Join us for a special event featuring authors Kit Fan, Jennifer Wong, and Karen Cheung, exploring UK - Hong Kong ties through poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

Our event will begin with a focus on recent research on Hong Kong writing, informed in part by the Hong Kong-focused special issue of the journal Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Writing, guest edited by Jennifer Wong, published at the end of 2023, with a keynote by Gregory Lee, founding Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of St Andrews.

There will then be readings by each of the three authors, followed by a round-table discussion on the ideas, diverse approaches, and challenges of 'writing Hong Kong'.

The event will finish with the launch (at 5:45pm) of an exciting new creative writing competition on the theme of "Writing Hong Kong", exclusively open to current UK residents who have lived or worked in Hong Kong for at least three months prior to their current residence in the UK (and who have never published a full length work in English).

See our website for more details of this event, and of how to enter our competition.

NB: the competition launch, and most of the above event, will be in hybrid format. If you cannot attend in person or prefer to attend online, please sign up to the guest list on this page, and then send us an email (writingchinese@leeds.ac.uk) before 9am on Wednesday 8th May. We will send out the Teams link and timings to everyone who has registered and requested this on the morning of the event.