3 April 2025, 6-7.30pm
UCO, School III
Kit Fan writes poetry and fiction. His third poetry collection The Ink Cloud Reader (2023) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His first novel is Diamond Hill (2021). He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, Northern Writers Awards for Poetry and Fiction, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and POETRY’s Editors Prize for Reviewing. He is a frequent contributor to publications including the Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement. He is the Vice-Chair of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was born and educated in Hong Kong and now lives in the UK.