Christina Sng

Poet, Writer, Editor, Artist

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Awards

GRANTS

Ladies of Horror Fiction Writing Grant (2021, USA)

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BOOK AWARDS

"An Assortment of Sky Things", Nomination, Elgin Chapbook Award (2017, USA)
"A Collection of Nightmares", Nomination, Elgin Book Award (2018, USA)
"A Collection of Nightmares", Winner, Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection, Bram Stoker Awards (2018, USA)
"Astropoetry", Runner-up, Elgin Chapbook Award (2018, USA)
"A Collection of Dreamscapes", Winner, Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection, Bram Stoker Awards (2021, USA)
"A Collection of Dreamscapes", Runner-up, Elgin Book Award (2021, USA)
"A Collection of Dreamscapes", Nomination, 2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Poetry Collection (2021, USA)
"Tortured Willows", Winner, Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection, Bram Stoker Awards (2022, USA)
"Tortured Willows", Nomination, 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award for Best Poetry Collection (2022, USA)
"Tortured Willows", Runner-up, Elgin Book Award (2022, USA)
"The Gravity of Existence", Nomination, Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection, Bram Stoker Awards (2023, USA)
"The Gravity of Existence", Nomination, Elgin Book Award (2023, USA)

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NON-FICTION AWARDS

"Final Girl: A Life in Horror", Finalist, Superior Achievement in Short Non-fiction, Bram Stoker Awards (2021, USA)

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HAIGA AWARDS

"not alone", watercolour on paper, Honourable Mention, The Second Annual Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Contest (Traditional Haiga) (November 2017, USA)
"promising me", ink brush on paper, First Prize, The Third Annual Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Contest (Traditional Haiga) (November 2018, USA)
"still swarming around", photograph, Honourable Mention, The Third Annual Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Contest (Photographic Haiga) (November 2018, USA)

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FICTION AWARDS

"The Missing Sock", First Prize, The Great Eighty Flash Fiction Competition (20 November 2017, UK)
"The Gravity of Loss", Winner, WonderFold Writing Contest (February 2018, USA)
"Out of this World", Honourable Mention, Alban Lake Publishing's 10th Drabble Contest (February 2018, USA)
"A Dream of Dragons", Winner, Folded Word Nautical Twilight PM Winter Solstice Series Selection (December 2018, USA)
"Adventure in the Worm Hole", Winner, Tales of the Moonlit Path "Bugs" Contest (August 2019, USA)

