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The Writer’s Gauntlet returns with witty historical fiction novelist Emma Pei Yin. Her debut novel, When Sleeping Women Wake, won the 2026 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction. Find out why archivists hate her, government watchlists hate her and knights fear her!

I met Emma at a Hong Kong literary festival event last year, where we teamed up for a literary quiz, put our heads together, and managed to come up with not a single correct answer between us, which is actually a lot trickier than it sounds…

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-emma-pei-yin

https://hongkongbuzz.hk/2026/09/battle-of-the-wits-sadie-kaye-versus-emma-pei-yin

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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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The latest wit to brave my Writer’s Gauntlet is so English he bleeds Earl Grey tea. His profile pic is a whodunnit. It’s writer, editor and raconteur Julian Lyden…in the kitchen…with the cucumber…🥒 He’s also the co-founder of a brand new publisher Inbound Outbound Books along with another great wit and Gauntlet survivor, Jonathan Han! 

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-julian-lyden

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

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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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My new weekly Writer’s Gauntlet column for The Hooghly Review got off to a cracking celebrity start thanks to the wondrous wit and support of Helen Lederer, fairy godmother to witty women everywhere, award-winning author, comedian, founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize. The inaugural column was published 12 June 2026. The wittiest responders will be invited to join me on a podcast!

Helen’s memoir Not That I’m Bitter is a joyous explosion of hilarity and humanity. Read the reviews by top literary critics and famous wits like Joanna Lumley, Ben Elton & Stephen Fry!

https://thehooghlyreview.com/sadie-kaye-vs-helen-lederer

https://thehooghlyreview.com/the-writers-gauntlet-with-sadie-kaye

Think you’ve got what it takes to ride my Writer’s Gauntlet? Email or DM me on IG @KayeSadie

https://www.helenlederer.co.uk

https://www.comedywomeninprint.co.uk

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As Hong Kong dithers on whether to embrace the ‘pet economy’, my foodie poo Mojo is in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal with his review of a Hong Kong restaurant! I helpfully provided the English translation, being fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and, err, Woof. Thanks to editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming for the editorial feedback, which Mojo really appreciated, and for publishing what is undoubtedly the silliest piece ever to appear in Cha in its 20 year history!

https://chajournal.com/2026/04/22/foodie-review/

https://chajournal.com/category/sadie-kaye