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We have received a healthy number of submissions for Imprint 18 but would like more to round out the anthology. If you have not yet had the chance to submit, we hope you will now. Please share the extended deadline with your writing community. New Submission Deadline: 22 October 2018 For more information, go to the Submit to Imprint page on the WiPS website. N.B. We have started editing this year’s submissions and are impressed with what we have [...]

Hong Kong Living, the publisher of Southside, Sai Kung and MidLevels magazines, is seeking submissions of children's Christmas themed stories for the December issue(s). They are also looking for illustrators for the stories as well. Deadline: 1 Nov 2018 Word count: 1000 - 1500 max The story must be based on locations such as: Southside magazine story ( Shek O - Pokfulam) Sai Kung magazine story  (Sai Kung based) Mid-Levels magazine story ( Central [...]

Phillipa Milne at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival has kindly offered WiPS members discounted tickets to the Susie Orbach luncheon, Fat is a Feminist Issue, on Saturday, 10 November.  The lunch starts at noon and finishes at 1.30 pm, and will dovetail nicely with the day ticket that they have offered us. The cost of the ticket will be HKD750 (originally HKD1000) and will be held at Old Bailey, the restaurant at Tai Kwun Centre [...]

Each month we feature an introduction to one of our members. This month we hear from one of our newest members, Yuetting Cindy Lam. Yuetting Cindy Lam's short stories have appeared in various magazines including New Orleans Review, Quiddity (NPR Illinois), Wasafiri and Brain, Child. She won the Second Prize in Hong Kong's "Top Story 2017" competition, and her story, "Fridays on Tin Hau Temple Road" was recognized as an honorable mention in [...]