Jan Lee
@janleewriter.bsky.social
Author of Fairhaven - A Novel of Climate Optimism and Defying Futility - The Fairhaven Stories. Editor in Chief of The Apostrophe. Book reviewer and contributing writer for Earth.org.
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Make it your new year's resolution to submit to The Apostrophe - the lit mag that curates and publishes just five pieces of writing per quarter. We are eager for non-fiction (essays, memoir, etc.) as well as novellas, novel chapters, poetry, stories, etc. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/our-theme-...
One thing we get relatively few of at The Apostrophe is science fiction - it's odd, considering I'm a sci-fi / cli-fi writer myself. We like submissions from all genres, but we tend to receive literary short stories and a handful of poems. The deadline is January 31! hkwcmagazine.substack.com
The Apostrophe | Substack
A quarterly publication of the Hong Kong Writers Circle. Click to read The Apostrophe, a Substack publication.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:47 PM
One thing we get relatively few of at The Apostrophe is science fiction - it's odd, considering I'm a sci-fi / cli-fi writer myself. We like submissions from all genres, but we tend to receive literary short stories and a handful of poems. The deadline is January 31! hkwcmagazine.substack.com
Make it your new year's resolution to submit to The Apostrophe - the lit mag that curates and publishes just five pieces of writing per quarter. We are eager for non-fiction (essays, memoir, etc.) as well as novellas, novel chapters, poetry, stories, etc. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/our-theme-...
January 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Make it your new year's resolution to submit to The Apostrophe - the lit mag that curates and publishes just five pieces of writing per quarter. We are eager for non-fiction (essays, memoir, etc.) as well as novellas, novel chapters, poetry, stories, etc. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/our-theme-...
And they say HK has an ambition gap! This is quite the thread.
The 2025 list of Hong Kong hubs (that it claims or aspires to be), seen in GovHK releases and English news sources 🧵
International exchange and cooperation hub for AI
Aircraft engineering hub
Aircraft parts hub
Aircraft recycling hub
Asia’s foremost hub for alternative investments
International exchange and cooperation hub for AI
Aircraft engineering hub
Aircraft parts hub
Aircraft recycling hub
Asia’s foremost hub for alternative investments
December 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
And they say HK has an ambition gap! This is quite the thread.
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At the press conference by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. He tends to pronounce "fossil fuels" as "fossil fools". I'm wondering whether this is on purpose.
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
At the press conference by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. He tends to pronounce "fossil fuels" as "fossil fools". I'm wondering whether this is on purpose.
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Year in Review: The Biggest Climate Headlines of 2025
Year in Review: The Biggest Climate Headlines of 2025 | Earth.Org
As we bid farewell to 2025, Earth.Org takes a look back at the most significant climate news and events that shaped the past year.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Year in Review: The Biggest Climate Headlines of 2025
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December 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
2/ HKFP is Hong Kong's only English-language newspaper producing free-of-charge, deep dive features -- all thanks to our members: hongkongfp.com/support-hong... - gift, or annual, memberships now avail.
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If you thought all #climate fiction was dystopian, this bucks the trend. A great book, chock full of great ideas and a surprise ending. @janleewriter.bsky.social
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It all depends on a story
By Steve Willis and Jan Lee, authors of Fairhaven - A Novel of Climate Optimism
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December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If you thought all #climate fiction was dystopian, this bucks the trend. A great book, chock full of great ideas and a surprise ending. @janleewriter.bsky.social
climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com/p/it-all-dep... #clifi
climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com/p/it-all-dep... #clifi
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The title for the anthology resulting from our Green Stories Flash fiction competition will be 'The Last Plastic Fork' after the winning story. We need a review for the front cover - please get in touch if you can help 🙏
#writerscommunity #blueskywriter #climatefiction #ecofiction
#writerscommunity #blueskywriter #climatefiction #ecofiction
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The title for the anthology resulting from our Green Stories Flash fiction competition will be 'The Last Plastic Fork' after the winning story. We need a review for the front cover - please get in touch if you can help 🙏
#writerscommunity #blueskywriter #climatefiction #ecofiction
#writerscommunity #blueskywriter #climatefiction #ecofiction
Ever wonder what the authors behind the climate fiction books sound like? Check out this panel with Kim Stanley Robinson (Ministry for the Future) and Jan Lee (Fairhaven). fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/narratives...
Narratives of Hope and Resilience: talking climate fiction with Kim Stanley Robinson
Watch the COP30 Panel Now
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December 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ever wonder what the authors behind the climate fiction books sound like? Check out this panel with Kim Stanley Robinson (Ministry for the Future) and Jan Lee (Fairhaven). fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/narratives...
A good way to remember alt text is to make it required in your own Bluesky settings.
Disabilities continuously are an afterthought, even in leftist and liberal circles
People will post infographics then not ad alt text and it makes me sad
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A good way to remember alt text is to make it required in your own Bluesky settings.
Xmas. Time to remember I have an AmEx card that I rarely use, but which has somehow accumulated a bunch of points, and to donate those points to charity.
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Xmas. Time to remember I have an AmEx card that I rarely use, but which has somehow accumulated a bunch of points, and to donate those points to charity.
