The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership Relocates to the University of Adelaide

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership has found a new home within the
Creative Writing program in the School of Humanities, where the Chair is
prominent writer and critic, Brian Castro.

Professor Castro, who was born in Hong Kong, has written extensively about
the Australian-Asian experience and the benefits for the West and for
writers in Asia of engagement.

The University of Adelaide’s Creative Writing program has nurtured a number
of successful writers from the region, including the most recent winner of
the Man Asia Literary Prize, Miguel Syjuco, a Filipino writer completing his
PhD in Writing under Brian Castro’s supervision.

Nobel laureate novelist John Coetzee is also an adjunct professor in the
program.

The Writing Partnership, an international collaboration of writers, scholars
and others interested in nurturing, promoting and exploring writing from the
Asia-Pacific.

For more information, see the updated website http://www.apwriters.com

 

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