Works
In addition to being a writer, I’m also an editor, curator and producer of audio documentaries and podcasts, public talks and literary events. I have been involved with a number of cross-disciplinary projects, collaborating wth other writers and artists.
connectIRL
What happens when six strangers from different walks of life respond to an online ad to meet someone new for the first time in front of a camera?
Long lost 1960s Vietnamese rock, and music for two fortepianos (ABC LISTEN)
The incredible story of Phuong Tâm, a 1960s teenage rock and roll star, one of the first people to sing pop and rock songs in Vietnam.
Looking For You | Tìm Hiểu
‘Sacrifice is the most used word in the Vietnamese language’
Why Australians Should Eat More Offal (ABC LISTEN)
Australians in general do not like eating offal. Yet, all over the world – offal is commonplace in everyday food culture.
SXSW Sydney – New Visions: The Future of Diaspora Storytelling
How are they finding new ways to authentically tell their stories to Australian and international screen audiences?
MÌNH Exhibition
MÌNH is an everyday word which refers to our bodies and selves, but it also means us; about who we are as individuals as well as how we exist together.
THE MENU – Food Neighbourhoods #344: Cabramatta, Sydney (MONOCLE)
This week we head to the southwestern suburbs of Sydney to visit one of the city’s top food destinations, Cabramatta.
My Bilingual Family
My Bilingual Family is a seven-part series produced by Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham.
Tongue Tied and Fluent
We think of ourselves as a multicultural country, but not necessarily a multilingual one. Yet, around 300 languages are spoken in Australia on any given day.
Sydney Writers' Festival 2023 - André Dao and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai: Stories of Vietnam
Sheila Ngọc Phạm speaks to André Dao and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai.
Untold Vietnamese Stories
André Dao, Tracey Lien, and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai speak with Sheila Ngọc Phạm about family secrets and reckoning with history through literature.
An act of recovery: Comics from the Vietnamese diaspora (diaCRITICS)
The absence of photographs in many of our lives is why comics feel like an act of recovery, with images created from memory, imagination, and reportage—to fill in the gaps.
Stories then and now
My family fled Vietnam as refugees and I told parts of that story in Stories Then and Now at Carriageworks, Casula Powerhouse and OzAsia Festival.
The Lonely Planet Guide to New Delhi
My radio play, ‘The Lonely Planet Guide to New Delhi', was staged at Sidetrack Theatre as part of Hearing Voices at the Sydney Fringe 2012 and broadcast live on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM.
These people
A former refugee is angry that asylum seekers these days believe that they have the right to special treatment.
The Lost Cinema of Tan Hiep
In search of Vietnam's nearly forgotten cinema history
State of mind
Stories, memoirs and poems from over one hundred young people from across New South Wales.
