Choo Yi Feng

Fiction / Writing

• My debut short story collection, The Waiting Room

Choo Yi Feng (he/him) is an intertidal explorer, climate activist, ecologist and fiction writer. The Waiting Room is his debut short story collection. Elsewhere, his short stories have previously been published in Foglifter Journal, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Queer Southeast Asia and Alluvium, the journal of Literary Shanghai. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2022.

Queer, speculative, liminal, watery, ecological writing. Fairy tale wishes gone wrong. Bodies that dwell in the inseams of ruins. Time flowing in circles.

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Events:

• Discarded Time: Disposal, Forgetfulness, and Plastic’s Undying Resistance, presented at Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin (2024)

• Scared Silly: Exploring Southeast Asian Horror, presented at Singapore Writer's Festival 2024

Short stories / flash fiction (available online):

• We Don't Sleep At Night, Mānoa (2024)

• Dredge, New Naratif (2023)

• Plastic Bag Girl, Anathema Spec (2022)

• Sentosa Forever, Queer Southeast Asia (2022)

• Empire and Catastrophe, PR&TA (2021)

• An Investor's Guide to Abyssal Burial, Alluvium (2021)

• Rooms by the Sea, Quartery Literary Review Singapore (2019)

Short stories (ebook or physical copy):

Voices from the Line, Bayou Magazine (2023)

• Spider Hunters, Foglifter Journal (2022)

Parlour, Curios Issue 6 (2020)

Non-fiction:

• SIFA X oneirism: Art Entangling Audience (2022)

• A Greener Stage: Art in the Climate Crisis (2024)

• Norwich in Layers (2025)

• The Fight for Singapore's Wild Spaces (2026)