Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society

16/08/2025

Take your verse to the next level in this exclusively poetic workshop. Hone your workshop feedback skills specifically with respect to poems, and get other poets (instead of the usual gang of general writers) to offer their insights and pointers to improve your work.

Register: https://www.hkwips.com/event/poetry-ww/

📅 Friday 12th September 12:00-2:00pm
📍 Zoom
🎟️ Members: Free | Non-members: HK$80
(Non-member fee refundable with membership purchase—look for the 🎁 below!)

How it works:
✍️ Submit 1-2 poems, both of which should be under 30 lines each, four days before the session.
📝 Read and review your fellow writers’ work before the workshop—come ready to share feedback.
🎤 During the session, you’ll receive thoughtful critique on your submission from your peers and a professional facilitator.

Each 2-hour workshop is capped at 6 participants to keep discussion meaningful and focused. Once you register, you’ll receive submission details and the Zoom link. A waitlist is available and often moves quickly.
💸 Sales are final unless the workshop is cancelled, in which case a full refund will be issued.
🎁 Attending as a non-member? Get your $80 ticket refunded when you join WiPS (HK$300 for July–December 2025) within one week of the session.

📣 Follow @‌hkwips on social media for future workshop dates, events, and opportunities.

14/08/2025

Don't miss a rare opportunity to meet Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clare Baldwin on Wed 3 Sep at AWA in Sheung Wan, and hear her stories from the frontlines of Myanmar's devastating and violent expulsion and persecution of the Rohingya.

Read up on her work in Myanmar with these 10+ devastating and insightful articles before the talk.

Wed 3 Sep | 6:30-8pm | AWA in Sheung Wan | Details in the link...

Reserve a seat: https://www.hkwips.com/event/uncovering-truths/xx

Read highlights of coverage of the mass expulsion of the Rohingya from Myanmar, including the investigation that landed our reporters in prison.

12/08/2025

Are reading challenges taking the joy out of a good book or are they spurring us on to dive deeper into literature?

"A nigh-impossible year-long reading challenge that starts in July and is made up of a bingo board where each square is its own mini reading challenge. For example, to complete the 'By the 100s' square, you’d have read seven books: one that’s between 100-200 pages, one between 200-300, then 300-400, 400-500, 500-600, 600-700, and a book over 700 pages. Then, you’d have one square done… with 24 still to go."

True to its name, The Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do is a nigh-impossible year-long reading challenge. Would you try it?

12/08/2025

Join one of our small-group, interactive workshops designed to support writers of all levels. Whether you’re working on fiction, nonfiction, or something in between, this is your chance to share your work, get feedback, and strengthen your editorial eye.

Register: https://www.hkwips.com/event/ww-september-2025/

📅 Thursday 4 September 6:30-8:30pm
📍 Zoom
🎟️ Members: Free | Non-members: HK$80
(*Non-member fee refundable with membership purchase—look for the 🎁 below!)

How it works:
✍️ Submit a piece of writing (up to 2,000 words) four days before the session. We welcome short stories, novel excerpts, blog posts, personal essays, and more.
📝 Read and review your fellow writers’ work before the workshop—come ready to share feedback.
🎤 During the session, you’ll receive thoughtful critique on your piece from your peers and a professional facilitator.

Each 2-hour workshop is capped at 6 participants to keep discussion meaningful and focused. Once you register, you’ll receive submission details and the Zoom link. A waitlist is available and often moves quickly.

🧾 Please note: One workshop per writer per month.
💸 Sales are final unless the workshop is cancelled, in which case a full refund will be issued.
🎁 *Attending as a non-member? Get your $80 ticket refunded when you join WiPS (HK$300 for July–December 2025) within one week of the session.

📣 Follow @‌hkwips on social media for future workshop dates, events, and opportunities.

11/08/2025

"Start posting. Post good work. Build up a list of free readers. Be patient. Give people the option to pay from the beginning or do so after you have 100 free subscribers. Start paywalling posts after your free list passes 1,000 readers, if you want." Read more of Summer Brennan's advice.

Anxiety, ambition, professional jealousy, hot tips, vibe shifts, and other things that should make writers wary.

10/08/2025

Read more of Jan Lee's short story in our anthology of poems, prose, and art, Imprint 23. Order your copy for only HK$98 or visit one of Hong Kong’s English language bookstores. eBooks are also available for US5.99 wherever you get your digital reads.

Order: https://www.hkwips.com/imprint/imprint-23-at-a-glance/

Share Imprint 23 with your overseas friends and take advantage of our postage deal, shipping the book (and all its tales and treasures) for only US$19 anywhere in the world.

A great gift, a great read, a great way to support Hong Kong's local writing scene.

08/08/2025

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Clare Baldwin is coming to WiPS! Get inspired and informed on the work of investigative journalists as Baldwin shares intrepid tales from Duterte's lethal drug crackdown.

Read a snippet of her award-winning work in preparation for her sharing at the American Women's Association on Wed 3 Sep, 6:30-8pm.

Register to attend here: https://www.hkwips.com/event/uncovering-truths/

How a group of police officers from Duterte's hometown Davao formed the core of a lethal anti-drug unit. Reuters traced the deadly path of the

07/08/2025

Sometimes you just gotta go back to basics... and no one's judging you for that. (Alt link: https://archive.ph/6KeDu)

For professional wordsmiths and those simply hoping to make their daily correspondence more polished. Also, if you’re the former, I’d love to pick your brain about career stuff.

06/08/2025

A breakdown of non-fiction versus fiction, and where your work might fit on the spectrum.

The perennial questions about Life Writing and Creative Non-Fiction that the Salt Path controversy has highlighted - and some possible answers

05/08/2025

Get scribblin' before summer's end.

A Carefully Curated List of Places to Send Your Fabulous Writing

05/08/2025

Spots are stilll open for our Book Club Zoom meet-up on Mon 25 Aug, 7-8pm. We’ll discuss "Beasts of a Little Land" by Juhea Kim and no, don’t worry, you don’t have to have finished it! 😅

Book Club: Beasts of a Little Nation by Juhea Kim 📅 Monday 25 August, 7-8pm HKT 📍 Zoom 🎟️ Members: Free | Non-members: HK$50 (Non-member fee refundable with membership purchase—look for the 🎁 below!) About the book: It is 1917, and Korea is under Japanese occupation. With the threat ...

04/08/2025

"There is nothing new under the sun but there is also nothing finished under the sun." What's your manuscript about and how's it building on its canon?

no story is finished being told