Michelle Huynh

When in Kowloon

Publishers: New Writers Group
Publication year: 2024
Zinewest

ISN: 22011242

Winner of Zinewest 2024. An 800-word story on the childhood friendship between Mei and June within Kowloon Walled City in 1980’s Hong Kong. The work meditates on the fleeting nature of childhood bliss, inexplicable moments of the past and the acceptance of such mysteries. To access work, click on image.

Thresholds

Publisher: Writing and Society Research Centre
Publication year: 2023
Twice As Many Stars Anthology

ISN: 9780648998266

Published through The Writing Zone program. A narrator’s reflection on the parallel emotional lives of an immigrant mother and daughter, the gap between connection in relationships and the lines people are afraid to cross when it comes to emotional expression. To access work, click on image.  

Something Hainanese

Publisher: Writing and Society Research Centre
Publication year: 2022
The Space Between Digital Chapbook

ISBN: 9780648998259

Published through The Writing Zone program.  The meandering recount of a narrator’s visit to her grandfather’s birthplace in a rural village of Hainan, China. The story meditates on family history, stark cultural differences and the places and experiences that are eventually ‘lost somewhere, sometime’  as life moves on. To access work, click on image.