Yen-Rong Wong
Yen-Rong is an essayist based in Meanjin (Brisbane), on unceded Jagera and Turrbal land. She received the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award in 2020, and in 2019, she was also shortlisted for the Deakin University Non-Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in many print and online publications, and she is currently working on her first full length manuscript, Things Left Unsaid.
Photo: Leah Jing Macintosh
All essays by Yen-Rong Wong
Junk Mail
Every generation is the last to experience certain phenomena; in the case of my generation, these include five cent lollies at the school tuckshop, petrol prices below a dollar a litre, and quite possibly, the wonders and annoyances of physically delivered junk mail. The term ‘junk mail’ is now perhaps better associated with unwanted emails.