This event will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our home page 10 days before the event.
Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong, she is the author of several collections including Goldfish (Chameleon Press) and a pamphlet, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon Poetry 2019). Her latest collection, 回家Letters Home (Nine Arches Press 2020)—which explores the complexities of history, migration and translation—has been named the PBS Wild Card Choice by Poetry Book Society. She studied at University College, Oxford and completed a creative writing PhD from Oxford Brookes University. She teaches creative writing at Poetry School, Oxford Brookes and City Lit. Her poems, reviews and poetry translations have appeared in Poetry Wales, Wasafiri, World Literature Today, Oxford Poetry, Oxford Review of Books, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Rialto, Magma Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Asian Review of Books and others. In 2020, she founded an online poetry reading series called What We Read Now, featuring reading and conversations with international emerging and established poets. She was the writer-in-residence at Wasafiri in 2021, and a visiting fellow at Oxford TORCH in 2022.
Hi,
I sent in two poems. I am just wondering if I am unable to attend the function, will I still be notified if I win?
Kindly advice.
Bavani
Malaysia.
Dear Bavani,
Thank you for your enquiry. You will be notified personally if you are a winner or commended in the Cafe Writers Competition. If you would like to know the names of poets who have been named as winners or given special mention they will be appearing on the website at some point before the 28th February or you could sign up for our Newsletter [link on the front page of the website] and the results will be sent out by email.
Best Wishes,
Anne Bailey [editor of the website]