BUZZ have just reprinted my conversation about Art, Memoir and The Books that Read Us with the amazing Holly Sykes that was first published by The Hooghly Review. Thanks to editor Robin Bradbeer for championing not just me but the writers and artists I am fortunate enough to work with and champion. Buzz and The Hooghly Review have reciprocal arrangement where Buzz reprint The Writer’s Gauntlet as Battle of The Wits within 48 hours of The Hooghly Review publishing it.
I’m spending more time conversing with Holly Sykes than her husband these days! This conversation, just published by The Hooghly Review, is called Judging Books Judging Us – Art, Memoir, And The Books That Read Us. It was inspired by Holly’s substack, Beyond the Book Cover firing rockets into my neurodivergent brain and getting me unhealthily fixated on the concept of books reading us. There is treatment, according to my psychiatrist, but it’ll cost me…
https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-and-holly-sykes-go-beyond-the-book-cover/
My other conversation with Holly about mapping loss and loneliness in a crowded city was one of two columns published by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal on Saturday and can be found here.
The Writer’s Gauntlet will be back in The Hooghly Review on Thursday (with a Friday reprint in Buzz.) Who will be the latest intrepid writer to brave my Gauntlet? This gets harder and harder to decide as there are now a mind-boggling number of subs to choose from!
Thanks to Ankit, co-editor of The Hooghly Review, for the kind comment on X.
The second of my conversations with writers and artists to be published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal last weekend was with irrepressible Afghan women’s rights advocate and poet Shikha S Lamba. She recently curated a powerful poetry collection to raise the voices of Afghan women in collaboration with The Candyman’s Trumpet.
Shikha credits Afghan-American author Nadia Hashimi (who recently braved my Writer’s Gauntlet) as the source of her literary inspiration. Thanks to Cha’s wondrous editor-in-chief Tammy Lai-Ming Ho for the double coverage!
https://chajournal.com/2026/09/19/shikha-s-lamba
https://chajournal.com/category/sadie-kaye
This week on The Writer’s Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye bearded enviable teacher Kev Harrison is expelled for promoting pagan rituals and blames his cat overlords!
His latest dark fiction novel, Pyres, is newly published by Northern Republic. His debut novel, Shadow of the Hidden, won the Independent Press Award for Horror 2025.
https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-kev-harrison
Joãowow Lucas survived a near-fatal choking by American crime novelist Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) to duel with me on this week’s rendition of The Writer’s Gauntlet! The first rule of The Writer’s Gauntlet is you cannot talk about The Writer’s Gauntlet….
https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-joaowow-lucas
@jhlucas03 @chuckalahniuk @kayesadie @thehooghlyreview
Four of my poems have just been published in the Spring 2026 edition of The Awakenings Review, a bi-annual American literary journal based in Chicago. The award-winning print journal is entirely devoted to publishing works by artists, writers and poets with lived experience of mental illness. You can order it online and read a free sample here! (My poems are not part of the sample.) Thanks to editor-in-chef Robert Lundin for sparking my World Bipolar Day!
https://awakeningsproject.org 💛
The Hong Kong Writers Circle launched its 21st anthology Coming of Age at the Asia Society on Sat night to an (almost) full house! I shared a hairy moment from my trilogy of short humour stories, Ageless. HUGE thanks to Team HKILF for putting together a cracking festival, anthology editors Jay & Julian, all contributors and most of all, the unbeatable audience!
Always one of the highlights of my year, I had an absolute blast reading at the Hong Kong Lit Fest launch of the Women in Publishing Society‘s anthology Imprint 24. My reading was called In Bed with Sadie and a lot less sexy than it sounds. Big thanks to the women with WiPS for your inspiration, love, light and laughter!
The book is available in Bookazine and Lion Rock Press, who co-sponsored the event at the FCC. It’s brimming with literary goodness by wondrous women writers (and me). HUGE thanks to editor extraordinaire Carol Dyer for inviting me back and the fabulous outgoing and incoming WiPS committees for choreographing and hosting such an epic event!
Join me and the women with WiPS for another fizz-fuelled fiesta celebrating women’s voices! The Women in Publishing Society‘s Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2026 launch of Imprint 24 takes place at the FCC 4 March from 7-10pm! Tickets include two drinks, a delicious spread of complimentary canapés, free copies of the anthology, readings, speeches and performances, amid the legendary hospitality of the FCC!
My contributions to this year’s anthology are a couple of musings and a delulu doodle. While my pieces strike a slightly more reflective note than usual, I’ll be performing a humorous piece from an upcoming episode of Sharp Pains at the event by kind invitation of editor Carol Dyer, In Bed with Sadie. Don’t miss it!!!
https://www.hkwips.com/event/launch-party-imprint-24
Recent WiPS HK lit fest events!
https://www.hkwips.com/2024/imprint-22-launch-party
https://www.hkwips.com/2023/imprint-comes-of-age-at-the-fcc
https://www.hkwips.com/2025/imprint-23-is-released-in-style-at-the-fcc
In an exciting break with tradition (usually we are at the Fringe), the Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s Hong Kong International Literary Festival launch of its 21st anthology Coming of Age, edited by dream team Jay Oatway and Julian Lyden, will be held at the Asia Society Sat 7 March from 8-9.30pm. My contribution is like my bum curtains: Ageless. The Circle‘s last two lit fest launches of Score and Lost in Transition sold out so hurry, hurry to grab your tix! I’ll be among the readers. Afterparty TBA (but there will be one…)
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/book-launch-21-coming-of-age-tickets-1981552717520
Past HKWC Lit Fest launches!
