Founded in 2001, the Hong Kong International Literary Festival connects audiences to established and emerging writers from around the world every November. For the upcoming 2018 festival, bestselling writers including Cheryl Strayed, Irvine Welsh, Susie Orbach, Ma Jian and Meg Wolitzer will anchor an exciting programme of discussions, workshops, debates and book signings, which will touch on the themes of LGBTQ issues, travel narratives, science fiction and history. Live storytelling and poetry readings will round out the rich offerings, making the festival a true celebration of ideas and literary arts.
Ticket price varies for each event. Some events offer free entry. Students get 50% off.
02.11 | 7:00pm Festival Opening Night @ JC Cube
03.11 | 2:00pm Start Your Own Podcast Workshop @ A Hall
03.11 | 2:00pm Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled The World @ F Hall
03.11 | 3:30pm Intan Paramaditha: Apple and Knife @ F Hall
03.11 | 4:00pm “Based On A True Story”: Writing Workshop @ A Hall
03.11 | 5:00pm The Qing Dynasty in Fact, Fiction and Fantasy @ F Hall
03.11 | 7:00pm Geoff Dyer: Where? What? Where? Brought to you by British Airways @ JC Cube
03.11 | 7:00pm Female Makers: Poets in Hong Kong @ F Hall
03.11 | 8:30pm Jenny Zhang and Emmy the Great in Conversation @ JC Cube
03.11 | 8:30pm Duterte Harry: Fire and Fury in the Philippines @ F Hall
04.11 | 2:00pm Paul French: City of Devils @ F Hall
04.11 | 2:00pm Write, Now: Beginners’ Writing Workshop @ A Hall
04.11 | 3:30pm History, Memory and Fiction with Dung Kai-cheung @ F Hall
04.11 | 4:00pm Literary Editing Workshop @ A Hall
04.11 | 5:00pm Why Genre Matters @ F Hall
04.11 | 7:00pm From Here to There: Travel Writing Panel Brought to you by British Airways @ JC Cube
04.11 | 7:00pm Imperial Twilight and the Opium War @ F Hall
04.11 | 8:30pm The British Library Session: Oscar Wilde @ JC Cube
04.11 | 8:30pm The Female Gaze and Writing about the Flesh @ F Hall
05.11-08.11 | 6:00pm Poetry in the Prison Yard @ Prison Yard
05.11 | 7:00pm Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin @ F Hall
05.11 | 8:30pm Imtiaz Dharker in Conversation @ F Hall
06.11 | 7:00pm Ada Palmer and the Sci-Fi Series Terra Ignota @ F Hall
06.11 | 8:30pm Aisha Franz: The Modern Graphic Novel @ F Hall
07.11 | 7:00pm Ivan Coyote: Tomboy Survival Guide @ F Hall
07.11 | 8:30pm Wake Up! with Jesse Oliver @ F Hall
08.11 | 7:00pm Stress-Proof with Mithu Storoni @ F Hall
08.11 | 8:30pm LGBTQ+ and the Inclusivity in the Arts @ F Hall
09.11 | 7:00pm From Page to Screen: Film Adaptations with Irvine Welsh and Meg Wolitzer @ JC Cube
09.11 | 7:00pm Guadalupe Nettel in Conversation @ F Hall
09.11 | 8:30pm Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion @ JC Cube
09.11 | 8:30pm Yunte Huang: Inseparable, The Original Siamese Twins @ F Hall
10.11 | 12:00pm Fat is a Feminist Issue: Lunch with Susie Orbach @ Old Bailey
10.11 | 2:00pm Irvine Welsh: Dead Men’s Trousers @ JC Cube
10.11 | 2:00pm #MeToo in the Literary World: Shaping Stories of a Generation @ F Hall
10.11 | 2:00pm Slam Poetry Workshop @ A Hall
10.11 | 3:30pm Susie Orbach: In Therapy @ JC Cube
10.11 | 3:30pm Leta Hong Fincher: The Feminist Awakening in China @ F Hall
10.11 | 4:00pm Young Adult Fiction Writing Workshop @ A Hall
10.11 | 5:00pm Cheryl Strayed: Wild @ JC Cube
10.11 | 5:00pm Hong Kong Through the Lens of Literature @ Tai Kwun
10.11 | 7:00pm The Second Shelf with Meg Wolitzer and Xu Xi @ JC Cube
10.11 | 7:00pm Ma Jian: China Dream @ Tai Kwun
10.11 | 8:30pm Hong Kong Stories @ JC Cube
11.11 | 2:00pm Remembering Shanghai @ F Hall
11.11 | 2:00pm Crafting Fiction and Non-Fiction From Life: Writing Workshop @ A Hall
11.11 | 3:30pm The Natural World in Fiction @ F Hall
11.11 | 4:00pm Why Editors Don’t Reply: Pitching Workshop @ A Hall
11.11 | 5:00pm Laline Paull in Conversation @ F Hall
