Kwan Ann Tan
Writer
About
Kwan Ann Tan is a writer from Malaysia. She is currently based in London and is represented by Julie Finidori at Aevitas Creative Management.Her first novella, The Waiter, was published in the UK by The Emma Press in Nov 2025 and will be published in the US by Union Square & Co. in 2026. A Family Inconvenience was shortlisted for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and will be published in 2026.She also creates short games & interactive fiction.
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
Guest Editor for the Ghost City Press Summer Series
Winner of the Richard Hillary Prize (Trinity College, Oxford)
Finalist for the David T.K Wong Fellowship
Co-founder of the Malaysian Poetry Writing Fortnight
Recipient of the Elizabeth Zott Novel-Writing Scholarship at Curtis Brown Creative
Mentee under the Madeleine Milburn Mentorship Program
2020
Runner-up of the TLC BESEA Free Read
Shortlisted for the Sine Theta Magazine Summer Writing Competition