Jon’s writing website is www.jongresham.com
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Jon Gresham was born in England, grew up in Australia and lived across Asia for over 26 years. He returned to Adelaide in 2025.
Jon's debut novel, Gus: The Life & Opinions of the Last Raffles Banded Langur, was long listed for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize.
His debut collection of short stories, We Rose Up Slowly, was published by Math Paper Press in 2015 with a second edition published in 2017.
His story, The Visit, was shortlisted in the 2020 Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize.
Jon helped run the Asia Creative Writing Programme at Nanyang Technological University from 2019 to 2023.
He was also the joint editor - with Elizabeth Tan - of In This Desert, There Were Seeds, an anthology of Singapore and West Australian short stories published by Margaret River Press and Ethos Books in November 2019.
He is a Co-founder of the Singaporean literary community, Sing Lit Station. He created the Book A Writer programme and led the Writing the City Creative Writing Workshops at Toa Payoh Library for over 6 years from 2015 to 2021.
His writing has appeared in various anthologies and literary journals including Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Esquire Singapore, In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and air Travel, From The Belly Of The Cat, Eastern Heathens, the mono-titular anthology Coast, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Ceriph and the flash fiction collections Twenty Four Flavours: Sushi, Century Egg, Chicken Rice & Dolphin Meat.
He also takes photos and blogs at www.igloomelts.com
Media
“Thrilling tale of talking monkey and Primate Warfare”, The Sunday Times, 16 June 2024
Review of We Rose Up Slowly, Anomaly Blog, June 2018
Review of We Rose Up Slowly, Asiatic, Vol 11, No1, June 2017
Proust Questionnaire: 17 Questions with Jon Gresham, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, April 2022
Writing Short Stories Head2Head with Crispin Rodrigues and Anitha Devi Pillai, April 2021 - waffle starts at 8 mins 10 secs
From an Investment Bank to a Writing desk: An Interview with Jon Gresham, StyleGuide, July 2018
Migrant Voices, A-List, January 2018
The Lounge Interview, 10 Questions With Jon Gresham, Kitaab, Feb 2016
Expat Living Singapore Oct 2015
Singapore Bookshelf, The Straits Times July 2015
Awards, Mentions & Other
Book Review, Moving Worlds - A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Vol 20 No. 1 2020
Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories Vol 3, Oct 2017
Images in Left to Right, edited and published by Geraldine Kang and Kenneth Tay, April 2016
Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories Vol 2, Honourable Mention, Nov 2015
Top 10 Finalist, Mont Blanc X Esquire Singapore, The Esquire Fiction Writer Project, "Exploring New Heights" June 2015
Cover image for IgnitED, provider of multi-media issues education resources
Images based on Yeats' poem "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" featured in the leading poetry journal, Softblow
Images from Speakeasy #16 used in The A-List
2010 Photoblog Award Best Asian & Oceanian Photoblog - Finalists
2009 Photoblog Award Best Asian & Oceanian Photoblog - Finalists
2008 Photoblog Award Best Black & White Photography - Finalists
2008 Photoblog Award Best Asian & Oceanian Photoblog - Finalists
Special Mention 2008, The Photographic Society of the National University of Singapore, Montage Open Competition for Beggar Beside The Mercedes Benz
Images featured in videos & stories on forced prostitution & sexual slavery in India:
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