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Alice Pung

Residency Period
9 January to 30 January 2023 (Online)

Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning Australian writer, editor and lawyer. Her books include the bestselling memoirs Unpolished Gem (2006) and Her Father’s Daughter (2011), and the novel Laurinda (2014). She is the editor of the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia (2008), and created the Marly books for Penguin’s Our Australian Girl series (2015). Her latest book is the novel One Hundred Days (2021), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. She is a graduate of the Iowa International Writing Program, and has guest-lectured at Vassar College, Brown University, the University of Milan and the University of Bologna, as well as Peking University. She is the current Artist-in-Residence at Janet Clarke Hall, the University of Melbourne. In 2022, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to Literature.

© Photo credit: Courtney Brown

Awards

  • 2022 Australia Day Honours, Medal of the Order of Australia for service to literature
  • 2016 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature (NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for Laurinda
  • Winner of the Non-Fiction Prize in the 2011 Western Australian Book Awards for Her Father’s Daughter
  • Winner of the Australian Newcomer of the Year award in the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards for Unpolished Gem

Selected Publications

    • Unpolished Gem. (Black Inc., 2006)
    • Growing Up Asian in Australia (Black Inc., 2008) (editor)
    • Her Father’s Daughter. Black Inc. 2011.
    • Laurinda (Penguin Australia, 2014) (published as Lucy and Linh in the United States, 2016)
    • Our Australian Girl: Meet Marly: Our Australian Girl, illustrated by Lucia Masciullo (Puffin, 2015)
    • Our Australian Girl: Marly’s Business, illustrated by Lucia Masciullo (Puffin, 2015)
    • Our Australian Girl: Marly and the Goat, illustrated by Lucia Masciullo (Puffin, 2015)
    • Our Australian Girl: Marly Walks on the Moon, illustrated by Lucia Masciullo (Puffin, 2016)
    • My First Lesson: Stories Inspired by Laurinda (2016)
    • John Marsden: Writers on Writers (2017)
    • Close to Home (Black Inc., 2018)
    • One Hundred Days (Black Inc., 2021)

    Courses & Events

     

    Date / Venue Programme Activities

    4 online workshops on:

    • 9, 16, 23 & 30 January 2023, Monday
    • 9am to 11:30am SGT

    $125 for 4 sessions*

    (Intermediate to Advanced)

    Writing Creative Non-Fiction (Auto-Fiction)

    This course of online workshops will help writers transform stories from their own life into literature, from the personal essay to the short story.

    Course code: AP1

    More information here

    February 2023

    Online (Zoom)
    (by appointment)

    $25 per session*

    (Foundation to Intermediate to Advanced)

    Writer to Writer

    Book a one-on-one mentoring session with Alice Pung to discuss your writing project. Alice will provide guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life.

    Course code: AP2

    More information here

    * Concession rates available for students, unemployed, and low income migrant workers. Free for undergraduates and postgraduate students from Singapore tertiary institutions.

     

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