A short biography

JENNY WONG is a writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Her favorite places to wander are Tokyo alleys, Singapore hawker centers, and Parisian cemeteries. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net Anthology, Best Small Fiction Awards, and The Forward Prize - Best Single Poem (Written). She resides in Canada near the Rocky Mountains.

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2023

"When I Let the Dog Out in the Middle of the Night" - iamb - wave 16 ⭐Nominated for The Forward Prize 2024 - Best Single Poem (Written)⭐

"The Cartographers" (reprint) - iamb - wave 16

"What Really Happens When I Sit Alone at Parties" (reprint) - iamb - wave 16

"Boca do Inferno" - Flash Boulevard, November 2023

"A Drowning on Dry Land" - Flash Boulevard, November 2023

"The Collector of Bourlanda Alley" - Flash Boulevard, November 2023

"Across" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, November 2023

"Perhaps One Day All Things Will Reach the Sea" (reprint) - the pearl - a print anthology. the tide rises, the tide falls, 2023.

"leaves" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, September 2023

"Tunnel Vision" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, June 2023

"Notes to Myself on Chore Day " (reprint) - Pinhole Poetry - Volume 1 Selected. Pinhole Poetry, 2023.

"Lactic Acid" - Roi Fainéant Press, POWER -An Ode to BIPOC Excellence in conjunction with Howard University ⭐Nominated for Best of the Net 2023⭐

"When My Thoughts Become Cheshire Cats in Night Time Trees - Whispers and Teeth" - Roi Fainéant Press, COLD - An RF Press Special Issue

2022

"The Night Gardener" - Nightingale & Sparrow, Issue XVI - starlight, Autumn 2022

"August Storms Again" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, December 2022

"There is a Garden Inside My Mitochondria" - Hayden’s Ferry Review, Tiny Architectures Issue

"The Cartographers" - Hayden’s Ferry Review, Tiny Architectures Issue

"Hiking Haiku from Sleeping Buffalo Mountain" - Sylvia Magazine, November 2022

"Petunias" - Five Minutes, November 2022

"Petunias" (short film version) - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, November 2022

"Framing October in My Bedroom Window" - unstamatic, The Unconditional* Acceptance Issue

"Conversation Killers for Asian Girls" - streetcake, issue 81, part 2

"At Kitsilano Beach" - Rust + Moth, Winter 2022

"August Storms" - Yuzu Press, Issue 4

"Notes to Myself on Chore Day" - Pinhole Poetry, Volume 1, Issue 3 ⭐Nominated for Best of the Net 2022⭐

"Air Plants" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, October 2022

"Things the Moon Does in its Crescent Shape" - Honey Literary, Issue 4

"A Commuter’s Journey into Sunset" - Honey Literary, Issue 4

"Singapore Changi Airport at 2am" - Scrawl Place, July 2022

"A Short Observation on the Diaspora of Sea Glass" - The Hennepin Review, July 2022

"Modern Food Lore" - an interview with FolkHeart Press, July 2022

"The Evening Habits of Lora, Age 89" - Pigeon Review, June 2022

"Polygon" - SplitLip Tenth Anniversary Issue Tiny Flash Fiction Finalist

"A Warning of Incoming Tides" - Skyway Journal - Lighthouse Fiction, May 2022

"Finding Inspiration in the Everyday" - Guest blog post on mandirapattnaik.com, May 2022

"still, in this house" - Full House Literary, Featured Creators - Poetry, April 2022

"apple | Compostable Morsels" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, March 2022

"tomatoes | Compostable Morsels" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, March 2022

"tea bag| Compostable Morsels" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, March 2022

"peach| Compostable Morsels" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, March 2022

"tiger lily| Compostable Morsels" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, March 2022

"table scraps| Compostable Morsels" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, March 2022

"lemon | Compostable Morsels" - YouTube, uploaded by jenwithwords, March 2022

"Two Pillowed Heads" - Shortlisted for Briefly Write’s Write 10, Win 10 Contest

"When She Set the Alarm for Two" - Roi Fainéant Press, Octopus 8 Issue

"Tonight, I Do Not Love the Sea (and Questions I Ask the Shore)" - Kissing Dynamite, Issue 38

"In the Small Corners of Overlapping Dreams" - Gastropoda - January 2022

2021

"Mothership" - The Red House: An Anthology of Genre and Speculative Poetry - Volume 2. Cypress Press, 2021.

