This workshop is based on Smoked Pearl: Poems of Hong Kong and Beyond by Akin Jeje (2010); The Ruins of Nostalgia (2023) by Donna Stonecipher; 712 Stanza Homes For The Sun by Cat Chong (2023); and When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz (2012). Between generative exercises, we will look at how literary techniques help us access the different states of our public and personal memory. We will give feedback on each other’s work-in-progress in a supportive environment. Held on Zoom, this interactive workshop is low pressure, fun and open to writers at any level.
Biography
Tim Tim Cheng is the author of the pamphlet Tapping At Glass (VERVE, 2023), which was one of the Poetry Society Books of the Year and is currently longlisted for The Kavya Prize 2024. Her collection The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024) is forthcoming in October. She co-edited Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (VERVE, 2023).
She is one of the jury of Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024 and translation advisory board members of the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature. She was a member of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective 2022/23; a mentee of the inaugural Roddy Lumsden Memorial Mentorship; an Ignite Fellow with Scottish Book Trust; a WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange) fellow; a recipient of Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice Grant. She was the second runner-up in The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2024.
She is a co-host of 英詩乞衣 ying si hat yi (IG @yshy.podcast), a Cantonese podcast on Anglophone Poetry. She also curates and hosts events with Red Bean Poetry (IG @redbeanpoetry). She translates from Chinese to English for Hong Kong-based bands, artists and writers. She often collaborates and performs poetry with musicians.
Graduated from MSc in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Edinburgh and BEd in English Language Teaching at Hong Kong Baptist University, she has delivered writing in-person, online and hybrid workshops with bookshops, non-profit organisations and schools transnationally. She was born and raised in Hong Kong, currently based between London and Glasgow. timtimcheng.com
Price: HKD230
Date and time: August 17, 3-5pm HK time / 8-10am UK time
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