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Eddie TAY
Associate Professor
B.A., M.A.(NUS); Ph.D. (HKU)
Administrative Post
Director, Research Centre for Human Values
Research Interests
Creative writing; autoethnography; street photography; Singaporean and Malaysian literature; postcolonial literature
Books / Monographs Authored
| 2024 | Creative Practice as a Way of Life: After Barthes. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 2024. |
| 2023 | Hong Kong as Creative Practice. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 2023. Fully supported by Research Grants Council - General Research Fund, Project number: 14607219 |
| 2020 | Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan, Flora Ka Yu Mak, Thomas Siu Ho Yau, Yutong Hu, Michael O’Sullivan, Eddie Tay. The Value of the Humanities in Higher Education: Perspectives from Hong Kong. Singapore: Springer, 2020. |
| 2018 | Anything You Can Get Away With: Creative Practices. Delere Press, 2018. Supported by Publication Subvention Fund for 2017-2018, provided by the Faculty of Arts, CUHK. |
| 2016 | Dreaming Cities. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2016. Poetry and street photography collection. |
| 2011 | Colony, Nation, and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature. Hong Kong University Press, 2011; Singapore: NUS Press, 2011. |
| 2010 | The Mental Life of Cities. Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2010. Poetry collection. Awarded Singapore Literature Prize 2012 (English Category). |
| 2005 | A Lover’s Soliloquy. Hong Kong: Sixth Finger Press, 2005. Poetry collection, including free translations of Li Shang-yin. Published with grant support from National Arts Council (Singapore). |
| 2001 | Remnants. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2001. Poetry collection, including free translations of Li Po, Tu Fu and Li Ho. Published with grant support from National Arts Council (Singapore). |
Edited Volumes
| 2023 | Eddie Tay and Jennifer Wong, editors. State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation. London: Out-Spoken Press, 2023. |
Articles in Journals
| 2024 | "An applied phenomenology: the inner life of writing poetry with street photography". New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing. Vol. 21, Issue 4. pp. 478-491. Online version https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14790726.2024.2388316?needAccess=true |
| 2021 | "On being derailed, on aesthetic responsiveness in Hong Kong". New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing. Vol. 19, Issue 3. pp. 264-273. Online version https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1970190 |
| 2016 | "Writing photography, seeing poetry and creative writing scholarship". New Writing. Online version http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2016.1184685. Vol 13, Issue 3. pp. 387-401. |
| 2014 | "Hong Kong Writing and Culture: Community and Fault Lines". Introduction to guest edited Special Section on Hong Kong Literature. Asiatic. Vol. 8, No. 2. Dec 2014. pp. 1-2. |
| 2012 | "Street Meditations: On Poetry, Street Photography and Everyday Life in Hong Kong". Asiatic, Vol. 6 Number 2. Dec 2012. pp. 31-44. |
| 2011 | "The Singapore Writers Festival: Global Identity, Cultural Policy and the Post-Independence Literary Landscape". Southeast Asian Review of English. Special Issue: Malaysian and Singaporean Literature. No. 50. 2010/2011. 121-132. |
| 2011 | (with Eva Leung as second author) "On Learning, Teaching and the Pursuit of Creative Writing in Singapore and Hong Kong". New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, 8:2 (2011): 103-113. Article supported by CUHK’s Direct Grant for Research (Project Code: 201033) |
| 2009 | “Multiculturalisms, Mistranslations and Bilingual Poetry: On Writing as a Chinese”. New Writing: The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, 6:1 (2009): 5-14. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790720902898699 |
| 2005 | “‘There is no way out but through’: Alienation and Interpolation in Lee Kok Liang's London Does Not Belong to Me and ‘Return to Malaya’”. New Literatures Review. No. 44 Oct 2005. 63-75. |
| 2005 | “Hegemony, National Allegory, Exile: The Poetry of Shirley Lim”. Textual Practice. Vol. 19. Issue 3. Sept 2005. 289-308. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502360500196250 |
| 2005 | “In America: The Alien Asian and the Cosmopolitan Chic”. Southeast Asian Review of English. No. 46 Apr 2005. 123-142. |