"When Kitty Pryde Phases Through a Wall" - Marvelous Verses. The Daily Drunk, 2021.

"The Star Scavengers" - Longlisted for Uncharted Magazine’s Summer Sci-Fi/Fantasy Short Story Award

"Ghost Reservoir on a Mid-Autumn Night" - Acropolis Journal, Issue 2: Moon

"Bringing to Light: A Gathering and Tethering of Memory in Darla Himeles’s Cleave" - The Rumpus, Book Reviews

"Alligators in a Frozen Bayou" - Moss Puppy Mag, Issue 1: Swampland | Autumn 2021

"Periodic Elements" - Tiny Molecules, Issue 10

"At Oldman River" - Five Minutes - September 2021

"Perhaps One Day All Things Will Reach the Sea" - the tide rises, the tide falls - August 2021

"Paying Bills Just Before Midnight" - Porridge Magazine - August 2021

"Glemore Reservoir" - Paddler Press, Vol. 1 - Canoe Lake Memories, 2021.

"Domestic Blindings" - Janus Literary, Volume 1, Issue 4

"When Water Returns to the Salt Edged Shore" - Briefly Zine, Issue 5 and Shortlisted for Fractured Lit’s100 Word Story Mini-Contest

"Overhead, the Night Sky is Stained with Light" - The Platform Review

"Packing Up" - The Platform Review

"Lilac Bush" - The Hopper, Issue 6.1

"What Really Happens When I Sit Alone at Parties" - Splonk, Issue 5 ⭐Nominated for Best of the Net 2021⭐Longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fiction 2022⭐

"A Collusion of Season and Cloud" - Dwelling Lit, May 2021: Greenhouse Issue

"Soju the Mechanic’s Cat" - Feline Utopia Anthology, April 2021.

"Discount Bin Forecasts for Winter Conditions" - Feral, Issue 7 - The Weather Issue

"Rua Augusta" - The Shore Poetry, Issue 9

"Lunchtime Yoga on the Conference Room Floor" - The Adriatic, Issue Three - ‘Mind & Body’

"Wiping Window Sills During a Springtime Storm" - The Night Heron Barks, Winter 2021

"To the Made Up Girl Who Told Me Concealer Hides Freckles" - Versification - February Issue - BODY Positivity

"While Storms Gather in the Stereo" - Flash Frog - February 1, 2021

"A Pink Shatter of Light" - Second Chance Lit, Issue 1

2020

"the sun is alone" - Emerge Literary Journal: 2020, Issue 16

"consider the word pare" - Emerge Literary Journal: 2020, Issue 16

"The Storm Ferries" - Savant-Garde, Issue 4 ⭐Nominated for Best of the Net 2021⭐

"The Boxing Trees" - ARC Poetry Magazine 93

"Hellabora, Patron Saint of Dark Blooms" - Crow & Cross Keys, Issue 1

"Lexicon of Lost Words by Daughters" - Parentheses, Issue 10 ⭐Nominated for Best of the Net 2021⭐

"Jeannie’s Guide to Wonton Girls" - Burnt Breakfast, Issue 2

"A Word of Caution when Foraging for Arnica" - Mookychick - Oct. 26, 2020

"April Snowfalls" - Split Rock Review - Issue 15, Fall 2020

"On the Road up to Helios Lake" - Truffle Magazine, Issue 2

"Meet at the Pub on Rua de Lisboa" - The Cabinet of Heed, Issue Thirty-Eight September 2020.

"Gospel Bay Waters" - animated film, Moving Words 2020. Arts by the People, 2020.

"Three Tiers of Campground Adulting" - perhappened mag - issue 3: HEATWAVE

"The Most Recent Addition to the Uniform was a Bulletproof Vest" - YYC POP: Poetic Portraits of People. Frontenac House Poetry, 2020.

