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 dropped by RTHK Radio 3 for a bipolar expresso (not to be confused with an espresso martini, which I also asked for) with rockstar producer Rachel Liu this World Bipolar Day! Thanks RTHK for making this happen at short notice and making me feel so welcome!
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/brunch/episode/1088957
If any of this resonates with you, please join Bipolar Hong Kong, the SAR’s bipolar support group. Wishing all bipolar bears a World Bipolar Day that is juuuuuuuust right!
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!
Issue 12 of The Apostrophe has landed on Substack! This one features a firecracker of a cover by Zed and a pithy photo story by Joãowow Lucas. If you’ve got an eye for capturing a ‘moment’ on camera, I want to see it as art editor! Subs reopen April 1st (no joke) on the theme of ‘YAWN’.
My stinker of a humour column Flush Fiction just bared all in The Hooghly Review! HUGE thanks to editor Ankit Raj Ojh for the opportunity to lower the tone and Eric Poussin for the hilarious artwork!
https://thehooghlyreview.com/flush-fiction/
Aiya! My return to RTHK Radio 3 did not go as planned. I arrived at the studio early and zoned out when I realised hang on, aren’t I supposed to be on the air by now? It turned out Noz was in the studio, too. Just not the one I was in. She was in the one on the other side of town. So we did the interview on the phone but I couldn’t upload my poem without cutting her off (so RTHK listeners were spared that annual ‘treat’. At least until World Bipolar Day.😆)
Always a slice of sunshine chatting to Noz in any sticky situation – on the air or off it! Hope your World Mental Health Day was as full of memorable mishaps and mayhem as mine! And it was nice being back in the studio, even if it was the wrong studio!
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/brunchwithnoreen/episode/1052794
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/brunchwithnoreen/episode/981058
My conversation with fine artist George Tang Kwok-wing was published by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal yesterday. Thanks to editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming for presenting it so beautifully 💟 and HUGE congrats, George, on a stunning exhibition at Fine Art Asia!
https://chajournal.blog/2025/10/07/george-tang-kwok-wing/
Catch me back on RTHK Radio 3’s Brunch with Noreen this World Mental Health Day (Fri 10 Oct) from 11am when I’ll be chatting to Noz about mental health and sharing another poem!
Please support Mind HK‘s ‘Light the Spark’ campaign to bring free mental healthcare to young people this World Mental Health Day! 💟
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! 🥰
