New & old publications
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LIVE ESSAYS
"The Story of Body" (Colorado Review, 2022, physical/digital issues for purchase) "The True Wonders of the Holy Land" (Southeast Review, 2021) "The Sad Girl Variations" (Minola Review, 2020) "On Being in Love with a White Man" (So To Speak, 2020, digital issue for purchase) "Island Paradise" (Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, 2019) OLDER PIECES "Singaporean Food Culture" (Skin Deep, 2018) "Ils sont pas des hommes": Conversational Anthropologists at Play" (berfrois, 2014) |
Interviews and readings
"An Interview with Shze-Hui Tjoa" (Colorado Review, 2022)
"Introducing: Shze-Hui Tjoa, Sundog Lit's Newest Creative Non-fiction Editor" (Sundog Lit, 2022)
"Introducing: Shze-Hui Tjoa, Sundog Lit's Newest Creative Non-fiction Editor" (Sundog Lit, 2022)
Work-in-progress: The Story Game
This is my first book, a memoir. It recounts a process of healing that I went through in my mid- to late-twenties - when I wrote essay after essay about various facets of my identity, in an attempt to recover memories lost to c-PTSD, and reconstruct my sense of self.
The book has a hybrid structure blending fantasy and nonfiction. It deals with themes like childhood rituals, the essential unknowability of the self, and the lapses and volatility of memory over time. You can read some pieces to be included in the book above, under the section titled 'Live Essays'.
The book has a hybrid structure blending fantasy and nonfiction. It deals with themes like childhood rituals, the essential unknowability of the self, and the lapses and volatility of memory over time. You can read some pieces to be included in the book above, under the section titled 'Live Essays'.
Some recent honours
2022:
AWP Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program (mentored by Lily Hoang)
Disquiet International (taught by T Kira Madden)
Notable in The Best American Essays 2022 (ed. Alexander Chee)
2021:
Notable in The Best American Essays 2021 (ed. Kathryn Schulz)
Tin House Summer Workshop (taught by Jaquira Díaz)
2020:
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction
Winner - So to Speak's Nonfiction Contest (judged by Angela Pelster)
2019:
Finalist - Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction (judged by Roxane Gay)
Scholarship - The Disquiet Prize in Nonfiction
AWP Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program (mentored by Lily Hoang)
Disquiet International (taught by T Kira Madden)
Notable in The Best American Essays 2022 (ed. Alexander Chee)
2021:
Notable in The Best American Essays 2021 (ed. Kathryn Schulz)
Tin House Summer Workshop (taught by Jaquira Díaz)
2020:
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction
Winner - So to Speak's Nonfiction Contest (judged by Angela Pelster)
2019:
Finalist - Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction (judged by Roxane Gay)
Scholarship - The Disquiet Prize in Nonfiction