SHARMINI APHRODITE

Short Fiction

Mother Tongue (anthologised in the Here Was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Eco-Writing, Mānoa Journal, University of Hawai’i Press, 2024)

South of Memory (anthologised in The Second Link: A Malaysia-Singapore Literary Anthology, Marshall Cavendish International, 2023)

My Father’s Country (featured in The Rainforest Speaks: Reimagining the Malayan Emergency, a notebook published as part of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Transpacific Literary Project)

The Exile (Prolit Mag)

The Light of God (PR&TA Journal)

Well, They Blew Up the Chicken Man in Philly Last Night (anthologised in Call and Response 2, Math Paper Press, 2021)

The Archaeologist’s Lover (Singapore Unbound)

Ouroboros, Ouroboros (Commonwealth Short Story Prize; shortlist)

Between the Mountain and the Sea (Australian Book Review Jolley Prize; second)

Beneath the Silver (Golden Point Awards; silver)

Multiply, God, their Choirs (anthologised in this is how you walk on the moon, Ethos Books, 2016)

Glint (Smokelong Quarterly)

All We Know Of (Cha: An Asian Literary Journal)

Essays and Reviews

‘Indigenous Realities: Perspectives from Borneo’: Introducing SUSPECT’s Indigenous Realities series

‘A Grain of Rice’, the London Catholic Worker’s Summer 2026 Newsletter

Editor’s Note for ARCHIPELAGIC ENTANGLEMENTS portfolio (SUSPECT)

That Great Absence: Jonathan Chan’s bright sorrow (SUSPECT)

Liturgy of the Archipelago: a conversation with internet and ambient artist Chia Amisola about folk archives and resistance, world-making, Catholicism, online materialities, and more for Touch Base by Feelers.

On Roger Aksadjuak’s Shaman’s Muskox for Inuit Art Quarterly’s CHOICE section (Issue 36.4, winter)

The Language of Landscape: Shiraz Bayjoo on Archives and Ecologies (so-far)

Colliding Routes: The Uneasy Afterlives of Saudi Arabia and Singapore (so-far)

Recordar: “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros, 30 years later (Singapore Unbound)

Sites of Communion: wounds and regeneration in the art of Mandy El-Sayegh (so-far)

Music from the End of the World: Joseph Michael’s Antarctica: while you were sleeping (Contemporary HUM)

Multiplies when Touched: Beth Piatote’s The Beadworkers (Singapore Unbound)

The Marrow of Things: Rita Bullwinkel’s Belly Up (Singapore Unbound)

The State of In-Between: dislocation and the works of Albert Samreth (so-far)

Between Light and Memory: André Hemer’s Images Cast by the Sun (Contemporary HUM)

Your Home Everywhere: Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ New Eelam: Brisbane (so-far)

Find the Gap: Borders, Escape, and the JB-SG Causeway in the works of Rifqi Amirul Rosli

Daily Devotions: An Interview with Munem Wasif (so-far)

The Unseen Sea: Diego Marcon’s Ludwig (so-far)

Frieze Art Writing Prize 2017