WORKSHOP | Incomprehension Workshop

International best-selling author, Ann Morgan, teaches a 90-minute interactive workshop on English reading comprehension.

Incomprehension Workshop

Speaker: Ann Morgan

Date: March 6, Fri

Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Venue: Fringe Club - Fringe Dairy

Address: Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central

Price: HKD328

Language: English

Format: Workshop

Description:
Launched at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, this is a 90-minute interactive session centred on exploring how focusing on the things we can’t explain in a text might enrich and broaden our understanding of reading, culture and ourselves. The main body of the workshop is built around turning the English literature comprehension exercise on its head. Instead of giving answers, participants are invited to explore what questions, problems or reactions examples of writing from unfamiliar traditions provoke or pose.

The featured extracts usually come from translated works drawn from a wide range of literatures underrepresented in anglophone publishing. The selection is designed to complement the interests and expertise of each audience, with sessions so far including publishing students, literature teachers, translators, writers, librarians, academics and general booklovers.

As we work through the material, we explore the roles (both good and bad) that assumption and bias play in reading, the idea of embracing discomfort and the opportunities that paying attention to the gaps in our understanding opens up.

About the Speaker:

Ann Morgan

Ann Morgan is an author based in Folkestone, UK. In 2012, she read a book from every country in a year, recording her quest at ayearofreadingtheworld.com. This led to her non-fiction book Reading the World. Ann continues to blog, write and speak about international literature. Her debut novel was the international bestseller Beside Myself. Her second is Crossing Over. Her next non-fiction book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing, was published in October 2025.

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