donnalyn xu


writer - poet - arts worker - editor




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Essays


Every Ode to Girlhood is An ElegyThe Suburban Review, Issue #30: SPICE
Self-Portrait of a Yellow WomanPeril Magazine
Crying on the Train Ride HomeFOLK Magazine
Do My Tits Bother You? | Women’s Honi
Notes on Shanghai | Overland Literary Magazine
The revival of still life | Honi Soit
Ode to the Ampersand | Honi Soit, winner of the 2019 Honi Soit Awards for Best Analysis

Criticism 


Review: ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ is a Superbly Woven Ode to Generations of Palestinian Women | Rough Cut
Exact Illusions (review of Clarice Beckett) | Liminal Magazine, the Liminal Review of Books
split fruit (citrus heart) (review of Cham Zhi Yi) | Liminal Magazine, The Liminal Review of Books
Smoke and Mirrors: Pachinko | The Big Issue, Issue #659
Review of TAKE CARE by Eunice Andrada | Mascara Literary Review


Academic


Echoes of Maria Clara: Memory, (Im)materiality, and Poetics in Filipino Dress | Honours Thesis, University of Sydney, awarded the University Medal and the Francis Stuart Prize for best Honours or Masters thesis on Asian art
Transient Feelings: Autoethnographic Vignettes on Digital Intimacy and Interiority | Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 14(1), 117–120.


Profiles

Larissa Blake | Art Edit
Unwell Bunny | Art Edit


Other


Stay Home DiaryBitter Melon Poetry
Equity in art opportunities | Arts Hub