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Writers teaching in some of the world’s top Creative Writing programs will talk about how they mentor students and important aspects of craft at ‘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 University of Adelaide based Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership and The English Department of The City University of Hong Kong, in conjunction with the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival.

Instead of academic papers, ‘provocateurs’ will talk for four or five minutes about aspects of craft and teaching writing then open the discussion to the audience. 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 English in Asia.

‘Writing Across Cultures’ will feature representatives from top writing programs in Australia, the United States, Britain and the region. They include:

• Robin Hemley, Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa,
• Andrew Cowan, Director of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia,
• Brian Castro, Chair of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Adelaide,
• Marilyn Chin teaches Creative Writing in the MFA program at San Diego State University,
• Catherine Cole, Chair of Creative Writing, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT),
• Kim Cheng Boey teaches Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle,
• Jose Dalisay, Director of the Institute of Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines,
• Dai Fan, Chair of English at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou (China), teaching creative nonfiction in China.

For the full program and registration details see http://apwriters.org/wac/