About “One-Day Literary Writing Lodge in Hong Kong Voices”:
On Saturday 15 December 2018, the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and PEN Hong Kong co-organised “One-Day Literary Writing Lodge in Hong Kong English”. Over 30 students in Hong Kong participated in the day-long event. The top four poems at the Lodge, selected by the instructors of the day (Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Akin Jeje, Collier Nogues and Eddie Tay), are published in the Eleventh Anniversary Issue of Cha. Charlotte Fongs’s “All Izz Gkhut” is one of the four selected poems, and it is about last year’s Typhoon Mangkhut.

Charlotte Fong began exploring the inner depths of her mind after suffering an injury as a student athlete. Initially disillusioned with poetry due to classroom literature filled with flowery imagery, she now indulges in good philosophical free verse. Her influences include Pablo Neruda, Tom Raworth and ancient Arabic poets. Riding on the recent wave of “Instapoets”, she shares her poetry on the platform as @iironarmyy. She also writes for SCMP Young Post as a junior reporter.