About us
In 2013, the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) launched the world’s first and only bilingual creative writing degree in Chinese and English. This Creative and Professional Writing Programme (CPW) is committed to developing practice-based research in creative writing and promoting creative writing pedagogy.
The works showcased here are mainly by the participants’ who joined our creative writing workshops titled “Our Xi Xi | Our City.” The participants came from different backgrounds, and while some regard Chinese as their first language, some do not. They all read Xi Xi’s works and wrote their own stories based on our suggested prompts in either Chinese or English.
Team Members
Dorothy Tse Hiu Hung
- Project Leader
Dorothy Tse is the author of the collection Snow and Shadow ( translated by Nicky Harman) and her first novel Owlish (translated by Natascha Bruce) will be published in English in 2023. She co-translated Moving a Stone (selected poems by Yam Gong) with James Shea.
Idy Lam Foon Hiu
- Project Officer
The first time I read Xi Xi’s work, “Elegy for a Breast” was in secondary 3. How come we can write like this!? Since then, I enjoy reading her work which would give me a unique and fresh reading experience.
Shiu Tin Lok
- Instructor
Major in creative and professional writing. Keep surfing the internet to follow social media trends.
Chan Chi Ki
- Instructor
Spend your life in your own way.
Lau Ho Yin
- Instructor
I cry easily.
Ma Tsz Yau
- Instructor
A Hong Kong Baptist University student who major in Creative and Professional Writing. Once have been caught because of riding bicycle on sidewalk, now trying to think of a way to break the boundaries on paper.
Fourteen
- Instructor
Year 4 of the Department of Creative and Professional Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University, Love the colorful black.
Yvonne Lee Hiu Tung
- Instructor
An ordinary Year 4 girl currently majoring in Creative and Professional Writing, trying her very best to capture the beauty of her homeland with her words.
Fan Shu Ting
- Instructor
Student from Hong Kong Baptist University, majoring in Creative and Professional Writing.
Iris Li
- Instructor
Love reading and writing.
Anna Chan
- Instructor
Fascinated by the sea, a normal human being.
Pun Jerry
- Instructor
Multimedia writer and part-time teacher. Writer and co-founder of Instagram account “Little DooDoo”. Graduated from the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing (Creative & Professional Writing major). A cinema, music and literature lover.
Lester Lau
- Instructor
Alumni of Humanities and Creative Writing, member of “Littlewrite” bookstore (of One-Seventh Bookshop) and Instagram platform “Littledoodoo”, assistant editor, and tutor of creative writing classes. Love all my identities and will keep writing until I can’t.
Partners
Acknowledgement
The website illustrations were drawn by Xi Xi and first published with My City in installments on Express in 1975. The paintings selected for the writing prompt “I-city in a Dream” are from Remedios Varo, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí.
Special Thanks: Ho Fuk Yan・Jennifer Feeley・Jenny Li
*This project is funded by the by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (General Research Fund (GRF) Project Number: 12608320)
Find a list of useful links to websites, databases and scholarly articles related to Xi Xi’s literary works.
Since November 2021, we have organized various writing workshops both online and in person, in areas such as Sham Shui Po, Wan Chai, Kowloon Tong, etc. Learn more about these workshops.
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