Nina Mingya Powles
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essays

The Safe Zone (Granta, August 2021)

​Yoko Ono's Grapefruit Showed me the Radical Power of Self-Publishing (Elephant Magazine, Nov 2020)

On 'Writing Britain Now' (Wasafiri, October 2020)

Tofu Heart (Vittles London, Apr 2020)

​How to Eat Xiǎolóngbāo (Women Cook for Me, Mar 2020)

​Unpeel (The Margins, Dec 2019)
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excerpt from Ache: A Swimming Diary (Turbine | Kapohau, Dec 2019)

Tender Gardens (Landfall Issue 238, Nov 2019)

Faraway Love (close tinyletter, Oct 2019)

Falling City (The Shanghai Literary Review special issue: Concrete, May 2018)

I am a Forest/Fire: on Mitski & being mixed race (Oscen, Dec 2018)

Small Bodies of Water (The Willowherb Review, Dec 2018)

Blue Ocean, Yellow River: On Oceania at the Royal Academy (Hainamana Arts, Nov 2018)

A Mountain Far Away: on Kota Kinabalu (gal-dem.com, 2018)

Letters from Shanghai (The Pantograph Punch, 2018)

​A taste of home: wonton noodle soup (Food Memory Bank, 2018)

I Spy: a childhood obsessed with ghosts (The Sapling, 2017)

Teenage Witch: growing up with Hermione (The Sapling, 2017)

HUNGRY GIRLS: Growing up half Malaysian-Chinese (Mimicry, 2016)

Somewhere Else (Salient, 2016)

Friendship Cove (Salient, 2014)

Toxicity (Turbine | Kapohau, 2013)
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reviews

Review of All Who Live on Islands by Rose Lu, Landfall Review Online, 2020

Review of Dear Big Gods by Mona Arshi, The Scores, 2020

Review of Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets, Amberflora, 2019 
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