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Tickets are now on sale for the Women in Publishing Society‘s launch of their annual anthology, Imprint 23, at the Hong Kong Literary Festival 2025! Two of my short stories (a humorous piece and an essay on mental health) have slithered their way into this year’s anthology and I’m delighted to be invited to read (the humorous piece) at the event. Last year I read The Snide Sniper and the year before that it was Bake Fail. Fingers crossed this year’s attendees are just as appreciative. And by appreciative I mean inebriated.

Join me and the women with WiPS for a literary hotpot celebrating women’s diverse voices at the FCC 5 March from 7pm!

https://www.hkwips.com/event/launch-party-imprint-23/

https://www.hkwips.com/imprint/imprint-23-at-a-glance/

https://www.hkwips.com/2025/imprint-23-is-released-in-style-at-the-fcc/

https://bookazine.com.hk/products/imprint-23

https://www.thelionrockpress.com/products/book-imprint-23

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Taking part in the HK Lit Fest launches of the Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s and Women in Publishing Society‘s anthologies is always a hit of dopamine. In 2025, two of my flashiest flash fiction pieces (aptly titled ‘Two Shit Shorts’) will be flushed in HKWC anthology Score. The event will be held at the Jockey Club Theatre at the Hong Kong Fringe on 2 March at 6pm – and as it’s a celebration of 20 years of the Circle AND a leaving party for some of us, come to party! 

The Women in Publishing Society will be launching their anthology Imprint 23 at the FCC from 7-10pm on Weds 5th March. This is always a blast. I’ll be reading at both events. Wheeeeee!

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Imprint 23 Launches at FCC

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My third and final event of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2024 was the Women in Publishing Society‘s launch of anthology Imprint 22. I had an absolute blast reading my humorous short story The Snide Sniper to a rather well lubricated and very appreciative crowd at the Foreign Correspondents Club!

I am honoured to have had three very different pieces published in this year’s beautifully illustrated and meticulously edited anthology – The Snide Sniper, poem Barking Mad (along with a sketch of my beloved pooch Hobo) and a personal essay on how my neurodiversity (ADHD) can turbocharge my creativity but make me feel like a typo. You can purchase the book from the Lion Rock Press, Bookazine, Vibe and the FCC!

Congratulations to editor Carol Dyer, Polly, Gillian, Leslie, Rinkoo and all the WiPS team. Also to Joanna and Ursula for coming out to support what was an epic prelude to International Women’s Day!

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The Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s 19th anthology Lost in Transition launched in a ‘sold out‘ event at the Hong Kong International Lit Fest on Wednesday evening – and sold out of copies at Bookazine 48 hours later! Thanks to everyone who came out to support! The anthology will be restocked at Bookazine and uploaded to Amazon shortly!

Join me for my final event of HKILF 2024 when I’ll be performing my humorous short story The Snide Sniper at the Women in Publishing Society‘s launch of Imprint 22 at the FCC!

https://bookazine.com.hk/products/lost-in-transition

HKILF 2024 Program

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Thank you to Vicki and Mind HK for the opportunity to perform a bunch of humorous poems alongside my fellow ambassadors Vish and Derek in the first event of the 2024 Hong Kong International Literary Festival last night! Thank you so much to everyone who attended for being such an appreciative audience and to my amazing friends and fam; Philippe, Noz, Charles, Stewart, Eny, Mio, Carol, Susan, Nathan, Chriz and Amy!

Tomorrow night is the launch of Hong Kong Writers Circle anthology Lost in Transition and I’ll be reading again. That’s sold out too but there’s a good chance of no-shows so it’s definitely worth trying your luck on the door. Hope to see you there!

Click to access HKILF-2024-Brochure-Online.pdf

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The Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s launch of Lost in Transition at the Hong Kong Lit Fest has sold out a week after Poetry, Stories and Mental Health! This means I only have one lit fest event left where you can still grab a ticket! Please act fast to book for the Women in Publishing Society‘s launch of Imprint 22 at the FCC on 7 March! This one’ll cost you, but includes free wine or bubbles, a delicious buffet, two copies of the anthology per guest and a full evening’s entertainment at the FCC from 7-10pm, where I will be among the readers. Hope to see you there!

https://www.hkwips.com/event/launch-of-imprint-22 

https://hongkongwriterscircle.org/lost-in-transition/

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The Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s 19th anthology, Lost in Transition, will launch at the 2024 Hong Kong International Literary Festival March 6! The event will be held 7.30pm – 8.45pm in the Jockey Club Studio at the Hong Kong Fringe Club. This year’s anthology contains 30 short stories and poems inspired by Hong Kong’s underground life-support system – the MTR! (I also set my own theme of ‘Yakult’.) Tickets are FREE but you must book now as there are very few left!

As well as contributing, I assisted Stewart McKay to edit this anthology, which is the thickest yet! (That’s thick in terms of width, not talent.) It contains many weird and wonderful poems and stories by local writers so please support and if you write, join us! HUGE thanks to my good pal Philippe Joly for helping design the cover and my nephew Kaz for taking the cover shot!

So stand back from the platform door and please don’t find yourself lost in transition…

https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/book-launch-lost-in-transition-tickets-821645061497

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The Women in Publishing Society‘s 2023-2024 anthology Imprint 22 is launching at the FCC as part of the 2024 Hong Kong International Literary Festival 7 March! Last year, I had the joy of performing Bake Fail at the HKILF 2023 launch of Imprint 21. This year, I’ve also been invited to read, although I haven’t yet decided what. Join me and the women with WiPS from 7-10pm at the FCC for another evening of fun and frivolity celebrating women’s voices!

https://www.hkwips.com/event/launch-of-imprint-22

https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/book-launch-imprint-22-womens-voices-tickets-823328446547