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Projects

2025

Invited Writer and Performer, Leap Off the Page Festival, Elizabeth Kostova Foundation 

Writing Assistant, The Jade Walkers (Transversal Lab), Venice Biennale

2024

Clydebuilt 17 Mentee, St Mungo's Mirrorball and the Edwin Morgan Trust

Emerging Writers Programme, The Skinny x Edinburgh Art Fair 2024

2023

Guest Reader #29Gutter Magazine

Young Critic 2023, The Poetry Society and the T. S. Eliot Prize - My video review: On Abigail Parry's “I Think We're Alone Now” - The Poetry Society [VIDEO]

Selected periodicals

Poetry

Poetry London - On the train

Guava Magazine - Orchid

Palimpsest Magazine At Rest; Sculptor; In the mountains there is always time for another song

Canto Cutie - perhaps
The London Magazine - painted skin

Propel MagazineVessels

Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine 聲韻詩刊 -  at the wet-market; Tesco

Outcrop Magazine - The giant squid watches ballet

Interpret Magazine - Tongue 

The Hong Kong Review - The Clothes Iron | My reading

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Prose

The Hong Konger - Pacific Place

Extra Teeth - On Hold 

Visual VerseA Peek

English Society H.K.U.S.U Annual Journal 2021 - Words

Awards

Shortlisted, New Writers Award - 2025

Scottish Book Trust
 

3rd Prize Overall, Top ranking in Poetry - 2025

Bai Meigui Writing Competition, The University of Leeds 

Champion - 2021

Annual Creative Writing Competition 2021, English Society, H.K.U.S.U

Hong Kong Young Writer of the Year 2017 & Winner of Fiction Category

Hong Kong Young Writers' Awards 2017  | Link to work, "Siege" | Media report

HKSTP Young Writers' Award 2016 & Winner of Fiction Category

Hong Kong Young Writers' Awards 2016 | Link to work, "Terracotta"

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