[Writing with Heart, Humour, and Honesty: An Interview with M SHANmughalingam, author of Marriage and Mutton Curry](http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2019/04/writing-with-heart-humour-and-honesty.html)

[The Art of Connection in “Three Writers, Numerous Countries”, a reading at LASALLE College of the Arts](http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2019/03/lion-city-lit-art-of-connection-in.html)

[Interview with Seema Punwani, Author of Cross Connection](http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2019/01/lion-city-lit-interview-with-seema.html)

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…the conversation felt both real and natural, while never getting too heavy despite the subject matter.\
– [Bakchormeeboy](https://bakchormeeboy.com/2020/01/25/review-three-courses-meatsmith-little-india-artwalk-little-india-2020/) on ‘Three Courses’

Off the Mat: Reviews

The poet carefully unfolds the net to reveal a skilful emotional structuring, made to look like a disordered heap of this and that, but with items and layers forensically selected as the poem moves down the page, gathering in a momentum of feeling.\
– Jo Shapcott

I loved What My Net Dragged to the Surface because it built on the original vision and kept extending the penuma of the poem, from environmental devastation and plunder to an exploration of the tensions between lovers. The poem seems to aspire to the condition of pure metaphor, both debris and relationship seem lifted into a field of symbolic tensions that can not be resolved. I loved the many curious images, the assured lineation and language which worked on several levels at once.\
– Daljit Nagra

What My Net Dragged to the Surface: Judges’ comments

We loved the story’s setting, the tension between the characters, and of course the idea of magical papercraft; and the entire tale feels as if it were conjured directly from Bradbury’s first and last lines to create a seamless and pitch-perfect narrative. Selected from hundreds of submissions, this story impressed, delighted, and thrilled our early readers and final judges.\
– [Literary Taxidermy](https://literarytaxidermy.com/news.html)

Sunshade, Starlight: Judges’ comments

Chen Cuifen’s ‘Reunion Dinner’ is an endearing story of what happens when a family is scattered around the world, displaced over Chinese New Year, a vivid tapestry of siblings whose dialogue is fuelled by an are-we-fighting-or-just-chatting energy, and rich imagery: gooey takeaway noodles, sour plums, fresh mandarins, fireworks on the Singapore River.\
– [Kill Your Darlings](https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/books-roundup-being-black-n-chicken-chips-the-weekend-in-this-desert-there-were-seeds/)

Reunion Dinner: Reviews

Writer

Birdsong

Microfiction in the anthology 'Missed Connections: Microfiction from Asia', edited by Felix Cheong and Noelle Q. De Jesus

Jennifer

Shipwreck

Short story in 'SAMPAN' Vol 1, the LASALLE anthology of creative writing.

Off the Mat

Play, staged as part of Three Courses, ARTWALK Little India 2020

A Place Where Nothing Happened At All

The Funnies

Short story in the anthology 'Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume 6', edited by Gwee Li Sui

Golden Point Awards 2021, Honourable Mention (English Short Story Category)

What My Net Dragged To The Surface

Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2018, 1st Prize

First Date and Moving House

Sunshade, Starlight

Winner, Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition 2019

Short story in the anthology 'Pleasure to Burn'

Grow Your Own Solar System!

Reunion Dinner

Short story in the anthology 'In This Desert, There Were Seeds', edited by Elizabeth Tan and Jon Gresham.

Jacques Berthoud Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay

Honourable Mention (English Short Story category)

1st Prize

LASALLE Award for Academic Excellence (MA category)

Winner

Degree awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London

I recommend five books for Men's Folio's #TheRegularReads column.

#TheRegularRead: Writer Chen Cuifen’s List Of Books That Wind Up, Wind Down and Initiate Winds of Change

I was a contributor to Asian Books Blog’s “Lion City Lit” column in 2019, interviewing writers and recapping events.

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I am a judge for the Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition 2022.

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In September 2019, I was guest blogger for Margaret River Press, writing about writing and life.

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