✺ TITLES BY DARYL QILIN YAM
✺ ANTHOLOGIES
A Luxury We Cannot Afford (Math Paper Press, 2015, eds. Christine Chia, Joshua Ip): "Love Letters to H"
A Luxury We Must Afford (Math Paper Press, 2016, eds. Christina Chia, Joshua Ip, Cheryl Julia Lee): two poems ("That I Cannot See", "Funkytown")
Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form (Squircle Line Press, 2016, ed. Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde): a poem ("My Messages")
Best Singaporean Short Stories 1 (Epigram Books UK, 2020, ed. Jason Erik Lundberg): “Thing Language”
The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singapore Short Stories:
Volume One (Epigram Books, 2013, ed. Jason Erik Lundberg): "Apocalypse Approaches" (honourable mention), "The Girl and Her Giant" (honourable mention)
Volume Two (Epigram Books, 2015, ed. Jason Erik Lundberg): "A Dream in Pyongchon", "The Anus Is the Centre of the Soul" (honourable mention), "The Wolves, or, Have You Ever Read Tao Lin?" (honourable mention)
Volume Three (Epigram Books, 2017, ed. Cyril Wong): "Thing Language"
Volume Four (Epigram Books, 2019, ed. Pooja Nansi): "Just the Green Bit"
Volume Seven (Epigram Books, 2025, ed. Nuraliah Norasid): “J—, or a Story After a Story by Haruki Murakami”
EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices (Math Paper Press, 2021, ed. Ng Yi-Sheng, Stephanie Chan, Andy Ang, Ang Jin Yong, Tan Boon Hui, Atifa Othman, Kokila Annamalai): “Just the Green Bit”
Fish Eats Lion (Math Paper Press, 2012, ed. Jason Erik Lundberg): "Apocalypse Approaches"
Fish Eats Lion Redux (Epigram Books, 2022, ed. Jason Erik Lundberg): “315”
Get Lit! (The New Paper, 2017, ed. Joshua Ip, Sing Lit Station): a poem ("Lorong Chuan")
In Transit: an Anthology from Singapore about Airports and Air Travel (Math Paper Press, 2016, eds. Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Rui He Zhang): "The Poems of Horvalla"
Quiet Loving, Ravaging Search: 20 years of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (Word Image, 2021, eds. Toh Hsien Min, Stephanie Ye, Yeow Kai Chai, Yong Shu Hoong): “Thing Language”
SingPoWriMo
2014: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2014, eds. Ann Ang, Joshua Ip, Pooja Nansi): six poems
2015: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2015, eds. Jennifer Anne Champion, Joshua Ip, Daryl Qilin Yam): a poem ("A Dark Part of Town"), co-editor
2016: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2016, eds. Joshua Ip, Ruth Tang, Daryl Qilin Yam): four poems, co-editor
2017: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2017, eds. Stephanie Dogfoot, Ruth Tang, Daryl Qilin Yam): co-editor
Text in the City (The Arts House, 2015): a poem ("Lorong Chuan")
We Contain Multitudes: Twelve Years of Softblow (Epigram Books, 2016, eds. Jason Wee, Cyril Wong): a poem ("Row")
✺ COMMISSIONS
Eat Here or Take Away?: All About Singapore Hawker Culture (Landmark Books, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Community Foundation, 2022, ed. Goh Eck Kheng, KF Seetoh, Eunice Toh): “Wanting”
«être» — Issue 3 (qu’est-ce que c’est design, 2016): a poem ("Sentence")
BooksActually pamphlet (Math Paper Press, 2020): “A Song By Carlos Santana”
ChildISH (Singapore Art Museum, 2024): three poems (“I Know Nothing, Apparently”, “Newborn”, “Pick Me”) in response to Nguan’s Singapore series
Mekong Review — Volume 8, Issue 31 (May-Jun 2023): “Merantau”, a review of Queer Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2022, eds. Shawna Tang, Hendri Yulius Wijaya)
Microcosmos publication (studioKALEIDO, 2012): "OUTRO"
National Centre for Writing Writing Hub (National Centre for Writing, National Arts Council, 2023): “Five ways to look at writing differently”, “Solitude/Fortitude”, “T—”
poetry.sg (Sing Lit Station, 2015): Critical Introduction to Ho Poh Fun
Sayang (Math Paper Press, National Arts Council, Singapore Writers Festival, 2016): "Jiro"
The Straits Times
(National Arts Council, 2020): “A Visitation at Mustafa”
