Be Gay, For God’s Sake: Literary Consultancy
Even during the incredibly eventful and busy year of 2025, I found time to fit in some literary consultancy on the play Be Gay, For God’s Sake. I really wanted my fellow queer Asian creators to succeed and to amplify these intersectional voices that are so key to global queer dialogues. I’m delighted that after performing at Totnes Fringe, they gained a residency at the Voila Theatre Festival, and won Best New Play at the 2025 Fringe Theatre Awards.
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Story Feast 2025: ESEA Futures
On the day of the Far Right rallies in central London on the 13th of September 2025, it felt momentous to be there to stand with my fellow East and Southeast Asian authors, and our diverse audiences at SOAS. It was a day packed with fantastic panels. On the ESEA Futures panel, we discussed how we first got into genre fiction, Western definitions of sci-fi imposed on ESEA literature and how legend and lore sit at an intersection between speculative genres. It was the first time I had spoken about Wuxia storytelling to an Anglophone audience in person, specifically discussing the differences and similarities in its speculative elements with similar fiction in the West.
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