Short Publications and Awards

Short Fiction 

“Fault Lines.” The Malahat Review. Fall 2019 Issue. 

Opening line: Dai Ying and the “boyfriend” she rented for four-hundred yuan per day lingered near the entrance of an ancient quadrangle courtyard in Yibin, where her grandma, Poh-Poh, still lived.

• • Reprinted in The Spirits Have Nothing To Do With Us. Wolsak and Wynn, 2023.
  • Nominated by The Malahat Review for the National Magazine Award and Journey Prize. 
  • Longlisted, Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, The New Quarterly, 2018.
  • Second place, Spark Literary Award, Aug 2018.

“Sparrow.” Clarkesworld. Oct 2018 Issue.

Opening line: The rooftop is quiet except for the hum of a plane passing overhead, heading to a faraway elsewhere.

Reviewed by Realms & Robots, Quick Sip Reviews, and SFRevu. 

• • Reprinted in the anthology A Multiplicity of Stories, Fall 2020.
  • Reprinted in in Mithila Review‘s issue 13, 2020. 
  • Reprinted in Sequestrum, 2020.
  • Runner up for Editor’s Reprint Award, Sequestrum, 2019. 
  • Reprinted in Kasma SF, named Kasma’s “story of the year,” Sept 2019 Issue.
  • Nebula Awards Suggested Reading List, 2018.
  • Finalist, Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction, The Malahat Review, 2017.

Poems

• “A Glossary for Moving Overseas.” Wasafiri, Issue 117, Spring 2024.
• “Moving, Again.” CV2, July 2022. 
• “A Sichuan Diaspora Daughter’s Kitchen.” The Ex-Puritan, Feb 2022. 
• “The Reality of Ghosts.” Fantasy Magazine, Aug 2021.
  
  • Finalist for the Aurora Award
  • Nominated for a Rhysling Award
  • Featured on Tor Nightfire, Into the Night: August 2021’s Best Horror Fiction and Poetry
• “Where are you and your fish really from?.” Arc Poetry Magazine, Summer 2019 Issue.
• “International Exchange.” Grain, Summer 2018 Issue.
• “Absent.” Contemporary Verse 2, Summer 2018 Issue.
• “an incomplete elegy.” LooseLeaf Magazine Vol. 3, 2017.
• “Straw Man.” Abyss & Apex, 2017.

Essays and Articles

• “Faded Poems and Intimate Conversations.” The League of Canadian Poets’ National Poetry Month Blog Series “On Intimacy.” 2022.
• “What Speculative Fiction Writers Can Learn From the Origins and Evolution of the Wuxia Genre.” SFWA Bulletin. 2021. 
• “Barriers, Privileges, and Invisible Labor: A Sino Diaspora Translator’s Perspective.” Words WIthout Borders. 2021. 
  • Featured in Lit Hub Weekly: The Best of the Literary Internet 
• “A Xiákè in Jiānghú: Wǔxiá Fiction, Translations, and #RacismInCanLit.” carte blanche. 2019.
  
• “What I learned from Wayson Choy and The Jade Peony.” The Toronto Star. 2019.
• “Finn Slough: An Off-Grid Urban Wilderness on the Fraser River.” The Tyee. 2015.

Translations

Poetry

• “lace edgings” (蕾丝边 by Tanya Chien), Hungry Zine, 2023. 
• “the hand raised with the whip would not stop,” Room Magazine, 2022.
• “Soliloquy” (独白 by Zhang Qiaohui 张巧慧), The Common, 2022.
• “the wind would not stop” (风不止 by Xiao Xi 小西), Guernica, 2022.
• 2 poems translated from the Chinese. Poetry Magazine, 2022.
• “lantern” (灯 by Fei Ming 废名). The Ex-Puritan, 2021.
• 5 poems by Qiu Jin, Asymptote Magazine, 2021.
  
  • Reprinted in NüVoices.
• 3 poems by Qiu Jin, LA Review of Books China Channel, 2021.
• “Night Moths” (the poem 夜蛾 by Da Wangshu 戴望舒), Samovar, 2020.

Fiction

• “Moonlight Lament” (明月怆 by Han Yu 寒郁). Pathlight: New Chinese Writing. Forthcoming.
• Translated 2 stories and wrote an essay for the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom). March 2022.

Interviews 

• “On Poetic Origins, Creative Space, and Writing Across Genres: An Interview with Gillian Sze,” The Ex-Puritan, 2022. 
• “Transmitting the Strange: A Conversation with Lydia Kwa,” Augur Magazine, 2020.
• “Ghosts and Fox Spirits: Janie Chang on the Power of Speculative Fiction,” Room Magazine‘s Magic Issue, 2019.
• “Anna Holmwood,” Nineteen Questions. 2018.

Programs

• Clarion West Writers Workshop 2020/2021.
• MFA in Creative Writing. The University of British Columbia. 2016-2020.
• BFA in Creative Writing. The University of British Columbia. 2010-2015.
  • Mentee. UBC Arts Tri-Mentoring program. Mentored by Vancouver Sun‘s editor Valerie Casseleton.

Awards & Honors

• Finalist, National Magazine Awards (Poetry), 2023.
• Finalist, Aurora Award (Poetry), 2023.
• Foster Poetry Prize from Contemporary Verse 2, 2022. 
• American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Virtual Travel Fellowship, 2021. 
• “The Silence of Farewells.” Finalist, Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction, The Malahat Review, 2021.
• “A Sichuan Diaspora Daughter’s Kitchen.” Longlist, CBC Poetry Prize, 2020. 
• Nominated for the poetry category of the Best of the Net, 2019.
• Shortlist, The University of East Anglia’s David TK Wong Fellowship, 2019.
• “Burning Noodles.” 3rd place, Federation of BC Writer’s Creative Non-fiction contest, 2016.

Grants

• Yilin gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, and the Access Copyright Foundation.