Chapters in Books
| 2023 | Li-Young Lee, Jennifer Wong and Eddie Tay. "Work in Progress". Tay and Jennifer Wong, editors. State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation. London: Out-Spoken Press, 2023. 103-122. |
| 2023 | "The Department Poet: On Institutional Demands, on Writing from the Heart”. Eds. Dean A. F. Gui and Dora Wong. The Power of Storytelling in Teaching Practices: Narratives from Hong Kong and Afar. London: Routledge, 2023. pp. 86-108. |
| 2019 | "K. S. Maniam and Tash Aw", Ed. Alex Tickell. The Novel in South and South East Asian since 1945. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019. pp. 522-535. |
| 2017 | "A Luxury We Cannot Afford: The Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng", Angelia Poon and Angus Whitehead (eds), Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts. New York and London: Routledge, 2017. pp. 62-81. |
| 2016 | "The medium is the massage: Writing, reading and the work of Singaporean literature in the age of social media". The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature. Edited by Michael O’Sullivan, David Huddart and Carmen Lee. pp.128-139. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. |
| 2014 | "Curriculum as Cultural Critique: Creative Writing Pedagogy in Hong Kong". Ed. Dan Disney. Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel. Philadelphia, USA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. 103-118. |
| 2014 | "On Places and Spaces: The Possibilities of Teaching Arthur Yap". Common Lines and City Spaces: A Critical Anthology on Arthur Yap. Ed. Gui Weihsin. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014. 96-113. |
| 2013 | "Superficiality, Mythification, and Irreality: Towards a Writing Practice". New Ideas in the Writing Arts. Ed. Graeme Harper. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. pp.113-126. |
| 2013 | "Marechera, the Tree-Poem-Artifact". Reading Marechera. Ed. Grant Hamilton. Suffolk: James Currey, 2013. pp. 172-186 |
| 2009 | “Singaporean Fiction after 1965: A Critical Survey”. Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II. Ed. Gwee Li Sui; General Ed. Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: National Library Board, 2009. 197-215. |
| 2009 | “The Dispersal of Eurasian Identity and the Ethics of Remembrance: Rex Shelley’s Eurasian Quartet”. Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature I. Eds. Mohammad A. Quayum and Wong Phui Nam; General Ed. Edwin Thumboo. Singapore: National Library Board, 2009. 146-157. |
| 2008 | “Discourses of Difference: The Malaya of Isabella Bird, Emily Innes and Florence Caddy”. Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Eds. Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst. Hong Kong: HKU Press, 2008. 99-112. |
| 2007 | “‘A Construction from Spare Parts’: Inventing National Identity in Singapore”. The Nation Across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations. Eds. Harish Trivedi, Meenakshi Mukherjee, C. Vijayasree, C. and T. Vijay Kumar. New Delhi, India: Oxford UP, 2007. 213-229. |
| 2003 | “Unsettling Ways of Exile: The Unhomely in the Poetry of Wong Phui Nam”. Complicities: Connections and Divisions. Eds. Chitra Sankaran, Liew-Geok Leong and Rajeev S. Patke. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. 179-188. |
Invited Papers
| 2019 | “The Department Poet: On Institutional Demands, On Writing from the Heart”. Keynote talk. Writing Roundtable 2019: Storytelling in Academic and Creative Writing. English Language Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. |
| 2019 | “Reading Back Utopia - A Practice”. Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2019: Hong Kong Dystopia. Organized by Hong Kong Baptist University. |
| 2016 | “Creative Writing and Research: Between Two Worlds in Creative Writing in the Academy”, An International Symposium organized by Dept. of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. |
| 2015 | “The Poetics of Occupy Central – A Photo Essay”. A plenary talk. Imagining Asia Symposium. Organized by College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University. |
| 2014 | “On things that are hard to say when moving between languages poetically”. Celebrating Hong Kong Writing: A Colloquium among Friends. Organized by School of English, University of Hong Kong. |
| 2014 | “Street Photography, Poetry, Life Project”. Accepted invitation to present seminar paper and street photography portfolio at Dept. of English, Hong Kong Baptist University. |
