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