Natalie Wong Writer
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Natalie Wong
Short Bio:
Natalie Wong is a writer from Hong Kong who writes about the magical and horrifying things that happen when people can't express themselves. She is an MFA candidate in the University of Washington-Seattle’s Creative Writing Program. Her work has been supported by the Tin House Workshop, and her work appears in Five Minutes, The Apostrophe and elsewhere.
Complete Bio:
Natalie Wong is a writer from Hong Kong who writes about the magical and horrifying things that happen when people cannot express themselves. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Writing for Screen and Television program. Shortly after, she began developing original TV projects in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and the US with Imagine Entertainment and Hong Kong-based production and development company Sixty Percent Productions. Her feature screenplay "Gor Gor" was recognized as a quarterfinalist by the 2023 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and a second rounder of the 2023 Sundance Feature Film Development Track. In 2024, she was selected for the Tin House Winter Workshop in short story and was mentored by author Farah Ali. Most recently, Natalie wrote the comic series "Re:Trailer Trash" which reached 20 million views on webcomics platform WEBTOON, and reached Top 3 in the Drama Originals category. Her short fiction and nonfiction work has been published in various journals, such as The Apostrophe, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and Five Minutes. Natalie is currently a MFA candidate in the University of Washington-Seattle’s Creative Writing Program in the Prose track.
Social Media Links:
https://www.instagram.com/nataliecactus/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliemtwong
https://www.x.com/nataliecactus
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Selected writing
Screenplays
Gor Gor
Coming-of-Age Feature
A free-spirited, 12-year-old boy idolizes Leslie Cheung, Asia’s first bisexual superstar, in early 2000s Hong Kong. After learning of Leslie’s tragic suicide, he sparks a musical rebellion against his oppressive all-boys Catholic school in the name of self-expression.
Recognition
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Quarterfinalist - 2023 Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
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Second Round - 2023 Sundance Feature Development Track
The Musang King
Original Half-Hour Pilot, Single-Camera Mystery Dramedy
The Ong Family, owners of Malaysia’s premiere durian plantation, are as about loved and hated as the pungent smelling fruit that they sell. Left comatose after a hit to the head by a falling durian, their eldest daughter returns as an unseen spirit to find her attacker and unearth her family's bitter secrets.
Webcomics
Re:Trailer Trash Season 2, WEBTOON
Forthcoming in October 2026
Re: Trailer Trash Vol 2 Graphic Novel
Publisher: WEBTOON and Vault Comics
Adapted by Natalie Wong / Illustrated by Yishan Li
Official synopsis:
If you had a chance to do it all over again, could you do any better? Tabitha Moore will find her answer in the second graphic novel volume of Re: Trailer Trash, adapted from the smash-hit WEBTOON with more than 20 million reads.
Thrown back into her past by a bizarre mishap with an MRI, Tabitha Moore is trying to do something better with herself. Or maybe just something different. But changing things is harder than she could have imagined.
Maybe second chances aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Join Tabitha as she tries it all over again in the second second graphic novel volume of Re: Trailer Trash, adapted from the smash-hit WEBTOON with more than 20 million reads.
From the bestselling Webtoon Original, RE: Trailer Trash!
For fans of: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Midnight Library, All Our Wrong Todays, The Every Day series (David Levithan), The Great Storyteller, God of Cooking, The Middle Falls Time Travel series, Tori Transmigrated, Fated To Fall: A Transmigrator LitRPG Tale, The Many Lives of Cadence Lee , Ascendance of a Bookworm, Shade Touched , Melody of Mana, Interdimensional Garbage Merchant, Beware of Chicken, RELife, Solo Leveling, Azarinth Healer, This Used to be About Dungeons, Good Student, Mother of Learning, ORANGE and MIRAI.