Airlie Maria Heung

Airlie Maria Heung Airlie is a novelist (Trust Me Baby), poet and short stories writer (To Love or Be Loved). Her new memoir is out. http://allyheungkong.blogspot.hk/

Academic English, literature and creative writing lecturer who is trying to make a difference. I grew up in Toronto and moved to Hong Kong. I was a TA in UWaterloo whilst obtaining my master's. Then I taught English at CityUHK and University of Hong Kong. I am a budding writer mostly focusing on my debut novel while toying with poems, lyrics, short stories and creative nonfiction. I'm now back at

home in Mississauga. I spent summer 2022 teaching at UWaterloo. Now I'm focused on my writing projects. I'm still exploring this world, but my vision is to use my voice to make a difference and change lives. So please enjoy reading my blog linked down in the publications section and support!=) Bon appetit! Twitter:
https://twitter.com/airlieheungkong

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Youtube channel:http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_GOR1S7Ot6bo0yFQ6rG8DA

Check out this vlog that mentions my debut novel around the middle part. And if you haven't bought my book yet, be sure ...
03/14/2024

Check out this vlog that mentions my debut novel around the middle part. And if you haven't bought my book yet, be sure to grab a copy via Amazon or Kindle ebook. Happy reading! 👍💕

3849 likes, 39 comments. “booooook maillllll”

10/02/2023

If you have seen the movie, you know what I mean when I say "There's a lot to unpack here." After having a COVID baby, going to the theaters...

"We have to sing our message [...] (we want) Latina J.Lo, Mama J.LoShoot me down but I can't fall J.LoYou try to write m...
06/17/2022

"We have to sing our message [...]
(we want) Latina J.Lo,
Mama J.Lo
Shoot me down but I can't fall J.Lo
You try to write me off but I ain't goin no fu**in where J.Lo,
I'm still standing J.Lo"

The movie Hustlers and her superbowl half time show wasn't about fame, it wasn't about PR, it wasn't even about the dancing. It was about someone who felt their country had changed, and it was cruel and scary to see people's kids locked in cages and denied to see their parents, it was difficult to see innocent black people gunned down by cops, and the most scary thing is top politicians don't care (it still is scary as hell up to this very day). 💪🌎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🌎💪

This isn't a documentary about J.Lo showing us she does have talent, but she has the guts to go up on that huge national televised and international streamed stage and say, I'm not scared of your critique of whether I can act or not, I'm not even scared someone will shoot me down, but I am doing this for the people who don't have a choice. I have only 18000 seconds to show who I am and what I stand for. Let's get to practice and make history.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Ever since January, I've been craving and digging on Kindle and Netflix for something new, something interesti...
04/29/2022

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Ever since January, I've been craving and digging on Kindle and Netflix for something new, something interesting and emotionally gripping enough to read or watch when I had unprecedented amount of free time having resigned and underemployed due to 5th wave. Either both algorithms were wrong for the longest time or it was God's way of testing me... And God opened a window tonight...Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special. I first knew her through season 1 of How to Get Away With Murder, and was immediately amazed by her vulnerable performance. Although I didn't keep watching the series because it was hard to keep track of lies, I'm very bad at them, it did lead me to Google her and then I was absolutely floored by her performance in Fences which opened up my world to August Wilson. But I never really knew her on a personal level at all. Fast forward to the present, I watched this interview and within maybe ten minutes I was holding back tears because I found this uncanny but also cathartic resemblance to our lives. She had it much much much harder than I had it, but the racism as an immigrant student, and then shown compassion that washed shame, the tough but definitely definitely love her parents gave her, the subtle but sometimes not so subtle sexist moments in a woman's life, the decision to become a teacher before realizing your first love is and always has been to create art down to even the fact that we both went through scumbag after scumbag and got down on our knees and continuously prayed to God, please give me a good man and made a pact that if that happens I will stay steadfastly in church...was all sooooooo similar. And the most transformational thing that happened in the interview was that even now as she was at the "peak" moments in her life professionally, there are still dark moments of imposters in her life who treated her as commodity and gave her pressure but she learnt through therapy that happiness is a journey not a destination, that there will always be good and bad moments in life but know there will always be light after if and you will be able to find solace even in an isolating pandemic ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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02/14/2022

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For those who really know me or even vaguely know me would probably know that I love to write. I love to read, like a lot. But my true, true...

So I wrote a lil poem to cheer for HK, the least I could and know how to do.
07/26/2019

So I wrote a lil poem to cheer for HK, the least I could and know how to do.

2014 the umbrella movement, I told kids to go home get an education, But 2016 was the disappointment, Bookstore owners gone with no justi...

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