Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) set up the SHKP Book Club to promote reading and creative writing, and the Book Club has staged four Young Writers’ Debut competitions with Joint Publishing. 2012/13 ten winning books will be available at the Hong Kong Book Fair for the first time. While some of the winners joined the SHKP Fun Reading Summer campaign Young Writers’ talks, with veteran composers namely Siu Hak, Edward Lam and Zhang Ya-Dong, shared their views on reading and writing.

SHKP Chairman and Managing Director Raymond Kwok recently met with the ten winning authors, and shared their creative process with encouragement. He is very pleased with the young writers’ efforts to explore the environment and observe the contemporary world. The books are in different formats, but they all promote positive thinking. Mr Kwok encouraged young people to follow their dreams, as challenges along the way will drive their creativity.

2012/2013 winning books feature diverse ideas and topics in formats such as novels, fairy tales, true stories, travelogues, graphics, photos and screenplays. There were also multi-media elements such as music and QR codes, demonstrating the versatile young writers’ observations and imagination about things and the world.

Since 2006, Young Writers’ Debut competitions have encouraged over 5,500 young writers to put pen to paper. And helped 33 talented young people get their first books published. 2012/13 competition was extended to the mainland for the first time, with veteran Hong Kong and mainland writers as the judges and coaches.

Fourth Young Writers’ Debut Competition winners

	Title	Author	Coach
1.	Memoir of the Sun, Moon and Stars	KK Kwok	Siu Hak
2.	Silence	Belinda	Zhang Yue-Ran
3.	Husband-Wife Businesses	Brownwhite	Edward Lam
4.	Cicada	Kori Song	Siu Hak
5.	Learning the Law of the Jungle	Rose	Hu Hong-Xia
6.	Living in a Luxury Subdivided Flat	Lam Siu Lung	Daniel Lee
7.	A Retrospective	Natasha	Zou Jing-Zhi
8.	A Dream Traveler	Tomi Underhill	Hu Hong-Xia
9.	Unfriend Me	Au Yeung Ching	Siu Hak
10.	69°N 51°W	Ricky Lai	Zhang Ya-Dong

About Young Writers’ Debut competitions

Young Writers’ Debut competitions by SHKP and Joint Publishing have helped 33 young authors get their first books in print since they started in 2006.

SHKP and Joint Publishing staged a fourth competition last year and it was open to mainland authors for the first time. Veteran Hong Kong and mainland creative professionals and writers were the judges and they gave promising authors individual coaching. After a year of hard work, the authors completed their first books that share the theme of ‘existence’. The books will debut at the Hong Kong Book Fair and be distributed in traditional Chinese characters in Hong Kong and simplified Chinese on the mainland.

Visit www.SHKPBookClub.com/YoungWriters4 for details.