Feb 2010.)
    Poem: “Love Letters”

  • Call and Response
    (eds. Rolinda Onates Espanola, Zakir Hossain, Joshua Ip. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2018.)
    Poem: “Prime”

    The Birthday Book 2017: What should we never forget
    (eds. Sheila Pakir, Malminderjit Singh. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2017.)
    Essay: “Journeying into Feeling”

    Eye Feel Write II
    (eds. Desmond Kon. Singapore: Squircle Line Press, 2017.)
    Poems: “Sunny”, “Flor”, “Curry”

    Singapore Perspectives 2017: What If?
    (eds. Gillian Koh, Debbie Soon. Singapore: World Scientific, 2018.)
    Essay: “What if Singapore fails to sustain itself as a vibrant, cosmopolitan 'global city'?”

    SingPoWriMo 2017: The Anthology
    (eds. Stephanie Dogfoot, Ruth Tang, Daryl Qilin Yam. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2017.)
    Poem: “Rubicon”

    Unfree Verse
    (eds. Joshua Ip, Theophilus Kwek, Tse Hao Guang. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2017.)
    Poems: “The Illusionist”, “Mambo Jambo”

    SingPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology
    (eds. Jennifer Anne Champion, Joshua Ip, Daryl Qilin Yam. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2016.)
    Poem: “Office Lady”

    A Luxury We Must Afford
    (eds. Christine Chia, Joshua Ip, Cheryl Julia Lee. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2016.)
    Poem: “Notes From a Colonialist, 2065”

    poetry.sg
    (ed. Tse Hao Guang. Singapore: 2015. Web.)
    Essay: Critical Introduction to Tania De Rozario

    SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology
    (eds. Jennifer Anne Champion, Joshua Ip, Daryl Qilin Yam. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2015.)
    Poem: “Mambo Jambo”

    SingPoWriMo: The Anthology
    (eds. Ann Ang, Joshua Ip, Pooja Nansi. Singapore:Math Paper Press, 2014.)
    Poem: “The Illusionist”

    & Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond
    (ed. Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2010.)
    Poem: “lionheart”

MEDIA

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To watch the CNA documentary Law of the Land (2017), click here.

PRESS

Read about Amanda Chong via these various press appearances.