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Our Home in Myanmar is available in Burmese as a free ebook. You can download the PDF by clicking here. My thanks to the two translators who worked on it for me. They have chosen to remain anonymous due to the difficult political situation in Myanmar. It is my way of saying thank you for […]

Our Home in Myanmar was published in May. Here is how it begins. If you’d like to read the rest, it’s available on Amazon, Booktopia and all major online retailers globally. There is a paperback, ebook and audiobook. I hope you enjoy it! PROLOGUE JUNE 2016   The tide was out. But when it came […]

This memoir by first-time author Jenevieve Chang describes her escapades in Shanghai as a member of China’s first burlesque troupe during the late noughties. At its heart is a poignant attempt by a young woman to reconcile the complex layers of culture and identity across different moments in time and place. Chang was born in […]

I ticked off an item on my bucket list when I went whale watching a few weekends ago, and I had such a fantastic time that I thought I’d write a quick blog post about it. It was the best outdoor adventure we’ve had in Sydney so far – though Wollongong came close and I’m […]

A few weeks ago I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian about bringing our cat Butters to Australia from Myanmar via Singapore. I thought it might be helpful to post some photos of the quarantine facility in Singapore on my blog, because I was a lot more apprehensive about it until I saw for myself […]

Here’s a list of websites that offer gigs to freelance writers in Australia. Enjoy!

Published in the April edition of The Point Magazine The Darcy Street Project is a social enterprise in Parramatta that has taught 450 people from disadvantaged backgrounds the fine art of making great coffee and how to land that all-important first job in hospitality. John Cafferatta has loved coffee since he was a student working […]

I went to Blacktown in Sydney's west to meet the owner of Sun's Burmese Kitchen for The Point Magazine.

I went to the opening of a new restaurant in Parramatta last week called The Kitchen, which is run by a Filipino-Indian duo called Rex Manaay and Sree Mohanan. The pair have worked together for many years and actually made two attempts to buy the premises, which was formerly Sangria. Needless to say it was […]

Published in Red Bull Amaphiko on 24 October 2016 In a country such as Myanmar where two-thirds of the population live below the poverty line, income-generating activities are much needed but in desperately short supply. The social enterprise Hla Day, which is a play on the Burmese phrase for ‘beautiful,’ is helping hundreds of people […]