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{Written by Kate Rogers, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Stephanie Han, Swimming in Hong Kong, Willow Spring Books, 2017. 134 pgs. On the surface, “Swimming in Hong…
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In partnership with Cha, I had the honour of visiting Fukien Secondary School in Kwun Tong to work with students on their short story writing skills. A group of 14 students selected from different class groups came together to develop…
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The auditory cortex is the part of the brain that performs the basic and higher functions of hearing such as language switching. In the case of an Asian English poet, a historical collocation of multilingual sounds likely interplays forcefully in…
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I ran a creative writing workshop as part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series for a small group of asylum seekers from Rwanda, Somalia, Egypt, and the Philippines on Saturday 14 April 2018. Asylum seekers come to Hong Kong to…
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HONG KONG STUDIESβIssue 3 (Spring 2019) Call for PapersβSpecial Section on Orientalism Forty Years on; and General Research Papers The first bilingual and interdisciplinary academic journal on Hong Kong, Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press), is now accepting articles for…
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I presented a 90 minute poetry workshop, “Things I Love and Hate” on Friday 23 March 2018Β for refugee women. The workshop was requested by the Christian Action Centre for Refugees as part of the Cha Writing Workshop Series, in partnership…
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We are happy to announce that in September 2018Β ChaΒ will be publishing a special “Writing Singapore” issue. Submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art are accepted between 1 April 2018 and 30 June 2018. If you have somethingΒ original, bizarre, daring…
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{Written by Goh Cheng Fai Zach, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Malachi Edwin Vethamani (author), Complicated Lives, Maya Press, 2016. 112 pgs. Malachi Edwin Vethamani (editor), Malchin…
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{Written by Michael Tsang, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Wesley Leon Aroozoo (author), Miki Hawkinson (translator), I Want to Go Home, Math Paper Press, 2017. 222 pgs.…
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{Written by Kevin Tan Kwan Wei, this review is part of Issue 39 (April 2018) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Warran Kalasegaran, Lieutenant Kurosawa’s Errand Boy, Epigram Books, 2017. 336 pgs. Warran Kalasegaran’s debut novel, Lieutenant…


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