WRITING ACROSS CULTURES

Monday, October 05, 2009

If you’d like to meet writers teaching in some of the world’s top creative writing programs and hear how they mentor their students, find a way to join ‘Writing Across Cultures’ in Hong Kong, 9-11 March 2010.
‘Writing Across Cultures’ is a two-day event for students and teachers of creative writing in Asia, organised by the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership and The City University of Hong Kong in conjunction with the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
‘This symposium has been designed for writers who aren’t necessarily academics,’ said the Writing Partnership’s Director Jane Camens. ‘Instead of lengthy academic papers, provocateurs will talk for four or five minutes to open the discussion to all participants.’
A roundtable on the first day will focus on teaching creative writing in the academy. The next day will focus on teaching creative writing in Asia.

‘Not many countries in the region offer creative writing at university level,’ Camens said. ‘Lots of writers have left Asia to study at creative writing programs overseas, generally in the United States or UK. Few know about the excellent programs on their doorstep in Australia. Our idea is to bring representatives from great programs to writers in Asia instead of vice versa.’

Some of the writers taking part who are teaching in top programs include:
• Robin Hemley from the Iowa Writers Workshop,
• Andrew Cowan from the famous MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia,
• Brian Castro from the University of Adelaide’s Creative Writing Program (home of the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership),
• Catherine Cole who Chairs Creative Writing at RMIT,
• Kim Cheng Boey who teaches at the University of Newcastle,
• Jose Dalisay, director of the Institute of Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines,
• Fan Dai, Chair of English at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (China), who teaches creative non fiction in China.

For more information and registration details see http://apwriters.org/wac/

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