ONLINE WORKSHOP Intro to Creative Writing with Author Xu Xi

This event is a collaboration with Mongrel Intl.

Do you enjoy reading stories? Would you like to write a story but are not sure how to start? This one-hour online creative writing workshop led by the international author and creative writing professor Xu Xi 許素細 will help you get started. She will guide you through a series of writing exercises to shape your story. No previous writing experience needed. Just bring your love of reading and come prepared to write.

This workshop is offered through the HKILF at a very special rate, sponsored by Mongrel International Inc. in New York. Open to all.

*This event will be conducted in English.

Speaker Bio

XU XI 許素細 www.xuxiwriter.com is an Indonesian-Chinese-American who is one of Hong Kong’s leading English language authors. She has published five novels, ten collections of short fiction and essays and edited five anthologies, including a co-authored textbook The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: a writer’s guide and anthology (Bloomsbury, 2022). A fiction collection, Horizon Hong Kong: Selected Stories, is forthcoming from Gaudy Boy Press, New York in 2026; her novel-in-manuscript The Milton Man was a 2024 finalist for Fiction Collective 2’s Catherine Doctorow prize. Until 2025, she held the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts where she taught creative writing; previously, she was writer-in-residence at the City University of Hong Kong where she founded and led the first Asian low-residency MFA after which she co-led an International MFA in writing and literary translation at Vermont College of Fine Arts where she was a faculty chair at their low-residency MFA and on their prose faculty for many years. Additionally, she taught at and was distinguished writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction MFA, the Virginia G Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University and the distinguished Asian writer at the Philippines National Writing Workshops at Silliman University in Dumaguete. Prior to teaching, she had an 18-year career in international marketing and management for major corporations and businesses in New York and Asia, including at Cathay Pacific Airways, Pinkerton’s, the Wall Street law firm Milbank Tweed, Federal Express and Dow Jones’ Asian Wall Street Journal, among others. She continues to offer writing workshops internationally through her New York company, Mongrel International Inc., and now lives between New York and the rest of the world.

(Photos from the creative writing workshop with Xu Xi in Hong Kong on January 11, 2024.)