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Hong Kong stories matter. This last British colony and Chinese S.A.R. created a unique cosmopolitan culture and people whose stories need to be chronicled, remembered and preserved. In this workshop, author Xu Xi will guide you through a series of writing prompts to yield stories of Hong Kong that you can further develop. Come prepared with your notions, memories, images, ideas + your preferred writing tools (notebook, pad, laptop) to write! No previous creative writing experience necessary.
Workshop will be conducted in English.
Author’s Bio
Xu Xi 許素細 is an Indonesian-Chinese Hong Kong-New York author of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction who also published five volumes of Hong Kong and Asian literature in English. She directed two international creative writing MFAs, and has been writer in residence at several universities around the world. Previously she held marketing and management positions in Asia and the U.S. at the Asian Wall Street Journal, Federal Express and Pinkerton’s. Co-founder of Authors at Large, she is the current Jenks Chair in Contemporary Lettersat The College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts.
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