| 2011 | “On Writing Poetry”. Invited guest lecture at City University of Hong Kong. |
Conference Papers
| 2019 | “On Street Photography, On Writing Poetry: An Auto-ethnographic Practice”. 20th English in Southeast Asia Conference: Re-thinking Paradigms and Approaches to Researching, Teaching and Learning English. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. |
| 2019 | “Urban Leitmotifs of Hong Kong and Singapore”. Old Lands, New Ground: A Symposium of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. International conference organized by the School of English and the Department of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong, with venue at Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts. |
| 2017 | “How the World Enters the Text”, and roundtable panel in World Literature and Global Core Texts Conference 2017 organized by Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. |
| 2015 | “Poetry and Street Photography as Emerging Thought”. Great Writing: The International Creative Writing Conference. London, Imperial College. |
| 2014 | “The Practice of Poetry and Street Photography: Reclaiming Urban Scenes and Spaces of Consumption in Hong Kong and Singapore”. Modern and Postmodern Arts: China and the World. International conference organized by The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present and the Institute of the Arts and Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. |
| 2013 | “In Hong Kong, In Medias Res: On Beginnings, Intentions and Methods of an Ongoing Poetry and Street Photography Project”. Writing into Art. International conference at University of Strathclyde and Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery. |
| 2013 | “Hong Kong Lucida: Poetry and Street Photography”. 15th Biennial Symposium on Literature and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region: Elegance and Messiness in the Age of Risk. University of Hong Kong. |
| 2012 | “In Singapore, In Hong Kong: Writing and Mental Life”. Great Writing: The International Creative Writing Conference pp.13. London, Imperial College. |
| 2011 | “Encounters, Stereotypes and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Travel Writing from Singapore”. Workshop on Travel Writing: Practice, Pedagogy and Theory pp.21. Singapore, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore. |
| 2010 | “Writing Against Silence: K. S. Maniam's Between Lives”. Silent and Ineffable: Functions of the Unsaid in Literature and the Humanities 13 pgs. Taipei, National Taipei University of Technology. |
| 2009 | “Engaging Singapore Fiction”. Sharing Borders: Singapore / Malaysia Writers Symposium 2009 18 pgs. Singapore, Singapore Writers Festival. |
| 2009 | “A Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism?: Writing About Other Places”. Re-imagining Identity: New Directions in Postcolonial Studies pp.12. Organised by Postcolonial Studies Association, Waterford, Ireland. |
| 2008 | “On Boutique Multiculturalisms, Mistranslations and the Inability to Translate: Poetry from Singapore and Malaysia”. Poetry and Translation, University of Stirling, Scotland. |
| 2006 | “Nationalism and (Ir)responsibility in Abraham's Promise and A Candle or the Sun”. Inaugural English Literature Conference: Irresponsibility. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
| 2005 | “The Malaya of Isabella Bird and Emily Innes”. Mobilis in Mobile: International Conference on Studies in Travel Writing, The University of Hong Kong. |
| 2004 | “In the Countries of the Imagination: Reading Karim Raslan and Simon Tay”. Evolving Faces: Identities and the Printed Page MACLALS. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| 2004 | “Should We Still Be Interested in Literary Nationalism?: Playing Madame Mao and Reading Mammon Inc.”. Nation and Imagination: The Changing Commonwealth, ACLALS 13th Triennial Conference. 4-9 August 2004, Hyderabad, India. |
Creative Work
| 2020 | "Choices [and Revisions]". Essay on revising poems. [http://www.poetry.sg/eddie-tay-track-changes] |
| 2020 | From A Lover's Soliloquy". Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet. Edited by Ann Ang, Daryl Lim Wei Jie and Tse Hao Guang. Singapore: Landmark Books. |
| 2019 | “And Weave Together Macau”. Poem and photographs. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Issue 43, Writing Macau Issue. Apr. 2019. [http://www.asiancha.com/wp/article/weave-together/] |
