Alison Wong – 2002

Although Alison Wong maintains she writes straight on to her computer, she still manages to accumulate sheets of hand-written scrawl that she confesses either gets binned because they are too messy, or if they are lucky, gets saved in one of her file boxes. Here is one survivor, a hand-written draft of interview notes gathered for her first novel, which was started while she was a Burns Fellow in 2002. It is due to be published by Picador in 2009. Wong also wrote poems that year, many of which were published in Cup.

Alison Wong, Notes towards an untitled novel. 2002. Private Collection; ___, Cup. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2006. Private Collection.