Conan Tan
Photo Credits: Ray Roberts
About Me
Conan Tan is a Singaporean Chinese writer based between the UK and Singapore. Currently, he is an undergraduate reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.
His writing has received numerous honours including the 2024 Martin Starkie Prize and First Place in Singapore’s 2022 National Poetry Competition. Most recently, he was a finalist in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in Salt Hill, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, West Trade Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. He is a 2025 Barbican Young Poet and in the 2024/25 Poetry Translation Centre x UNDERTOW cohort. A member of the writing collective zer0sleep, he is working on his debut poetry collection, which was selected for the 2023 Poetry Manuscript Bootcamp.
"So I’ll replay / the lost reel in my head, forgetting, if only for / a second, about the real loss ten years is still sore / from carrying”
— first published in Rattle