NEWS ARCHIVE
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.
September 2020
Yu-Mei’s short story, “What They’re Doing Here,” was republished in Best Singaporean Short Stories 1 in the U.K.
June 22, 2020
Yu-Mei’s first work of flash fiction, “The Children,” was published in The Straits Times in Singapore. It was commissioned by the Straits Times and the National Arts Council, Singapore as part of a literary series responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 2019
Yu-Mei received a Tennessee Williams scholarship to attend the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Founded in 1989, the conference accepts about 130 poets, fiction writers and playwrights annually.
February 2019
Yu-Mei’s short story, “The Prisoner,” won the annual Mississippi Review Fiction Prize. 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.
September-October 2017
Yu-Mei received an artist's grant to participate in a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship from Ragdale Foundation to participate in a residency at Ragdale.
August-november 2015
Yu-Mei was selected to represent Singapore at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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