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The Empire Writes Back from the Program Era: CW in Asia & Beyond
Saturday, March 26, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am
While books like MFA vs. NYC echo AWP reports on the rise of creative writing (CW) educations in the US, and their popularity in Australia reveals this rise is not limited to North America, non-English countries have been slower to enter “the program era.” Two new anthologies from Routledge and Bloomsbury chart the rise of CW educations around the world and the next major chapter in tertiary CW education—the multilingual student. Anthology editors and contributors discuss global tertiary CW ed.
Participants
Darryl Whetter is the author of two poetry collections and four books of fiction, most recently the climate crisis novel Our Sands. A Canadian, he was the inaugural program director of the first creative writing master’s program in Singapore. www.darrylwhetter.ca
Xu Xi 許素細 has published fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction and edited five anthologies. Her newest title is The Art and Craft of Asian Stories. She is the founder of Mongrel Writers Residence™ and Authors at Large and is currently the Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Dai Fan has taught one of the few creative writing courses in English as a foreign language in China since 2009. She publishes in both Chinese and English. She is professor of English and director of the Sun Yat-sen Center for English-language Creative Writing and runs the Sun Yat-sen University Writers' Residency.
Sam Meekings is the author of Under Fishbone Clouds (called "a poetic evocation of the country and its people" by the New York Times), The Book of Crows, and The Afterlives of Dr. Gachet. He is assistant professor of creative writing at Northwestern University in Qatar.
Marshall Moore is a course leader and senior lecturer at Falmouth University in the UK. He teaches creative writing and publishing and holds a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University. Prior to moving to Britain, he worked in higher education in Hong Kong and Korea for fifteen years.
