Alice Pung

Dec 18, 2024 | theguardian.com | Alice Pung

The last time I heard from my friend John Marsden was exactly a week ago, when he emailed to congratulate me about something. A writer of his calibre, a principal of two schools, a beloved husband and father of six – yet he always took the time to write. Not just cursory one-sentence emails, but wonderful, philosophical musings about parenting, politics, about the powerful and the powerless.

Nov 11, 2024 | liminalmag.com | Alice Pung

In March this year, Leah wrote to me with exciting news about the inaugural Liminal festival and chapbook:I keep coming back to your piece published in Peril, shortly after Growing Up was released. The book, and the rejected introduction, were such an important milestone in Asian Australian literature. It would be an honour to have you open the collection of work responding to the festival by reflecting on the shifts you might have noticed since.

Oct 30, 2024 | goodreadingmagazine.com.au | Alice Pung

Put Yourself in My Placeby Alice PungEvery month at the New Saigon Restaurant and Bar the owners put on ‘Superstar Night’, a set banquet of eight courses, including lobster, and a bottle of Johnnie Walker. Sixty-five dollars a head, kids ate free. It was supposed to bring our community together. Old men and women, the middle-aged, the young with children and babies: those who’d had their family trees cut off at the root or sprouting new branches, even bearing fruit.

Jan 31, 2024 | msn.com | Alice Pung

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Jan 31, 2024 | msn.com | Alice Pung

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