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This is the ninth issue of BALLOONS Lit. Journal featuring great works of poetry, prose, and art from contributors from different parts of the world.
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Audio Section
Poetry
Fiction
Voice Performers of BLJ Issue 9
Dr Lee Ho-cheung is the founding editor of BALLOONS Lit. Journal. His poetry, prose and artwork could be found in a range of international journals, print and online. His poetry was shortlisted in Oxford Brookes University’s International Poetry Competition (2016), for erbacce-prize for poetry (2017) and twice for The Proverse Poetry Prize (2017 & 2018). He is a finalist of the 2019 Real Good Poem Prize (Rabbit Catastrophe Press) and recently the champion of Oxford Primary English Writing Competition (OUP, Hong Kong).
Oscar Au is a secondary school student studying in St Paul’s Co-educational College, Hong Kong. When he isn’t having his head buried in school-work, he enjoys to read and write. He desperately wishes to trot across the globe (and Mars) with just a pen and a book. The work he performs here, “Utopia”, is his own work.
Tom Kwok is a Secondary 3 (Grade 9) student. He is a duologue winner and three-time English verse-speaking winner at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and three-time English verse-speaking winner in his school’s annual speech event, “Speech Gala”. He passed with distinction in the Grade 8 London College of Music examination in Speech & Drama. Besides performing texts, he writes poetry, plays the clarinet and paints a lot. He lives in Hong Kong with his parents, sister and two cats.
Dr Gary Harfitt is currently an Assistant Dean (Experiential Learning) and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. He is an award-winning teacher-trainer both at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has widely published in academic journals and published textbooks on teaching and learning poetry. Dr Harfitt has a wide range of research interests including the use of poetry and language arts in the English Language classroom. Moreover, he has been actively involved in community services, including adjudicating the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival since 2002, as well as drama, debate and speech competitions at different schools in Hong Kong.
Susan Gundlach’s poems have appeared in such journals as After Hours and *82 Review, in the “poetry tutorials” The Crafty Poet II and The Practicing Poet, and in the walkway of the Evanston Public Library. Sue also co-edited the poetry anthology, In Plein Air. Her poems for children can be seen in Cricket magazine and BALLOONS Lit. Journal. Sue serves as visiting artist at local grade schools and has helped mount a traveling exhibit of her poems illustrated by the digital photo-graphy of fifth graders. Her poetry for “grown-ups,” paired with artwork by a visual artist collea-gue, has been featured in exhibits at the Evanston Cultural Center and the Evanston Public Library. Sue lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her family, human and canine. The poems she performs here are her own works.
Dr Lee Ho-cheung is the founding editor of BALLOONS Lit. Journal. His poetry, prose and artwork could be found in a range of international journals, print and online. His poetry was shortlisted in Oxford Brookes University’s International Poetry Competition (2016), for erbacce-prize for poetry (2017) and twice for The Proverse Poetry Prize (2017 & 2018). He is a finalist of the 2019 Real Good Poem Prize (Rabbit Catastrophe Press) and recently the champion of Oxford Primary English Writing Competition (OUP, Hong Kong).
Oscar Au is a secondary school student studying in St Paul’s Co-educational College, Hong Kong. When he isn’t having his head buried in school-work, he enjoys to read and write. He desperately wishes to trot across the globe (and Mars) with just a pen and a book. The work he performs here, “Utopia”, is his own work.
Tom Kwok is a Secondary 3 (Grade 9) student. He is a duologue winner and three-time English verse-speaking winner at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and three-time English verse-speaking winner in his school’s annual speech event, “Speech Gala”. He passed with distinction in the Grade 8 London College of Music examination in Speech & Drama. Besides performing texts, he writes poetry, plays the clarinet and paints a lot. He lives in Hong Kong with his parents, sister and two cats.
Dr Gary Harfitt is currently an Assistant Dean (Experiential Learning) and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. He is an award-winning teacher-trainer both at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has widely published in academic journals and published textbooks on teaching and learning poetry. Dr Harfitt has a wide range of research interests including the use of poetry and language arts in the English Language classroom. Moreover, he has been actively involved in community services, including adjudicating the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival since 2002, as well as drama, debate and speech competitions at different schools in Hong Kong.
Susan Gundlach’s poems have appeared in such journals as After Hours and *82 Review, in the “poetry tutorials” The Crafty Poet II and The Practicing Poet, and in the walkway of the Evanston Public Library. Sue also co-edited the poetry anthology, In Plein Air. Her poems for children can be seen in Cricket magazine and BALLOONS Lit. Journal. Sue serves as visiting artist at local grade schools and has helped mount a traveling exhibit of her poems illustrated by the digital photo-graphy of fifth graders. Her poetry for “grown-ups,” paired with artwork by a visual artist collea-gue, has been featured in exhibits at the Evanston Cultural Center and the Evanston Public Library. Sue lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her family, human and canine. The poems she performs here are her own works.
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