Law presented a talk on alopecia and at the Empowerment-themed TEDxSouthBankWomen event, in December 2012. She presented on the topic of co-authorship with her brother Benjamin Law, as part of the Literary Friendship series at the 2014 Sydney Writers' Festival. Law wrote the adolescent-themed short filmBloomers, which was completed through successful crowdfunding and Screen Australia's Short Film Completion Fund. She has been portrayed by actress Vivian Wei in the comedy TV series The Family Law. Her 2017 play, Single Asian Female, a comedy about a Chinese-Australian family, was considered to be groundbreaking in Australian theatre, as it featured three Chinese-Australian women in leading roles. It opened at Brisbane's Roundhouse Theatre for La Boite in February 2017, and at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre in February 2018. In August 2017, Law was commissioned by SBS and Screen Australia to co-write a comedy drama series, Homecoming Queens. Law co-wrote the semi-autobiographical series with Chloë Reeson, it focuses on two friends with chronic illness living in Queensland. It premiered on SBS OnDemand in April 2018, with Law playing the part of "Michelle Low" and Liv Hewson playing the part of Chloë Reeson. Law is an ambassador for the Emerging Writers' Festival.
She has previously worked at Brisbane's Avid Reader bookshop. In June 2017, Men’s Rights Activists targeted the bookshop with online downvoting, because it shared news about Clementine Ford's second book. Michelle and her brother Ben advocated for the bookshop, which effectively combated the downvotes by garnering hundreds of positive five-star reviews from the bookshop's supporters. In October 2017, one of her tweets was featured in a Sydney Morning Herald article, decrying the online abuse from HSC students towards poet Ellen van Neerven. In November 2017, she tweeted to the Guardian's "Australian Bird of the Year" poll with an Australian version of the “Nothing but respect for my president” meme. In February 2018, Law tweeted about the inappropriateness of "Wonton of Laughs", a show in the BrisAsia Festival. The show's promotional poster appeared to depict Asian comedians floating in a bowl of wonton soup.
Awards and funding
In April 2012, Law was selected as part of Youth Arts Queensland's JUMP Mentoring Program. She won an AWGIE in 2012 in the Interactive Media category, for her screenwriting on SLiDE. She was a runner-up in the Written Word Category in the 2013 Spirit of Youth Awards. In 2013, she received funding towards her writing career through the Australia Council's ArtStart program. In 2015, she was commissioned to write a Brisbane-themed poem for the Brisbane Poetry Map. In 2016, she won one of the Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards at the Queensland Literary Awards.
Articles
Journals
Law has written for Seizure,Meanjin, Screen Education, Peril: An Asian-Australian Journal, Good Weekend and Frankie. She has written for The Lifted Brow on travel and loneliness, teachability of MasterChef, the nuances of Game of Thrones, the continued appeal of The Golden Girls, longevity of reality television, the possibilities of musical theatre, bookish television characters, interviewed writer Margo Lanagan, the lack of onscreen depictions of unsexy sex, and expectations around being an adult. Her 2015 guest review of Charlotte's Web for Going Down Swinging's "The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge" expanded on her earlier Gilmore Girls articles in The Lifted Brow. She has written for the Griffith Review on the nuances of romantic relationships, on dual cultural identity, and sibling conversations.
News
She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald on misogynist "bro culture" perpetuated by Melbourne University Liberal Club members, selfie etiquette, the physicality of hands, and writers engaging in marketing.
Books
Co-authored
Sh*t Asian mothers say, Collingwood, Vic. : Black Inc.
Contributed chapters
"A call to arms", pp. 242–245, in: Growing up Asian in Australia, Melbourne, Black Inc.
"", pp. 237–240, in section, "To my most treasured possession", in: Women of letters: reviving the lost art of correspondence, curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire, Camberwell, Viking,
"A fairer country", pp. 25–34, in: Destroying the joint, edited by Jane Caro, Read How You Want. A portion of the chapter was also published as an excerpt in The Sun Herald.
"Joyride", pp. 259–273, in: Rebellious daughters: true stories from Australia's finest female writers, edited by Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman, Edgecliff, Ventura Press
