Events / workshops

Upcoming

⟡ Every last Friday of the month: PoC Reading Group (with writing prompts), Online

⟡ Oct 28 2026: Immigrant women’s voices, Boundary Bar, Leith

⟡ Nov 9 2026: Appetite Launch, Embassy Gallery, Leith

⟡ Nov 15 2026: Our Many-Voiced Country, Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh

⟡ Nov 17 2026: Dares Paradise Launch, Argonaut Books, Leith

⟡ Nov 25-26 2026: New Hong Kong Writing Symposium, Leeds

⟡ Nov 30 2026: SPAM, The Doublet, Glasgow

⟡ Jan 11 2027: Creative Conversations, Glasgow University

Past events / workshops


2026

⟡ Feb 3: Languages Week Scotland: New Scots Special, Craigmount High School
⟡ Feb 19: Launch Event for Zain Rishi’s debut pamphlet Noon, Pilrig St. Paul’s
⟡ Feb 27: Gutter 33 Launch Party, Mount Florida Books
⟡ Mar 20: On Diasporic Hong Kong Literature, online lecture with HKMU
⟡ Mar 27: The Alcove, Edinburgh
⟡ April 21: On Hybridity and Creative Constraints: A Craft Talk, online, HKU
⟡ May 22: Bulb Reading, Glasgow
⟡ Jun 14–20: Middlebury Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Ripton, Vermont
⟡ Sept 6: Writing Home(s): ESEA Heritage Month, Glasgow


2025

⟡ Jan 18: Air Suns, Water Moons, ACO Books, Hong Kong
⟡ Jan 22: Sharing, EdUHK
⟡ Jan 22: Writing Workshop, HKMU
⟡ Jan 23: 巴勒斯坦、烏克蘭、蘇丹離散詩人導讀, 一拳書館
⟡ Jan 27: Author Talk, HKBU Library
⟡ Feb 13 & 20: 混音詩作坊 Poetry Remix Workshop, 一掌書館
⟡ Feb 17: Author Talk & Workshop, AIS
⟡ Feb 22: 走出emo間, Saan1, Manchester
⟡ March 10: Author Talk & Sonnet Workshop, ISF
⟡ March 14: StAnza Festival Opening Night, St Andrews/Online
⟡ March 15: Say No! Art, Activism and Feminist Refusal, St Andrews
⟡ April 12: 紋身與文學, Nose in the Book 打書釘
⟡ April 22: On Translated/Translating Stories, The University of Rhode Island
⟡ May 18: SPAM Press poetry reading series AFK, The Doublet, Glasgow
⟡ May 31–June 1: Hong Kong Literature & Poetry, Barras Market, Glasgow
⟡ June 15: Commonwealth Book Launch, Typewronger, Edinburgh
⟡ July 3: A night of Poetry, Topping, Edinburgh
⟡ Aug 21:「原生家庭,小心輕放」英文詩會, 界限書店
⟡ Sept 9:Travelling Light: Online Poetry Workshop with Verve
⟡ Sept 28: What is it like to translate Hong Kong literature as an ALTA emerging translator, online
⟡ Oct 26: Forward Prizes Ceremony, Southbank Centre, London
⟡ Nov 6: The Marginal Visions of Hong Kong Literature in Translation, ALTA 48, Tuscon, AZ
⟡ Nov 6: BIPOC Literary Translators Caucus Live Reading, Tuscon, AZ
⟡ Nov 8: Emerging Literary Translators Mentorship Reading, ALTA 48, Tuscon, AZ
⟡ Nov 13: Magma 93: Online Launch
⟡ Nov 16: Kubrick Poetry Reading with Eric Yip, James Shea, and Polly Ho, Broadway Cinematheque
⟡ Nov 20: O Nail Biter! Reading Circle 咬手指讀書會 with Kwok Tsz Ki, 艺鵠 ACO Books
⟡ Nov 23: Magma 93: The Liberation Issue, Push the Boat Out Festival
⟡ Dec 3: On Translated/Translating Stories, The University of Rhode Island

