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This is the first issue of BALLOONS Lit. Journal featuring exceptional works from 20 outstanding contributors (poets, short story writers and artists) worldwide.
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Audio Section
Poetry
Fiction
Voice Performers of BLJ Issue 1
Carie Juettner is a writer in Austin, Texas. Her poems and short stories have appeared in over a dozen publications, including the Texas Poetry Calendar, Dark Moon Digest, and Writers' Weekly, and she is currently in the process of revising a novel for the middle grade audience. While she has never done any professional voice work, she does have a lot of experience reading aloud from her thirteen years teaching seventh grade Language Arts and from her work with the Poetry Caravan of Austin. She could be found at www.cariejuettner.com
Ho Cheung Lee (Peter), Ed.D., resides in Hong Kong where he teaches and writes. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of BALLOONS Lit. Journal (BLJ). In addition to doing poetry and short story writings, he is fond of performing texts. He completed his Trinity Guildhall Grade 8 Performing Text, for which he was awarded an Exhibition Award, followed by his ATCL (Speech & Drama) and LLCM(TD) (Speech & Drama Teaching). He can be found at http://ho-cheung.weebly.com
Matthew Chan, aged 13, has been serving the seat of honor at the senior school band and the piano accompaniment of several choirs in Hong Kong. Chan has been invited by First Initiative Foundation (FIF) to do piano performances abroad in Chicago, where he was under the teaching of world renowned pianist Lang Lang. As an elite artistic performer, Chan has also been active in the local speech and drama events. He has attained London College of Music Grade 8 in Speech and Drama (with Merit) and has won multiple awards in the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Festival. His dream is to become a prominent concert pianist.
Agnes Hio has been venturing into the art of “soul engineering” after having gotten a degree in English Literature and Music. She has an unfathomable weakness for avocados, Hemingway’s full-stops and the sultry voices of Lana Del Rey and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Joanna White is a music professor at Central Michigan University. After performing with a poet, she returned to an early love of creative writing and studies poetry with Robert Fanning and Jeffrey Bean. She has poems appearing or forthcoming in The Examined Life Journal, Ars Medica, Pulse, Grey Sparrow Journal, Milo Review, Flare, Chest Journal, Open Palm Print, Flute View, Central Review, Minerva Rising Literary Journal, and in both Snow Jewel, and Naugatuck River Review as a finalists in their poetry contests. She lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan with her husband and has a daughter and son in college. The verse she performs here, “The Hermit Crab”, is her own work.
Fern G. Z. Carr is a member of The League of Canadian Poets, director of Project Literacy, former lawyer, teacher and past director / president of the Kelowna branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She composes and translates poetry in five languages in addition to learning Mandarin Chinese. Her poetry has been published extensively world-wide from Finland to the Seychelles. Carr is deeply honoured to have one of her poems currently orbiting the planet Mars aboard NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The verse she performs here, “Tornado in a Bottle – Just Invert and Swirl”, is her own work. More information on her literary excellence can be found at www.ferngzcarr.com
Sean Leung is a high school student who has been performing poem-presenting and prose reading since early primary school. He can appreciate poems in four different languages. Originally from Hong Kong, he now resides and studies in Australia.
Justin Lee Chun-hei is a Secondary 1 (Grade 7) student in Hong Kong. He loves reading and performing English materials. Recently he came first with Honour (scored 90+) at the 67th Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival in verse speaking. He is now enthusiastically preparing for his Grade 8 Trinity Guildhall examination in Performing Text.
Richard Woods (MEd, TESOL), enamoured with the charm and vibrancy of this historic city, has enjoyed a love-affair with Hong Kong for the past 19 years. Teaching English language (and especially Language Arts) to local students has become as much of a cultural awakening as it has a career.
Curtis Chan Chi-hoi was born in Hong Kong where he resides and studies at secondary school level. Being an active student in class, he currently finds economics his favourite school subject. Also, with passion in speech and drama, he participates in contests on English verse and public speaking. He is awarded at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and attained Grade 8 in Performing Text with distinction from Trinity Guildhall.
