Vanishing Point

“Full of trickery, like the illusionist in You Will Be Out like a Light, the sleights-of-hand echoing Murakami, but distinctly Singaporean and Cheong's. The dark humour, the surreal and macabre touches, the trenchant wit and well-observed details are mesmerising and subtly satirical, subversive of the values of the global city, which should be enthralled and surprised by its images caught in the mirrors of these pages.”
—Dr Boey Kim Cheng, Senior lecturer, University of Newcastle, and poet

“Felix Cheong has a powerful narrative idea: to look on the world we know from the station of an exit door. Each eventual non-closure is certain and deafening – but how do stories sound at the point just before words fall over the edge? These are unnerving, wonderfully nasty tales.”
—Dr Gwee Li Sui, Literary critic, poet, and graphic artist

"... one of the most unique publications by a local author to appear on our shelves in a long time."
- Cyril Wong, two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning poet and the author of Animal Season and This Side of Heaven

Felix Cheong is a well-known figure in the Singapore literary scene and the author of eight books, including four volumes of poetry (I Watch The Stars Go Out, Sudden In Youth) and two young adult novels. His third poetry collection, Broken by the Rain (2003), was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize and his collection of short stories, Vanishing Point, was long-listed for the prestigious Frank O’Connor Award in 2013. His work has been widely published in journals, anthologized and featured on radio and TV. Felix has been invited to writers’ festivals all over the world, including Edinburgh, West Cork, Sydney, Christchurch and Hong Kong. Recently, he has also published satirical flash fiction in Singapore Siu Dai and Singapore Siu Dai 2.

In 2000, he was conferred the Young Artist of the Year Award by the National Arts Council. Felix holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Queensland and is currently an adjunct lecturer with Murdoch University, University of Newcastle, LASALLE College of the Arts and Temasek Polytechnic.