Vote for your favourite stories in the Long Story Short Award!
Earlier this year, HKBU students were invited to participate in the Long Story Short Award. This international writing competition is organized annually by Short Édition, the vendor of the Library’s popular short story dispenser.
In total, HKBU students submitted 43 stories (listed below). It is now the time to support HKBU student writers’ works!
Simply create a free account on the Short Edition website and you will be able to vote for your favourite stories! Those with the most votes will be selected as Finalists.
Voting for Finalists will end on 21 March 2022.
Poetry
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Ambivalence | Anna Sze |
| Blackness | Xiangkai ZHU |
| Blueblood | Charlotte Chiu |
| Care | Chérie Miel |
| “Dear Sestina”, whispered the Fog and its Flower | Lovina Woo |
| Death | Hoi Kim Lau |
| Fahrenheit | Qian CHEN |
| February 14th, 2022 Rainy | Tsz Cheung Yu |
| Lake Song | Zhouyuan Xu |
| Land of Poker Cards | Jane Szeto |
| Maybe It Was Me | Yuejuan Zeng |
| Moomoo and I | Coco Lee |
| Oh, Covid | Joyee Woo |
| Paper planes | Karen Chan |
| Parrot in a Cage | Adelaide Fung |
| Perfect Present past tense | Wing Yin Ho |
| Pray | Noel Vanessa Kwok |
| Roses are red | Emie M. |
| Sea of Clouds | Jessa Alfajardo |
| The Door with my Red Monogram | Svenja Sophie Elsen |
| The Tears of Her Island | Yanfeng Liang |
| Traveling in the Obon Festival | Danni Zhou |
| Will You Hug Me If I Die? | Daisy Starry |
Creative Non-fiction
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Chinese New Year Banquet | Danni Zhou |
| Downtown Funeral Parlour | Zhouyuan Xu |
| How to kill time with your phone | Queenie Hola |
| My favorite type of trash | Ayazhan Kadessova |
| Pandora’s Success: Scrolling Ourselves to Death | Yingwen Tang |
| The Questions | Kevin Manunure |
| Words Unspoken | Mansha M. |
Short Fiction
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Rotten Pie | Rachel Yeung |
| An Adventure story: Miner | Lovina Woo |
| Happy New Year | Qian CHEN |
| Homeless | Cheuk Lam Chan |
| Hunt | Helen Kong |
| I see myself in you | Clarice Wu |
| Like a Revelation | Ashley Figuera |
| MaFille | Tsz Yui Leung |
| MError | Wing Yin Ho |
| Pierrot | Karen Chan |
| Sunset in Tsim Sha Tsui | 晟軒 羅 |
| The Diary | A. Cheuk |
| The Terminal | Danni Zhou |
Last updated: 04 March 2022