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Kwan Ann Tan


Writer

About

Kwan Ann Tan is a writer from Malaysia. She is currently based in London, where she is working on her first novel. She previously read English at the University of Oxford.She occasionally creates short games & interactive fiction.You can find her on Twitter at @KwanAnnTan, or contact her via email at [email protected]

SELECTED WORK

Sine Theta Magazine; EX/POST; Richard Hillary Prize: OracleDecameron Writing Series / Cycle FiveDark Horse Magazine / 'Medieval Romance'X-R-A-Y / 'Open Mouthed'Pithead Chapel / 'Banana Milk'Masters Review / 'Pearl (c.1200–1400)'Joyland Magazine / 'Steamboat'The Offing / 'Malacca River'Asymptote Journal / 'From Epic Hero to Modern Bro: On Maria Dahvana Headley's "Beowulf"'Honey Literary / 'Spit'Corvid Queen / The Singer & the StorytellerCrab Fat Magazine / "孤掌难鸣" and "the ballad of the drowned"Ghost City Press / Lunar MariaPorridge Magazine / "creation song"Sepia / 'Life Drawing'Sine Theta Magazine / 'Dirge of the Hungry Ghosts'The First Line / "The Last Lonely Song"The Mays Anthology (Volume 27) / "Muar, 1941"x

& ETC

2023

  • Winner of the Bournemouth Short Story Writing Competition

2021

2020

Previous editorial experience (2020-2021)

  • Poetry Editor at Chestnut Review

  • Editor-at-Large for Malaysia at Asymptote

  • Reader at Ploughshares