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UPCOMING EVENTS
2008
August
Post 97:
Get Lit with Time Out HK
Sneak Preview: Justin
will be reading from his up coming novel.
With
Xu Xi and
Viki Holmes.
June
Featured in Inside DB.
June's Asia Literary Review
27th May
Evanescent Isles: A Literary Lunch with Xu Xi
-- Join award-winning author Xu Xi
for a fabulous literary lunch as she discusses her newly released book
of essays, Evanescent Isles, with Justin Hill, author of
Passing Under Heaven. Xu Xi is the author of six books of
fiction and essays and was short-listed for the inaugural Man Asian
Literary Prize. An active champion of Hong Kong literature, she most
recently edited a volume of new writing from Hong Kong entitled
Fifty/Fifty. A Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, Xu Xi is
currently a writer-in-residence at Lingnan University. Take a glimpse
into Xu Xi’s Hong Kong in this special literary event at M at the
Fringe.
5th May: Relationship between
Life and Fiction, Seminar by Justin Hill, 3-4:30pm, AN201, 2/F
Amenities Building, Lingnan University
March/April: Justin will
be appearing at three of Asia's Major Literary Festivals during March.
Check websites for details
Hong Kong
Beijing
Shanghai
Suzhou
Chengdu
March
2nd: Launch Party
50/50 Anthology of New Hong
Kong Writing, with a number of excellent pieces, including
Justin's new story Smog
8th Febuary: read
Justin Hill's review of
Laurence Bergreen's Marco Polo in the Independent
2007
November 9th:
Literature of
Displacement - Justin Hill will be moderating a talk with
Nicholas Jose (at The Wombat Hole, Australian
Consulate-General). Tickets
here
November 12th:
winners of 2007 Maple Leaf Short
Story Competition will be announced by
former Governor General of Canada
The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson at the
Foreign Correspondant's Club.
November 15th:
Story and
Character: How to create
convincing
and
interesting charactears to populate your stories.
Hong
Kong University. November 15, 2007 (Thru) 7:15-9:30pm
31st October:
The
Writing
Habit:
Excellent is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle.
Strageties that will help your writing.
Hong Kong University. October 31, 2007 (Wed) 7-8pms
10th October: Justin will
be reading and talking to the Hong Kong YWCA at
The Helena May
September, 2007
Justin Hill will be attending
the Ubud Literary
Festival, in Bali.
September, 2007
Justin Hill has been made an
Honorary Fellow at Lingnan University.
September, 2007
Justin Hill has been appointed
judge for the 2007 Maple Leaf Short Story competition. The
winners will be announced by
former Governor General of Canada
The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson at the
Foreign Correspondant's Club, on
November 12th.
July, 2007
Check out Justin's
new
Blog.about
life and writing and the world
June, 2007
Eritrean Timewarp (Telegraph
Magazine) an architectural portrait of Asmara, to tie in
with the
RIBA exhibition
Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City (3 July–18 Aug)
Look out
for Justin's upcoming review of
Loud Sparrows,
Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts
in the TLS this month.
(selections from
Loud Sparrows)
Justin
will also be attending the
2007 Man Hong Kong Literary Festival, from 12-21st March.
January 26th, 2007
Read Justin's Review of
Sid Smith's
China Dreams in the
TLS this week.
January 7th, 2007
Ings Walks,
a poem, published in this month's nthposition
2006
October 7th, 2006
Governor of
Hunan Presents Justin Hill with
3rd Annual Xiaoxiang Friendship Award
for services to Hunan Province.
This is
the third year of the Xiaoxiang Friendship Award, which is the highest award
for
Foreign Experts to recongise long and outstanding service to Hunan Province.
You can read the address given at the National Day Reception
here
Hunan is
known for the beautiful mix of mountains and water, its spicy food,
and for being the birthplace of many of the Communists Party's
foremost leaders, including Mao ZeDong.
Justin
Hill's novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse, is still banned in China.
Sept 10th, 2006
Babylon
Burning: 9/11 five years on:
An
interesting collection of poems from nthposition, all responses to
September 11th 2001.
Downloadable
pdf
July 31, 2006
Two
Poems:
Two of Justin's translations of
Yu Xuanji's poems published in
Modern Poetry in Translation.
A really excellent publication, you can order copies or subscribe
here
Shaoyang:
Justin is back in China after 7 years
away. Read more in armchair
Arvon
Foundation: Justin is
teaching
Travel Writing at the Arvon Foundation, Totleigh Barton,
Devon, for a week from 26th September, 2005
Reading in Galway:
Justin will be
reading at Dubray's Bookshop, Galway 7-30pm, 6th July, 2005
Somserset Maughan Award:
Passing Under
Heaven wins the 2005 Somserset Maughan Award: June 2005
Ireland AM:
23rd November,
2004: Justin is appearing on Ireland AM, TV3, to talk about
Passing
Under Heaven
Book Launch:
Passing
Under Heaven is launched in Charlie Burns Bookshop, Galway.
He's also appearing on Marian Finucane, RTE Radio 1 this Thursday
Writing in
Residence: Justin is
Writing in Residence at the 2004 Cuirt International Literary
Festival. You can read his essay
here
Reading in
Nicosia: thanks to the
Pharos Trust and
Moufflon Bookshop for
sponsoring this reading:
10th September 2003, 8:30 pm Lions
House, 23 Lefkonos St., ( Near Phaneromeni Church), Nicosia Old City.
If you are ever in Cyprus then the
Moufflon Bookshop is one of
those rare bookshops: independently, friendly and with a brilliant
selection of English language books. Should be in the Lonely
Planet as one of the attractions of Nicosia. Check it out | 
