Perhaps one of his earliest creative endeavors was making up endings for the Saga of Saif Bin Dhi Yazn, as his copy was missing the last few pages.
When Al-Mohaimeed entered the Faculty of Management Sciences at King Saud University at age 18, he became more involved with politics, and began editing a weekly magazine called Hiwar, meaning dialogue.
He devoted himself more fully to literature, but his first collection of short stories, Zahira La Musha Laha (An Afternoon Without Pedestrians)published in 1989, was withdrawn from the market after a well-known religious leader complained that it was immoral.
[1] Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is one of the more exciting and critically acclaimed of a recent wave of Saudi writers emerging from the heavily censored, intellectually oppressive environment.
[3] He was featured in an article by Scott Wilson of The Washington Post in 2005: "For Arab Writers, New Lines in the Sand: Young Authors Push the Limits of Social and Political Freedom"[4] In 2009, he received the Pushcart Prize for the short story "Soap and Ambergris" [1] Archived October 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, which he adapted from his forthcoming novel, Munira's Bottle.
[5] It appeared in PEN America Issue 9: Checkpoints Archived December 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, and was included in Pushcart Prize XXXIII – Best of the Small Presses.
On May 1, 2008, he attended and participated in a conversation at the PEN World Voices Festival alongside Matt Weiland, Joshua Furst, Francisco Goldman and Juan De Recacoechea,[12] entitled "The Secret Lives of Cities [3].