The Human-AI Creative Writing Contest
An annual event for Hong Kong secondary school students to receive free AI and English literacy workshops.
Founder’s Message
Dear Colleagues,
I founded EVERWRITE and the annual Human-AI Creative Writing Contest for Hong Kong Secondary Schools to help schools and other organizations to navigate their changing educational environments because of AI.
Together we can take immediate action to equip our learners to become competent and ethical users of AI.
— Dr David James Woo
PhD, MEd, PGDE (Hong Kong)
MPhil (Cambridge, UK)
BBA (Notre Dame, USA)
Vision
To support human-to-human communication by human-to-computer interaction
Mission
To teach people to use AI to support their effort at every writing stage
Trailblazing Project
EVERWRITE proudly organizes The Human-AI Creative Writing Contest for Hong Kong Secondary Schools.
2025-26 Human-AI Creative Writing Contest for Hong Kong Secondary Schools
To enhance students’ competence to design, vibe code and present English learning apps
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2024-25 Human-AI Creative Writing Contest for Hong Kong Secondary Schools
To develop Hong Kong students’ and teachers’ competence to use ChatGPT for English academic writing enhancement
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2023-24 Human-AI Creative Writing Contest for Hong Kong Secondary Schools
To develop Hong Kong students’ and teachers’ competence to use ChatGPT for English writing enhancement
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2022-23 1st Human-AI Creative Writing Contest for Hong Kong Secondary Schools
To develop Hong Kong students’ and teachers’ competence to create and to use AI for learning
To develop students’ creative and productive skills
To increase student engagement with English
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2021-22 1st Human-AI Creative Writing Contest
To increase student engagement with English
To develop students’ and teachers’ knowledge and skills to use artificial intelligence for learning
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Research Publications
Woo, D., Susanto, H., & Guo, K. (In press). EFL Students’ Attitudes and Contradictions in a Machine-in-the-loop Writing Activity System. In T. Keane & T. Wang (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence and the Futures of Learning: Practices towards Quality and Inclusion. Springer.
Woo, D. J., Wang, D., & Guo, K. (2025). Comparing Hong Kong secondary school students’ perceptions of ChatGPT-assisted EFL writing. The Journal of Educational Research, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2025.2525243
Woo, D. J., Guo, K., & Susanto, H. (2025). EFL secondary students’ use of ChatGPT for writing task completion pathways. The Journal of Educational Research, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2025.2510382
Woo, D. J., Guo, K., & Salas-Pilco, S. Z. (2024). Writing creative stories with AI: learning designs for secondary school students. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17501229.2024.2384884
Woo, D. J., Guo, K., & Susanto, H. (2024). Exploring EFL students’ prompt engineering in human–AI story writing: an activity theory perspective. Interactive Learning Environments, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2024.2361381
Woo, D. J., Wang, D., Guo, K., & Susanto, H. (2024). Teaching EFL students to write with ChatGPT: Students’ motivation to learn, cognitive load, and satisfaction with the learning process. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-024-12819-4
Woo, D. J., Susanto, H., Yeung, C. H., Guo, K., & Fung, A. K. Y. (2024). Exploring AI-Generated text in student writing: How does AI help? Language Learning & Technology, 28(2), 183–209. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73577
Woo, D. J., Wang, Y., Susanto, H., & Guo, K. (2023). Understanding English as a Foreign Language Students’ Idea Generation Strategies for Creative Writing With Natural Language Generation Tools. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 61(7), 1464–1482. https://doi.org/10.1177/07356331231175999