| 2019 | “How I Impress Others with My Cantonese”, “Choices” (2 poems), “Press Doorbell Please” (photograph). World Literature Today. Oklahoma, USA. Spring 2019. Print and online. [https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/spring/two-poems-eddie-tay] |
| 2018 | “On Looking, Acting and Thinking Otherwise”. Short prose passage with photographs. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Oct 2018. Issue 41: Writing Singapore. [https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/3370/693/] |
| 2018 | “Whose Woods These Are”. Poem. Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine. Musical Stone Publishing. Mar 2018. CHA Tenth Anniversary Special Feature - this project is commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. |
| 2017 | “Concrete”, “Cantonese”, “This Island”, “Neighbours”, How Hong Kong Works”, “City”, “I Know My Charles Baudelaire”. 7 video clips of poetry being read by Tay. Archived in A Grain of Sand: Poems from Hong Kong. Ching Yuet May (Editor), Tracy Liang, Virginia Lo, Samuel Ng (Production Team), Louise Ho, Eddie Tay, Kit Fan, Andrew Parkin (Readers). May 2017. [http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collection/grainofsand] |
| 2017 | “Beginning His Day”, “Letters from China”. Poems. Unfree Verse: Singapore Poetry in Form. Eds. Tse Hao Guang, Joshua Ip and Theophilus Kwek. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2017. p.103; p. 213. |
| 2017 | “City”, “Walking Around”. Poems. Singapore's Vanished Public Housing Estates. Koh Kim Chay, Eugene Seng (photographers), Eunice Seng, Yu-mei Balasingamchow (other contributors). 2017. pp. 192-193; pp. 116-117. |
| 2017 | “City Banyan (Broken)”. Poem. Co-authored with Kate Rogers. Twin Cities: An Anthology of Twin Cinema from Singapore and Hong Kong. Singapore: Landmark Books, 2017. p. 77. |
| 2017 | “groundwork”, “don't ask”, “negative capability”, “Hong Kong Village”. Poems. Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a Borrowed Place, a PEN Hong Kong Anthology. Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. pp. 154-158. |
| 2017 | “Sham Shui Po Speaks”. Poem with 2 photographs. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Dec 2017. Issue 38. [https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2947/635/] |
| 2016 | “Groundwork”. Poem and photograph. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Sept 2016. Issue 33. [https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2515/579/] |
| 2016 | “How Hong Kong Works”, “Groundwork”, “Two Cities in Which I Love You”. Poems. Reverberations: Evening Readings. Hong Kong: Spicy Fish Cultural Productions, 2016. pp. 22-27. |
| 2015 | “Selected Poems”. Eight Hong Kong Poets Edited by David McKirdy and Peter Gordon. pp.31-47. Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2015.11.01. |
| 2015 | “Prologue”, “Country”, “Cities”. Poems. Union: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat. Eds. Alvin Pang and Ravi Shankar. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2015. p. 468. |
| 2014 | “The Word is a Country”. Poem. Desde Hong Kong: Poets in Conversation with Octavio Paz on the Occasion of the Poet’s Centenary. Eds. Germán Muñoz, Tammy Ho and Juan José Morales. Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2014. p. 14. |
| 2014 | “I Know my Charles Baudelaire”. Poem. OutLoud Too Eds. Vaughan Rapatahana, Kate Rogers, Madeleine Slavick. pp.112-113. Hong Kong, Hong Kong: MCCM Creations, 2014. |
| 2013 | “Reading Wordsworth”. Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry Edited by Loh Chin Ee, Angelia Poon and Esther Vincent. pp.144. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2013. |
| 2013 | “Photographs in Search of Poetry: ‘Groundwork’, ‘Sermon’, ‘Waiting’, ‘Out of Focus’, ‘Mother and Children'”. Friends Newsletter. Hong Kong: Friends of the Art Museum, CUHK. Jan 2013 Issue. Each of the 5 poems is accompanied by a photograph. |
| 2011 | “end of tunnel”, “stations of the cross”, “modern concrete”, “glass city”, “fence”. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol. 5 Issue 1. June 2011. pp. 172-181. Each of the 5 photographs is accompanied by a poem. |
| 2010 | “Night Thoughts”, “Country”, “White Pages”, “Cities”. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Sept 2010. Issue 12. [https://www.asiancha.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=712&Itemid=256] |
| 2010 | “Interview with a Beauty Queen”, “Never Forgotten”, “Kitaro’s Koi”. Poems. & Words: Poems Singapore and Beyond. Singapore: Ethos Books; National Arts Council, Singapore, 2010. pp. 50, 79, 103. |
