Alice Pung: Unpolished Gem

Other sessions:

• Growing Up Asian In Australia

  A session for students studying Growing Up Asian in Australia as a text in secondary school – either for English, Literature, social and environmental studies, history or other related subjects. An in-depth discussion of the themes behind the book, its historical context, and the history of Australian race relations. Topics: Identity and Belonging Telling one’s own family […]

• Autofiction – Writing stories from Life

  From Sitka, Alaska to Wagga Wagga, from Beijing to Iowa, Alice has conducted writing workshops for people aged between 14 to 80, drawing from their own life experiences. This workshop covers characterisation, voice, plot and language. It focuses on how to get started, and discusses the interesting issues that arise when writing based from real […]

• Finding your Voice

  Often, young adults think their lives are boring and uneventful, so choose to write in a way that replicates older writers/television/popular fiction/the Twilight series. This workshop encourages students to find their true voice by looking at their own experiences, families and feelings; and to use their writing as a tool of discovering more about their […]

• Surviving and Thriving through the final years of High School

  When I was in Year 12, I had a nervous breakdown due to all the pressures of the final year of school. No one in my family had ever been to university before yet it was always expected of me that I would go. Yet no one expected that without much cultural capital, and the […]