To Love A Narcissist was back in Sanctum, Soho, for another private screening 17 Feb at 7.30pm, where Raff announced Hollywood producer Ted Field joining our Contro Vento family as Executive Producer of our film, alongside Sadie Frost, and revealed exciting details of our upcoming screening in New York! 💜
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! 🇭🇰 🩷
Your opportunity to score tickets for the HK Lit Fest launch of the HKWC‘s 20th anniversary anthology Score has arrived – and ended, as tickets have already sold out!!! But please don’t let a trivial matter like no tickets put you off! Where there’s free tickets, there’s no-shows, so it’s DEFINITELY worth showing up for the 6pm event. If there’s space, you’ll be wafted in. If there’s not, you can still join us afterwards for a drink at speakeasy Dragonfly. I’ll be reading one of my ‘Two Shit Shorts’ (the actual title, not just me being modest).
Whether you’ve already got tix or chance it on the door, I hope to see you in the Jockey Club Theatre of the HK Fringe Cub from 6-7pm on Sun 2 March!
https://www.amazon.com/Score-Writers-Circle-Anniversary-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0DZ32R7S5
https://bookazine.com.hk/products/score-the-hong-kong-writers-circle-anthology
Excited to share that To Love A Narcissist, the film I’ve been producing with Contro Vento Films, will premiere at the New York Socially Relevant Film Festival (SRFF) 16 March at 7.30pm! This is the second time we have reached the competition stage of SRFF. We were honoured to receive a Special Jury Mention for Transference in 2020. With most of the world in lockdown then, the festival was held on zoom. This year, we’ll be zooming in the old-fashioned way! ✈️
Thank you SRFF for supporting our films and our vision to create a platform for those affected by the themes our films explore to connect and access support. 🙏🏽
https://www.ratedsrfilms.org/2025-program-narrative-features
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/
I’m excited that two of my poems will be published in the Future/Expression issue of The Tentacle, the Peel Street Poets‘ poetry zine, which will launch at the Hong Kong Lit Fest 2025. I’ve been a big fan of Henrik’s work since picking up a copy of his witty debut poetry collection Irreverent Poems for Pretentious People at a Proverse event.
Join me at the Social Room 6 March from 7pm! Don’t let my cat poo put you off! The poets who perform at these events are amazing. Tickets are FREE but you still need to book!
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/performance-poetry-performances-future-expressions-tickets-1235356768349
Taking part in the HK Lit Fest launches of the Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s and Women in Publishing Society‘s anthologies is always a hit of dopamine. In 2025, two of my flashiest flash fiction pieces (aptly titled ‘Two Shit Shorts’) will be flushed in HKWC anthology Score. The event will be held at the Jockey Club Theatre at the Hong Kong Fringe on 2 March at 6pm – and as it’s a celebration of 20 years of the Circle AND a leaving party for some of us, come to party!
The Women in Publishing Society will be launching their anthology Imprint 23 at the FCC from 7-10pm on Weds 5th March. This is always a blast. I’ll be reading at both events. Wheeeeee!
Another action-packed (and themed) edition of The Apostrophe (Issue 7) has dropped on Substack! It can also be read and downloaded as a pdf here!
This one features incredible photography by Anthony Roussel (cover artist) and Philippe Joly, and spectacular art by Julien Pantz. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
Submissions for our next issue on the theme of ‘Character’ are open now!
My piece suggesting strategies for alleviating the mental health impact of climate change was published a couple of weeks ago! Thanks to editor Jessica Chen. 🙏
Wishing you an exciting new chapter in 2025! Just as I thought 2024 had no more tricks in its bag, this happens: https://www.comedywomeninprint.co.uk/flash-your-fiction-winner 🩷
Poof! Blown away! Thank you so much CWIP! HA HA HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 🍾 🥂
