Mum and I stood in the aisle of the too-bright warehouse supermarket, you know the one, back then it was painted in ripe-banana yellow with no-nonsense black lettering on all its signage. It was eight o’clock or something close on a Monday evening. We were both exhausted by long hours at the hospital, sitting with my dad, whom I hadn’t …
Choice Cut
lovelies, despite weeks of happy anticipation, i won’t be at @LCC2020SanDiego after all 😔(medical condition puts me at high risk + import of LRT tbh) pic.twitter.com/ABEWNkp8aO — S.G. Wong is writing. No, really. (@S_G_Wong) March 8, 2020 How do you know if the choice you’ve made is good or bad? It seemed like a no-brainer for me to cancel my …
2019: Claiming Space
I’m kicking off 2019 in a new-for-me spirit of claiming my voice and my space in the parts of the ongoing literary conversation which I find of interest. In August 2018, Broken Pencil magazine interviewed me for a cover story article on “The New Noir,” written by Leah Coppella. Very little of my interview ended up in the finished piece published …
Giftmas 2018: Dec. 1
Whew. Rhonda Parrish, people. In addition to all of her writing and editing work, not to mention her handholding and support of sometimes anxious/nervous/tearing-their-hair-out-frustrated author friends (it me!), Rhonda created and manages an annual holiday fundraising campaign called Giftmas. Rhonda cheerfully persuades people to donate their time, creativity, and blogs to raise money for the Edmonton Food Bank. This year, …