Poetry Where Else: A Hong Kong International Poetic Extravaganza

Join us as we celebrate the pre-launch of Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (ed. Jennifer Wong, Jason Eng Hun Lee and Tim Tim Cheng) featuring a stellar line-up of Hong Kong's finest established and emerging poets reading from both their own work and their Hong Kong peers from all over the world. Our diverse and inclusive line-up will include Kika Man, Portia Yu, Louise Leung, Felix Chow, Polly Ho, Atom Cheung, Hayley Wu, Antony Huen, Huiwen Shi, Tegan Smyth, David McKirdy, Marco Yan, Roland Tsoi and other readers on the night.

Atom Cheung’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Voice & Verse, Canto Cutie, LickZine, and The Dillydoun Review. He has published zines and hybrid works under the name Atom Alicia C. He is a radio presenter on RTHK and keeps an experimental audio blog via the podcast Atomic Heart.

Felix Chow Yue Ching is an MPhil student at the University of Hong Kong, achieving first-class honors in English Studies and Hong Kong Studies at HKU. His Prize-winning poems are published in The Lincoln Review, Voice and Verse and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. He is a fellow co-organizer of OutLoud HK.

Polly Ho Sai Fung graduated from the University of Hong Kong. She has been organizing poetry readings at Kubrick Poetry since 2007. In 2020, she started KPS (Kubrick Poetry Society), an online writing school to nurture and facilitate poetry writing and fiction.

Antony Huen is an academic and writer from Hong Kong. His works have appeared in Poetry

Wales, PN Review, Wasafiri, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He is now Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. As a critic, he has won multiple awards.

Louise Leung Fung Yee is an internationally published Hong Kong English poet whose works usually cover postcolonialism, cultural politics and family history. Her poems have been featured in Ricepaper Magazine, Ideas Journal, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.

Kika Man 文詠玲 (they/them) is a writer from Belgium and Hong Kong. She is the author of Let the Mourning Come and has been published in Capsule Stories, Anti-Heroin Chic, Bridge and others. She is one of the founding members of Slam-T, a spoken word and slam poetry platform.

Huiwen Shi is a bilingual educator, researcher, and writer. She writes theatre reviews in Chinese, and creative non-fiction and poetry in English. Last year, she led a new service-learning course called “Storytelling for Understanding: Refugee Children in Hong Kong.”

Born to parents from Australia and Hong Kong, Tegan Smyth is a poet with roots in both places. Her work has been published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Voice & Verse, Twin Cities Anthology, KongPoWriMo and The Economist. In addition to her writing, Smyth is the founder of a refugee charity in Hong Kong called Grassroots Future.

Roland Tsoi, (they/them) born in Scotland to Chinese parents with roots in Hong Kong, is a poet who effortlessly blends his cultural heritage into his work. He has been published in The Instant Noodle Literary Review and Trash to Treasure lit.

Hayley Wu (胡禧怡) is a writer, educator, and arts administrator born and raised in Hong Kong. Selected and forthcoming publications include Strange Horizons, Sine Theta Magazine, the Liminal Review, Rulerless, and DATABLEED.

Marco Yan is a Hong Kong-based poet, whose works have appeared in Guernica, Epiphany, and Making Space. His collection, Whoever Told Me Not to Dive Headfirst Dove Headfirst & Knew the Taste was named finalist in Gaudy Boy Poetry Prize 2022, as well as Orison Poetry Prize 2022.

Portia Yu is a poet born and raised in Hong Kong. She graduated from SOAS University of London with a BA in English. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several online literary journals, including: Worm Moon Archive, celestite poetry and Crow & Cross Keys.