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"A History of Fortune Cookies" at Summerhall, August 202412.15-12.45 AND 12.50-13.20tickets here
PERFORMANCESFortunes For Us - Dandelion Festival Inverness, September 2022Fortunes For Us - Dandelion Festival Glasgow, June 2022KNEAD - Hidden Door Festival Edinburgh, June 2022FORTUNE - UKNA Leicester Takeover, Feb 2022Poet on a Podium - Verve Poetry Festival Birmingham, Feb 2022Poetry Party with Lily Lane Primary School, Manchester, Jan 2022Speakin' Weird - Aberdeen, Nov 2021The Poetry Food Exchange - Push the Boat Out Festival, Oct 2021Place and Displacement - Poetics of Home Festival, online, Sept 2021Main Stage at Wee Solas Festival, Scone Palace Perth, Aug 2021FORTUNE Online w/ Tramway TV, Aug 2021To The UK With Libebreaks w/ spoke & bird, Free Fringe Online, Aug 2021FORTUNE at Kensington & Chelsea Festival, Chelsea Theatre London, July 2021OOIP Festival, online, July 2021Home Cooking w/ Tramway Beyond Walls - Throughout 2021What We Read Now - May 2021Food and Words w/ Sonnet Youth Weekender online - May 2021FORTUNE Online Live w/ Welcome to my Crying Party by RUMAH online - Feb 2021POETRY COLLECTIONsikfan glaschu - buy from Verve Poetry PressPOETRY PAMPHLETSbe happyhow to cookyou are mistakenPRINT – ZINESChicken + Bread Issue 2 - "花膠 Soup"Extra Teeth Issue 5 - "Popo's Second-Best Cleaver"The Skinny Jan 2022 - "Year of the Tiger: Lunar New Year in Scotland"Greater Govanhill Jan 2022 - "Buddha's Delight"AMBIT 242 - "cleave"The Skinny May 2021 - "We Are Here: East and South East Asian Creativity in Scotland"101 Words for Edwin Morgan - "munchyboxlife"Potluckzine Issue 1: Cooking During Covid - “conversations from the line outside the supermarket”Marbles Mag Issue 4: Unfinished - “risk assessment for self-referral”Placeholder Press Issue 1 - “JAM”, “sometimes i wish i could fix things like you”404 Ink Issue 5 - Space - "liminal being"Blood Bath Issue 2: DEMONS - "666"The Flexible Persona Vol 03 #2 the Passage Issue Fall 2018 - "outlet", "errored"Monstrous Regiment #2 EMERALD Issue - "healing properties"ZARF 11 - "allez cuisine"SPAM ZINE #6 chips & cheese - "its working", "the chinese"The Suburban Review Vol.7 - “immigration”* Ariadne’s Thread Issue 9 (Winter 2013/2014) - “ghosts” (shortlisted for Ariadne’s Thread Competition 2013)PRINT – ANTHOLOGIESThe Edwin Morgan Centenary Collection - “eight slices”. “munchy box”Haunted Voices: An Anthology of Gothic Storytelling From Scotland - "the possession"Spoken Word London - Anti-Hate Anthology - "jump cuts", "basic economics"The Dizziness of Freedom - "are stars supposed to move like that", "i made it", "cbt"In Which Dragons are Real But - "the new spring bamboo", "the new golden phoenix"Why Poetry? The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology – "content"Heathrow Airport, Liminal Residency - "heathrow poem", "existing…"UEA Creative Writing Anthology Poetry 2016 - “the sea is grey + even”, “i am on the floor cutting roast duck into bits”, “stealing table sauces from wetherspoons”Screams and Silences - “we sometimes still hear them”, “obscene art”, “anywhere but here”The Trouble with Parallel Universes - “in a different light”ONLINELUX Scotland - "response to 'Here for Life' by Andrea Luka Zimmerman'"Middleground Issue 6 - "number 5", "theres a 湯 for everything"Scottish Book Trust - "Making it Home"streetcake Issue 76.2 - "exact7ly"Wasafiri - "Writing Britain Now"World Wide Wontons - "油炸鬼 – Oil-Fried Ghosts"Selcouth #2 – Food Edition - “chip butty”, “in 1884 south kensington london”, “the battle for glasgow scotland”bathmagg Issue 4 - “where is the tree my 公公 drew”SPOONFEED Issue 1 - “the godmother”, “segmented”GENERATORPROJECTS call + response 1. blooms - “hungerblossoms”Vittles - "Glasgow's Poon Choi 盆菜 and Hong Kong's Munchy Box"bitter melon Stay Home Diary - "3/31/20/20"Pendemic.ie - "stay inside"datableedzine issue 12 - "assorted histories of shaolin"Visual Verse Vol.04 Chapter 10 - "a dramatization"Glasgow Review of Books - “taijitu”, “taijitu”Blue of Noon (March 19th 2015) - “an honest review"The Suburban Review ‘True Equals False’ (August 31st 2015) -“cleansing rituals”Fake Poems (June 14th 2014) - “rush hour”WORKSHOPSPoetry, Food and Zine 3-Workshop Course w/ Being Mixed, November 2022Peas, poems and place: Creative Writing Workshop w/ Food/Play/Food, September 2022Food and Family Workshop w/ STAR Projects Paisley for OneRen, August 2022Food and Sense Workshop w/ Active Communities Paisley for OneRen, July 2022Making it Home Poetry Workshop w/ Scottish Book Trust, June 2022Food/Writing 4-Workshop Course w/ Glasgow Zine Libary, March-June 2022Food and Place Workshop w/ National Library of Scotland, March 2022Poetry Workshop w/ Smithycroft Libaray, Smithycroft Secondary School, Feb 2022Community Food Stories w/ Glasgow Zine Library, Nov 2021Food Writing and Eating Workshop w/ Interfaith Glasgow, Oct 2021Food Poetry Workshop for S2 Pupils w/ Eastbank Academy, Oct 2021Sharing Food Zine Workshop for Refugee Week 2021 w/ Paisley Arts Centre, June 2021Eating Poetry w/ University of Glasgow, online, April 2021Creative Recipe Writing Exchange w/ Renfrewshire Leisure, March 2021Food Experiences Workshop for Scottish BAME Writers Network, April 2020Psycho Gastro Studio Online Workshop Course at the Poetry School, September 2019Eat Your Words Workshop at Tutor Academy, Poetry School, April 2019OTHERGuest Editor for MAGMA Issue 86The Kavya Prize 2022 - Shortlisted for 'sikfan glaschu'Panel-Member, Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2022Time for One Poem Podcast w/ Annie Muir, 2021Cove Park Residency, Aug 2021Guest Editor for The Dark Horse Issue 43Sharp Short Development Scheme w/ Short Circuit, 2021Scottish BAME Writers Network Audio AnthologyMany Voices Many Kitchens Editor for Bella CaledoniaGuest Editor for SPOONFEED Issue 1.2Poetry Editor at EX/POST Magazine, 2021Guest Poetry Reader for Gutter Magazine Issue 21, 2020Magnetic North Micro-Commission, 2020Scottish Arts Club Stepping Stones Theatre Award, 2020National Library of Scotland 21st Century Reading Bursary RecipientNational Theatre of Scotland Starter Artist 2017Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition 2016Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition 2015 - Funniest Poem Award2013 Farrago Zoo Award for Best Debut Performance
Image: Brian Hartley