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WORKS IN PROGRESS

DARK GRIMY MAGIC
(working title)

A speculative, new adult novel that plays with Greek mythologies, fragmentation, and multiperspectivity to explore the workings of trauma, the empowerment and support of survivors, and the restorative impact of writing.

Research and creation funded by Canada Council for the Arts

Supported by Canadian Artists Network's Artist-to-Artist Mentorship Program

I WRITE MY NAME ON MY BODY: A MEMOIR
(working title)

A memoir experimenting with creative forms, styles, voices, and tones to interpret the effects of systemic violence on an individual's experience of their body.

Supported by Access Copyright Foundation's Marian Hebb Research Grant and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.'s Money for Women grant

LEILA ROILS THE SEAS

A polyglot, seriocomic, magical realism family drama set in Taiwan about the special bond and generational, socio-cultural clash between a Taiwanese-Canadian woman and her Taiwanese grandmother. The play utilizes intertextuality and cacophony to examine loss (of one’s family, language, culture, homeland) and how violence can be normalized and passed down through generations in loud and quiet forms.

Winner of Infinithéâtre's 2023 Write-on-Q Playwriting Competition

Nominated for the Most Promising English Text Frankie Award at the St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival 2023

Research and creation funded by Canada Council for the Arts

Supported by Playwrights' Workshop Montréal's Dramaturgical Collaboration and Playwrights Guild of Canada's Playwrights Resiliency Mentorship Program

Lily Chang acknowledges the support of the Access Copyright Foundation, Canadian Artists Network, Playwrights' Workshop Montréal, Canada Council for the Arts, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc., and Playwrights Guild of Canada.

LITERARY PUBLICATIONS

"And Sore Must Be The Storm"
Room Magazine 44.4

December 2021

Link to Issue

"Between the Boxes"
HerStry's "Mental Health" Series

April 2021
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Read Memoir

"dear lily"
herstry's "dear past me" series

July 2020

read memoir

"We Are All Ghosts"
Immersion: An Asian Anthology of
Love, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction

September 2019

Link to ANTHOLOGY

"yes, they dream of electric sheep"
dark helix ezine #3

Spring 2019

Link to Ezine

"if i wax poetic the pain feels worthwhile"
cbc books

September 2018
Shortlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize

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"the dark"
the city series: Number six - montreal

2017

Link to Chapbook

"it will be too loud"
headlight anthology 20/20

2017

Link to website

"keats on a weekday"
concordia write nights vol. 1

2016

Link to Facebook

"white is not my colour"
word and colour

May 2016

read poem

"the 'i' works 9 to 5 with electrical engineers"
headlight 19: SOLIPSIST

2016

Link to website

"spirit"
voices visible

2003-2004

Link to Website

STAGE/FILM PRODUCTION

A GOOD HUMAN BOY
ON TIME productions

October 2024

Part of the Montreal 48 Hour Film Project

COMING SOON

leila roils the seas
Wax apple productions

June 2023

Winner of the Most Promising Emerging English Producer Frankie Award at the St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival 2023

Nominated for the Outstanding English Production and Most Promising English Text Frankie Awards at the St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival 2023

Production funded by Canada Council for the Arts

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