XU XI 許 素 細

November 4 to 8: APWT Asia Pacific Writers & Translators featured author & workshop leader for on ”Making Your Book” at the 2025 writing retreat in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.  

2025

June 12  Yale Summer Writers Workshop Fiction Craft talk: "Where Does Fiction Come From?" On Campus program, New Haven, Connecticut.  

March 20 Moderated readings & panel discussion by two debut memoirists Michelle Ephraim Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love and Shakespeare and Alizah Holstein My Roman History.  College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

March 12 Presented Hong Kong poet Yam Gong in a bilingual reading and conversation with co-translators James Shea & Dorothy Tse, co-sponsored by the Jenks Writers Fund & the Asian Studies program. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

March 6 Singapore Book Council talk "Cultural Transnational Identity & the Writer."

March 5 MA Creative Writing: Writer in Residence lecture at La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore

2024

September 10 Writing Hong Kong Workshop at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto, Canada.  Workshop leader.

June 2 to 9 Authors at Large Vietnam Literary Retreat at the Caravelle Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Co-host/workshop leader.

January 11: Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Writing Creative Prose. Workshop leader

2023

Sep 21 to 23: Meacham Writers Workshop, Univ. of Tennessee Chattanooga. Visiting Writer.

Jul 13 Solstice MFA Program: Visiting CNF writer in the Reading Series at Lasell University, Newton, Massachusetts. Reader

Jun 25 to Jul 2: Authors at Large international retreat & literary week at The Arts House, Singapore. Co-host/workshop leader/moderator.

Jun 20 to 24: ICSSE (Intl Conference on the Short Story in English), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.  Reader/panelist/led workshop on writing the transnational short story.

Jun 6 to 9: Nobel Symposium in Literature, Stockholm, Sweden.  Speaker "The Problem of English in Contemporary Literature in the Fora of Criticism." Recording available on YouTube.

March 24:  AAARI at City University of New York Asian American/Asian Research Institute Lecture Series Speaker. 

March 21: Author on the Hill, Dinead Library, College of the Holy Cross, Masssachusetts. 

February 2: Working Writers series, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts.  Reading with Leila Philip.

2022 

December 5: Utah State University Graduate CNF class. Visiting writer (virtual).

November 10: Working Writers "Writing Globally" with Megan McDowell, Jee Leong Koh & Rodrigo Fuentes, College of the Holy Cross. Moderator & organizer.

October 17: The Writer's Project, SUNY Adirondack. Visiting Writer.

October 14: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: "25 Years After the Hong Kong Handover: NYC Chinese American Artists Respond" Reader & panelist.

October 13: Penn State University Rolling Reading Series, MFA program at the Department of English.  Visiting Writer.

September 16 to 18:  5th International Creative Writing Conference of the University of Western Macedonia in Palermo, Italy.  Keynote speaker & Scientific Committee.

September 7: Center for Jewish History A Panel of Editors & Writers for Jewish Noir II (virtual). Panelist. 

March to August: 2022 Singapore Literature Prize  Fiction judge with authors Balli Kaur Jaswal and Shirley Geok-lin Lim.  

May 22 to 28: Authors at Large International Writing Retreat in Thessaloniki, Greece.  

April 18: New York University Global Perspectives on Narrative.  Panelist with authors Robin Hemley and Ravi Shankar.

April 13: New York University Environmental Humanities class.  Speaker

April 9: Annapolis Book Festival at Key School (Library), Annapolis, Maryland: A Different Narrative: The Art and Craft of Asian Stories.  Featured author with Robin Hemley, moderated by Matthew Davis.

Mar 23 to 26: Annual AWP Conference. Panelist on "The Empire Writes Back from the Program Era: CW in Asia and Beyond" led by Darryl Whetter, with Dai Fan, Sam Meekings, Marshall Moore.

Mar 24: College of the Holy Cross Working Writer Series presents novelist Katie Kitamura. Presenter.

Mar 12: Singapore Unbound, New York. Reading and book discussion for The Art and Craft of Asian Stories with co-author Robin Hemley. 

2021 (from November) 

Dec 5: NonfictioNow 2021 Aotearoa, New Zealand. Co-leader of a roundtable HUI on Transnational Writing with Sybil Baker.  

Nov 11: Featured author at JakTent Literary Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia with Filipino authors Charlson Ong in discussion about "Lese Majeste." Moderated by Nancy Amelia Collins. 

