Features 

Her World Singapore:
Erotic poet Marylyn Tan: How surrendering to physical pain helped heal emotional wounds’ [Op-ed]

A Magazine:
Marylyn Tan: I’ve Always Been Attracted To The Lonely Narrative [interview]

L’officiel Singapore:
Poet Marylyn Tan on why she is unafraid of being seen as a “disobedient woman” [interview]

Female Mag:
17 LGBTQIA+ Creatives And The New Voices And Perspectives They Bring [feature]

Junk Asia:
And So, What is Poetry? Poet Marylyn Tan talks revolution, nasi kang kang, and healing trauma. [interview]

DIVA Magazine:
Marylyn Tan: “Writing is pretty much the only line I have to community”[interview]

Straits Times:
– Pandemic Power List: Poet Marylyn Tan blazes the trail with Singapore Literature Prize win [link]
– 30 and under: Young Singaporeans to watch [link]
– Poet Marylyn Tan, historic Singapore Literature Prize-winner, is not afraid to get her verse dirty [article]
– Singapore Literature Prize: Marylyn Tan is first woman to win for English poetry [article]
– Meet the ‘rebel girls’ of Singapore poetry [interview] “Tan, 25, writes about women, bodies and sexuality with unflinching frankness.”

TheHomeground Asia:
In Conversation With: Marylyn Tan, Writer, Artist [interview]

CLEO:
Singapore Poet Marylyn Tan reads and explains BLADES NAMED DELILAH
Writing Poems Doesn’t Pay The Bills, Yet Poet Marylyn Tan Continues. Here’s Why [interview]

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore: Proust Questionnaire: 17 questions with Marylyn Tan [interview]

Our Grandfather Story – Something Private Podcast Episode 44 [interview] 

CNA938: #SingaporeStories with Eugene Loh [interview]

City Nomads: 9 Groundbreaking Singaporean Writers to Read in 2021 [listicle]

EastTeaWest: S1 High Tea Privilege (Cultural Appropriation) [podcast]

ReadNUS: Behind the Book – Singapore Literature Edition with Marylyn Tan [interview]

Reviews of my debut poetry title: GAZE BACK (Ethos Books, 2018)

AAWW Caution, Extremely Hot Stuff
Gaze Back (Ethos Books, 2018) is a book that could be considered “difficult” anywhere in the world: exploding gender and sex norms, raunch-ifying beauty standards, overturning power dynamics, scandalizing institutional religion, rejecting the comfortable at every turn […]

Singapore Unbound “Shitty Science Experiment”
Tan’s imagined body is a wonderful landscape, gazing upon even the most pungent and disobedient forms.

Mackerel Magazine Five for the Road
A distinctive voice that is much-needed in our age of #metoo and the ever-persistent overwhelming ghost of the patriarchy, this book is prophecy at its finest. 

Other Published Work 

In print:
Divining Dante (“Queer Filth Inferno”)
Lontar #10: Spring 2018
Witch Craft Mag Issue 4
Bubble Gum & Death Metal zine Issue 1
Rollercoasters & Bedsheets: An Anthology Of Sex In Minutes
A LUXURY WE MUST AFFORD (anthology)
Asingbol: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form

Online:

Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
not a necro just a romancer [poem]

Singapore Unbound Blog
Three Poems by Marylyn Tan [poems]
A Small Blond Pile of Emptiness Shot Through With Strange Human Feeling [book review]

Asian Film Archive
Pleasure in the Ungovernable [film article]

Superstition Review
bvtch swag [poem]

The Pickled Body
Issue 3.2 Egg – Nongendered R’Lyehian Erotique [poem]

LONTAR #10: Spring 2018
Toader [fiction]

Cordite Poetry Review
POME/struck | Tulala (transcreation from the Tagalog by Becker Beckerbone) [poem]

yell/shout/scream – The Way We Did It

• Featured at Dancing with the Devil: a Photo Exhibition by Kieran Cheang
• Featured at Live at Reading Room: UnFree & Unspoken
• Featured at IndigNation SG’s Contradiction XIII: HOMO BOMOH
• Rambutan Literary: [OILY BLANKET FEET (poem)] [Five Paintings (visual art)]
• The Literateur [DIRTY WORD, rotisserie, NASI KANG KANG]
• Featured on the debate/panel Punch Lines! #1 by Ethos Books
• QUEER ART BASH BACK (a masqueerades event)
• Shortlisted for Sing Lit Station’s Manuscript Bootcamp
• Text in the City [YOU COULD TAKE A LITTLE TRIP]
• Featured at Speakeasy #30: The Valentine’s Edition 2017
• Published in The Pickled Body Issue 3.2 Egg – Nongendered R’Lyehian Erotique
  Published in Superstition Review – bvtch swag
• Published in ASINGBOL: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form
• Wrote/directed/performed HOUSE PARTY with Marc Nair and Shivram Gopinath
• Published in Inheritance: An Anthology (Upcoming)
• Featured at Creative Writing NTU’s event Tell It Slant: Aesthetics, Sexuality, Activism (April 2016)
• Featured at Centre 42’s Late-Night Texting 
• Published in APEP Publications’ Critters & Gods: The Maenads Zine (art)
• Published in Lockjaw Magazine (art)
• Published in A Luxury We Must Afford Anthology (Upcoming)
• Published in The Private Lives of Rollercoasters & Bedsheets
• Published in PRESS: 100 LOVE LETTERS Anthology (Upcoming)
• Published in SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology
• Featured at Kink Dot: An Evening of Alternative Queer Erotica
• Custom-written poetry at East Imperial’s Gin Jubilee 2015 by Hendrick’s Gin
• WOMEN FOR THE RECORD #28 by Hedgebrook + EtiquetteSG
• Singapore National Poetry Festival 2015 – Artists’ Night Out
• Singapore Heritage Fest – Night Out at Tiong Bahru: Reclaimed Space by Party Action People
• Speakeasy #20 feat. Marylyn Tan & Jollin Tan
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by The Henderson Project
• DESTRUCTION & REBIRTH @ The Mill – Official Closing Party
• Opening line-up for Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye (Live In Singapore) by Project VOICE
• SPORE Art Salon – 4th ANNIV. Zentai Poetry Animation & CAKE!
• Art zines at Singapore Art Book Fair 2014
• Published in SingPoWriMo 2014: The Anthology
• Off the Page – Reads: The Beholder Has Many Eyes – A Poetry Reading on Beauty (Singapore Writers Festival 2014)
• Creatrix Magazine by Paul Pereira
• SPEAK at Canvas Singapore, Oct 2014
• Lit Up 2014 – Everybody Hertz
• DaBao Poetry
• A Minor Contradiction 2014 (IndigNation SG)
• Mass Hysteria Relapsed! (IndigNation SG)
• SPORE Art Salon 46th edition
• The National Youth Poetry Slam League (Singapore): 4 Questions, 3 Poets: February 2014 – Marylyn
  
• Word Forward’s Under-21 Poetry Slams – First Place (July 2014)
• Word Forward’s regular Poetry Slams
• Published in CAP Commemorative Anthology Space Between The Lines
• Performed at Singapore Biennale 2014’s closing weekend
• Published in The April Reader Issue 23 (February 2013)
• Published in Creative Arts Programme 2012 Anthology: Baring Soles
• Published in Creative Arts Programme 2011 Anthology: Winnowing Memories
• Published in SMRT’s Moving Words Anthology
• Merit Prize in Words Go Round 2012 Heartland Haiku Competition