NEWS ARCHIVE
February 2022
Yu-Mei's short story, "A Reliable Woman," was published in the fiftieth anniversary volume of the Mississippi Review. The story is about a Vietnamese woman who lives in Singapore with her Chinese-Singaporean husband and their two children.
January 2022
Yu-Mei received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation to support the writing of her debut novel for one year. The foundation awarded 17 grants to writers in this cycle.
November 5, 2021
Yu-Mei's short story, "A Reliable Woman," was named a finalist in the Sewanee Review's 2021 Fiction Contest, even though it was withdrawn from submission after being accepted for publication elsewhere.
November 2, 2021
The U.S. Embassy in Singapore launched its virtual photography exhibition, "From Sea to Shining Sea: 55 Years of U.S.-Singapore Relations in Photos," to celebrate 55 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Singapore. Yu-Mei was the lead researcher, curator and writer for the exhibition.
October 2021
Yu-Mei’s short story, “The Prisoner,” was republished in The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories Volume Five. The anthology of seventeen stories was edited by Balli Kaur Jaswal. “The Prisoner” first appeared in the Mississippi Review, where it won the Fiction Prize in 2019, and received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in 2020.
August 2021
Yu-Mei’s short story, “A Heart the Size of an Armchair,” was republished in issue 54 of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture in the U.K. The story first appeared in the anthology, Here Now There After.
July 19, 2021
Yu-Mei’s essay, “I Light A Candle,” was published in We, the Citizens, a newsletter edited by Kirsten Han, covering Singapore with a focus on politics, democracy, human rights and social justice.
December 2020
Yu-Mei’s short story, “The Prisoner,” received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition. It previously won the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize in 2019. The story is a fictional account of a woman whose husband is detained without trial by the Singapore government under the Internal Security Act for almost ten years.
December 9, 2020
Yu-Mei was the editor for the British East and South East Asian (BESEA) Free Read Prize, organized by The Literary Consultancy in the U.K. She provided a manuscript assessment and one-to-one session for the prize winner, Anne Elicaño-Shields, as well as a manuscript assessment for the runner-up, Kwan Ann Tan.
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