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HKBU Century Club Citywide English Poetry Competition 2020
Award Ceremony, Reading and Exhibition
Coming to its second year, the HKBU Citywide Poetry Competition 2020 expanded in its scale through an on-site exhibition and collaboration with the Academy of Visual Arts at HKBU to introduce a cross-disciplinary aspect to the event.
The visual arts students were invited to create corresponding artworks inspired by the shortlisted poems. We have also invited award-winning poet Srikanth Reddy (University of Chicago) as the judge for the 2020 competition. Reddy is the author of Voyager, which was named one of the best books of poetry in 2011 by The New Yorker, The Believer, and National Public Radio; and his first collection, Facts for Visitors, won the 2005 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry.
Due to Covid-19, the award ceremony was moved to a virtual space - Zoom. Finalists, student artists, local literary figures and faculty members from local universities and their friends and families were present at the ceremony to celebrate the aspiring poets and artists. Student finalists and artists were able to read their poems and share the narratives behind their art.
Delere Press at Cha: Joint Book Launch & Reading
The joint book launch celebrated the publication of HER NAME UPON THE STRAND by Tammy HO Lai-Ming and ANYTHING YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH: CREATIVE PRACTICES by Eddie Tay. Published by Singapore’s independent Delere Press, the two books offer a glimpse into the authors’ personal creative processes and the zeitgeist of Singapore and Hong Kong. The book launch gathered friends and families of the authors over an intimate cafe setting. Guests are invited to join the reading and sharing sessions over some light refreshment.
Inaugural HKBU Century Club Citywide Poetry Competition and Reading 2019
The HKBU Century Club Citywide Poetry Competition partnered with the HKBU Century Club, Department of English Language & Literature, Department of Humanities & Creative Writing, and the International Writers’ Workshop at Hong Kong Baptist University in association with the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation. The inaugural judge was the world-renowned UK poet Sarah Howe.
This competition was open to all current full-time undergraduate students in Hong Kong. Prizes include $5,000 HKD for 1st place; $3,000 HKD for 2nd place; and $1,000 HKD for 3rd place. The six winners and finalists were announced over the award ceremony at HKBU on April 28, 2019. Winning poems were read by the students and prizes were presented along with the detailed commentaries by Sarah Howe.
The Heterotopic Junction Graduate Conference (HJC) in Language, Literature and Culture
The Heterotopic Junction Graduate Conference (HJC) in Language, Literature and Culture is an annual conference open to all graduate students globally (including advanced undergraduates who are progressing to postgraduate studies) to submit research in the areas of linguistics, literature and culture. It is co-organised by the Master of Arts in Literary and Comparative Studies (MALCS) and Master of Arts in Language Studies (MALS) programmes at the Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist University.
One-Day Literary Writing Lodge in Hong Kong Voices 2018
Took place on Saturday 15 December 2018, the One-Day Literary Writing Lodge in Hong Kong Voices was organized by the joint efforts of the Department of English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University and the award-winning Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and PEN Hong Kong.
Some of the best-known writers in Hong Kong worked together with HKBU’s linguistics and literature professors to create an exciting daylong writing experience for higher secondary school students. The lodge targets to encourage youngsters to write authentically in their own Hong Kong voices in a way that is also intelligible and expressive to a global readership.
