Proverse Hong Kong is based in Hong Kong with long-term and expanding regional and international connections.

The International Proverse Prize for Unpublished Non-fiction, Fiction and Poetry is open to all irrespective of residence, citizenship or nationality.

The Publishers were born in the UK and have lived and worked in many countries. They visit, from time to time, Australia, Europe, Japan, Mainland China, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the USA.

We welcome enquiries for co-published editions.

Hong Kong today does not really look like the tranquil scene above.

Below is a photo of the new town of Tung Chung, formerly a fishing village, seen on a very hot day. The children are cooling off and having fun in the sound-responding fountain. The flat concrete slabs to the front left and middle right of the photo represent fishing boats, as a gesture towards remembering the past. A poem in one of Gillian Bickley's poetry collections talks about these seats and a couple seen sitting on one. You may like to look for it in one of her five poetry collections?

Our Proverse P.O. Box is about 50 yards to the left of this photo, and this is also where an escalator leads to the gondolas that take tourists up to the Big Buddha.

Here below is the Tung Chung Post Office where we collect our mail. 

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If you were ever to come out to visit us, you could arrive by the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) at Sunny Bay, the station that serves Hong Kong's Disneyland, and make your way to a nearby connecting bus. In the month of May or so, you would have the stunning pleasure of several brilliant examples of Flame of the Forest trees.

The poem, 'A Relative Quiet',  in Gillian Bickley's poetry collection, "China Suite", describes Sunny Bay station on a contrasting day of fog, when "the flame trees hold their fire."
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 PROVERSE SPRING RECEPTION 2020 

Because of the need for social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic, this annual event will now take place online as a group of short readings and talks by scheduled participants. To be part of the audience on 21 April, beginning 7.30 or 8.00pm Hong Kong time (to be confirmed), register (at no charge) for the "Gillian Barbara Bickley" youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxMvyKOp7o4MWQvsIN0FdWQ

 We will follow the sequence of the scheduled event, as shown in the updated original invitation.

ENTRY DOCUMENTS FOR THE PROVERSE PRIZE 2020 ARE NOW AVAILABLE HERE

THE PROVERSE AUTUMN RECEPTION 2019

For a report of the Proverse Autumn Reception, please click here.

For photographs, please click here.

THE INTERNATIONAL PROVERSE POETRY PRIZE 2019

The judges of the Proverse Poetry Prize 2019 were very favourably impressed by the many excellent poems that were submitted. Congratulations to those who entered!

The results were announced publicly at the Proverse Autumn Reception in Hong Kong, on 21 November 2019 and are posted here.

For an overview of the Proverse Poetry Prize to date.

The subject for the Proverse Poetry Prize 2020 will be "Hunger", interpreted in any way each writer desires. As previously, poets may also write on any subject of their own choice. The rules and regulations will be very similar to those of earlier years. The opening date will be 7 May 2020 and the closing date 30 June 2020.

 

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THE INTERNATIONAL PROVERSE PRIZE FOR BOOK LENGTH NON-FICTION, FICTION, OR POETRY

Similarly, the judges were very pleased by the standard of entries submitted in 2019 for the Proverse Prize for unpublished book-length fiction, non-fiction or poetry submitted in English (may be a first translation into English). The semi-finalist results were announced publicly at the Proverse Autumn Reception held in Hong Kong, on 21 November 2019. Here are the results, with a history of the Proverse Prize to date.

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LAUNCH OF THE PROVERSE POETRY PRIZE 2017 ANTHOLOGY, MINGLED VOICES 2, at the Proverse Spring Reception, 2018.

Launch of the Proverse Poetry Prize 2018 Anthology, Mingled Voices 3, at the Proverse Spring Reception, 2019. 

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 HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO's Wayne Yoshioka  reports on the East-West Centre Informal Gathering occasioned by the visit of Dr Verner Bickley, first Director of the EWC Culture Learning Institute, and the launch of his book, "Steps to Paradise and Beyond". 

Listen at the link that follows!

 http://www.hpr2.org/post/east-west-center-informal-reunion.

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Proverse June Newsletter

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BOOKSHOP TALKS BY PROVERSE AUTHORS

Access videos of this series of talks by authors,

mostly published by Proverse, by Youtube links at the "Proverse Readers' Club" page.

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Dr Gillian Bickley and Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, will talk about The Right Revd Dr George Smith, first Anglican Bishop of Hong Kong and his travels in China and India in the 1850s:

Organiser: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong

Date: Friday, 20 March 2020, 6.30pm for 7.00pm.

Place: Harold Smythe Room, St John's Cathedral, Garden Road.

Admission:  RAS Members HK$100; RAS Non-Members / Guests HK$150

Booking: Please email <membership@royalasiaticsociety.org.hk> in advance to reserve your place and pay at the door

To comply with the need for Social Distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Proverse Spring Reception will now move online, as a group of readings and talks by scheduled participants. To join the audience, please subscribe (at no charge) to the "Gillian Barbara Bickley" youtube channel by going to the following URL.

      THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PROVERSE PRIZES

for writing submitted in English

(may be in translation)

There are now two annual international prizes offered by Proverse Hong Kong.

The Proverse Prize for unpublished book-length non-fiction, fiction or poetry was founded in 2008.

The Proverse Poetry Prize, founded in 2016, is for single short poems. 

Interested to enter for one or both of these prizes? -- You may  like to add your name to our free E-Newsletter distribution list to receive the call for entries and any reminders from time to time.

 If you missed the deadlines in 2019, you may like to plan to meet them in 2020!

 THE PROVERSE PRIZE (for book-length work) 2020

Opening date for receipt of Entry Fees / Entry Forms / Entered Work: 7 May 2020; deadline: 30 June 2020

THE PROVERSE POETRY PRIZE (single poems) 2020

Opening date: 7 May 2020; closing date: 30 June 2020

Proverse friends at a Proverse Spring Reception, where the results of the annual international Proverse Prize competition were announced and several books launched. -- Photo by Errol Patrick Hugh (A Personal Journey Through Sketching: The Sketcher's Art (Proverse, 2009).)

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