Writing
Photograph by ila
“To all of you
everywhere:
exiled, in diaspora,
returned, rejected, condemned,
censored, trapped,
non-citizens,
in and out of borders,
those with bittersweet
relationships with the land,
those who know
no other city,”
(from the poem “National Day,” Joanne Leow)
“The sea’s rise was hypnotic and slow. It lulled the island-state’s usual knee-jerk efficiencies, its deployments and drills for scenarios, sieges, and other contingencies could not have predicted this unhurried violence. A body of water covered the settled land, redrawing the constantly updated maps, the hyperlinked plans, the satellite views, the new technologies. Uncountable reams of data and investment rendered obsolete over the course of a few days and weeks.
When the water finally stopped, just at the curb of the old coastal roads, the debris it had collected settled in a line. The sea beyond it, pristine and calm.”
(from the short story “The Sea Decides,” Joanne Leow)
Creative writing
Creative Non-Fiction
(2021) “My Elusive Petrofictions” Brick, A Literary Journal 107.
(2020) “This is Singapore”: Watching Westworld in the Diaspora” Evergreen Review
(2019) “A small space” Brick, A Literary Journal 104.
(2019). “Jewel” The Town Crier.
2018). “Mity Macho, or, Objects in Flight.” untethered anthology. Toronto, ON: Applebeard Press. June
2016). “Journalism and Jiujitsu: The Gentle Arts of a Dictatorship” Catapult Magazine. October 21.
Fiction
(2018). “The Sea Decides.” The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada.
Poetry
(2020) 'Foreshores,' 'Public Order (includes)', and 'In Contempt' Softblow: Poetry Journal
(2020) “Eden” Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
(2018). “seas move away,” “City Gallery” Oxford, UK/Singapore: The Kindling Issue 5.
(2018). “On Loss” Currents, A Ricepaper Anthology. Eds. Karla Comanda, Leila Lee and William Tham. Vancouver BC: Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. September.
(2017). “On Dissidence,” “Bread and Salt,” “On Loss” Vancouver, BC: Ricepaper Magazine. February .
(2013). “Watching my grandmother eat fish” . Little Things: A Poetry Anthology. Singapore: Ethos Books.