How do writers take their own life experiences, and what they learn of the experiences of others, and utilize aspects of all that in the creation of works of art? How do these melded and meshed, lived, borrow and imagined experiences take on a life of their own and become a nascent entity? To discuss their own processes and writing experiences we will be joined by European Union Prize for Literature winner Antonis Georgiou (Cyprus); poet, essayist and Lu Xun Literature and Arts Award Winner Huang Lihai (China); author and essayist Mathilde Walter Clark (Denmark); and short story writer and novelist Wang Zhezhu (China). In conversation with Huang Jingtao, author and founder of Canopy Culture and Future Literature Studio.