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SPECULATIVE POETRY AWARDS

"Pumpkin Girl", Runner-up, Raven Electrick's Halloween Poetry Contest (10/01, USA)
"The Path", First Place, The Tapestry Poetry Contest (10/01, USA)
"The Marvel of Flight", Honourable Mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 16 (09/03, USA)
"Crimes of Our Youth", Honourable Mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 16 (09/03, USA)
"The Bone Carver", Honourable Mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 17 (09/04, USA)
"Death of a Thousand Paper Cuts", Third place, Best Poem, Dark Animus Award (2002-3, Australia)
"The Art of Weaving", Honourable Mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 18 (09/05, USA)
"Medusa in LA", Nomination, 2006 Rhysling Poetry Award (short poem) (06, USA)
"Asunder" with Mike Allen, Honourable Mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19 (09/06, USA)
"Allegra", Nomination, 2014 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2014, USA)
"Life on Titan", Honourable Mention, Astronomers Without Borders Global Astronomy Month AstroPoetry Contest (2015, USA)
"Twenty Years", Nomination, 2016 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2016, USA)
"The Woman in the Coffee Shop", Nomination, 2016 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2016, USA)
"The Man with Red Eyes", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2016 (June 2016, USA)
"Ode to Enceladus", Third Place, Astronomers Without Borders Global Astronomy Month AstroPoetry Contest (2016, USA)
"Twenty Years", Honourable Mention, Poetry Book 109th Weekly Poetry Contest (15 December 2016, USA)
"The Perfect Planet", Honourable Mention, Poetry Nook 111th Weekly Poetry Contest (31 December 2016, USA)
"Mirror to the Other Side", Honourable Mention, Poetry Nook 114th Weekly Poetry Contest (21 January 2017, USA)
"The Leviathans of Europa", Nomination, 2017 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2017, USA)
"Red Apples", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2017 (May 2017, USA)
"Mercury", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2017 (May 2017, USA)
"Pandemonium", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2017 (May 2017, USA)
"Root Cellar", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2017 (May 2017, USA)
"Miranda", Second Place, Astronomers Without Borders Global Astronomy Month AstroPoetry Contest (2017, USA)
"Age Old Battle", Winner, All-Out Monster Revolt's Dai Kaiju Haiku Contest (November 2017, USA)
"Starlight", Nomination, 2018 Rhysling Poetry Award (short poem) (2018, USA)
"Moonlight in the Playground", Nomination, 2018 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2018, USA)
"Little Red", Nomination, 2018 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2018, USA)
"An Eternal Divide", Third Place, Astronomers Without Borders Global Astronomy Month AstroPoetry Contest (2018, USA)
"Bloody Spindle", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2018 (July 2018, USA)
"Ruby Sky", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2018 (July 2018, USA)
"Seconds Before", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2018 (July 2018, USA)
"Multiverse Theory", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2018 (July 2018, USA)
"Forest Mother", Honourable Mention, Poetry Nook's 190th Weekly Poetry Contest (July 2018, USA)
"Little Red in Haiku", Honourable Mention, Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten (09/18, USA)
"The Girl and Her Wolf Dog", Nomination, 2019 Rhysling Poetry Award (short poem) (2019, USA)
"Rapunzel", Nomination, 2019 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2019, USA)
"Forest Mother", Nomination, 2019 Rhysling Poetry Award (short poem) (2019, USA)
"all my nightmares", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2019 (May 2019, USA)
"emerging", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2019 (May 2019, USA)
"The Gravity of Loss", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2019 (May 2019, USA)
"Memoirs in the Dark", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven (September 2019, USA)
"The Girl and Her Wolf Dog", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven (September 2019, USA)
"The Joy of Sewing", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven (September 2019, USA)
"The Mermaid", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven (September 2019, USA)
"Reparation", Nomination, 2020 Rhysling Poetry Award (short poem) (2020, USA)
"Styx", Nomination, 2020 Rhysling Poetry Award (short poem) (2020, USA)
"In the End, Only the Gods", Nomination, 2020 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2020, USA)
"gentlest quiver", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2020 (June 2020, USA)
"within sight", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2020 (June 2020, USA)
"seeing stars", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2020 (June 2020, USA)
"still can't decide", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2020 (June 2020, USA)
"Diamond Dust", Nomination, Pushcart Prize for Poetry (November 2020, USA)
"The Deer", Nomination, 2021 Rhysling Poetry Award (short poem) (2021, USA)
"All That I Have Lost", Nomination, 2021 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2021, USA)
"Dark Forest", Nomination, 2021 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2021, USA)
"Hansel and Gretel", Nomination, 2021 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2021, USA)
"every lover", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2021 (June 2021, USA)
"thrown away in recycling", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2021 (June 2021, USA)
"Conversations with the Dead 1928", Nomination, Pushcart Prize for Poetry (December 2021, USA)
"Conversations with the Dead 2028", Nomination, Pushcart Prize for Poetry (December 2021, USA)
"Snow Child", Nomination, 2022 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2022, USA)
"Whales", Nomination, 2022 Rhysling Poetry Award (long poem) (2022, USA)
"How Long Do Monsters Live", Editor's Choice, Star*Line 45.1 (2022, USA)
"all this rain", Nomination, Dwarf Stars 2022 (June 2022, USA)
"How Long Do Monsters Live", Nomination, Pushcart Prize (2022, USA)
"An Interlude with the Boarding House Owner", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen (November 2022, USA)
"Headhunters", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen (November 2022, USA)
"Heart of Darkness", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen (November 2022, USA)
"La Ciguapa", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen (November 2022, USA)
"Phoenix", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen (November 2022, USA)
"Safe", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen (November 2022, USA)
"The Dream Fields of Hell", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen (November 2022, USA)
"The Offering", Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume Fourteen (November 2022, USA)

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CONTEMPORARY POETRY AWARDS

"When She Cried", Finalist, Origami Poems Project Kindness Contest (March 2016, USA)
"Tenderly", Finalist, Origami Poems Project Kindness Contest (March 2017, USA)
"Sand Under a Microscope", First Place, Angela Poetry Magazine's Monthly Lighthearted Poetry Contest (May 2018, USA)

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JAPANESE SHORT FORM POETRY AWARDS

