born 1994, Vancouver, bc, Canada | writer
Sheung-King, Aaron Tang is an author and teacher. His debut novel, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked (Book*hug Press, 2020), is a finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Award, a finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads 2021, named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by the Globe and Mail, and optioned for film adaption by Fluent Films, Montreal. Sheung-King is also named one of 30 Canadian writers to watch in 2022 by the CBC. His second novel, BATSHIT SEVEN, published by Penguin Random House Canada in 2024 was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Born in Vancouver, Sheung-King grew up in Hong Kong. His work examines “the interior lives of the transnational Asian diaspora” (Thea Lim, The Nation). Sheung-King taught creative writing at the University of Guelph and Sheridan College. He now works as a humanities teacher at Avenues: The World School, Shenzhen and splits his time between China and Canada.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, University of Guelph, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2016 - 2018
Graduate Research Scholarship, 2018, The Constance Rooke Scholarship, 2016
Bachelor of Arts, Film and Media Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. 2012 – 2016
Dean’s Honour List: 2015-2016, 2014-2015
Employment History
2021 – present: Upper-Grade Humanities Teacher/ Humanies Learning Guide: Avenue: The World School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Mainland China.
2019 – 2021: Lecturer, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2018 – 2020: Professor of Creative Writing, Sheridan College, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
2018 – 2020: Professor of English, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning, Humber College, Etobicoke, ON, Canada.
2017 – 2020: Writing Tutor, Guelph-Humber University, Etobicoke, ON, Canada.
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All works published are under the name Sheung-King
Book(s):
2024: Batshit Seven, Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2020: You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked., Book*hug Press, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Selected Publications *
2022: Cat Skin, Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, Montreal, QB, Canada
2022: Guest Editor + Introduction: Minority Vibrations, The Puritan Magazine, Toronto, ON, Canada
2022: Review: In Ghost Forest’s Silence, We are at Peace, The Puritan Magazine, Toronto, ON, Canada
2021: Ocean $hit, Singapore Unbound, SP blog, New York City, NY, USA
2021: In July we are All Children, filling Station - Issue 76, Calgary, AB, Canada.
2021: July Has Nothing to do with God, Fatal Flaw Magazine, New York City, NY, USA
2021: Language Learners, Imagining Climates, Guelph Institute for Environmental Research, Guelph, ON, Canada.
2021: You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked., Exile Quarterly (Food for my People, an anthology), Toronto,
ON, Canada. Nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Literary Prize by Exile Quarterly.
2020: Deeping Yellows, Summer Issue, The Capilano Review, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2018: I Am Writing About a Hole, Issue 4, The Shanghai Literary Review, Shanghai, China.
Nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Literary Prize and required reading in ENGL*3870DE W19, a Cultural Studies Course offered at The University of Guelph
2018: Pineapple Story, Puritan Magazine (as part of Nostalgia the Nefarious: A Series), Toronto, ON, Canada.
2018: Kitchen God, Leopardskin & Lime, Berlin, Germany.
2017: Italo Calvino’s Quickness and the Cactus on my Desk, Ricepaper Magazine, Vancouver BC, Canada.
2018: Grocery Shopping in the Desert, Ricepaper Magazine, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2017: Memory Piece: Macau, The Humber Literary Review, Winter Issue, Etobicoke, ON, Canada.
2017: Lantern & Letters, PRISM International, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2017: De Vivre Sa Vire, Currents: A Ricepaper Magazine Anthology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Academic Publications:
2020: Co-Investigator, in collaboration with Dr. Li Siu Kit, “Double Absence and binary thinking—The phenomenon and new content in pre- and post-97 films”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Hong Kong, SAR, China.
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Residencies/Fellowships
2024: Writer in Residence, Hase House, Kamikawa, Hyogo, Japan
2023: Summer Writers Residency 2023, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity
2020-2021: ADA-DADA Artist Residency: a collaborative production residency and learning community asking how artists can reclaim and reposition data as a form of counter-culture.
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Performances/Talks/Public Programs
2024: Displaced Nostalgia: Rituals, a dual performance with JeeMin Kim for Bad Timekeeper, this is not a church (TINC), Seoul, Korea
2024: Summer Reads: Literary Lunch Panel, The Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Hong Kong, SAR, China
2024: Minority Vibrations II: Writing Autofiction, The Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Hong Kong, SAR, China
2024: Batshit Seven Book Launch X Thea Lim: Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2024: CBC’s The Next Chapter, CBC Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
2024: Speaker: Batshit Seven: Millennials in Hong Kong, The Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Hong Kong, SAR, China
2022: Guest Lecturer, Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2022: Judge, 2022 Short Story Prize, Canadian Writer’s Association, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2022: Judge, 2022 CBC Short Story Prize, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2022: Guest Lecturer, Simon K.Y. Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2021: Panelist, Beyond the Books, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
2021: Reader, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2021: Panelist, CanWrite!, Canadian Authors Association, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2021: Panelist, Writers on Place and Belonging, Festival of Literary Diversity, Brampton, ON, Canada.
2021: Visiting Author, Brampton Public Library, Brampton, ON, Canada.
2021: Visiting Instructor, Writing Futures, Brampton Public Library, Brampton, ON, Canada.
2020: Guest Speaker, In Conversation with Authors, Markham Public Library, Markham, ON, Canada.
2020: Guest Speaker, Word on the Street X Diaspora Dialogue, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2020: Guest Speaker, Another Story Bookshop, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2020: Presenter at OCAD University’s Global Asia Cultural Studies Forum, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Awards
2024: Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Writers’ Trust Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
2022: 30 Writers to Watch in 2022, CBC Books, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2022: Finalist for the Alberta Magazine Award, Alberta Magazine Publishers Association, Alberta, Canada.
2022: Writer’s Trust Canada, Amplified Voices, Toronto, ON, Canada
2021: Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2021: Finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2021: 2021 Canada Reads Longlist, CBC, Canada.
2021: National Magazine Award Nomination, Short Fiction, nomination submitted by Exile Quarterly
2020: Best Book Debuts of 2020, The Globe and Mail.
2020: Amazon First Novel Prize Nomination, Adult Novel, nomination submitted by Book*hug Press.
2020: Pushcart Literary Prize Nomination for Fiction, nomination submitted by Exile Quarterly.
2019: Pushcart Literary Prize Nomination for Nonfiction, nomination submitted by the Shanghai Literary Review.
Scholarships
2018: Graduate Research Scholarship, The University of Guelph.
2016: The Constance Rooke Scholarship, The University of Guelph.