Press & publicity

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SPOKEN CONVERSATIONS

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" (Write-Minded, 2024)

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


WRITTEN CONVERSATIONS

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)


RECOMMENDATIONS

"7 books structured as conversations" (Electric Literature, 2024)

"What to read when you want to fuck with genre" (The Rumpus, 2024)

"Shze-Hui Tjoa's playlist for her memoir The Story Game" (Largehearted Boy, 2024)


REVIEWS

The Story Game goodreads page

“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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OTHER PRESS & WRITING

"The Big Read: Singaporean writers are going places but what's the next chapter for SingLit?" (TODAY Online, 2024)

"Learning How to Learn Again" - a reflection on AWP's Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program (AWP, 2023)

​"Singaporean Food Culture" (Skin Deep, 2018)

"Ils sont pas des hommes": Conversational Anthropologists at Play" (berfrois, 2014)