Hello,
I’m Estelle.
I’m a literary scout at KF Literary Scouting and contributor at Rookie.
Here are some things I have written:
- An open letter to all my male friends (Guardian)
- The secret diary of the dancing girl emoji (The New Yorker)
- An annotated list of my open tabs (The Toast)
- Scents memories: My life in perfumes (Jezebel)
- Review of Carrie Brownstein’s Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (Pitchfork)
- The uncool connection between Sufjan Stevens and Tori Amos (Pitchfork)
- Friends forever: The series finale of Parks and Recreation (The Monthly)
- Why do people have children? (The Interrobang/Wheeler Centre)
- All of Mark Ruffalo’s on-screen kisses, from worst to best (The Hairpin)
- All good things are wild and free: Considering the zoo (Meanjin)
- Why well-rounded Asian-American characters matter (Salon)
- Clouds: A New Taxonomy (Rookie)
- You know who you look like? (Kill Your Darlings)
- Review of Veruca Salt’s Ghost Notes (Pitchfork)
- Review of Alissa Nutting’s Tampa (The Age)
- On child abuse in literature (Wheeler Centre)
- Review of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Australian Literary Review / Wheeler Centre)
- Fantasising revenge (Overland)
- Help your self-help (Rookie)
- Spotify’s playlist generator doesn’t know me at all (Deadspin)
- LA women (LA Review of Books)
Book projects include:
- The Lost Boy and Other Stories, editor
- Mothers and Others (ed. Natalie Kon-yu, Maya Linden, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott and Miriam Sved), contributor
- Rookie Yearbook 3 (ed. Tavi Gevinson), contributor
Print clients include The Pitchfork Review, Frankie, Yen Magazine, the triple j annual, The Lifted Brow and Australian Book Review.
I run #pitchbitch, a pitching resource for female and non-binary writers.
I am a bibliotherapist at The School of Life—follow the link to book an appointment.
I’m a program advisor at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
I have previously been editorial advisor at Paper Radio and online editor at Kill Your Darlings.
My long-lived but fairly fallow book blog is 3000 BOOKS.
Follow me @waouwwaouw (Twitter) or @waouwwaouw (Instagram).
Do you want to call me? estelle dot tang at gmail dot com