In the same year, MediaCorp commissioned the adaptation of "Heartland" into a telemovie directed by K Rajagopal. "Heartland", the telemovie, was broadcast in August 2015. A year after "Heartland" was published, Shiau released a poetry collection, "Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands." Poems from "Peninsular" have been included in several international and Singapore anthologies. Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo wrote an essay about "Peninsular" titled 'Time and Place: History and Geography in Daren Shiau’s Poetry'  in which he commented: "The incisive revelations of Shiau's work begin with the significance and the reach of his themes... Interrelated and overlapping, they explain both the intrinsic unity of his work and – for me at least – its importance in the present overall balance of Singapore literature in English". The Singapore literature platform, "poetry.sg", observes in its ‘Critical Introduction’ to Shiau: “Shiau’s first collection of poetry, "Peninsular", encapsulates through its structure and its themes the dual concerns of history and spatiality in his writing, which began early on in "Heartland" (both the original collection of poetry and the final publication conceived as a novel), and which persists in later work such as "Velouria." "Velouria" is a seminal collection of Singaporean microfiction, published by Shiau in 2007. The title story of the book is named after a track by Boston-based alternative rock band, the Pixies. Other stories in the volume were named after songs by artistes such as My Bloody Valentine and Thelonious Monk. In 2005, Shiau was first runner-up in the Golden Point Award creative writing competition for his short story, "Take Your Wings Off, I Say". An excerpt of the story appears as the last piece in "Velouria". An editorial on Shiau’s writing on "poetry.sg" notes that his “wry observational poetry is transposed into [his] later collection of microfiction, "Velouria", which also maintains the elegiac quality of poetry, while combining the compression and suggestiveness of poetic language with the broader narrative and character developments afforded by prose”. On the editorial front, Shiau co-edited with Lee Wei Fen in 2010, an experimental anthology, "Coast", which featured creative works by published and unpublished writers across a single title.