Women Who Write: Online Reading and Q&A with Yan Ge and Sarah Howe

Date: Nov 7, 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM (HK Time)
Venue: Online
Registration: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cw2uMgzXT4SiifI

Come and hear from two trailblazing female writers: Yan Ge (author of "Elsewhere") and Sarah Howe (author of "Foretokens") who will read from their latest work & talk about their journeys as writers, including how they trust and develop their voice and write with originality.

About the Speakers

Yan Ge

Yan Ge was born in Sichuan, China in 1984. She is a fiction writer in both Chinese and English, and is the author of fourteen books in Chinese, including six novels. She has received numerous awards and was named by People’s Literature magazine as one of the twenty future literature masters in China. Her work has been translated into eleven languages, including English, French and German. The latest English translation of her novel, Strange Beasts of China, was one of the New York Times Notable Books of 2021. Yan’s English writing has appeared in the New York Times, TLS, Granta, the Stinging Fly and elsewhere. Her English language debut short story collection Elsewhere was published by Faber in the UK and Scribner in the USA in 2023 and was named a New Yorker book of the year. Yan lives in Norwich.

Sarah Howe

Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Born in Hong Kong to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her first collection, Loop of Jade (Chatto, 2015) won the T S Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In 2014, she co-founded Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism. She is currently Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus, and an honorary Visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool. Her new poetry collection, Foretokens, explores complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism – and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.