Contributing Chapter

Perspectives on a Young Woman’s Suicide (Routledge, 2021)
Chapter 11. ‘Writing to Remain: Two Diaries from Young Women Who Wrote to Survive’ byLinda Collins. This book is a vital addition to the library of any researcher, academic, or professional interested in suicide and suicide prevention.
Anthologies

Call and Response 2: A Singapore Migrant Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2021) A short story, ‘Hunger’.

A View to Stars: Stories of Love (Marshall-Cavendish, 2020). A short story, ‘Altaire and Vega Over Ghim Moh’.
Articles, commentary and creative nonfiction

Victoria, 16, playing the ukelele.
Newsroom NZ. Personal essay.
Victoria always. A day in the life of author Linda Collins after the suicide of her teenage daughter
tss.co.uk. Creative nonfiction: ‘Departure from the motherland’.
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Literary Mama. Personal essay. ‘Write of passage: Telling a daughter’s story.’
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The Spinoff. A guest commentary
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Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore (QLRS). An essay, ‘A Safe Distance’
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Ethos Books blog. An essay, ‘Losing Jean Marshall: the last meeting’.
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Swamp journal for post-graduate creative writing. A personal essay, ‘My illogical sooth-sayer’.
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Ethos Books blog. Personal essay. ‘A note on book awards, Loss Adjustment, and ghosts’.
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Ethos newsletter. A letter to readers.
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Poetry
Poem, chickadee, in the UK’s bath magg:
https://www.bathmagg.com/lindacollins/
Poem, Into the Drink, in UEA MA Poetry Anthology 2022
https://www.bookdepository.com/UEA-MA-Poetry-Anthology-2022-Tiffany-Atkinson/9781913861773
Poem, End Notes, in UEA Creative Writing Society Anthology, Late for a Meeting:
https://www.eggboxpublishing.com/product-page/late-to-a-meeting
Cordite Poetry Review. ‘Is it safe to cross?’
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Oyster River Pages. ‘The shortest poem in America’.
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Fanning the flames. UEA Eggboxzine. ‘Resistance is Fertile’, and ‘Armed forces’.
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prometheus dreaming. ‘Linguism.’
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https://www.eggboxpublishing.com/product-page/late-to-a-meeting
Awards
2022. Runner-up, Mslexia Poetry Contest (single poem).
2021. Shortlisted for Bridport Prize in Poetry.
2020. Loss Adjustment shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards.
– International Excellence scholarship from the University of East Anglia, UK.
2019. Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Very Short Story contest for ‘Lavender’.
2018. Shortlisted for the Hachette Australia trans-tasman mentorship. Long-listed for the New Zealand flash fiction awards.