2024

⟡ 英詩乞衣 IG Live, Online (Dec 2024)
⟡ Glasgow Hongkonger Book Club (Dec 2024)
⟡ ‘Fragmentation’, Online Reading & Discussion (Dec 2024)
⟡ Nine Arches Launch with Caleb Parkin, Online (Nov 2024)
⟡ The Art of the Work, Online (Nov 2024)
⟡ Fill this space, Edinburgh (Nov 2024)
⟡ In Motion: Screening, Readings, Performances from HK Creatives, Gathering Leaves London (Nov 2024)
⟡ Living Water @ Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh (Nov 2024)
⟡ St Mungo’s Mirrorball Showcase, CCA Glasgow (Nov 2024)
⟡ Hong Kong Poetry, Nomad Reading Group Cardiff (Oct 2024)
⟡ PERVERSE launch, The Devereaux, London (Oct 2024)
⟡ The Kavya Prize – Prizegiving Ceremony, Glasgow (Oct 2024)
⟡ ‘I think I can’t speak for everyone here’, Online (Oct 2024)
⟡ The Tattoo Collector Launch @ Typewronger, Edinburgh (Oct 2024)
⟡ Poets and Players, (Oct 2024)
⟡ Shore Poets, Edinburgh (Sept 2024)
⟡ Online Poetry Workshop, Scotland’s Young Makars (Aug 2024) ​
⟡ Nature and Poetry, Moniack Mhor (Aug 2024) 
⟡ On Mother Tongues and Diaspora Literatures: Yilin Wang + Guests, Book Fringe (Aug 2024)
⟡ How Memory Works, Online Writing Workshop (Aug 2024)
⟡ Nature and Place Poetry, Cambridge/Online (Aug 2024) 
⟡ Wax Lyrical, Kelburn Garden Party (July 2024)
⟡ Zoom workshop: To Break and Build (July 2024)
⟡ Online Panel – Translation & Creative Practices (June 2024)
⟡ Online Reading @ The Spit it Out Festival (June 2024)
⟡ Elegies (2023) Screening + Reading, ICA London (June 2024)
⟡ Hybrid Place Writing Workshop, Online + London (June 2024) 
⟡ Online Reading with the87press (May 2024)
⟡ Poets’ Café, Reading (May 2024)
⟡ Paisley Book Festival (April 2024)
⟡ Writing the body in poems, on zoom with Poetry School (Apr 2024)
⟡ Hong Kong Market @ Barras Market, Glasgow (April 2024) 
​⟡ VERVE Showcase, Artfulscribe Lit Fest, Southhampton (Mar 2024)
​⟡ Where Else, Verve Poetry Festival, Birmingham (Feb 2024)
⟡ Four Poets in Dialogue, HKMU (Jan 2024) 
⟡ State of Play, The Common Press, London (Jan 2024)


