My dog is now officially a more successful writer than I am. His review of a Hong Kong restaurant is #2 Most Read in Cha. GO MOJO!!! Thank you editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming for sharing! My conversation with author Nifraz Rifaz was #4 Most Read during the same time period.
My latest humour column just made a filthy splash in The Hooghly Review. I am now their Resident Poopologist – a proud moment for my family! More flash/ flush fiction humour by me in Hooghly soon, as well as the launch of another regular humour column by me about the secret life of writers!
https://thehooghlyreview.com/unflushed-fiction/
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!
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!
I’m excited to share the ident for one of my two new podcasts! Thanks to artist Victoria Mae Martin, a creative dynamo so committed to her craft and our collaborations that she nearly lost a digit this week! But is it more comedy, more terror, or just more terrible comedy? No spoilers – you’ll have to dive in!
Comedy of Terrors is also the working title of a collection of my short stories and flash!
Couldn’t decide on a colour scheme so did 5 – that’s ADHD!
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/
