Tsuen Wan, Tuen Mun, and Yuen Long districts in New Territories. The Fun Project organized altogether eighteen literary walks in two years. To kick-off the project, an official invitation letter was sent to all principals and Chinese subject heads of the secondary school in Hong Kong to recruit student participants. In the past decade, the organizers have been actively promoting Hong Kong literature and have built up close connection with literary figures in Hong Kong. The project team identified emerging professional writers who published frequently on literary journals and websites to join the Fun Project. These emerging writers were not only young in age but also young in heart. For a designated district, a “young writer” was invited to serve as the docent.
After enrolling in the literary walk of a specific district, the student participants received a pack of reading materials critically selected by the docent. Apart from literary quality, these reading materials also cover the cultural and historical aspects of the respective district. The student participants were required to study the articles before attending the literary walk. On the event day, the docent delivered a workshop to the student participants by introducing the selected articles in more details so that they could grasp the main features of the articles. This arrangement facilitated a close interaction with the docent before the start of the literary walk. After the event, the student participants were required to submit a piece of creative writing in the form of poem, prose, or fiction on their experience and reflection of the literary walk.
Being a key deliverable of the Fun Project, the Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki serves as a repository of the output generated from the literary walks in eighteen districts, including critically selected articles, literary maps, video clips, creative writings of the student participants, and so on. The docents shared their views with the student participants about their creative writings using the discussion platform of the MediaWiki. In addition to the project participants, the Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki is also a useful open source to other secondary school teachers and students. Teachers can benefit from the Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki by making use of the online resources available on the wiki platform to design their own literary walks for their students. The Hong Kong Literary Landscape
