• Xu Xi in China Daily

    “People often ask why I write in English, and I finally just decided, ‘I guess this is just the language I use’,” she said. “But I keep trying to put Chinese into my English, and that’s something that I try…

  • Nabina Das and Rohith Sundararaman at the Poetry with Prakriti Poetry Festival 2010

    – Nabina Das and Rohith Sundararaman will appear in the Poetry with Prakriti Poetry Festival this  December. From the festival’s website: Poetry with Prakriti is a two-week long festival of poetry held annually in Chennai to coincide with the famed Chennai…

  • Alices

    Parts of this post were first written in March this year (9th March and 11th March). Revised on 17th November, 2010.   Recently, I read Melanie Benjamin‘s Alice I Have Been (2009), which is a fictional account of the life of…

  • Proverse Hong Kong will hold a winner’s reception and launch five books (23rd November, 2010) ON TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER

    PROVERSE HONG KONG (PUBLISHERS OF PROSE AND VERSE) WILL HOLD A WINNER’S RECEPTION AND LAUNCH FIVE BOOKS ON TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER -name of event: international Proverse Prize for unpublished writing Winners’ Reception & Book Launch -date of event: Tuesday 23 November 2010.…

  • British Museum

    This post was originally written on 6th March, 2010. One good thing living in London is that you can just take fancy and go to any number of museums, galleries, theatres whenever you want. Last Sunday, we went to the…

  • HKWC NOVEMBER WORKSHOP – THE CLICHE: 29 November

    THE HONG KONG WRITERS’ CIRCLE NOVEMBER WORKSHOP – THE CLICHE: 29 November, 2010 Just Write workshop will focus on the cliche, some of the ones you hate, some of the ones we hate and some of the ones that were used…

  • Bob Bradshaw in Blue Fifth Review

    Bob Bradshaw’s new poem “Maintaining Control” is published in the Fall 2010 issue of Blue Fifth Review. Read it here. ––Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile.––

  • Xu Xi’s Habit of a Foreign Sky reviewed

    Xu Xi’s novel Habit of a Foreign Sky, a finalist for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, is reviewed by Nigel Collett for Asian Review of Books. Read the full article here. Learn more about Habit of a Foreign Sky here…

  • The Crimson Wing

    This post was originally written on 20th September, 2009. Today, thanks to Sunday Times, we got free tickets to watch The Crimson Wing, a documentary about the lives of a million East Africa’s lesser flamingos. The film will be released…

  • Performance Poet Blair Reeve Performs (17th November, 2010)

    Originally posted on 21st October, 2010. Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong Invites you to participate in an evening of performance poetry with New Zealand performance poet Blair Reeve Blair will give us an insight into the whys and wherefores…