Lindsay
Wong
Lindsay Wong is the author of the memoir The Woo-Woo, which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her debut collection of short fiction, Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality, was shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes. Wong teaches creative writing at the University of Winnipeg, where she lives.
Writers & Books
Award History
2018 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
for The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese FamilyJury Citation
"CanLit is brimming with immigrant stories, but we’ve never had anything quite like Lindsay Wong’s The Woo-Woo. This madcap memoir follows Wong as she comes of age amidst her foul-mouthed, upwardly mobile Asian Canadian family. Although the household is riddled with mental illness, her mother blames their domestic chaos on a bevy of Chinese ghosts. Hilarious anecdotes and slapstick comedy make bearable a shattering account of childhood neglect, emotional abuse, and social ostracism. Wong navigates treacherous emotional waters with such masterful literary skill we are barely aware of the moment our laughter turns to tears." — 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury (Michael Harris, Donna Bailey Nurse, and Joel Yanofsky)Juror History
Works Recognized by WT