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!
The Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s 19th anthology Lost in Transition launched in a ‘sold out‘ event at the Hong Kong International Lit Fest on Wednesday evening – and sold out of copies at Bookazine 48 hours later! Thanks to everyone who came out to support! The anthology will be restocked at Bookazine and uploaded to Amazon shortly!
Join me for my final event of HKILF 2024 when I’ll be performing my humorous short story The Snide Sniper at the Women in Publishing Society‘s launch of Imprint 22 at the FCC!
https://bookazine.com.hk/products/lost-in-transition
Thank you to Vicki and Mind HK for the opportunity to perform a bunch of humorous poems alongside my fellow ambassadors Vish and Derek in the first event of the 2024 Hong Kong International Literary Festival last night! Thank you so much to everyone who attended for being such an appreciative audience and to my amazing friends and fam; Philippe, Noz, Charles, Stewart, Eny, Mio, Carol, Susan, Nathan, Chriz and Amy!
Tomorrow night is the launch of Hong Kong Writers Circle anthology Lost in Transition and I’ll be reading again. That’s sold out too but there’s a good chance of no-shows so it’s definitely worth trying your luck on the door. Hope to see you there!
Thanks to Mind HK for organising an evening of storytelling and poetry inspired by mental health with me and fellow ambassadors Vish and Derek at the Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery 4 March! Unbelievably, this Hong Kong International Literary Festival event sold out before I had a chance to write a post about it! 😮 Not even I have a ticket! 🤣
Happily, tickets ARE still available for Mind HK‘s Conversations of the Heart event at Tai Kwun Sat 24 Feb! Vish, Derek and I will be among the ambassadors sharing stories and poems from 10.30-11.30am. I promise you Vish is off-the-scale, Derek is a rising star, and I am Poet Laureate of my bathroom. You can get tickets here!
We are just the warm up act for a whole day of inspiring talks, panel discussions and presentations by awesome Mind staff and other ambassadors. I will be there all day. Hope to see you there!
The Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s 19th anthology, Lost in Transition, will launch at the 2024 Hong Kong International Literary Festival March 6! The event will be held 7.30pm – 8.45pm in the Jockey Club Studio at the Hong Kong Fringe Club. This year’s anthology contains 30 short stories and poems inspired by Hong Kong’s underground life-support system – the MTR! (I also set my own theme of ‘Yakult’.) Tickets are FREE but you must book now as there are very few left!
As well as contributing, I assisted Stewart McKay to edit this anthology, which is the thickest yet! (That’s thick in terms of width, not talent.) It contains many weird and wonderful poems and stories by local writers so please support and if you write, join us! HUGE thanks to my good pal Philippe Joly for helping design the cover and my nephew Kaz for taking the cover shot!
So stand back from the platform door and please don’t find yourself lost in transition…
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/book-launch-lost-in-transition-tickets-821645061497
The Women in Publishing Society‘s 2023-2024 anthology Imprint 22 is launching at the FCC as part of the 2024 Hong Kong International Literary Festival 7 March! Last year, I had the joy of performing Bake Fail at the HKILF 2023 launch of Imprint 21. This year, I’ve also been invited to read, although I haven’t yet decided what. Join me and the women with WiPS from 7-10pm at the FCC for another evening of fun and frivolity celebrating women’s voices!
https://www.hkwips.com/event/launch-of-imprint-22
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/book-launch-imprint-22-womens-voices-tickets-823328446547
Join me and Mind HK for an inspiring day of poetry, stories and panel discussions at Tai Kwun, Central, on Sat 24 Feb! I will be among the first Mind HK ambassadors sharing their stories and poetry in the first event of the day, which has been organised by Mind and Mindset on the theme of Conversations of the Heart.
Please click on the link below to book tickets on Eventbrite! I will be there all day so if you’re going, please find me and say hi! Hope to see you there!
I will also be sharing poetry and stories alongside fellow ambassadors Vish and Derek at a Mind HK event at the Hong Kong Lit Fest 4 March!
#Conversationsoftheheart #MoreThanALabel #MindHK
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/sharing-poetry-stories-and-mental-health-tickets-792874016527
Issue 2 of the Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s literary magazine The Apostrophe on the theme of ‘MIND‘ is live on Substack! Congratulations to the published writers and artists, including Rebecca Dandridge-Walker, Julian Pantz and Kasra Shroff! Submissions for Issue 3 close on Halloween 2023. The theme is ‘Mistake’ but this is a trick! The only mistake you can make is not entering!
The first issue of The Apostrophe, the new quarterly literary magazine of the Hong Kong Writers Circle, is out on Substack! Each quarter, the five points of the bauhinia flower – Hong Kong’s emblem – are paralleled by five original pieces of writing or poetry by Hong Kong writers and matched by me and editor-in-chief Jan Lee to five original pieces of artwork by local and international artists. You can read it on Substack here or download it as a pdf here!
Congratulations to writers Quincy Carroll, Murli Melwani, Sam Powney, Sonia FL Leung and Blair Reeve and artists Charles Tang, Kasra Shroff, Cassandra Lee and our incredible cover artist Jade Bryant on being published in our inaugural issue! If your art was not matched with a story this time, it still has a chance of being published in future issues.
The next submissions window opened 1 July and ends 31 July. Check out our submissions guide here and don’t forget to subscribe!
