Hoa Pham

WRITER

www.hoapham.net

qi@iinet.net.au

 

Plays
  • Contributing writer to “Children of the Dragon” a community cultural development theatre work, performed Trades Hall November 2005

  • Awarded Best One Act Play Camberwell Theatre Company competition, “49 Ghosts”, performed Richmond Library Theatrette November 2002

  • Contributing writer to “Suspended” an all women’s revue, performed Monash University April 1992

Film

“49 Ghosts” – a feature film, awarded New Writers Scheme Film Victoria 2003, editor Tim Richards

Publications -

Fiction

  • Vixen.  Hodder Headline. August 2000.

  •  49 Ghosts. Trend Fiction Series. Addison Wesley Longman. December 1998.

  •  No one like me. Trend Fiction Series. Addison Wesley Longman. December 1998.

  •  Quicksilver. Rave Fiction Series. Addison Wesley Longman. February 1999.

  •  Short stories published in HQ magazine, Pandora, Westerly, Aurealis and Eat Tongue, a bilingual anthology.

Awards and Grants
  • Asialink Residency Literature in Vietnam to be taken up October 2006

  • New Work Grant 2005, Literature Board, Australia Council

  • New Writers Scheme 2003 Film Victoria

  • May Gibbs Residential Fellowship, Canberra, 2003

  • “Vixen” was awarded Best Young Novelist Award Sydney Morning Herald 2001

  • “Vixen” was shortlisted for Best Australian Fantasy Novel. Aurealis Awards 2000

  • New Work Grant 2000, Literature Board, Australia Council

Presented at:
  • Guest tutorials for the Young Adult Writing Stream at the University of Canberra as part of the May Gibbs Residential Program 2003

  • Taught in Wynyard as part of a writers residency in Tasmania 2002

  • Newcastle, Sydney and Hobart Writing Festivals in 2000-01

  • Guest lecture at Centre for Adult Education on mythology for Professional Writing class in 2001.

Others:
  • Booktalkers. Asia and the Media. March 2000. State Library of Victoria. (Booktalkers are a series of lectures given to librarians)

  • Victorian Association of Teachers of English. How English is Asia? July 2000. Latrobe University. (Annual Conference)

  • Also current President of Australian Vietnamese Youth Media (AVYM)