| 2009 | “for arthur yap”. Poem. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Vol. 8. No. 3. Jul 2009. [http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=702] |
| 2009 | “Letter to my Baby Daughter Born in Hong Kong”. Poem. Fifty on 50. Ed. Edwin Thumboo. Assoc Eds. Isa Kamari, Chia Hwee Pheng and K. T. M. Iqbal. Singapore: National Arts Council, 2009. p. 122. |
| 2008 | “Sichuan, May 2008”, “Sweatshop Poem”. Asia Literary Review. Autumn 2008. No. 9. pp. 91-93. |
| 2008 | “Whose Woods These Are”. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Feb 2008 Issue. [https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/79/75/] |
| 2008 | “On a Treadmill”, “I don’t want to romanticise, but”, “What I Cannot Say”, “Never Forgotten”, “Naked, you can be tasty”, “Beginning His Day”. Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia. Eds John Kinsella and Alvin Pang. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2008. pp. 259-265. |
| 2007 | “3 Short Takes on Shakespeare”. Ares Interpres: An International Journal of Poetry, Translation and Art. No. 8-9. 2007. p. 151. |
| 2006 | “Jogging Before Dawn”, “My Other”, “Willow”, “After a Class Reunion”, “Hokkien”, “Reading Wordsworth”. World’s Strand: An International Anthology of Poetry. Eds. Joneve McCormick and Shimanta Bhattacharyya. Mandelbachtal/Cambridge: Edition Cicero, 2006. pp. 319-325. |
| 2006 | “Travelling”. HK Culture. Issue 23. Nov 2006. |
| 2006 | “Self-Portrait”, “Life is only once, like a leaf”, “Funerals”. Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology. Ed Tammy Ho. Hong Kong: Dept. of English (HKU), 2006. |
| 2005 | “Willow”, “After a Class Reunion”, “Jogging Before Dawn”, “Hokkien”, “Reading Wordsworth”, “My Other”. The Other Voices International Project. Vol. 16. 2005. |
| 2005 | “The Love Song of J. Else Prunes-Frock”. Dimsum: Asia’s Literary Journal. Vol. 11. Summer 2005. |
| 2005 | “Father”. Honoring Fathers: An International Poetry Collection. Eds. Alfred A. Yuson and Gemino H. Abad. Manila: University of the Philippines Press, 2005. |
| 2005 | “This City and its Pavements”, “Naked, you can be Tasty as Honeydew”, “Even without a Body”, “Cold Wind”. SoftBlow. July 2005. [http://www.softblow.org/eddietay.html] |
| 2004 | “One Afternoon”. Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing, vol. 5. May 2004. |
| 2002 | “On Writing Poetry in Singapore: Interview with Alvin Pang and Yong Shu Hoong”. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Vol 1 No. 3. Apr 2002. [http://www.qlrs.com/issues/apr2002/interviews/apysh.html] |
Others
| 2018 | “Hong Kong Studies: A Beginning”, co-presentation with editors of Hong Kong Studies (Chinese University Press) in Backreading Hong Kong organized by Hong Kong Baptist University. |
| 2017 | “Writing Poetry in/and Hong Kong: A Morning with Louise Ho, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Jason Polley and Eddie Tay”. Cha Reading Series and Dept. Seminar Series. Dept. of English, CUHK. |
| 2015 | “Literary Salon”. Presentation on my poetry at Literary Salon organized by the International Writers’ Workshop, Hong Kong Baptist University. |
| 2014 | “Ten Poets’ Night”. Poetry presentation with fellow poets. Organized by Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. |
Teaching
| ENGE 2360 | Children’s Literature |
| ENGE 3260 | Creative Writing |
| ENGE 3290 | Reading Poetry |
| ENGE 3360 | Special Topics in Creative Writing (Writing Creatively with Photography) |
Service
| 2018–present | Founding Co-editor. Hong Kong Studies. CUHK Press. |
| 2020–present | Coordinator of Writers in Schools of Hong Kong initiative. [https://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/research-and-publications/research-and-outputs/masterclasses/workshops-and-talks/writers-in-schools-of-hong-kong-wish-project/about-wish/] |
| 2020–present | Coordinator of Creative Arts Wellness initiative. [https://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/research-and-publications/research-and-outputs/masterclasses/workshops-and-talks/creative-arts-wellness-caw-workshop/about-caw/] |
| 2020-2022, 2024 | Panel Judge. My Story Creation Competition 2019-20. Kids4Kids. |
| 2013-2019 | Member. Curriculum Development Council – Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority Committee for Literature in English (Senior Secondary). The Committee advises the HK government on the development and implementation of the secondary school curriculum and examination for Literature in English. Three terms: September 2013-August 2015, September 2015-August 2017, September 2017-August 2019. |