(Singapore Press Holdings, 2022): “Even at the end, the world was still beautiful”
(Singapore Press Holdings, 2025): “Love is the bullet that you bite”
The Substation Love Letters Project (The Substation, 2014-2015, ed. Cyril Wong): "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime"
Waves Rising: Collected Works of Ho Poh Fun & Responses (Pagesetters Services, 2024, ed. Ann Ang): an essay (“A twenty-first century youth”)
Writing-Plus (Education University of Hong Kong, 2021, ed. Nicholas Wong): “Space Burial, $2000”
WE ARE LOSING INERTIA (2014, ed. Bing Hao Wong): "The Anus is the Centre of the Soul"
✺ JOURNALS / PERIODICALS
Berlin Quarterly — Issue 8 (Winter 2018): "Just the Green Bit"
Ceriph
Issue 4 (2011): a poem ("Petrichor"), "The Girl and Her Giant"
Issue 5 (2012): editorial assistant
Issue 6 (2013): "A Dream in Pyongchon", editorial assistant
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Issue 17 (2012): two poems ("Remember: #3-#7", "Change Your Heart; Look Around You" [Best of the Net 2012 finalist, Pushcart Prize 2013 nomination])
Issue 23 (2014): co-judge ("Void" Poetry Contest)
Issue 24 (2014): a poem ("A Contingent of Birds" [Best of the Net 2014 nomination])
Issue 25 (2014): a poem ("WHERE ARE THE GANDERS?" [Pushcart Prize 2015 nomination])
Issue 28 (2015): guest editor (prose)
Esquire Singapore (January 2013): "The Chicken"
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
Issue 2 (2014): a poem ("Funkytown")
Issue 3 (2014): a poem ("Signs, or, The Fate of Big-Footed Individuals")
OF ZOOS
Issue 3.1 (2014): a poem ("A Contingent of Birds")
Issue 4.1 (2015): a poem ("Evening Poems")
Issue 9.1 (2020): an excerpt from Shantih Shantih Shantih
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
Vol. 11, Issue 2 (2012): "Love is a Killer", "It's Not Valid"
Vol. 13, Issue 4 (2014): "The Wolves, or, Have You Ever Read Tao Lin?"
Vol. 14, Issue 2 (2015): "Thing Language"
Vol. 15, Issue 3 (2016): "Ichi-e, or, One Soup, Three Side Dishes"
Queer Southeast Asia — Issue 3 (2020): three poems
Sewanee Review — Vol. CXXXI, No. 3 (Summer 2023): “A Film by Hong Sang-soo” (Fifth Annual Fiction, Poetry & Nonfiction Contest finalist)
Softblow — April 2014: a poem ("Row")
Transnational Literature — Vol. 10, Issue 1 (2017): a poem ("Drain Circling, A While Ago")
Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (December 2017): a poem ("A Contingent of Birds")
✺ MIXED MEDIA / PROJECTS
10 x 10: an intergenerational literary equation (Ceriph, studioKALEIDO, 2012): participant, facilitator, editorial assistant
Arts In Your Neighbourhood — November 2017, Jurong East (National Arts Council, 2017): two art installations with Pooja Nansi ("Westgate.txt", “clear.txt")
The Co-op (The Substation, 2016-2017): member, co-programmer of A Common Ground (7-26 Feb 2017, The Substation), editorial
Dramaturgs In Practice Training Programme 2024 (Centre 42, 2024-2025): Shantih Shantih Shantih theatrical adaptation with Shridar Mani
Lomography Magazine (Lomography, 2017): a photo essay (“After Risaku: A Photo Series by Daryl Qilin Yam and the Lomo LC-A Minitar-1 Art Lens”)
Lovelier, Lonelier pre-option of audiovisual rights (Delphin Films, 2025-2026): consultant
Novel Ways of Being (Grey Projects, 2020): multiple postcards for “Stranger Still: Journal of a Pandemic” programme alongside Lim Jia Ning Michelle, Rizman Putra
Shantih Shantih Shantih option of audiovisual rights (Fiction Shore, 2022-2026): playwright, consultant
Story Threads: The Singapore Showcase (StoryFest, 2022): an oral recitation of “What Used to Kill Us”
Take 5 With (ArtScience Museum, 2020): a video essay (“Take 5 with Daryl Yam: Reflecting on Routines”)
The World’s Loneliest Bookstore: an exhibition (BooksActually and Scentory, Hong Kong, 2021): Shantih Shantih Shantih (Hong Kong Edition) by Scentory with Nicholas Ho and Olivier Cong
✺ ESSAYS
Here’s a strictly eclectic assortment of nonfiction and mixed media writing. Enjoy!