Nicholas Hogg

Nicholas Hogg

Nicholas Hogg was a journalist for the Japanese NGO www.peaceboat.org and has lived and worked in Japan, Fiji and the USA. He now lives in London, writing poetry and fiction between teaching literacy skills to refugees and asylum seekers. Twice shortlisted for the Eric Gregory Award for young artists, he was the inaugral winner of the New Writing Ventures award for fiction, and hopes to publish his first novel in the New Year.

Stories:

Beijing Bicycle  - "Beijing is huge, especially if the bike you've rented is as heavy as a lump of solid iron, and the air you're breathing is thick with fumes belched from diesel guzzling trucks and beaten up taxis. Yet, this is the ideal way to get around in China's teeming capital. Forget sitting in a traffic jam with the meter ticking over, or dueling elbows on the overcrowded buses, pedal power is the choice of this nation and any tourist ready to forget their right of way and highway code..." [Visit this Feature]