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’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!
I am bouncing off satellites to learn that four of my poems will be published in The Awakenings Review, an award-winning American literary journal published by The Awakenings Project in Chicago! Thank you Editor-in-Chief Robert Lundin for sparking my day! 💛
The Awakenings Review is one of the USA’s leading literary journals dedicated to publishing works by artists, writers, and poets with lived experiences of mental illness. Established in 2000 with the support of the University of Chicago, their biannual publication features contributors who have a personal connection to mental illness and offer insight and resilience without being demoralising.
The next publication, which I’ll be in, drops Spring 2026!
What a blast and a huge honour to have been invited to speak to students at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts as an ambassador for Mind HK about mental health, film and the arts alongside the amazing Kate Sullivan! Kate’s short film about mental health was screened at the event – check it out here! The event was moderated by the lovely Tiff! Thanks to everyone who made it happen!
This was my second event for Mind HK in the past month. I also had the joy of contributing as a panelist and an ambassador to Mind HK’s summer exhibition Listen to the Beat along with all these lovely people! 🥰
Another of my rants on mental health just found its way into the China Daily! Big thanks to editor Jessica Chen. This one delves into narcissism, a topic I’ve been reflecting on a little too often since producing To Love A Narcissist.
Despite the Hong Kong weather’s best efforts to drown me on the way there and back, the launch of Mind HK’s summer 2025 exhibition Listen to the Beat at Our Gallery was EPIC – and PACKED!!! Congrats Mind HK for curating an unbeatable exhibition of ambassadors’ work! My contribution is among the handwritten letters on display. I also shared a bit of my story as part of a panel. If you’re looking for an inspiring, cool and DRY place to hang in Hong Kong this summer, swing by! The exhibition is open until 15 Aug.
Excited to be one of the ambassadors taking part in Mind HK’s summer 2025 exhibition at Our Gallery, Wan Chai. Last summer’s Here and Now exhibition at the 3812 Gallery was epic! This one is called Listen to the Beat. My contribution is a handwritten letter. The last thing I wrote by hand was my signature – it was declined by my bank as illegible.
I’ll also be sharing my story in a panel alongside two other ambassadors this coming SAT (2 Aug) from 3.30-5pm. Tix are free but you must sign up! The exhibition is open 1-15 Aug. If you’re sweating in the city this summer, swing by!
I discovered I’d been nominated for a GHP Mental Health Award a few weeks ago for my contribution via Mental Ideas and Bipolar Hong Kong. Well, apparently I’ve won ‘Most Dedicated Mental Health Advocate 2025’ (Hong Kong)! 😂 🙏🏼
Thanks to everyone who’s given me a platform to rant and muse about mental health, especially Mind HK and RTHK. It’s a lovely way to celebrate the 10th birthday of Bipolar Hong Kong! 🇭🇰 🩷
Tickets are now on sale for the Women in Publishing Society‘s launch of their annual anthology, Imprint 23, at the Hong Kong Literary Festival 2025! Two of my short stories (a humorous piece and an essay on mental health) have slithered their way into this year’s anthology and I’m delighted to be invited to read (the humorous piece) at the event. Last year I read The Snide Sniper and the year before that it was Bake Fail. Fingers crossed this year’s attendees are just as appreciative. And by appreciative I mean inebriated.
Join me and the women with WiPS for a literary hotpot celebrating women’s diverse voices at the FCC 5 March from 7pm!
https://www.hkwips.com/event/launch-party-imprint-23/
https://www.hkwips.com/imprint/imprint-23-at-a-glance/
https://www.hkwips.com/2025/imprint-23-is-released-in-style-at-the-fcc/
Like a champion racehorse that won’t stop running, Transference has surpassed another incredible milestone! It has been viewed over 26 million times on YouTube (it was featured by the Times for having ‘gone viral‘ after chalking up half this amount.) Even though the film is free on YouTube, we can’t wait to see it on the big screen again in a celebration screening at Sanctum Soho and to see where our follow up film To Love A Narcissist takes us in 2025! Happy NY!
