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
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
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
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
My latest weekly feature for The Hooghly Review just dropped! This one’s a hairy one and called Toilet Spider.
https://thehooghlyreview.com/toilet-spider/
My dog is now officially a more successful writer than I am. His review of a Hong Kong restaurant is #2 Most Read in Cha. GO MOJO!!! Thank you editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming for sharing! My conversation with author Nifraz Rifaz was #4 Most Read during the same time period.
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
My latest humour column just made a filthy splash in The Hooghly Review. I am now their Resident Poopologist – a proud moment for my family! More flash/ flush fiction humour by me in Hooghly soon, as well as the launch of another regular humour column by me about the secret life of writers!
https://thehooghlyreview.com/unflushed-fiction/
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!
