Lindsay Wong
Lindsay Wong is the author of the memoir The Woo-Woo, a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Nonfiction and CBC’s Canada Reads, the young adult novel My Summer of Love and Misfortune, and the short-story collection Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality, shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. She has also written the adult novel Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies. Wong holds degrees in creative writing and literary nonfiction from the University of British Columbia and Columbia University. She teaches creative writing at the University of Winnipeg.
Writers & Books
Award History
2018 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
forThe Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
Jury 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