| 2018-2019 | Co-organizer. Cha Writing Workshop Series. Matching writers with schools, domestic helper groups and refugees to conduct writing workshops. |
| 2010-2012 | Member. Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority, Sixth Form Literature in English Subject Committee. |
| Creative Writing Workshops | |
| 2019 | Workshop Facilitator. “Writing Poetry with Images and Imagery”. Conducted workshop to visiting students from Maryknoll Convent School (Secondary). ENGE@CUHK Masterclass Series. Supported by Project Impact Enhancement Fund (2018/2019). Faculty of Arts, CUHK. |
| 2019 | Workshop Facilitator. “Hong Kong through Images and Imagery”. Professional Development Programme for secondary school English language and literature teachers. HK Education Bureau. |
| 2018 | Workshop Facilitator. “One-Day Literary Writing Lodge in Hong Kong Voices”. HKBU Writing Lodge. The Department of English Language and Literature at the Hong Kong Baptist University. |
| 2018 | Workshop Facilitator. Conducted “Reading and Writing Poetry with Visual Images” workshop to 139 secondary students and 5 English teachers at St. Rose of Lima’s College. |
| 2018 | Workshop Facilitator. Conducted i) workshop on Singapore and HK poetry, ii) guided photo walk at Sham Shui Po, iii) creative writing activity using photos for visiting secondary school students from Raffles Institution, Singapore's premier school. |
| 2018 | Workshop Co-facilitator. “Poetry Teahouse” on 2018 World Book Day Fest co-organised by HK Education Bureau and Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR). |
| 2017 | Workshop Facilitator. “Developing Creativity and Critical Awareness with Gifted Learners of English in the 21st Century”. Professional Development Programme for teachers. HK Education Bureau. |
| 2017 | Workshop Facilitator. Conducted workshop on street photography and creative writing to about 28 upper secondary Singaporean students visiting Hong Kong. Raffles Institution. |
| 2017 | Workshop Facilitator. Street photography and creative writing workshop. At Raffles Institution, Singapore. |
| 2016 | Workshop Facilitator. “Developing Creativity with Gifted Students through Language in Culture and Life” (Secondary School Session). Professional Development Programme for teachers. HK Education Bureau. |
| 2016 | Workshop Facilitator. “Developing Creativity with Gifted Students through Language in Culture and Life” (Primary School Session). Professional Development Programme for teachers. HK Education Bureau. |
| 2016 | Workshop Facilitator. “Shifting Homelands: Singapore and Hong Kong in Literature and Art”. Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education, Hong Kong. |
| 2016 | Workshop Facilitator. “The Learning and Teaching of Poetry in the Literature in English Classroom”. Professional Development Programme for teachers. HK Education Bureau. |
| 2016 | Workshop Facilitator. Conducted poetry writing class for 100 primary school students with fellow poets Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education. |
| Poetry Readings/Community Talks | |
| 2019 | Featured Writer. “Poetry Reading with Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Eddie Tay”. Tai Kwun. |
| 2018 | Featured Writer. “Delere Press at Cha: Joint Book Launch & Reading”. Pop Up by Social Club. |
| 2018 | Invited Speaker. “Poetry and the Visual Arts”. Centre for Community Cultural Development. Cha Reading Series. |
| 2018 | Invited Speaker. Poetry reader at Bleak House Books, Hong Kong. |
| 2018 | Invited Speaker. Presented poetry and street photography at “Sayang Singapura” at Swing a Cat Gallery. Supported by NUS Alumni Association. Hong Kong. |
| 2018 | Invited Speaker. “Crossing Cultures and Languages”. Presented poetry at Mexican Consulate General in Hong Kong. |
| 2017 | Poetry Reader. “Twin Cities / Twin Cinema Anthology Book Launch”. Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences. Hong Kong International Literary Festival. |
| 2017 | Invited Speaker. Featured poet at CCCD Artspace － 碧波押 Green Wave Art. Hong Kong. |
| 2016 | Invited Speaker. Gave a talk and reading as part of a launch of my poetry and street photography book, Dreaming Cities. National Poetry Festival, Singapore. |
| 2016 | Invited Speaker. Academic dialogue with Dr. Otto Heim on language, poetry and identity. University of Hong Kong, English Society. |
| 2015 | Invited Speaker. Read at Book Launch of Eight Hong Kong Poets. Sundaram Tagore Gallery. |
