Chen Cuifen
Writer in Singapore, she/her
About
I love role-playing games, visual novels, liminal spaces, and most of all fantastic things.
Contact
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Writing
2021
Golden Point Awards 2021, Honourable Mention (English Short Story Category)
2020
Jennifer, Fourth Genre
Creative nonfiction
(Vol 22 No 1)
2019
Two poems
(Vol 56 No 1)
2019
Short story in the anthology “In This Desert, There Were Seeds”
2019
Winner, Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition 2019
Short story in the anthology “Pleasure to Burn”
2018
Awards
2021
LASALLE Award for Academic Excellence (MA category) from LASALLE College of the Arts
2007
Jacques Berthoud Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay from University of York
Features
2022
I recommend five books for Men's Folio's #TheRegularReads column.
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Side Projects
2022
I am a judge for the Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition 2022.
2019
In September 2019, I was guest blogger for Margaret River Press, writing about writing and life.
Speaking
2022
Communications, writing and the arts at Raffles Girls' School Careers Day
Singapore
2020
Writing with empathy at The Tapestry Project
Singapore
2020
LaSaturday: Art School Stories at #BuySingLit 2020
Singapore
2019
Careers in communications at Raffles Institution (Junior College) Careers Day
Singapore
2019
Launch of "In This Desert, There Were Seeds" at Singapore Writers Festival
Singapore
2019
2018
Poeming the Paint, Painting the Poem: Ekphrastic Poetry at Fourth Graduate Student Conference on Visual Culture
Singapore
2018
You Can Learn That in School: Readings from Singapore's University Creative Writing Programmes at Singapore Writers Festival
Singapore
Education
2018 — 2021
MA with Distinction, Creative Writing at LASALLE College of the Arts
Singapore
Degree awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London
2007 — 2008
MA with Distinction, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at University of York
United Kingdom
2004 — 2007
BA (Hons) First Class with Distinction, English and Related Literature at University of York
United Kingdom