Jennifer Wong | Capturing Complex Identities and Emotions

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF) inspires the joy of reading by bringing the world’s writers and stories to Hong Kong’s diverse communities. A dynamic year-round programme and an annual festival offer dialogue, entertainment and perspective, while the Young Readers Festival (YRF) motivates students to engage with all aspects of the written word, improving communication skills, while nurturing the art of writing and storytelling.The annual festival features established and emerging writers from around the world, alongside local literary talents, in a programme that includes panel discussions, book talks, readings, workshops, walks, school programmes, performances, and more.We are a not-for-profit, charitable organisation dedicated to bringing the best in the literary arts to Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website atwww.festival.org.hk

Hong Kong International Literary Festival

Poetry Workshop for Migrant Writers of Hong Kong (By Invitation Only) - SOLD OUT

The Executive Centre - Two Pacific Place | Private & Virtual Offices and Workspace

Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2023

The Festival is back in person! With over 100 international & local speakers and over 100 events for adults & children, we are back with an extravagant celebration of world-class storytelling.
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For migrant writers, their lived experiences often entail mixed, complex emotions, having crossed borders and straddled different homes, cultures and languages. How have their identities changed or transformed? In this invitation-only workshop by poetess <a href="https://jenniferwong.co.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jennifer Wong</a>, participants will create new work as they explore ways of narrating their unique migration experience and identities through family photos, found materials and dialogues to do with personal history, with a focus on unleashing the power of personal history and emotions. They are also welcome to bring works-in-progress to the workshop for editing feedback. Limited to 24 people.

<a href="https://twitter.com/jennywcreative" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jennifer Wong</a> is a poet, writer, researcher and translator who has published poetry, reviews and translations for many journals. Her poems have been included in books of essays and anthologies, including Why I Write Poetry and 100 Poems to Save the Planet. She was a visiting fellow at Oxford TORCH for 2022 and the writer-in-residence for Wasafiri international literature magazine in 2021. In March 2020, she started an online poetry reading series called What We Read Now, which features the works of emerging as well as established poets since the pandemic. Her collection, 回家 Letters Home, published by Nine Arches Press in 2020, has been named a Wild Card choice by Poetry Book Society. Other works include Goldfish (Chameleon Press) – which won the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Young Artist Award (Literary Arts), and her monograph, Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry, will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2023.

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