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from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
Winner of Poetry London Clore Prize 2018, judged by Kwame Dawes It is a complex poem of tentacles that plait themselves together beautifully. Kwame Dawes, Poetry London Clore Prize

Heatwave

Commissioned by Southbank Center, Everyday Heroes, 2020
Nightingale Pledge 
read by Track K. Smith (The Slowdown)
Manchester Poetry Prize Winner 2017 ('Antiemetic for Homesickness' portfolio)
'Rich and scrupulously attentive poems - this poet gave us language that seethed and teetered on the brink; this is powerful and exciting poetry.' Manchester Poetry Prize
Group Portrait at the Stopover 
(from Antiemetic for Homesickness)

The Poetry Review, nominated for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020
'The most memorable characters of the afternoon come from the poems of Romalyn Ante. - Chapter & Verse, The Manchester Literature Festival
Behind the Poem (Group Portrait at the Stopover) Poetry Review


Notes Inside a Balikbayan Box
(from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
Ambit Magazine, nominated for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020

Kayumanggi
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from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
Highly commended in the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020, from (Antiemetic for Homesickness)

Twilight

Commissioned by Harper's Bazaar 

Unbecoming Maramot
Write Where We Are Now, a project by Dame Carol Ann Duffy'

Extremely good poetry, very  powerful, very affecting, very well crafted.'
Boyd Tonkin, The Intelligence podcast
Roce & Rain Romalyn Ante with prize badg
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'Ante's mixing of the small and grand scale, and her clarity of vision, are particularly impressive.' Declan Ryan on 'Rice & Rain', The Times Literary Supplement

'Extraordinary poems, powerfully personal, subtly political, metaphysical.'
Voter's praise on 'Rice & Rain', Saboteur Awards 2018

 
Prose
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Battle Ground
East Side Voices
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Pusikit 
Why I Write Poetry, edited by Ian Humphreys, Nine Arches Press
 
To My Leaver-Mother
World Literature Today
 
A Natural History of Scars
The Margins Best of 2021, Asian American Writers' Workshop
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GRIT
Shortlisted for the Hektoen International 'Blood' essay competition 
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Silent Thoughts
Microfiction Monday
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Chasing Deimos (a novel)
Shortlisted for The Asian Writer Chick-Lit Novel Competition 2016
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The One Who Got The Worst (a play)
Blakenhall Writers Anthology 2016
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