Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society

16/01/2025

Oyster River Pages is open for submission in their annual publication from 15 January until 1st May 2025.

ORP will accept submissions in the genres below for publication in its seventh annual issue from January 15 through May 1, 2025.

14/01/2025

Didn’t get enough books for Christmas? Check out this exciting list of best-of-2024 reads to add to your shelves. You might spot a couple of Book Club choices in there too!

BBC Culture: The 24 Best Books of 2024, compiled by Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker

05/01/2025

Start your 2025 by trying something new! We’re excited to bring to you a poetry workshop suitable for all levels, so if you’ve always wanted to write poetry but don’t know where to begin, here’s your chance! Hope to see you there!

04/01/2025

Happy New Year fellow writers! We have a few spots left on Jennifer Wong’s Poetry Workshop. Open to all and suitable for all levels, from beginners to consummate poets. What better way to kick off 2025? Hope to see you there!

Start 2025 by joining acclaimed poet Jennifer Wong’s workshop to discover ways of translating your emotional experiences into poems. By exploring the works of various contemporary poets on the complexity, (un)reliability and contradictions within the human mind, from joy to grief to love, includin...

02/01/2025

"The Apostrophe" (literary magazine of Hong Kong Writers Circle) is now open for submissions.

Submissions open January 1-31, 2025

21/12/2024

WiPS FEBRUARY WRITING WORKSHOP open for registration -- to register, please go to: https://www.hkwips.com/event/writing-workshop-february-2025/

(Remember to renew your 2025 membership if you like to take advantage of the members' rate for our events.)

The WiPS writing workshop is an interactive monthly session requiring attendees to submit their writing (max 2,000 words of fiction or non-fiction in MS-Word format) 4 days before the workshop date. All attendees are required to read each other’s works and prepare to share positive and constructiv...

19/12/2024

Here's some lovely holiday news ... WiPS member Rinkoo Ramchandani has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (http://pushcartprize.com/index.html) for her story "A Fistful of Feet". The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America - including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. You can read her nominated story here: https://hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/a-fistful-of-feet

An illicit visit in a possible future

14/12/2024

WiPS January Book Club
"James" by Percival Everett

Join us as we get together over Zoom to discuss our latest book choice: James by Percival Everett Monday, 27 January 2025 | 7pm (HK time) Members: FREE | Non-members: HK$50* per session Link and full information will be emailed upon registration. (Limited numbers) NOTE: * WiPS full-year membership f...

11/12/2024

We’re thrilled to announce the winner of the Smartphone Stories photo competition is Yip Hoi-Yee! According to instructor Jayne Russell, Hoi-Yee’s picture is “a clear example of finding an alternative angle while still using good 'leading lines' composition to direct you the feet.” Jayne also said that this picture captures well the principles of framing and composition discussed at the workshop.

Well done, Hoi-Yee!

If you’re inspired by this photograph, we will be running another Smartphone Stories workshop in 2025…so stay tuned!

09/12/2024

04/12/2024

The Art of Smartphone Photography
By Yip Hoi-Yee

By Yip Hoi-Yee   The Smartphone Stories Photography Workshop sold out within hours of it being posted to members and the actual experience proved why. Held on a (very welcomed) cool Hong Kong autumn morning, it brought together an initially quiet group of women but who slowly built a creative energ...

27/11/2024

CHANNEL YOUR INNER POET WITH JENNIFER WONG!
Saturday, 11 January 2025, 4-6pm (by Zoom)

Start 2025 by joining acclaimed poet Jennifer Wong’s workshop to discover ways of translating your emotional experiences into poems.

For details and registration, please go to:

Start 2025 by joining acclaimed poet Jennifer Wong’s workshop to discover ways of translating your emotional experiences into poems. By exploring the works of various contemporary poets on the complexity, (un)reliability and contradictions within the human mind, from joy to grief to love, includin...

26/11/2024

Behind the Books: Discover the joy of making and reading books
Hong Kong Design Institute | Tseung Kwan O

There's a panel on 7 December on book publishing

https://artseenhk.com/en/events/257

26/11/2024

Congratulations to WiPS committee member, Holly Sykes, whose manuscript "Wooden Dolls" has won an award for Best Contemporary Fiction at the Page Turner Awards!

25/11/2024

IN FESTIVE SPIRIT
(Review of WiPS Festive Dinner 2024)
By Candice Deleveaux-Turnquest

By Candice Deleveaux-Turnquest This year, WiPS again held its November members-only Festive Dinner in the historic and convivial surroundings of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club. As in the past, the venue provided the perfect platform for collaborative networking, inspiring conversations and much ...

22/11/2024

Hi everyone! Don​'t miss this golden opportunity to meet award-winning author and illustrator Sophia Hotung and hear her discuss her new book "The (Unlikely) Hong Konger" on Dec​ember 4. All are welcome!

One lucky attendee will leave with Sophia’s first (now out-of-print) book and a calendar valued at HK$500.

For more details and registration, please go to:

WiPS is proud to be in conversation with award-winning author & illustrator, Sophia Hotung (https://www.sophiahotung.com/​), as she shares with us the journey of her latest book, The (Unlikely) Hong Konger. Sophia tells stories like none other – mixed media and in living colour! Blending the wri...

21/11/2024

"Gripping, painful, funny, horrifying," so says a reviewer of Percival Everett’s National Book Award winner novel, "James". Check out this article for other winners, including closer-to-home Taiwanese author Yang Zhuang-zi for her novel, "Taiwan Travelogue".

Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize

20/11/2024

Searching for your next read? A Christmas present? Take a look at these suggestions:

From a Dickensian state-of-the-nation novel to a "wildly original summer thriller", these are BBC Culture's picks of the best fiction of the year so far.