A short story of mine, Brothel in the Jungle, has been published in Suspect, Singapore Unbound’s online literary magazine.
Read the story here.
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Gus is featured on the wonderful French language literary podcast. Marcher Entre Les Lignes, written and presented by French writer, Julie Moulin, who lives in Singapore.
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I just gave a link to this Gus website page to Google Notebook and … Bang! Fifteen minutes later … it came up with this podcast chat between 2 ‘AI Americans’.
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In the latest episode of The Asian Bookshelf podcast I talk with Dr Ros Prosser and Dr Mandakini Arora from LaSalle College of Art about Teaching Creative Writing in Singapore.
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Come join us for a conversation about the publication process for Singapore based writers. With Prasanthi Ram, Max Pasakorn & Jon Gresham
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What a lovely surprise! Gus has escaped into the pages of Electric Literature, the online literary journal with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.
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A summary of reviews and reflections on Gus from several Singapore writers updated to the end of July 2024.
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Making Place: A Conversation and Reading
Come and join us on Tuesday 7pm, 6 Aug 2024...for a gathering of writers talking about the role of place in their work
With Jee Leong Koh, Diana Rahim, Marcus Ong, Lawrence Ypil & Jon Gresham
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Gus appeared on The Asian Bookshelf podcast and answered questions from presenters, Devika Misra and Tracey Morton on monkeys rampaging around with women’s underwear, the current crises and the need to have more fun.
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On 27 June 2024, Jon appeared on CNA938 with Melanie Oliveiro. He enjoyed chatting with Melanie about Gus, speaking to cockroaches and vacuum cleaners, why Charlie is such a wimp, de-centring male individualistic narratives, and how Gus’s narrative resonates with Jon’s personal story.
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A big thank you to Shawn Hoo for a wonderful 4 Star review of Gus in The Sunday Times on 16 June 2024.
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Jon was featured in Mekong Review’s weekly newsletter in their Quickfire Quintet.
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On 8 June 2024, “Gus: The Life & Opinions of the Last Raffles Banded Langur” was launched in a historic shophouse on Blair Road.
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In June 2024, Jon ran a writing workshop for the Singapore Writers Network on how he wrote Gus using Index Cards, spreadsheets, Scrivener, Word and paper.
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In May 2024, Jon gave a lecture to secondary students for the Ministry of Education’s Creative Arts Programme on Surrealist Fiction and The Half Familiar.
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In May 2024, The Asian Bookshelf was launched. This podcast seeks to be a home to words and voices on books from Asia and is presented by Devika Misra, Tracey Morton and Jon.
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In May 2024, Jon was a judge for the Unity Secondary School Writers Festival Flash Fiction competition together with Suffian Hakim.
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On the 20th of April, authors Balli Kaur Jaswal and Jon Gresham were at Book Bar to talk about their new novels, Now You See Us & Gus: The Life and Opinions of the Last Raffles Banded Langur, and the importance of their settings in Singaporean neighbourhoods.
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