"Kitten", The 137th World Haiku Association Haiga Contest (December 2015, Japan)
"Spring Morning", Runner-up, 2016 Golden Haiku Contest (2016, USA)
"Easter weekend", First Prize, The 1st My Haiku Pond Academy Contest (May 2016, USA)
"summer comfort", Honourable Mention, Neo-classical Haiku, World Haiku Review (June 2016, World)
"tropical sunset", Haiku of Merit, Shintai Haiku, World Haiku Review (June 2016, World)
"bone tired", Honourable Mention, 3rd Haiku Contest on the theme "Gourds", 12th Pumpkin Festival (September 2016, Croatia)
"drifting snowflakes", Third Prize, 2016 Annual Harold G. Henderson Award for Best Unpublished Haiku, Haiku Society of America (September 2016, USA)
"amputation day", Ninth Place, European Quarterly Kukai #15 (topic: sounds) (World, September 2016)
"old river", The 145th World Haiku Association Haiga Contest (September 2016, Japan)
"Love Story", Honourable Mention, Where Tanka Prose Grows 2016 (November 2016, USA)
"winter morn", Selected Haiku, The Falling Star, Wild Plum Anthology (November 2016, Poland)
"The Last Two Bees", Winner, WonderFold Writing Contest (October 2016, USA)
"ebb tide", Honourable Mention, Irish Haiku Society's 8th International Haiku Competition (December 2016, Ireland)
"late sunset", Tanka Second Place, The 2016 San Francisco International Competition (December 2016, USA)
"gastroenteritis", Senryu Honorable Mention, The 2016 San Francisco International Competition (December 2016, USA)
"winter waves", Haiku of Merit, Neo-Classical, World Haiku Review (January 2017, World)
"tiniest pearl", Haiku of Merit, Shintai, World Haiku Review (January 2017, World)
"knotted branches", Haiku of Merit, Vanguard, World Haiku Review (January 2017, World)
"sand dunes", Merit Award, First Montenegrin Haiku Contest (2017, Montenegro)
"spring retreat", Second Place, 2017 Anniversary Caribbean Kigo Kukai (March 2017, Trinidad & Tobago)
"oyster pearls", Honourable Mention, Wild Plum Haiku Contest 2017 (April 2017, Poland)
"daybreak", 5th Place, Caribbean Kigo Kukai on Poem in my Pocket (April 2017, Caribbean)
"spring weeds", Honourable Mention, Betty Drevniok Awards (May 2017, Canada)
"dancing beneath", Runner Up, Third International Haiku Contest "Cherry Blossom" (May 2017, Bulgaria)
"cool summer", Honourable Mention, Neo-Classical, World Haiku Review (August 2017, World)
"water fountain", Haiku of Merit, Neo-Classical, World Haiku Review (August 2017, World)
"lingering summer", Haiku of Merit, Shintai, World Haiku Review (August 2017, World)
"whorls", Haiku of Merit, Vanguard, World Haiku Review (August 2017, World)
"first day home", Honourable Mention, 2017 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival International Haiku Invitational (September 2017, Canada)
"kindness", Award for Foreign Participant, The Bulgarian Haiku Union's 5th National December Haiku Competition and the "Harmony between Heaven and Earth" (December 2017, Bulgaria)
"monarch butterfly", First Place, Caribbean Kigo Anniversary Kukai (March 2018, St James, Trinidad & Tobago)
"nettle season", Haiku of Merit, Shintai, World Haiku Review (March 2018, World)
"promises", Haiku of Merit, Vanguard, World Haiku Review (March 2018, World)
"loud echoes", Haiku of Merit, Vanguard, World Haiku Review (March 2018, World)
"raining again", First Place, Jane Reichhold International Prize (April 2018, USA)
"giving spring", Editor's Pick, The Cicada's Cry (Spring 2018, USA)
"thunderstorm", Second Place, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest (10-16 December, Japan)
"cut branches", Shortlisted, 2019 R. H. Blyth Award (April 2019, World)
"the emptiness", Honourable Mention, 2019 R. H. Blyth Award (April 2019, World)
"autumn's end", First Place, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest (13-19 May 2019, Japan)
"wintering", First Place, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest (13-19 May 2019, Japan)
"soft breeze", Mention, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest (15-21 July 2019, Japan)
"summer rain", Weekly Best, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest (24 to 30 June 2019, Japan)
"setting sun", Weekly Best, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest (19-25 August 2019, Japan)
"summer bamboo", Mention, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest (4-10 November 2019, Japan)
"winter's night", Haiku of Merit, Neo-Classical, World Haiku Review (December 2019, World)
"autumn magic", Haiku of Merit, Neo-Classical, World Haiku Review (December 2019, World)
"laryngitis", Haiku of Merit, Vanguard, World Haiku Review (December 2019, World)
"breathing in", Honourable Mention, Fujisan Taisho Tanka Competition (December 2019, Japan)
"promises broken again", Mention, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest 51 (16-22 December 2019, Japan)
"lockdown week one", Mention, Haiku University's Weekly Best (13-20 April 2020, Japan)
"never", Honourable Mention, Fifth Annual H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (June 2020, USA)
"missing my father", Weekly Best, Haiku University's Weekly Haiku Contest (19-25 May, 2020, Japan)
"realizing", Haiku of Merit, Vanguard, World Haiku Review (September 2020, World)
"never", Highly Commended, Fifth Annual H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (October 2020, USA)
"winter solstice", "solstice d'hiver", Haiku University's Daily Best (28 November 2021, Japan)
"mon chat dort", "my cat sleeps", Haiku University's Weekly Best and Commentary 13-19 December 2021 (20 December 2021, Japan)
"neige lourde", "heavy snow", "hiver froid", "cold winter", Haiku University's Daily Best (15th of December 2021, Japan)
"open curtains", "rideaux ouverts", Haiku University's Weekly Best and Commentary (23 December 2021, Japan)
"sakura leaves", First Prize, The Pula Film Festival International Haiku Competition (December 2021, Croatia)
"pandemic numbers", Tokusen (Second Prize), International Kusamakura Haiku Competition (December 2021, Japan)

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