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Following on from my conversation with poet, humanitarian and Afghan women’s rights advocate Shikha S Lamba that was published this week in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, I wrote a short news piece for BUZZ on Shikha’s latest initiatives and how you can help! Thanks to BUZZ editor Robin Bradbeer for publishing.

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/09/from-poetry-to-action-shikha-s-lamba-lights-the-way

You can read our conversation in Cha, Challenging the Patriarchy with Poetry & Prose here: https://chajournal.com/2026/09/19/shikha-s-lamba

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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.

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/09/judging-books-judging-us-art-memoir-and-the-books-that-read-us-sadie-kaye-and-holly-sykes-go-beyond-the-book-cover

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Bestselling author Nadia Hashimi is the latest intrepid writer to brave my Writer’s Gauntlet. For once though, you won’t need a box of tissues. She’s witterific! Her take-down of the patriarchy aptly coincided with the news feminist icon Gloria Steinem had passed. (RIP) It’s Nads!!!

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-nadia-hashimi

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/09/battle-of-the-wits-sadie-kaye-versus-nadia-hashimi

Nadia on Goodreads

Nadia’s website

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This week on The Writer’s Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye Art Witch and playwright Lindsey McAlister starts glitter-fuelled revolution in teen mental health! The vibes are immaculate but impossible to vacuum…

This is my second detour down memory lane (as an alumnus of the HKYAF) with local legend Lindsey. We were caught waving frantically at life in Cha in July!

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-lindsey-mcalister

The weekly reprint (with permission of The Hooghly Review) has just gone live in BUZZ:

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/08/battle-of-the-wits-sadie-kaye-versus-lindsey-mcalister

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This week on The Writer’s Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye, witty novelist and essayist Nathan Lauer shows how far up the glass escalator this mediocre white man can fall. (There’s nothing ‘mediocre’ about this man..!)

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-nathan-lauer

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/08/the-battle-of-the-wits-sadie-kaye-versus-nathan-lauer

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On this week’s The Writer’s Gauntlet sci-fi writer and time traveller Jay Oatway returns with the one simple trick of getting your novel published (and editors hate him!) A finalist in L Ron Hubbard‘s Writers of the Future Awards in 2025, his piece is very entertaining. Enjoy!

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-jay-oatway

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/08/battle-of-the-wits-sadie-kaye-versus-jay-oatway

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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

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This week on The Writer’s Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye, my opponent is the effortlessly erudite and witty Mat Ricardo – showman, best dressed juggler, and America’s Got Talent loser who wrote a book for kids about how to be criminals (The Magic in You, published by Faber!)

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-mat-ricardo 

He’s also been my guest on RTHK Radio 3 in my Mental Ideas Podcast and doc As Bad As It Gets and is an ambassador for Mental Ideas!

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/07/battle-of-the-wits-sadie-kaye-versus-mat-ricardo