Past readings

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Los Angeles: “Love + Community” reading (Mar 2025)
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Los Angeles: Tin House authors prose reading (Mar 2025)
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Los Angeles: "Love in a Time of Crisis” memoirists’ reading (Mar 2025)
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Singapore: Hot Dabao reading at Book Bar (Nov 2024)
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Edinburgh: ALT Book Fringe Launch at Leith Arches (Jul 2024)
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USA: Book tour (Apr - May 2024)

Past workshops/talks

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UK: "Taking risks" class for Scottish BPOC Writers Network (Feb 2026)
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Singapore: No Readgrets Book Club (Nov 2025)
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Singapore: National Library book club (Nov 2025)
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Singapore: Writers Festival panel (Nov 2025)
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UK: Cambridge University, Madingley Hall lecture in innovative nonfiction (May 2025)
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Los Angeles: "Experiments in Time" AWP panel (Mar 2025)
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Online: “Writing in the Body’s Voice” for Left Margin Lit (Mar 2025)
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Online: “Unlock Your Block” for Corporeal Writing (Oct 2024)

Collaborations
This one-man piece was a collaboration with the Singaporean theatre artist Lim Shien Hian. He adapted an essay from my memoir The Story Game, "The Story of Body”, for stage.

The showcase was first publicly rehearsed at Centre 42 in Singapore - as in this video - then performed on tour at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia.

Interviews & features

SPOKEN

With David Naimon: “Shze-Hui Tjoa: The Story Game” (Between the Covers Podcast, 2024)

With Lindsay Hunter: "Live from Exile in Bookville in Chicago with Shze-Hui Tjoa!" (I'm a Writer But, 2024)

With Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner: "Breaking new ground in memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa" (Memoir Nation, 2024)

With Brianna Avenia-Tapper: "A place I had never thought possible" (Writing Stories Podcast, 2024)
WRITTEN

With Farah Ali: “The Politics of Place: A Conversation Between Shze-Hui Tjoa and Farah Ali” (Lit Hub, 2025)

With Jessika Bouvier: “Learning to Play The Story Game:  A Conversation with Shze-Hui Tjoa” (Split Lip, 2025)

With Jeannie Vanasco: "A memoir that excavates lost memories and reconstructs a fractured sense of self” (BOMB, 2024)

​With S.J. Buckley: “A Conversation with Shze-Hui Tjoa” (The Adroit Journal, 2024)

With Constance Malloy: “Shze-Hui Tjoa at The Burning Hearth” (The Burning Hearth, 2024)

With Dana Isokawa: "Literary MagNet: Shze-Hui Tjoa" (Poets & Writers, 2024)

With Claire Chee: "Shze-Hui Tjoa is a detective seeking clues to her own life" (Electric Literature, 2024)

With David Martinez: "Why write memoir? Two debut authors weigh in" (The Millions, 2024)

With Megan Lear: "An Interview with Shze-Hui Tjoa" (Colorado Review, 2022)



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CRITICAL ANALYSIS / REVIEWS

“Excavation and Memory in Shze-Hui Tjoa’s The Story Game: A Memoir" (Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 2025)

"Book Review: The Story Game" (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, 2024)

"Shze-Hui Tjoa's The Story Game" (Brooklyn Rail, 2024)

"A Review of Shze-Hui Tjoa's The Story Game" (The Adroit Journal, 2024)

"Repression and Confession: Narrative Form in Shze-Hui Tjoa’s The Story Game" (West Trade Review, 2024)

​“The Story Game” (New York Journal of Books, 2024)
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