Adeline Loh
is a writer and graduate student by research from Singapore. She holds a BA (Hons) in Literature from Yale-NUS College, and is presently a MA candidate in English Literature at Nanyang Technological University. Her research interests include contemporary East Asian and Sinophone women’s writing and media on love and feminism.
Adeline’s writing has been published in anthologies and journals including sinθ and The Madrigal, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets. Her writing practice attends to both grief and delight as expansive sites of possibility.
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Nanyang Technological University (2023-2025)
Master of Arts in English Literature (Research)Awarded the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Teaching Assistantship Scholarship (inclusive of full tuition fee waiver and a monthly stipend)Dissertation: Love and Revolution in 20th Century Chinese and Sinophone Women’s Writing (tentative)Yale-NUS College (2017-2021)
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Literature with a minor in Arts and Humanities (Creative Writing and Theatre)Grade: Distinction (4.46/5.0)Capstone Thesis: The Point(s) of Love: The Courses of Romantic Fate in Eileen Chang’s Half a Lifelong Romance and A.S. Byatt’s Possession
Supervised by Dr. Carissa FooAwarded the Yale-NUS College Writing Fellowship (2018)
Writing
Selected Poems
‘Daphne, Always Running’, The Madrigal (Volume VII, February 2023)‘Nausikaa’, sinθ (Issue #20 “EVENING 暮”, August 2021)
Shortlisted for the third annual sinθ Summer Writing Contest, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New PoetsTwo Poems, SPOONFEED Magazine (Issue 2, March 2021)‘on having to restock my refrigerator’, sinθ (Issue #17 “STICKY 粘”, November 2020)Anthologies
SingPoWriMo 2018: The Anthology. eds Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Ng Yi-Sheng, Stephanie Dogfoot, Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr. (Math Paper Press, 2018) — “MY HEAD WILL NOT BOW FOR YOU”Awards
Yale-NUS College Literary Awards, Third Place for Creative Non-fiction (2021)
Selected by judge Shubigi RaoYale-NUS College Literary Awards, First Place for Creative Non-fiction (2020)
Selected by judge Linda CollinsYale-NUS College Literary Awards, Second Place for Creative Non-fiction, Honourable Mention for Poetry (2019)
Selected by judges David Carlin and Pooja Nansi
Appearances
Events
Poetry Reading: Wonders of Poetry, Poetry Festival Singapore (7th August 2021)sinθ Issue #17 “STICKY 粘” Launch Reading (29th November 2020)Words in Progress: Manuscript Intensive Weekend, Yale-NUS College (17-18 January 2020)
Panel Moderator for ‘History to the Present: Dr. Boey Kim Cheng and Daryl Lim Wei Jie’Summer Writing Fellowship in Greece Reading, Yale-NUS College (2nd September 2019)Workshops
Invitation & Inquiry: A Revision-Centred Poetry Workshop with Chen Chen, Asia Creative Writing Programme (June to July 2023)Manuscript Bootcamp, Sing Lit Station (August 2021)
Finalist in PoetryWords in Progress: Manuscript Intensive Weekend, Yale-NUS College (22-23 February 2021)Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos (June to July 2018)Experience
Words in Progress: Manuscript Intensive Weekend, Yale-NUS College (17-18 January 2020)
Organising CommitteeYale-NUS College Literary Collective (2017 to 2021)
Executive Committee and Anthology Editor