Selected Publications
Full portfolio available here.
Editorial and Curatorial work
- Managing Editor, poetry.sg, Singapore, 2023-present
- Poetry Editor, The Plentitudes, New York City, 2026-present
- English Subcommittee Member, Poetry Festival Singapore, Singapore, 2022-present
- Contributing Reviewer, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Singapore, 2021-present
- Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, & Essays Editor, Journal of Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA), Singapore, 2021-present
- Editor, Harvest & Wine, Singapore, 2021-present
- Reading Board Member, The Plentitudes, New York City, 2022-2025
- Moderator, Singapore Literature Conference 2025: Verse Nation, Singapore, 2025
- Selection Committee Member (Student Category), Singapore Youth Film Festival, Singapore, 2024
- Contributing Reviewer and Essayist, SUSPECT Journal, New York City, 2023-2024
- Editor-in-Chief with Ng Chiew Hong, Singapore Literature Conference Monograph 2021 and 2023: Selected Proceedings, Singapore, 2024
- Juror, Plentitudes Prize in Poetry, New York City, 2024
- Judge, ACSpress Urself Creative Writing Competition, Singapore, 2024
- Moderator, Singapore Literature Conference 2023: Sojourners, Singapore, 2023
- Judge, Maruah Essay Contest 2023, Singapore, 2023
- Senior Moderator, Singapore Poetry Writing Month, Singapore, 2023
- Writer and Editor, The Yale Logos, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2021-2022
- Editorial Director, Southeast Asian Movement, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2021-2022
- Poetry Editor, Home Is (Not) Here, Singapore/France/USA, 2020-2021
- Editor, Decolonise English blog, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2019-2020
- Poetry Editor, The Cambridge Pamphlet 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2019
- Curator, waiting // poetry, art, music, Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 2019
- Editor, Cascade Magazine, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2019
- Poetry Editor, The Mays XXVI, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2018
Interviews and Features
- Contributor to ‘My Book of the Year 2025’, SUSPECT (New York, USA, December 2025)
- ‘The Monthly talks to poet, Jonathan Chan – Part 3 – Influences and the work of a poet’, The Monthly: Poetry and Spoken Word Edition – July 2025, Community Arts Partnership, Belfast, United Kingdom, 1 August 2025
- ‘The Monthly talks to poet, Jonathan Chan – Part 2 – A Canonical Education’, The Monthly: Poetry and Spoken Word Edition – July 2025, Community Arts Partnership, Belfast, United Kingdom, 1 August 2025
- ‘The Monthly talks to poet, Jonathan Chan – Part 1 – A question of identity’, The Monthly: Poetry and Spoken Word Edition – July 2025, Community Arts Partnership, Belfast, United Kingdom, 1 August 2025
- ‘Versopolis Podcast #24: Young poetry in the age of social media and AI: Perspectives from Europe and Asia’, Versopolis, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 31 January 2025
- ’Why he chose Singapore citizenship over being American’, Max Chernov, Singapore, 23 January 2025
- Contributor to ‘My Book of the Year 2024’, SUSPECT (New York, USA, December 2024)
- Yeow Kai Chai, ‘Proust Questionnaire: 17 questions with Jonathan Chan’, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (Singapore, January 2023)
- Nicholas B. Chua, ‘Sharing Stories: Week 3 of the Singapore Writers Festival’, Medium, (Singapore, December 2022)
- Janelle Tan, ‘Art Is + Jonathan Chan’, Singapore Unbound, (New York, USA, November 2022)
- Theophilus Kwek, ‘‘Possibility and Communion’: An interview with Jonathan Chan’, Asian Books Blog (Singapore, July 2022)
- Profile at Poets & Writers
- Caroline Langston, ’A Season for the Taking’, Vita Poetica Winter 2022 (Washington, D. C., USA, January 2022)
- Daryl Lim Wei Jie, ‘The Politics of Poetry and the Poetry of Politics’, SingPoWriMo Magazine 2021.2 / Issue 8 (Singapore: Sing Lit Station, December 2021)
- Desmond Kon and Eric Valles, ‘Chapter 8: Charity’, A Given Grace: An Anthology of Christian Poems (Singapore: Squircle Line Press, November 2021)
- Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, ‘World is Story’, Southeast Asian Review of English Vol. 58 Issue 1 (Malaysia: Universiti Malaya, July 2021)
- ‘Contemplations’, Ekstasis Magazine, 14 June 2021
- Tan Jing Min, ‘The Many Layers of Invisible Labour Decolonising the Academy’, Third World Approaches to International Law Review: Reflections #31/2021, 12 March 2021
- ‘Creative Inspiration’ with Leonard Yip, The Cathedral Podcast, 2 March 2021
- Isabel Roberts and Maddy Fisher, ‘Switchboard: Behind the Headlines – The Decolonise Cambridge Movement (S2, Ep.5)’, Varsity, 16 October 2020
- Noella Chye, ‘Editorial: Writing to break the narrative’, Varsity, 19 October 2018
Dramatic work
- With Shameera Lin, ‘Atomic Jaya in Cambridge: A Reflection’, 14 December 2020
- Acted in Corpsing, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 2020
- Varsity Theatre, ‘Atomic Jaya review’, Varsity, 7 March 2019
- Tan Jing Min, ‘Atomic Jaya Preview’, Varsity, 3 March 2019
- Directed Atomic Jaya under the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatics Club at Corpus Playroom, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 2019
- Wrote and performed for the sketch show Second-Generation and various Footlights smokers, Cambridge, United Kingdom, June and November 2018.
Art Installations
- Contributor to your room inside my room inside yours and mine, curated by the Moving Picture Experiment Group, ON/OFF/SCREEN at DECK (120A Prinsep St), Singapore, January to February 2021
- Poems ‘tsinghua/wudaokou’ and ‘beijing fun/hutongs’ featured in a digital art project, Urban Fragments by Spittoon Collective, AOTU Space, Beijing, China, December 2019
Academic Presentations
- Presented paper ‘Shincheonji in Singapore’ at the Southeast Asian Studies Student Conference Spring 2022, organised by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Southeast Asia Club at Northern Illinois University, 9 April 2022
Video Editing
- Edited ‘on the city (installation)’ for BOOM x third space: Launch Party and Exhibition, March 2018