Celia had a series of five poetry chapbooks, and two books of philosophical essays published, one of which, titled The Layers Between, won the 2014 International, Proverse, Literary, and Publishing Prizes. Her writing appeared in Rhodes University's prestigious journal, New Coin; in Scrutiny2 a Special Editon on Time, published by UNISA; in Channel an Irish environmental journal; in The Writers Abroad's anthology Foreign and Far Away; in the online Literary Journal, LitNet; in several editions of the online magazine Sarie and in the Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong's anthology Imprint, Editions 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17.
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Celia was a panelist for literary events and festivals; moderator of Blank Page Writers Forum; coordinator for short story competitions, and judge for writing, poetry, and speech competitions. Scroll down to see her full biography.
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I was twelve years old when my father’s death started me on a quest to understand the composition and workings of the physical world, our bodies, minds, and consciousness.
"If we could learn to see our thoughts as information,
we wouldn't take them so personally..."
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Writers Awards:
2017 Fish Short Story Prize (long-listed)
2015 HK Drama Festival Outstanding Stage Script Award (winner)
2014 International Proverse Literary Prize (winner)
2014 Proverse Additional Book Publishing Prize (winner)Â
2013 Creative Non-Fiction Prize (finalist)
2012 LitNet Flash Fiction Prize (3rd prize)
Other Publications:
2019 Channel, Ireland’s Environmentalist Lit. Journal, Vol.1
2018 Scrutiny2, English Literary Studies Journal, University of South Africa,
UNISA Press and Taylor & Francis, Vol.23 (Special issue on "Time")
2018 Imprint, HK WiPS Literary Journal, Vol.18
2017 Imprint, HK WiPS Literary Journal, Vol.17
2017 New Coin, Poetry Journal, Rhodes University Press, Vol. 52
2016 Imprint, HK WiPS Literary Journal, Vol. 16
2016 New Coin, Poetry Journal, Rhodes University Press, Vol. 51
2015 Imprint, HK WiPS Literary Journal, Vol. 15
2014 LitNet, Online Literary Platform, (8 poems published)
2013 LitNet, Online Literary Platform, (2 short stories published)
2013 Foreign and Far Away, The Writers Abroad Annual Anthology
2012 LitNet, Online Literary Platform, (1 flash fiction and 2 short stories published)
2011 Stage performances of scripts: Mythical Friends and The Three Thieves
2010 Sarie, Monthly South African Women's Magazine (Online), (3 Memoirs published)​
2009 Sarie, Monthly South African Women's Magazine (Online), (2 Memoirs published)
Community Involvement:
2019 Co-founder and moderator of Blank Page Writer’s Forum
2019 Judge for the HK WiPS Annual Short Story Writing Competition
2019 Editor of Life's Journeys, an English (SL) Short Story Anthology by Ho Sau Ki Writers Club
2019 Panelist for a Cha Asian Literary Journal's poetry event.
2018 Coordinator for HK Women in Publishing Society's Annual Short Story Competition
2016 Panelist for the 11th Hong Kong Arts and Literary Festival, organised by Kubrick Poetry
2016 Preliminary judge for the HK Baptist University’s Budding Poets Award Program
2015 Adjudicator for the PAA (Asia) Arts & Speech Competition
2014 Coordinator for HK Women in Publishing Society's annual Short Story Competition
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