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pigs ist rad

Growing Up Asian in Australia, the anthology that includes my autobiographical piece “Pigs from Home”, seems to have been included in various school reading curricula. The responses from the kids to the story are hilarious. For example:

http://poulosenglishblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/pigs-from-home-by-hop-dac.html

I’d just like to clarify, for anyone who stumbles across this, that I don’t actually hate pigs. I just don’t like the way they smell and that may be due to childhood memories of my uncle’s house in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, where the pig sties buttressed right up against the back of the house and the smell was all pervading. Anyhoo, I AM NOT A PIG HATER!

In related news, I have a piece published in the latest edition of Peril, the Asian-Australian arts and culture magazine:

http://www.peril.com.au/featured/cuisine

It’s a reworked and shortened piece initially published by Paroxysm Press and mentions my uncle’s house. There’s no pig hating here, although there is more eating of blood.

Posted on October 24th 2011 in Blog: Stranger in a Familiar Land, Writing+Editing | Comments Off

growing up asian in australia

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I have a piece in this. Published by Black Inc and edited by Alice Pung, who wrote the acclaimed “Unpolished Gems”, also published by Black Inc.

Growing Up Asian in Australia
Edited by Alice Pung

“Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory – but listen more closely to the dinner-table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear.

Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one’s feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great-grandfather’s Chinese village.

Here are well-known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian.

Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat-Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more.”

Q&A with Alice Pung

Posted on February 2nd 2009 in Writing+Editing | No Comments »