Hop Dac
Handy Links
Don’t mind me, this is just somewhere I can put useful links in one place. Feel free to add what you think should be here.
Advice for Photographing Paintings
“6 quick tips for se…
"Blood: an anthology of true family stories"

edited by Kate Harris, Leah Gardiner and Hop Dac
Sunday Drivers Press
From Intro:
“Writing about family—particularly real family—can be an intensely personal, far from easy thing to do. We are both honoured and grateful to have the opportunity to share these stories and poems with you.
To take …
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"Growing Up Asian in Australia"
Hola
I’ve got a piece in this book:

Published by Black Inc and edited by Alice Pung, who wrote the acclaimed ‘Unpolished Gems”, also published by Black Inc.
From the link:
Growing Up Asian in Australia
Edited by Alice Pung
Asian-Australians have often been w…
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interview
hola
i can’t sleep, so i’m on redbubble. that’ll learn me for drinking coca cola after midnight. if you find yourself in a similar predicament, you can read G-Man Merrick Justice’s interview...
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2 Studios Available in Footscray
from the end of March.
the big studio is 8metres long and 6m wide ($100 a week)
the littler one is 4×6 metres ($50 a week)
rent a week is all inclusive, and is paid per calendar month. 3 minutes walk from footscray station, right on top of the nicholson street mall. good for painters or writers, or musos. plus you get to be in footscray, never a dull moment...
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studio

This is my studio in Footscray. It overlooks the Nicholson Street Mall. In the late afternoon, after the shopkeepers have closed up and the locals trickle back to their homes, the junkies gather below my window and shout obscenities at each other. They swap phone numbers, tell jokes at each other’s expen…
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"Croak & Grist" - Book of Short Stories

Published by Paroxysm Press, Croak&Grist, a collection of short stories, is out in bookstores in Melbourne & Adelaide.
Melbourne:
- Dymocks Bookstore (city store)
- Collected Works Bookshop...
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things said at departures
goodbye
i love you
i’ll call you when i get there
see you soon
i had a great time
i’m going to miss you
be good
say goodbye to dad for me
look after each other
i have to go now
thank you for having me
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