Nov 7: Hong Kong International Literary Festival event "Ghosts, Beasts and Family Histories" featuring debut novelists K-Ming Chang and Pik-Shuen Fung. Moderator for reading and conversation.

interviews/features

Reader's House: London's Literary Gateway, Editor's Desk: “Xu Xi Explores Identity, Migration, and the Art of Transnational Storytelling, Feb 28, 2025

Tupelo Quarterly, Kristina Marie Darling: “Subverting the sentence, paragraph and the page” A Conversation with Xu Xi, Editor’s Feature, Dec 14, 2022 

Zolima City Magazine, Christopher de Wolf quotes Xu in “City in the Sky: Hong Kong Aviation History,” Dec 9, 2022 Critical Flame, Conversations: Xu Xi and James Sherry, Issue 73, Dec, 2022

South China Morning Post, Bernice Chan highlights Xu’s participation in “Myanmar's Irrawaddy Literary Festival: politics and social issues take centre stage at 'uniquely charming' event,” Nov 24, 2019

China Daily HK Edition, Melanie Hoare: “It's a Woman's World” Sep 6, 2019

Peril Asian Australian Arts & Culture, Al Chan: “Chinese Writers Festival: 我是不是中國人?” Aug 16, 2016

Jakarta Post Sebastian Partogi: “Xu Xi: The Personal is the Political” Jul 29, 2016

ABC Radio Melbourne, Amanda Smith: “Global Chinese Writer Xu Xi” Aug 23, 2016 08:32 hrs  

Asian Books Blog Q&A, June 2016

South China Morning Post Christopher de Wolf: “Lok Fu, corner of Kowloon that encapsulates Hong Kong's history,” May 15, 2016

BBC World Service Jamie Coomarasamy: "Leaders & People" Xu at Oxford Literary Festival with Garry Kasparov, Asfa-Wossen Asserate & Ngaire Woods, Apr 3, 2016

Snapshot Writing Like an Asian 5Q's blogspot, George Washington University, May 2015

Swiss Re: documentary on the future of the planet “Thinking into the Future,” January 2013 

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book reviews (recent titles only)

2022 Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations (hybrid collection)

Michigan Quaterly Review, Patrcik Thomas Henry: ”Hong Kong and the Hope of Cosmopolitanism: Reading Xu Xi's Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations” Dec, 2022

2021 The Art and Craft of Asian Stories (creative writing textbook & anthology)

Undomesticated, Yi Shun Lai: book review, 2022

2019 This Fish is Fowl (essays)

Tint Journal, Sam Dapanas: ”The Loyalties We Flaunt, The Betrayals We Conceal,” Dec 20,2021 

The Rumpus, Tiffany Hawk: "At Home and Not At Home Everywhere" Nov 18, 2019 https://therumpus.net/2019/11/08/the-rumpus-interview-with-xu-xi/

Cha Journal, Kate Rogers: “A Cool Fish,” Nov 1, 2019

Scoundrel Times Robert Antony Siegel, Apr 2, 2019

Foreword Reviews (starred) Ho Lin, Mar/Apr, 2019

Kirkus, Jan 1, 2019 (review issue)

2018 Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (short fiction)

Asian Cha, Michael Tsang: "Is Hong Kong Losing One of its Finest Anglophone Fiction Writers?" Jun/Jul 2019

2017 Dear Hong Kong (memoir)

Zolima City Magazine, Jessie Lau, Aug 7, 2017

The News Lens Dinah Gardner, Aug 2, 2017

2016 That Man in Our Lives (novel)

Radi China Kaitline Solimine: “Between Cultures Author Xu Xi's Writing Worlds” Oct 9, 2017

Haydens Ferry Review Dustin Pearson, Sep 19, 2016  

Asian American Literary Review Jennifer Lee, Sep 13, 2016

LA Review of Books, Ysabelle Cheung: “Bugs Bunny, the Novel, & Transnationalism” Sep 4, 2016

Asian Review of Books, Rosie Milne, 2016

Asia Literary Review 2016

Publisher's Weekly 2016

select list

China Daily Chitralekha Basu: “No Pause at Menopause” Dec 9, 2011

Susan Blumberg-Kason “Pick of the Week” Nov 14, 2011

Reading Lives Blogspot Access: Thirteen Tales, Nov 2011 

“Women's Tales: Xu Xi” Q&A on vvb32reads, Jan 14, 2011 

BluePrintReview, Jan 11, 2011 on Habit of a Foreign Sky 

Asian Cha Michael Tsang: ”In Transit Xu Xi's Habit of a Foreign Sky” Issue 13, Feb 2011

Interview in Hyphen Magazine Abigail Licad, Dec 15, 2010 

Eddie Tay: “Selves in the City Xu Xi” Evanescent Isles” in Asian Cha, Issue 6, Feb 2009

“Tales of Change” Nicole Wong, China Daily Hong Kong, Apr 29, 2008