| 2012 | Panel Discussant. “Waxing Lyrical in an Economic Society - Where Do Poets Find Their Muse in Hong Kong?”. Hong Kong Book Fair 2012 organised by Hong Kong Trade Development Council with Oxford University Press as co-organiser. |
| 2011 | Panel Discussant. “Around a Roundtable”. Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2011. A panel discussion with two other writers concerning poetry. |
| External Examiner/Grant Reviewer/Panel Judge | |
| 2020 | Panel Judge. Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (Creative Nonfiction in English category). Reviewed entries and selected shortlist and winner for Singapore’s biennial top literary prize. |
| 2019-2025 | External Academic Advisor. Associate of Arts in English for Professional Communication programme (Community College of City University of Hong Kong). |
| 2019 | External Reviewer. Discipline of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, CUHK Shenzhen (for 2019-20 and 2020-21). Reviewed the course “ENG 3101 Fundamentals of Video Game Design” in 11/2019. |
| 2018 | External Examiner. Ph.D. thesis. Writing Hong Kong Sinophonicity — History, Gender and Ethnicity in Hong Kong Literature. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
| 2018 | Grant Reviewer. RGC's Faculty Development Scheme grant application: “The Roles of Hong Kong’s Chinese Creative Writing Education in an Asian Context: An Examination of the Creative Writing and Film Arts Programme Offered by the Open University of Hong Kong”. |
| 2016-2017 | Panel Judge. Creative writing competition “Writing for a Cause”. Kids4Kids (NGO). |
| 2011-2013, 2015-2016 | Finalist Judge. “Hong Kong Budding Poets Award”. Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education. |
| 2015 | External Examiner. Ph.D. Thesis “Magical Realism and Representations of the Cold War in Southeast Asia”. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
| 2015 | External Examiner. Ph.D. Thesis “The Historic Voice of Bukid: A Postcolonial Reading of Manila and Bicol’s Contemporary Children’s Literature”. Hong Kong Baptist University. |
| 2015 | Judge. World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship. On a Judging Panel for the Interpretive Component of the Championship. |
| 2015 | Finalist Judge. Judged 470 entries for “Text in the City Poetry Competition”. The Arts House, Singapore. |
| 2014 | Poetry Reviewer. Assessed poetry submission to refereed journal Asiatic. |
| 2013 | External Assessor. Assessed quality of poetry manuscript by a graduate of Mentor Access Project. The Arts House, Singapore. |
| 2013 | External Examiner. Ph.D. thesis consisting of a short story cycle and a critical exegesis, 208pgs. University of Newcastle. |
| 2009, 2010, 2011 | Longlist Juror. The Man Asian Literary Prize 2009, 2010 and 2011. |
Grants
| Internal | |
| 2023-2025 | Research Impact Coordinator. Received Outstanding Research Impact Award (ORIA) from Faculty of Arts, CUHK. Submitted Promoting Creative Practices impact case study together with colleague's Multilingual Research impact case study; received HKD413, 000 to support both impact case studies. |
| 2021-2022 | Research Impact Coordinator, Project Impact Enhancement Fund (2nd Instalment) from Faculty of Arts, CUHK. To engage writers and creative arts practitioners in impactful activities that benefit society. Awarded HKD 210, 000. |
| 2009-2010 | Principal Investigator, Cultural Policies, the Literary Community and Creative Writing in Singapore (Project Code: AL08808), CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) 01-04-2009 to 31-03-2010, HKD 47,312. |
| External | |
| 2025-2026 | Principal Investigator, Street Photography and Creative Writing as Method (Research Grants Council - General Research Fund), Project number: 14619124, Exercise Year: 2024/25, Project Duration: 24 months. HKD 259,429. |
| 2019-2020 | Principal Investigator, Thinking and Feeling Hong Kong (Research Grants Council - General Research Fund), Project number: 14607219, Exercise Year: 2019/20, Project Duration: 24 months. HKD 164,740. |
| 2017-2019 | Co-Investigator, The Humanities in Higher Education in Hong Kong: Implications for Society and the Individual (Research Grants Council - General Research Fund), Project Code: U616494, 01-01-2017 to 31-05-2019. HKD 753,500.00. |
Awards
| External | |
| 2010 | Awarded Singapore Literature Prize 2012 (English Category) for poetry collection The Mental Life of Cities. Hong Kong: Chameleon Press, 2010. |