Nicholas B Chua invited Anittha Thanabalan and myself to talk about our novels Sofia and the Utopia Machine and The Lights that Find Us and their respective adaptations to film and VR! Nicholas had also made Barbie dolls inspired by our books. Sofia’s was a Barbie in an “updated” RGS Read more…
My partner Bobby Liow and I have started a new Poetry, Music and Stories open mic in Perth called Chilli Jam Open Mic! Please follow us @chillijamopenmic on Instagram and Chilli Jam Open Mic on FB for updates on the latest news and events. We felt there was a need Read more…
Max Pasakorn, Ng Ziqin and I have been working on putting together Perks of Being Dumped: A local anthology of heartbreak writing since the Singlit Station cocktail party in 2023, and now it is out and in stores! Exactly a year later we had a bespoke cocktail, “Before Heartbreak” made Read more…
This is the first year I’ll be featuring at Perth Poetry Festival, and I’m so excited to share my events! 13 August 2024: Poetry Mosaic 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Centre for Stories I’ve been privileged to be part of the Ink and Echo group that has met at the Read more…
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2022 was full of good books for me. It was the year I got really into John Le Carre, as befits our increasingly geopolitically complicated world. I read The Looking-Glass War, Our Game, The Night Manager, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Constant Gardener and Silverview all in the same year, Read more…
I will be participating in the panel Anthology of Modern Anxiety on the 6th Nov 2022, Sunday, 7.30pm to 8.30pm (SGT) at The Arts House, Chamber Featuring: Jon Gresham, Aditi Shivaramakrishnan, Jinny Koh, Judith Huang (virtual) Moderator: Khoo Sim Eng. It should be an interesting conversation about technology and our Read more…
My short story, Dark Chocolate, about a grandmother having a 3D avatar made of herself, is now up on QLRS and can be read here. This was a fun one to write, inspired by an actual technology that will probably be in museums in the near future. Enjoy!
I’ll be representing Chinese SFF translators of the seminal volume The Way Spring Arrives at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, a virtual conference this weekend, October 7-9 2022. I have a panel discussing translating Chinese Science Fiction! The whole program can be seen here. Here’s the Read more…
I’m so excited to announce that PICA, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, has commissioned me to make a VR artwork based on my (unpublished) picture book and painting sequence Marcus and the Shadow! It will be part of the XR:WA festival that brings VR, AR and MR creators and Read more…