I have a piece in this anthology, if anyone is looking for a good Xmas gift. www.snowflakeculture.com/product-page...
The International Issue | Snowflake Magazine
Welcome to Volume 4, Issue 3 of Snowflake Magazine, our publishing-led initiative aiming to support and amplify queer creators. We asked our talented community to showcase their skills around this the...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have a piece in this anthology, if anyone is looking for a good Xmas gift. www.snowflakeculture.com/product-page...
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A story to dream about. Text by Nolo Segundo. Art by Carl Scharwath. open.substack.com/pub/hkwcmaga...
The Last Hour of a Billionaire
At one of his seven mansions [appraised at $77.5 million], the one closest to the hospital best known in the world for treating his particular ailment, he lay on the custom made invalid’s bed [$36,500...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A story to dream about. Text by Nolo Segundo. Art by Carl Scharwath. open.substack.com/pub/hkwcmaga...
Today's piece in The Apostrophe is an amazing concrete poem that you have to see to truly appreciate. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/babel
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today's piece in The Apostrophe is an amazing concrete poem that you have to see to truly appreciate. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/babel
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95% of Europeans Exposed to Unsafe Levels of Air Pollution As Report Links it to 279,000 Premature Deaths in 2023
95% of Europeans Face Unsafe Air Pollution Levels: Report
Reducing air pollution to WHO guideline levels could have prevented 182,000 deaths attributable to PM2.5 exposure in the EU in 2023.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
95% of Europeans Exposed to Unsafe Levels of Air Pollution As Report Links it to 279,000 Premature Deaths in 2023
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Buy a book.
Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.
Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.
Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.
Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.
Dan Robinson (@bookmandan.bsky.social)
Retired. Interested in just about everything. Avid reader.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Buy a book.
Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.
Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.
Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.
Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.
Today's piece in The Apostrophe is a story with a back story. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/black-sun
Black Sun
When I told them I was going away for a while, Mum couldn’t understand why her only son would leave just before his birthday.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today's piece in The Apostrophe is a story with a back story. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/black-sun
For all of us who are too hard on ourselves: take a moment to read this beautiful poem by Vanessa Ho K. S. (art by Julianne Ng). hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/a-reminder...
a reminder (from me, to me)
you need not seek love, for it already surrounds you. it is hidden within those trinkets you find cleaning your house on a spring day, pins and charms given by those who may seem insignificant; but ca...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
For all of us who are too hard on ourselves: take a moment to read this beautiful poem by Vanessa Ho K. S. (art by Julianne Ng). hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/a-reminder...
Today a bank's AI chatbot - clearly, they'd invested $$$ for it - instructed me to fill in a "smartform". This was PDF form based on a version Adobe stopped supporting in 2011. It was so "smart" that to get it to work, I had to allow Microsoft Edge to run in "Internet Explorer mode".
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today a bank's AI chatbot - clearly, they'd invested $$$ for it - instructed me to fill in a "smartform". This was PDF form based on a version Adobe stopped supporting in 2011. It was so "smart" that to get it to work, I had to allow Microsoft Edge to run in "Internet Explorer mode".
This wild perversion of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement is exactly what @greenprofgreen.bsky.social talks about in her book "Existential Politics". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This wild perversion of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement is exactly what @greenprofgreen.bsky.social talks about in her book "Existential Politics". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Issue 11 of The Apostrophe starts today! The Bride by Julian Lyden (art by Dave Walker). hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/the-bride
The Bride
An entirely true and salutary tale, as related by the author’s grandma
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December 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Issue 11 of The Apostrophe starts today! The Bride by Julian Lyden (art by Dave Walker). hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/the-bride
Açaí was the world's superfood for a hot minute, but Brazil's always been at the heart of this $1 billion industry. (I tried açaí for the 1st time last week!) But the seed makes up 80% of the berry - and huge waste. Now, a startup is making the waste into biochar. earth.org/acai-the-ama...
Açaí, the Amazon’s Favorite Berry, Finds Future in Biochar
A group of Brazilian start-ups is seeking a way to create new opportunities for açaí producers by converting agricultural waste to biochar.
earth.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Açaí was the world's superfood for a hot minute, but Brazil's always been at the heart of this $1 billion industry. (I tried açaí for the 1st time last week!) But the seed makes up 80% of the berry - and huge waste. Now, a startup is making the waste into biochar. earth.org/acai-the-ama...
Chapter 6 of my new novel is online now. Some of the characters go to a conference. It isnt what they hoped for. (Is it ever?) fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/the-desert...
The Desert Songbird Chapter 6
Conference
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November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Chapter 6 of my new novel is online now. Some of the characters go to a conference. It isnt what they hoped for. (Is it ever?) fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/the-desert...
Okay, the Gender Action Plan is adopted ... so the problems of gender and climate are all going to be fixed now, right? earth.org/closing-the-...
COP30 Agrees on Gender Action Plan: Now What? | Earth.Org
Amid a failure to take concrete steps away from fossil fuels, the adoption of the Gender Action Plan at COP30 has gone almost unnoticed.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Okay, the Gender Action Plan is adopted ... so the problems of gender and climate are all going to be fixed now, right? earth.org/closing-the-...