you and me. like a typhoon shelter, we sleep in

Victoria’s palms, not knowing when our heads

will breathe underwater.

​from "People on Water", published by Canto Cutie Art & Literature Zine 藝文聚粵

//about

I'm glad you found me. I am a locally-born-and-bred writer who came from the grassroots in Hong Kong. I have been fighting my whole life to move upward. I graduated from The University of Hong Kong with First Class Honours in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Studies (Literature) and German.

The themes of my works usually cover postcolonialism, local cultural politics and personal familial trauma. I mostly write poetry but I also write short stories occasionally. I experiment with Kongish as a medium to explore the relationship between language(s) and identity(s) regarding the question of localism.

You can look at some of my previously published works here.

​For commissions and enquires, please see here.

//poetry

Online:

✒ "My Mother Tells Me to Come Look At This" @ A Tapestry of Home: An Anthology by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (2023)

✒ "Red Soup" @ Ricepaper Magazine (2022)

✒ "First One Fifteen" @ Auditory Cortex 2021-2022 by CHA: An Asian Literary Journal (2022)

✒ "Ricochet and Rupture" @ CHA: An Asian Literary Journal Issue #45 (2019)

//poetry

In-Print:

✒ "Not Angry" @ SAND Journal Volume 26 "Shifting" (2023)

✒ "Asking 祖宗十八代" @ Canto Cutie Art & Literature Zine 藝文聚粵 Volume 6 (2023)

✒ "Brew Sky" @ Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve, 2023)

✒ “Green Veils" @ Ideas Journal by Asia Art Archive (2022)

✒ "fishing in a pawn shop", "People on Water", "sea skin", "fish skin" @ Canto Cutie Art & Literature Zine 藝文聚粵 Volume 5 (2022)

✒ "education gap", "老豆 Old Bean" @ Canto Cutie Art & Literature Zine 藝文聚粵 Volume 4 (2022)

✒ "Ginger Milk Curd" @ Anthology of the HKBU Century Club Citywide Poetry Competition (2018-2021)

✒ "Gaze On My Skin" @ Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 聲韻詩刊 Issue #58 (2021)

✒ "irre(cover)able" @ Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 聲韻詩刊 Issue #54 (2020)

✒ "Fortune Telling" @ Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 聲韻詩刊 Issue #53 (2020)

//features

Fatured correspondence:

✒ State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation by Out-Spoken Press (2023)

Featured events:

✒ Online Launch of Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (27 April 2023)

✒ Hong Kong International Literary Festival: Poetry Where Else: A Hong Kong International Poetic Extravaganza @ Fringe Dairy (12 March 2023)

✒ Six poets @ peel summer poetry reading @ Peel Fresco (15 August 2022)

✒ Poetics of Home Festival: Voices in Hong Kong (2 October 2021)

✒ What We Read Now: Home (6 March 2020)

✒ One City One Book 2019 - Sketches in Notebooks: The Arrival Poetry Reading (7 December 2019)

✒ CHA Reading Series: Poetry & Politics (27 August 2019)

// appearances + awards

Mentioned articles:

✒ [REVIEW] “NEIGHBOURHOOD AT HEART—𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑠𝑒: 𝐴𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦” @ Flora Mak, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (22 November 2023)

✒ "Live Poetry: To Be or Not To Be?" @ Victoria Fong, Varsity, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (5 January 2023)

✒ "Poetry Speaks: Cheng Tim Tim’s Selections—Reading Felix Chow, Reading Hong Kong" @ Cheng Tim Tim, BUHK Agroa (2 March 2022)

✒ "A Hong Kong poet’s sense of place" @ Jennifer Wong, Asian Review of Books (1 October 2021)

Interviews:

✒ Interview @ Canto Cutie Art & Literature Zine 藝文聚粵 Volume 5 (2022)

Awards:

✒ 2nd Prize @ BUHK Century Club Citywide Poetry Competition 2021

//contact

If you wish to commission poems, collaborate workshops or conduct interviews, please contact me via email at louise.leung.fy@gmail.com

I hope to see you soon