Hoa Pham

author, playwright and psychologist

  • Theatre
  • Short stories
  • Books
    • Lady of the Realm
    • Wave
    • The Other Shore

About Hoa Pham

Hoa Pham is the author of six books and two plays. Her most recent novel, Wave, was published in 2015. The Other Shore won the Viva La Novella Prize in 2014. Hoa’s most recent piece is The Lady of the Realm, in the Review of Australian Fiction. Her play Silence was on the VCE Drama list in 2010. She is also the founder of Peril Magazine, an Asian-Australian online arts and culture magazine. She has completed her doctorate in creative arts and also holds master’s degrees in creative writing and psychology.

She lives in Melbourne with her partner, their two children, and a Shiba Inu who tolerates their company. She can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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  • Theatre
  • Short stories
  • Books
    • Lady of the Realm
    • Wave
    • The Other Shore

Lady of the Realm

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Lady of the Realm

By Hoa Pham

Touched by the Lady of the Realm, Liên dreams of bones and bodies under the sea. The prescient warnings from the Lady weigh heavily on Liên, who is burdened by her inability to save everyone. But she knows that the Lady speaks most to those who listen.

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Wave

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Wave

By Hoa Pham

I remember how you were, not how you are. We were we until we became you and I. Midori and Âu Cô are international university students in Melbourne, united by loneliness. Midori’s parents are killed by the tsunami in Fukushima and soon after Midori and Âu Cô witness a university shooting. Midori ends up in a […]

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The Other Shore

The Other Shore
Award-winning

The Other Shore

By Hoa Pham

Kim is a 16 year old psychic hired by the Vietnamese government to reunite the remains of the dead with their descendants. Kim soon discovers that there’s far more to her gift than she realises. The Other Shore was one of the four winners of the Seizure Viva Novella 2 competition in 2014. It is […]

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Reviews for Wave

Wave was reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Writer, Mascara, and also by authors including Alice Pung.

Reviews for Silence

"Silence is an admirable addition to a growing volume of Vietnamese-Australian drama. Some of this writing has the sense of diaspora literature, reflecting a longing to write about lost heritage from the perspective of exile.

Silence moves beyond this, however - it is first and foremost a human story exploring the struggles of identity and responsibility that challenge any family."

The Sydney Morning Herald.

Reviews for The Other Shore

"This brief but haunting tale was one of four selected from more than 150 entries in Seizure’s Viva La Novella competition and is written with great poise and confidence in the innocent, delicate voice of a teenager burdened and bewildered by a double-edged gift."

The Sydney Morning Herald.

Reviews for The Other Shore

"If Viva La Novella is a prize dedicated to finding Australian fiction that wouldn’t be published by a mainstream publisher, then it’s hit the nail on the head with The Other Shore. A genre-bending short work, it highlights Hoa Pham’s abilities to combine the everyday with the supernatural in a way that never feels forced; instead forcing her readers to reconsider their own ideas about war and memory."

Matt Todd, A Novel Approach.

Upcoming events

Talks

Hoa will be talking at writers’ festivals around Victoria during 2016. Check back here for more details.

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