Category Archives: Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Cha contributors in Asia Literary Review

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The Autumn 2011 issue of Asia Literary Review, themed “Food”, is now available. Read Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s essay “Scavenging on Gold Mountain: of Food and Poetry”, Wena Poon’s story “Fideuà” and Reid Mitchell’s poems “Mouth Purses for a Kiss”, “Jabberwock Sandwiches” and “Wise Onion” in the new issue.
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CHA contributors in QLRS

Cha contributors Lee Yew Leong and Shirley Geok-lin Lim have works published in the October 2009 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read Yew Leong’s story “Gross Domestic Happiness” and article “The Mise En Abyme in Byatt’s The Matisse Stories” and Shirley’s review article “Singapore Between Past and Future“. Also included in the issue is a review of Gilbert Koh’s poetry collection Two Baby Hands.

Yew Leong Lee’s short story “The Disappearance” was published in the February 2009 issue (issue#6) of Cha.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry has been published in issue #3 of Cha.
Gilbert Koh’s poetry has been published in issue #4 of Cha.

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CHA contributors in Asiatic

Cha contributors have works featured in the latest issue (June 2009) of Asiatic: Journal of English  Language and Literature. Read Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s article “Writing for Asian Children: History, Fantasy, and Identity“(PDF), Agnes Lam’s review (PDF) of Singapore Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography and her own poem, “Vanilla in the Star“(PDF). Also featured in the issue is David C.E. Tneh’s poem, “Orchard Dreams“(PDF). Cha will be featuring David’s two Orchard poems, “Orchard Dreams” and “Orchard Memories”, in the August 2009 issue of the journal.

  • Anges Lam’s poetry has been published in issue #2 of Cha.
  • Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry has been published in issue #3 of Cha.
  • David C.E. Tneh’s poetry will be published in issue #8 of Cha.
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International Workshop on Diasporas: Cultural Transfer

“Diasporas: Cultural Transfer” is an international workshop organised by the Faculty of Arts at The University of Hong Kong in collaboration with the University of Nottingham. This is the second in a series of international workshops bringing together scholars from U21 universities who are currently working on various aspects of “Diaspora.” The focus of the workshop will be cultural and historical. Each participant will present a short academic paper. The overarching focus of the workshop will be ‘cultural transfer,’ and a special strand will be organised dealing specifically with cultural transfer between ‘Asia and the West’.

Cha contributors Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Ouyang Yu will present papers in the conference. Other speakers featured are: Ien Ang, Roger Bromley, Tim Bunnell, Malcolm Campbell, Leong Koon Chan, Pheng Cheah, Rey Chow, Hilary Chung, Andrew Cobbing, Cristina Demaria , Raymond Donovan, Siggy Frank, Paul Gladston, Zahera Harb, Elaine Yee-lin Ho, Kwai Cheung Lo, Bernard McGuirk, Yuriko Nagata, Nessa O’Mahony, Kazuo Oikawa, David M. Pomfret, Jean-Xavier Ridon, Shuang Shen, Sandhya Shukla, Judith Still, Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Michael J. Zambon, and Vladimir Zoric.
Date: 11-13 December 2008
Venue: MB150 / Convocation Room, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong
For more details or registration, please visit the conference website or send an email to Fiona Chung (fionachung@hku.hk).
  • Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
  • Ouyang Yu’s poetry was published in issue #4 of Cha.
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Mascara Poetry #4

Mascara #4 (editors: Boey Kim Cheng and Michelle Cahill) is now live with poetry by Peter Boyle, Tenzin Tsundue, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Sean Singer, Francesca Haig, Indran Amirthanayagam, Kylie Rose, Jessika Tong, Michael Sharkey, Jal Nicholl, Liam Ferney, Debbie Lim, Ashley Capes, Jane Kim, Ouyang Yu, Peter Davis and more. Visit the new issue of Mascara here.

  • Michelle Cahill’s poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha.
  • Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
  • Ouyang Yu’s poetry was published in issue #4 of Cha.