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 💛
I dropped by RTHK Radio 3 for a bipolar expresso (not to be confused with an espresso martini, which I also asked for) with rockstar producer Rachel Liu this World Bipolar Day! Thanks RTHK for making this happen at short notice and making me feel so welcome!
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/brunch/episode/1088957
If any of this resonates with you, please join Bipolar Hong Kong, the SAR’s bipolar support group. Wishing all bipolar bears a World Bipolar Day that is juuuuuuuust right!
My latest column for Cha: An Asian Literary Journal delves into the life and story of Indian-American artist Sai Pradhan and the inspirations for her exhibition, With Regard to Myths. It’s got geckos and dogs in it. What more could you want from art? I had the pleasure of attending Sai’s mythical preview tonight and you definitely don’t want to miss this!!!
Thanks so much Tammy Ho Lai-ming for the care and attention you put into making every piece pop! You can read my first conversation for Cha with fine artist George Tang Kwok-wing here.
My latest humour column for The Hooghly Review has just embarrassed itself on the MTR, a month to the day since Flush Fiction was published. This one is called The Snide Sniper.
https://thehooghlyreview.com/the-snide-sniper/
Also, an honour to be mentioned in the same post as poet and superhuman Shikha S Lamba! The editors thought it would be fun to have our pieces in the same issue because we have been known to fangirl each other’s work – me because she’s extraordinary and her because she’s very, very patient…
Me and Shikha (middle) with Andy Lowe (left) at the Women in Publishing Society‘s Hong Kong International Literary Festival launch of Imprint 24 last week!
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!
I’m excited to be taking part in another epic exhibition celebrating the 5th year anniversary of Mind HK‘s trailblazing More Than A Label anti-stigma project! The exhibition will explore ambassadors‘ journeys through art, poetry, audio, films and stories. It will be held at The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Central, from 13-26 April. Please save the dates!
Issue 12 of The Apostrophe has landed on Substack! This one features a firecracker of a cover by Zed and a pithy photo story by Joãowow Lucas. If you’ve got an eye for capturing a ‘moment’ on camera, I want to see it as art editor! Subs reopen April 1st (no joke) on the theme of ‘YAWN’.
My stinker of a humour column Flush Fiction just bared all in The Hooghly Review! HUGE thanks to editor Ankit Raj Ojh for the opportunity to lower the tone and Eric Poussin for the hilarious artwork!
https://thehooghlyreview.com/flush-fiction/
A year after To Love A Narcissist world premiered in New York, I’m excited to share the film will be distributed throughout North America (and then worldwide) very VERY soon, with the film’s official release dates slated but under wraps! Follow us @ControVentoFilms and help us celebrate this mental milestone! We are planning online watch parties and special screenings in the US, London and Hong Kong!