Dr. Gervase Vernon is a retired General Practitioner. He was born in Paris and studied medicine in Cambridge and London. He is the author of “Belonging and Betrayal”, a fictionalized biography of his grandmother, who was a Russian Jew spied for the French in the First World War. He lives in Felsted, Essex, UK. The prose he performs here, "The Day I First Wore a Yellow Star", is his own work. Some of his short stories can also be found at www.jgvernon.co.uk
Carie Juettner is a writer in Austin, Texas. Her poems and short stories have appeared in over a dozen publications, including the Texas Poetry Calendar, Dark Moon Digest, and Writers' Weekly, and she is currently in the process of revising a novel for the middle grade audience. While she has never done any professional voice work, she does have a lot of experience reading aloud from her thirteen years teaching seventh grade Language Arts and from her work with the Poetry Caravan of Austin. She could be found at www.cariejuettner.com
Ho Cheung Lee (Peter), Ed.D., resides in Hong Kong where he teaches and writes. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of BALLOONS Lit. Journal (BLJ). In addition to doing poetry and short story writings, he is fond of performing texts. He completed his Trinity Guildhall Grade 8 Performing Text, for which he was awarded an Exhibition Award, followed by his ATCL (Speech & Drama) and LLCM(TD) (Speech & Drama Teaching). He can be found at http://ho-cheung.weebly.com
Matthew Chan, aged 13, has been serving the seat of honor at the senior school band and the piano accompaniment of several choirs in Hong Kong. Chan has been invited by First Initiative Foundation (FIF) to do piano performances abroad in Chicago, where he was under the teaching of world renowned pianist Lang Lang. As an elite artistic performer, Chan has also been active in the local speech and drama events. He has attained London College of Music Grade 8 in Speech and Drama (with Merit) and has won multiple awards in the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Festival. His dream is to become a prominent concert pianist.
Agnes Hio has been venturing into the art of “soul engineering” after having gotten a degree in English Literature and Music. She has an unfathomable weakness for avocados, Hemingway’s full-stops and the sultry voices of Lana Del Rey and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Joanna White is a music professor at Central Michigan University. After performing with a poet, she returned to an early love of creative writing and studies poetry with Robert Fanning and Jeffrey Bean. She has poems appearing or forthcoming in The Examined Life Journal, Ars Medica, Pulse, Grey Sparrow Journal, Milo Review, Flare, Chest Journal, Open Palm Print, Flute View, Central Review, Minerva Rising Literary Journal, and in both Snow Jewel, and Naugatuck River Review as a finalists in their poetry contests. She lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan with her husband and has a daughter and son in college. The verse she performs here, “The Hermit Crab”, is her own work.
Fern G. Z. Carr is a member of The League of Canadian Poets, director of Project Literacy, former lawyer, teacher and past director / president of the Kelowna branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She composes and translates poetry in five languages in addition to learning Mandarin Chinese. Her poetry has been published extensively world-wide from Finland to the Seychelles. Carr is deeply honoured to have one of her poems currently orbiting the planet Mars aboard NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The verse she performs here, “Tornado in a Bottle – Just Invert and Swirl”, is her own work. More information on her literary excellence can be found at www.ferngzcarr.com
Sean Leung is a high school student who has been performing poem-presenting and prose reading since early primary school. He can appreciate poems in four different languages. Originally from Hong Kong, he now resides and studies in Australia.
Justin Lee Chun-hei is a Secondary 1 (Grade 7) student in Hong Kong. He loves reading and performing English materials. Recently he came first with Honour (scored 90+) at the 67th Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival in verse speaking. He is now enthusiastically preparing for his Grade 8 Trinity Guildhall examination in Performing Text.
Richard Woods (MEd, TESOL), enamoured with the charm and vibrancy of this historic city, has enjoyed a love-affair with Hong Kong for the past 19 years. Teaching English language (and especially Language Arts) to local students has become as much of a cultural awakening as it has a career.
Curtis Chan Chi-hoi was born in Hong Kong where he resides and studies at secondary school level. Being an active student in class, he currently finds economics his favourite school subject. Also, with passion in speech and drama, he participates in contests on English verse and public speaking. He is awarded at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and attained Grade 8 in Performing Text with distinction from Trinity Guildhall.
Dr. Gervase Vernon is a retired General Practitioner. He was born in Paris and studied medicine in Cambridge and London. He is the author of “Belonging and Betrayal”, a fictionalized biography of his grandmother, who was a Russian Jew spied for the French in the First World War. He lives in Felsted, Essex, UK. The prose he performs here, "The Day I First Wore a Yellow Star", is his own work. Some of his short stories can also be found at www.jgvernon.co.uk
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