✺ TITLES BY DARYL QILIN YAM

    • 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")

    • 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”

    • 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

    • 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"

    • Tomorrow Club (PEN International, 2025): “Embers”

    • 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"

    • 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)

    • Cordite Poetry Review — Issue 119 (February 2026): “In the business of making images,”

    • Esquire Singapore (January 2013): "The Chicken"

    • «être» — Issue 3 (qu’est-ce que c’est design, 2016): a poem ("Sentence")

    • 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")

    • Mekong Review — Volume 8, Issue 31 (May-Jun 2023): “Merantau”, a review of Queer Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2022, eds. Shawna Tang, Hendri Yulius Wijaya)

    • 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")

    • STORIES — Issue 1 / Pilot (Centre for Stories, 2027): “Even at the end, the world was still beautiful”

    • 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")

    • 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

    • How Far is the Sun? (Lim Jie Ru / JOYRU, 2026): editor

    • Joints: a conjunction of poetical design and creative writing (NUS CDE, In Plain Words, 2026, ed. Daryl Lim Wei Jie): a response to “Patience Practiced”

    • 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

    • New Scripts Garage (Centre 42, 2025): Shantih Shantih Shantih theatrical adaptation with Juliet Chia

    • No Straight Lines (The Independent People, 16 Oct-1 Nov 2026): a curatorial essay (“Waywarding”)

    • Novel Ways of Being (Grey Projects, 2020): multiple postcards for “Stranger Still: Journal of a Pandemic” programme alongside Lim Jia Ning Michelle, Rizman Putra

    • Playwrights’ Cove 2026: From Page to Stage (The Necessary Stage, Singapore, 2026): writer-participant (Jun–Nov)

    • 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!

2023

A Ghost in a Machine

A PRESENTATION

2022

What Used to Kill Us

A STORY

2020

Reflecting on Routines

A VIDEO ESSAY

2017

After Risaku

PHOTOGRAPHS

2016

Reading Week

A PERSONAL ESSAY

2014–2015

外人の年

A PHOTO DIARY