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National Centre for Writing’s Escalator is a talent development programme: eight months of mentoring, training, guidance and networking for writers based in the East of England, who are at the beginning of their careers and feel their voice is under-represented on UK bookshelves.
Find out more about Escalator at nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/escalator
Bang began her career as a journalist and has gone on to write fiction and non-fiction. She has published eight books in Chinese, including a collection of film reviews, several collections of short stories, a Manga entitled Ya San (published in French), and a film-script, The Dream Cages, which won the Best Feature Drama award 2011 at the NYIFF in New York. Her documentary film University City Savages has been shown at numerous international film festivals, and her short stories have been published in Chutzpah, Guggenheim Art Museum, Chinese Literature Today (University of Oklahoma Press), Words Without Borders, Hua Cheng Literary Magazine, HK Literature and The Best Selected Work of Chinese Literature of the Month. She lives in England where she writes as a freelance columnist on social & gender issues for HK01. Her current series of essays ‘observations of life in the UK’ was shortlisted by the Chinese Youth Writer Award 2019. Bang started to write in English during the Covid pandemic.
Bang is mentored by Yvvette Edwards.
National Centre for Writing’s Escalator is a talent development programme: eight months of mentoring, training, guidance and networking for writers based in the East of England, who are at the beginning of their careers and feel their voice is under-represented on UK bookshelves.
Find out more about Escalator at nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/escalator
Bang began her career as a journalist and has gone on to write fiction and non-fiction. She has published eight books in Chinese, including a collection of film reviews, several collections of short stories, a Manga entitled Ya San (published in French), and a film-script, The Dream Cages, which won the Best Feature Drama award 2011 at the NYIFF in New York. Her documentary film University City Savages has been shown at numerous international film festivals, and her short stories have been published in Chutzpah, Guggenheim Art Museum, Chinese Literature Today (University of Oklahoma Press), Words Without Borders, Hua Cheng Literary Magazine, HK Literature and The Best Selected Work of Chinese Literature of the Month. She lives in England where she writes as a freelance columnist on social & gender issues for HK01. Her current series of essays ‘observations of life in the UK’ was shortlisted by the Chinese Youth Writer Award 2019. Bang started to write in English during the Covid pandemic.
Bang is mentored by Yvvette Edwards.
