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

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

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

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

Who is brave enough to follow the mighty Mat Ricardo in my weekly Writer’s Gauntlet column for The Hooghly Review? She describes herself as The Worst Comedy Hack You’ve Ever Seen! A Midwestern U.S. farmgirl transplanted to Portugal who performs standup comedy in Lisbon’s best basements. Meet the brilliantly witty Jen Nafziger!

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-jen-nafziger

BUZZ have been granted permission by The Hooghly Review to reprint my weekly column, The Writer’s Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye. They chose a different title for it though! Battle of The Wits is also the name of the affiliated podcast, which will be launching in all the usual podcast places (and some unusual ones) later this year! You can also follow our playlist of music from the IG posts of the columns on Spotify. Enjoy!

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/06/the-hooghly-review-presents-the-writers-gauntlet-with-sadie-kaye-featuring-helen-lederer

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/category/battle-of-the-wits

Thanks to my old comrades at Buzz for the coverage of the London premiere of To Love A Narcissist at Everyman Cinema and screening at Century Club!!

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/05/sai-kung-media-star-sadie-kaye-to-premiere-new-movie-in-london

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/06/sadie-kaye-attends-london-premiere-of-to-love-a-narcissist

Photos from London premiere at Everyman Cinema and VIP screening of To Love A Narcissist at Century Club, Shaftesbury Ave, London 9 May 2026. Sadie pictured with director Raffaello Degruttola, stars of the film Lyndsey Marshal and Sule Rimi, TJ Morgan, Geoffrey Nganga and other invited guests.

Thanks to Hong Kong Buzz for their continuous support of Home Kong Kitchen! December is our busiest time of year – and we’d LOVE to have your support! We are collecting gifts for the homeless for our festive deliveries of Christmas Gift Sacks (sewn by crafty kids) for the homeless @ImpactHK and migrants in need @Bethune House Dec 16, a Christmas party with refugee kids @Refugee Union Dec 17 and will be making more door to door deliveries of home baked gingerbread, fruit and other small gifts for the elderly with Amigos HK Dec 18! We are also selling raffle tickets to support the Mission for Migrant Workers at their annual fundraising event Dec 19!

Make friends, support the homeless, sweat and swear like a refuse collector (?!) by joining our festive jamboree: hello@homekongkitchen.com!🎄 🇭🇰

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I had an absolute blast taking part in my first lit fest last weekend reading an excerpt from my absurdist short story Shitstorm at the 2021 Hong Kong International Literary Festival! Shitstorm is one of many short stories published by the Hong Kong Writers Circle in their 2021 anthology After The Storm.

The book is now available to buy in paperback and as an e-book on Amazon, in Bookazine and (from next Friday) Kidnapped in Sai Kung! Thanks to Hong Kong Buzz for their cheeky little plug and to the Writers Circle for introducing me to some of the best people in Hong Kong! If you’d like to join our Circle, click here! And if you’d like to support the HK Lit Fest by sponsoring an event or becoming a patron, click here!

When you really don’t trust the people you’re with (or just forget to remove your mask!)