2023

⟡ Inside Voices, King Tut’s Bar, Glasgow (Dec 2023)
⟡ Contralytic Issue Launch, The Alchemy Spoon, Glasgow (Dec 2023)
⟡ Queer Poetics, Online (Dec 2023)
⟡ “A Canvas of Courage” with AIUK and Artvocate (Dec 2023)
⟡ Poetry Reading: Intergenerational Spaces, Manchester Poetry Library (Nov 2023)​
⟡ The Politics of Home (Online Lecture) with Qudsia Akhtar and Shefali Banerji, University of Vienna (Nov 2023) ​
⟡ Red Bean Poetry Takeover, Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh (Nov 2023)
⟡ Food Writing Workshop with Wa Ying College (Nov 2023)
⟡ Developing Your Practice: Mentorship and Awards, Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh (Nov 2023)
⟡ Panel discussion and Reading, University of St Andrews (Oct 2023)
⟡ New Poets Collective Showcase, Southbank Centre (Oct 2023)
⟡ Edinburgh Futures Conversations: A Performance (Oct 2023)
⟡ VERVE Poetry Press LIVE Showcase: Ana Seferovic, Dide & Tim Tim Cheng, London (Oct 2023)
⟡ Summer Anywhere Festival, Waverley Bar, Edinburgh (Sept 2023)
⟡ Anamot Press & Page65 present: Quiet Fires (Sept 2023)
⟡ Where Else: International Hong Kong Poetry with Ian Humphreys, Helen Bowell, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Kavita A Jindal, National Poetry Library (Aug 2023)
​⟡ Sensings & Spaces: from UK, Canada, Scotland, Hong Kong (July 2023)
​⟡ Ana Seferovic, Dide, Tim Tim Cheng & Golnoosh Nour on Zoom (July 2023)
​⟡ An Evening with Nasim Rebecca Asl, Tim Tim Cheng, and Roshni Gallagher, Leeds Poetry Festival (July 2023)
​⟡ Poetry Takeaway (Planet Summer), Southbank Centre (July 2023)
​⟡ Poetry London Summer 2023 Launch (July 2023)
​⟡ Magma Poetry Magazine #86 FOOD Launch (July 2023)
​⟡ Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology Launch, Leeds University Centre for New Chinese Writing & School of English (June 2023)
​⟡ Butcher’s Dog Issue 18 Launch (May 2023) 
⟡ Where Else: International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology Launch (with Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre) (Apr 2023)
⟡ Featured Poet, Rock the Boat (Apr 2023) 
⟡ Language, Distance, and Lost Selves: Discussion from Tim Tim Cheng, Roshni Gallagher, Nasim Rebecca Asl and Jess McKinney, StAnza Festival (in person / online) (Mar 2023)
​⟡ A Night with Verve: Glasgow (Mar 2023)
​⟡ A Night with Verve: Edinburgh (Feb 2023)
⟡ Lines, Vines, and Technologies: A Writing Workshop with HKMU and HKDI Gallery (Feb 2023)
⟡ Zine Fair, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, Oxford (Jan 2023)


2019-22

⟡ Scottish BPOC Writers Network Winter Showcase (Dec 2022)
​⟡ 如何用外語寫香港 / Tim Tim Cheng、Eric Yip、Jennifer Wong(主持:羅樂敏), 文藝復興 X 字花:「開故」作家育成計劃 (Dec 2022)
⟡ Rialto 98 Launch (Dec, 2022)
​⟡ [WIP]: A Conversation, The Singapore Writers Festival (Nov 2022)
⟡ Ambit War launch : Magazine + Music, Rough Trade East (Sept 2022)
​⟡ Harvest Festival, Lauriston Farm (Sept 2022)
⟡ Summer Anywhere, Ocean Terminal (Sept 2022)
​⟡ Interpret Magazine Issue 7 launch (July 2022)
​⟡ Wet Grain Issue 3 launch (Edinburgh) (London) (July, Sept 2022)
​⟡ Launch of Poèmes Écossais by Paul Malgrati (Blue Diode Press) (July 2022)
⟡ Grans! A Poetry Reading to Celebrate Our Elders (June 2022)​
⟡ Family History Poetry Workshop with PR&TA Journal (Mar 2022)
⟡ Ecopoetry with Tills & English Society at The University of Edinburgh (Mar 2022)
⟡ Artist Talk with Chinese University of Hong Kong (Mar, Sept 2022)
⟡ Poetry Slam with Creative Writing Society at The University of Edinburgh (Feb 2022)
⟡ PR&TA – Issue One Reading (Recording) (Dec 2021)
⟡ Talk Back! with Theatre Paradok (Dec 2021)
⟡ Wish Poetry Contest Workshop with Good Hope School (Nov 2021)
⟡ Tinted Tales – Reading Across Culture (Recording) (Nov 2021)
⟡ Wish Poetry Contest Prize-Giving Reading (Nov 2021)
⟡ WrICE Alumni Reading (Nov 2021)
⟡ Poetry and Society: Poetics of Home Festival (Recording) (Oct 2021)
⟡ ​Urban Love Poem Prize-Giving Reading (Nov 2020)
⟡ The Urban Love Poem with Australian International School (Hong Kong) (Nov 2020)
⟡ Talk Back! with Emaginating (Sept 2020)
⟡ Canto Cutie Issue 3 Launch Party (Recording) (July 2021)
⟡ Sketches in Notebooks: The Arrival Poetry Reading (Dec 2019)
⟡ Borrowed Children: A Celebration of the Poetry of Kate Rogers (Nov 2019)
⟡ An Evening of Literature (Nov 2019)
⟡ Poetry and Politics (Aug 2019)