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!
My latest column for Cha: An Asian Literary Journal dives into the life and story of Indian-American artist Sai Pradhan and the inspirations for her exhibition, With Regard to Myths. It’s got geckos and dogs in it. What more could you want from art? I had the pleasure of attending Sai’s mythical preview tonight and you definitely don’t want to miss it!!!
Thanks so much Tammy Ho Lai-ming for the care and attention you put into making every piece pop! You can read my first conversation for Cha with fine artist George Tang Kwok-wing here.
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!
The Hong Kong Writers Circle launched its 21st anthology Coming of Age at the Asia Society on Sat night to an (almost) full house! I shared a hairy moment from my trilogy of short humour stories, Ageless. HUGE thanks to Team HKILF for putting together a cracking festival, anthology editors Jay & Julian, all contributors and most of all, the unbeatable audience!
Always one of the highlights of my year, I had an absolute blast reading at the Hong Kong Lit Fest launch of the Women in Publishing Society‘s anthology Imprint 24. My reading was called In Bed with Sadie and a lot less sexy than it sounds. Big thanks to the women with WiPS for your inspiration, love, light and laughter!
The book is available in Bookazine and Lion Rock Press, who co-sponsored the event at the FCC. It’s brimming with literary goodness by wondrous women writers (and me). HUGE thanks to editor extraordinaire Carol Dyer for inviting me back and the fabulous outgoing and incoming WiPS committees for choreographing and hosting such an epic event!
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/
Join me and the women with WiPS for another fizz-fuelled fiesta celebrating women’s voices! The Women in Publishing Society‘s Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2026 launch of Imprint 24 takes place at the FCC 4 March from 7-10pm! Tickets include two drinks, a delicious spread of complimentary canapés, free copies of the anthology, readings, speeches and performances, amid the legendary hospitality of the FCC!
My contributions to this year’s anthology are a couple of musings and a delulu doodle. While my pieces strike a slightly more reflective note than usual, I’ll be performing a humorous piece from an upcoming episode of Sharp Pains at the event by kind invitation of editor Carol Dyer, In Bed with Sadie. Don’t miss it!!!
https://www.hkwips.com/event/launch-party-imprint-24
Recent WiPS HK lit fest events!
https://www.hkwips.com/2024/imprint-22-launch-party
https://www.hkwips.com/2023/imprint-comes-of-age-at-the-fcc
https://www.hkwips.com/2025/imprint-23-is-released-in-style-at-the-fcc
In an exciting break with tradition (usually we are at the Fringe), the Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s Hong Kong International Literary Festival launch of its 21st anthology Coming of Age, edited by dream team Jay Oatway and Julian Lyden, will be held at the Asia Society Sat 7 March from 8-9.30pm. My contribution is like my bum curtains: Ageless. The Circle‘s last two lit fest launches of Score and Lost in Transition sold out so hurry, hurry to grab your tix! I’ll be among the readers. Afterparty TBA (but there will be one…)
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/book-launch-21-coming-of-age-tickets-1981552717520
Past HKWC Lit Fest launches!
Magnolia Pictures is streaming West of Thunder on their curated Magnolia Selects list of films on Amazon Prime (North America) until 29 June! The 2012 western, in which I play Wanda, won Best Film (Human Rights) and Best Film (Peace) from the Political Film Society, USA. The film was selected by Lionsgate and Tribeca for the Tribeca Shortlist and streamed on Hulu in 2019. Thanks for the throwback memories, Dan!