"The Fortune Teller’s Daughter" - Ellipsis Zine

"The Demolition of Art Central" - New Forum - Volume #2

"A Subtle Burn of Ginger" - FlashFlood - National Flash Fiction Day 2020⭐Nominated for a Pushcart Prize⭐Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2020 ⭐

"Surface Tension" - CircleShow 21, Winter/Spring 2020

"Re-Watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in Your Thirties" - CircleShow 21, Winter/Spring 2020

Book Review of Wander-Thrush by David Crews - The Hopper, June 2020

"The Day Before She Unpacks Her Suitcase One Last Time" - Iceberg Tales, Issue #2

"An Incomplete Classification of Tidepools" - The Beach Hut

"Drinking Tea During an Evening Thunderstorm that Forecasters Forgot to Predict" - FEED - Issue 1.5

"Inhaling Smoking Particulate from Alberta Forest Fires" - FEED - Issue 1.5

"Henry’s Day" - Tap Press Read 1-3-5. Loft on EIGHTH Press, 2020.

"Dandelion Skin" - Lost Balloon ⭐Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2020⭐

"The Lightning Demise of 323 Reindeer" - Cirque - Vol. 10, No. 2 (page 97)

"Observations at an Obligatory Dinner Party" - Thimble Literary Magazine - Spring 2020, Vol. 2 No. 4

"The Drowning Venetia" - The Beach Hut

"Stealing Through the Stars" - Luna Station Quarterly - Issue 041

"A 1990’s Phenomenon" - Vallum Poem of the Week

2019

"Winter in Cambodia" - Whale Road Review - Issue 17

"The Sunday Ruins of La Chiesa" - Glassworks Magazine - Issue 19

"The Abacus of Dreamscapes" - Glassworks Magazine - Issue 19

"The Winter Sister" - Immersion - An Asian Anthology of Love, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. Dark Helix Press, 2019.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Platform Review Chapbook Series

"Cornish Hens" - Windmill - Issue 4

"Amidst A Ring of Fulcrum and Light" - Longlisted for the 2019 Berlin Writing Prize

"Sightings at the Pick-a-Pearl Market" - Claw & Blossom - Issue 1

"The Remembering Skins" - Atlas and Alice - Issue 14

"A Use for Marrow and Bone" - Finalist in the 2019 Writers’ Union of Canada Annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers

"Henry’s Day" - Short Édition - Short Story Dispenser at the CPL

"Sleeper Train Along a December’s Coast" - 3Elements Review - Issue No. 22 Spring 2019, Gaslight Slip Metronome

"A 1990’s Phenomenon" - Vallum 16:1 - Connections

2018

"Re-Cultivating Potatoes on Amistava VII" - Multiverse - an international anthology of poetry. Shoreline of Infinity, 2018.

"The Laliethian Buffet" - Multiverse - an international anthology of poetry. Shoreline of Infinity, 2018.

"On Sundays" - From the Depths 2018 No. 16

"The Myth of Teez Sona" - Grain 45.4 - of memory

"Notes from the Art Museum"  - The Stillwater Review - Volume 8 ⭐Nominated for a Pushcart Prize ⭐

"Still Life Portraits" - The Stillwater Review - Volume 8

"The Volcano Keeper"  - Luna Station Quarterly's Issue 34

"To My Dentist's Goldfish" -  Eclectica Magazine Vol. 22, No. 2, Apr/May 2018

"The Cafe at the Corner of Port Townsend and the Sea" - Sheila-Na-Gig online, Volume 2.3, Spring 2018

"The Catacombs of San Giovanni" - Sheila-Na-Gig online, Volume 2.3, Spring 2018

"Roasted New Potatoes and Arugula Salad" - Infinity's Kitchen No. 09

"Dal Masoor" - Infinity's Kitchen No. 09

2017

"Visitors at 5AM" - NōD Magazine - Issue 22 

"Remembering the Paste Girls" - NōD Magazine - Issue 22

"Submission Guidelines for Journalists" - Vallum 14:2 - Lies & Duplicity

"Year 84" - 3Elements Review - Issue No. 16 Fall 2017,  Breach Peppermint Scale ⭐Nominated for a Pushcart Prize ⭐

"Night Fishing on the Li River" - Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Issue 37

"Zeb"- Peacock Journal - October 20, 2017

"The Warmth and Crackle of a Campfire" - 3Elements Review - Issue No. 13 Winter 2016, Glaze Thread Murmur

2016

"The Coral and the Starling" - The Quilliad - Issue 8, Halloween 2016