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Selected Writing
Nonfiction – Books
Jurong, My Love (chapbook)
The Substation (Singapore), 2017 and 2018 (reprint)
Written as part of the Singapore Creative Writing Residency 2013
“An achingly beautiful essay that uses the route of the 99 Bus to chart a personal and historical journey. ...the writing is stunning and tender, fierce and lilting all at once...a sharp look at how urban planning can affect the body walking in space and how different aspects of our selves are disciplined both culturally and socially.”
– Pooja Nansi, poet, ‘Love is an Empty Barstool’
“What a lovely and original little book!”
– Rodolphe De Koninck, Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal, and author, ‘Singapore's Permanent Territorial Revolution’
(out of print, PDF upon request)
Written as part of the Singapore Creative Writing Residency 2013
“An achingly beautiful essay that uses the route of the 99 Bus to chart a personal and historical journey. ...the writing is stunning and tender, fierce and lilting all at once...a sharp look at how urban planning can affect the body walking in space and how different aspects of our selves are disciplined both culturally and socially.”
– Pooja Nansi, poet, ‘Love is an Empty Barstool’
“What a lovely and original little book!”
– Rodolphe De Koninck, Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal, and author, ‘Singapore's Permanent Territorial Revolution’
(out of print, PDF upon request)
Gila Bola!: Surviving Singapore Soccer (chapbook & e-book)
Singapore Memory Project, 2012
“An e-book for all ages of soccer fans, and a must-read for an inkling into what Singapore football is all about.”
– Godfrey Roberts, Consulting Editor, The New Paper (Singapore)
“An e-book for all ages of soccer fans, and a must-read for an inkling into what Singapore football is all about.”
– Godfrey Roberts, Consulting Editor, The New Paper (Singapore)
Non-Fiction - Books
Nonfiction – Articles/Essays/Copy
Anticipate Pictures (FB & IG; copywriter & community manager)
Anticipate Pictures (Singapore), Aug 2025–ongoing
‘Renoir’ at Cannes Film Festival (FB & IG; copywriter & community manager)
Akanga Film Asia (Singapore), Apr–May 2025
Towards Bright Futures: NTUC First Campus Annual Report 2023
Factory (Singapore/Malaysia/China), Apr 2024
After Rain: Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024 catalog
Diriyah Biennale Foundation (Saudi Arabia) & Kaph Books (Lebanon/UAE), Mar 2024
“‘La Luna’: Malayan dreaming”
Jom (Singapore), Mar 2024
“Funny tongues”
Mekong Review (Australia), Vol. 9, Issue 34, Feb-Apr 2024
“Single parent, single child”
Mekong Review (Australia), Dec 2023
“Interview with Chia Chee Sum: When I See Strangers, They Look Like Family to Me”
Asian Movie Pulse (Greece), Nov 2023
‘Demon State’ – The Observatory & Koichi Shimizu (album notes)
Midnight Shift (Singapore), Sep 2022
“Yeo Siew Hua”
The Institutum (Singapore) & Weiss Publications (Germany), Apr 2022
“The Further Adventures of Sang Kancil”
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore & The MIT Press (US), Apr 2022
‘The Images Within’ – Xhin (album notes)
The Document (Singapore), Apr 2022
“Danaya Chulphuthiphong: ‘Demos’”
Vdrome (Italy), May 2020
SOURCE x Audible Lands (vodcasts; copywriter)
Eric Lee, Migrant Worker Musicians, Otomo Yoshihide & The Observatory, Singapore International Festival of Arts – SIFA, May 2020
“Mayfy Docus: ‘Die Tomorrow’ and ‘14 Apples’ at SIFA’s Singular Screens”
ArtsEquator (Singapore), May 2018
A Land Imagined《 幻 土 》(FB & IG; copywriter & community manager)
Akanga Film Asia (Singapore), Feb 2018–present
“‘Art Studio’ by Nine Years Theatre: Back to the Page”
ArtsEquator (Singapore), Aug 2017
“Three O.P.E.N. S.E.A. Documentaries”
ArtsEquator (Singapore), Jul 2017
“Fiji Calling”
Time Out Singapore, Jan 2017
“Lorong Halus”
Infopedia (Singapore), Nov 2016
“Sixth Avenue”
Infopedia (Singapore), Jul 2016
“Appraising the Apprentice”
The Online Citizen (Singapore), Jul 2016
“Alfian Sa’at”
Infopedia (Singapore), Mar 2016
Keppel Land (FB, IG, & Twitter; copywriter)
Goodstuph (Singapore), Jan 2016–Sep 2017
The Ascott Limited, Somerset Serviced Residence, & Citadines Apart’hotel (FB, IG, & Twitter; copywriter)
Goodstuph (Singapore), Jan 2016–Apr 2017
Non-Fiction - Articles
Fiction
'Con!' (full-length play)
Partial dramatised reading as part of Late Night Texting (Centre 42, Singapore, 2016)
Partial dramatised reading as part of Deracinate: A New Word Order Reading (The Arts House & University Scholars Programme, both Singapore, 2013)
Partial dramatised reading as part of Deracinate: A New Word Order Reading (The Arts House & University Scholars Programme, both Singapore, 2013)
Revised History to the Tertiary Period (postcards & website)
As part of the Singapore Creative Writing Residency, 2013
“Staying Over” (one-act play)
Published in Voices Clear and True: New Singapore Plays Volume 1 (Checkpoint Theatre, Singapore, 2012)
Staged by Buds Theatre (Singapore) as part of Going Local (2010)
“Very impressive is Dan Koh’s dark and nuanced play of class divide, 'Staying Over'. It believably portrays the snobbery exercised by a well-off bungalow-dwelling Singaporean family towards anyone below their socioeconomic class.”
– Helmi Yusof, The Business Times (Singapore)
Staged by Buds Theatre (Singapore) as part of Going Local (2010)
“Very impressive is Dan Koh’s dark and nuanced play of class divide, 'Staying Over'. It believably portrays the snobbery exercised by a well-off bungalow-dwelling Singaporean family towards anyone below their socioeconomic class.”
– Helmi Yusof, The Business Times (Singapore)
“Buffet” (short play)
Staged by Checkpoint Theatre (Singapore) as part of The Power of Notions / Notions of Power (2011)
“Paper Tiger” (short play)
Staged by NUS Stage (Singapore) as part of It’s Complicated (2009)
Fiction - Plays
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