Megan Cheong

Reading & writing about motherhood and continuity. Writing @Meanjin @mascarareview @kyd_magazine @GDS_journal @OverlandJournal Emerging critic @SydReviewBooks

[Megan Cheong @CheongMegan]

My reading of Laura McPhee-Browne’s sumptuous #LittlePlum / personal essay.

Thanks to @suzygracias for her help bringing this together and to @kyd_magazine for allowing me to share this story 💛🖤

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.@CheongMegan on Laura McPhee-Browne's 'Little Plum' (@text_publishing).

Read more → https://t.co/R5PSdjyO0V

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New work with @liminalmag! thanks to @eda__gunaydin for the commission. Sharing the space with some great writers. https://t.co/M7mxQh3RPt

[Megan Cheong @CheongMegan]

Have decided this is officially the funniest book I’ve ever read. You should read it too.

[Mascara Literary Review @mascarareview]

It is precisely Le’s ability to write in that uncomfortable sliver of an intersection between stereotype and reality that makes her novel so funny –
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From the #SRBArchives (2020): @CheongMegan on Limberlost, currently shortlisted for the 2023 #MilesFranklin Award.

’Limberlost moves back and forth in time as easily as the mind slips into the past then resurfaces in the present’

https://t.co/My8dbsNjA9

[Mascara Literary Review @mascarareview]

"it induced a kind of out-of-body event in which I saw, with perfect horror, that I was laughing at the same Asian stereotypes that I’ve been laughing at, for the sake of everybody else's comfort my whole life."
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Entries for the Island nonfiction prize are now open!

Judging this year's award are the extraordinary Fiona Wright and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, with me.

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[huyen hac @helenlicious1]

What a morning! Stella shortlist announced and Megan Cheong's review of Bad Art Mother is out now on SRB.

[Megan Cheong @CheongMegan]

Finally finished my second review for the @CopyrightAgency - @SydReviewBooks Emerging Critics fellowship. I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you to @catri for your patience and excellent notes & of course to @edwinampreston for #badartmother @WakefieldPress

[Sydney Review of Books @SydReviewBooks]

New this week: Megan Cheong on Edwina Preston.

'Edwina Preston’s second novel Bad Art Mother reaches beyond the reductive ideals of good and bad mothering that have, I imagine, always plagued mothers.'

Read 'Good mother, bad mother, art mother' now at https://t.co/H8XI26WCuI

[Megan Cheong @CheongMegan]

@eglantinescake I almost bought a copy of bad dreams yesterday! And I have been meaning to read Beverly Farmer

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Looking for short story recommendations. On reflection, the only stories I’ve read that have reached me are those by Alice Munro, Lucia Berlin, Clarice Lispector (and maybe Kafka, when someone else is doing the interpretation)

[Megan Cheong @CheongMegan]

@mxcreant Yes! I should probably add Claire Louise-Bennett to the list above. And I loved the first of Ditlevsen’s memoir trilogy. Great recs!!

[Megan Cheong @CheongMegan]

@mxcreant Collections. Want something I want more of and then for there to be more

[Sydney Review of Books @SydReviewBooks]

'Limberlost is a tender study of the dangers of averting our gaze, and of how we might go through life with very little involvement.'

CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowship recipient Megan Cheong reviews Limberlost by Robbie Arnott:

https://t.co/My8dbt4UrH

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@mxcreant @m_h_b_n_ @CallMeSipo This is the motivation I needed to read the book I’m working on a second time

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Critics/reviewers: how many times do you read/view the works you are writing about over the entire process of writing your review?

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@ImyDewey Yes! I have been trying to think of ways to stay open to developing my practice and writing. Surely varying the way you read is one way

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@CallMeSipo I’m so bad at twitter, this is exactly what I was hoping for ty!

[unstamatic @unstamaticmag]

it's happening. the unconditional acceptance submission call. mark your calendars, do your worst.

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My reading of @RobbieArnott ‘a beautiful #limberlost looking good in green on @SydReviewBooks

[Sydney Review of Books @SydReviewBooks]

'Limberlost is a tender study of the dangers of averting our gaze, and of how we might go through life with very little involvement.'

CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowship recipient Megan Cheong reviews Limberlost by Robbie Arnott:

https://t.co/My8dbt4UrH

[Megan Cheong @CheongMegan]

I wrote a little essay on how becoming a mother could/might/does affect creativity for the gorgeous @HeloisePress

[Héloïse Press @HeloisePress]

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