My Writing
A selection of Asian-inspired WRITING
In this classic Malaysian folktale, the beloved trickster Sang Kancil thinks she's the fastest animal in the forest. But then the mouse deer meets Snail who has a trick or two of his own up his sleeve ...
Written for early readers to enhance their vocabulary alongside their decoding skills.
In a race to the finish line, who will win?
The Deer and the Snail
Oxford University Press
If I can create a mirror for even one child in the world, I will have accomplished something meaningful
Read this poem, and a second, A Moment in Poetry, which are both letters to versions of me at different times.
Selected as one of two jury favourites for PeaceVerse 2024, an initiative of Prajnya, a Chennai-based non-profit.
This poem was published in the anthology Imprint, with two other poems and two photographic art pieces.
The poem appeared alongside a second musing, Ching Ming in Sheung Wan.
My poem appeared in the January 2024 issue of the Hong Kong poetry print publication.
Porch Literary Magazine
Prajnya PeaceVerse
Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong
voice & verse poetry magazine
Visiting My Younger Self
Peace Offerings – for a ceasefire
Awake at 3 a.m
A Whale of a Time
Poetry
Included in this anthology are poems and musings.
A teenager grapples with the poignant aging of his grandfather. Will the sounds of Hong Kong heal them both?
Included in this anthology is a short story set in the time of the Covid pandemic about feeling trapped.
The poem appeared alongside a second musing, Ching Ming in Sheung Wan.
Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong
Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong
Hong Kong, 2021
Life We Can No Longer See
Visiting my younger self
Hong Kong, 2020
Hong Kong, 2019
Hong Kong, 2019
I write about a walk I took in the pre-dawn hours in a slowly, but surely, changing part of Hong Kong.
This literary article about a mamak eatery in Ipoh was published in Kyoto Journal, an award-winning,
quarterly magazine.
Two young booksellers in Hong Kong are brought together by their passion for community, connection, and books (illustrations by Erica Eng).
I submit regularly to this refreshingly eclectic and uplifting digital magazine edited across three time zones by three enterprising and tireless women.
My reflection written on 4 June 2023 was one of several similar submissions about Hong Kong from writers in various parts of the world.
Mekong Review, May-July 2021
Kyoto Journal
Mekong Review, May-July 2024
Coffee & Conversations
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Kennedy Town, 5:30 a.m.
Old Strangers, New Friends
Gentle Reading
Regular contributor
Just Another Day
Articles
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