China 2016

In 2016 the WrICE China collaborative residency took place in Yangshuo, China, with corresponding public events, including a panel discussion, readings and workshops at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. The collaborative residency brought together the following writers and fellows from Australia and Asia: Peter Clynes (current student of creative writing and Mandarin at RMIT), Fan Dai (Chinese writer and professor of English in the Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University), Eliza Vitri Handayani (has published a novel as well as works in respected Indonesian literary outlets), Michele Lee (Asian-Australian playwright and author who works across stage and audio), Alice Pung (award-winning writer, journalist and essayist -one of Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year 2015), Mary Rokonadravu (winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Pacific region), Ara Sarafian (Melbourne-based writer and editor), Maggie Tiojakin (Indonesian writer, journalist and translator), Mia Wotherspoon (Melbourne-based writer and editor, currently completing her final year of RMIT’s Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing),  Lawrence Lacambra Ypil (poet and essayist from Cebu, Philippines).

Participants

Peter Clynes

(Australia)
Peter Clynes is a current student of creative writing and Mandarin at RMIT. His writing has appeared in the 2013 RMIT student anthology, as well as The Cordite Poetry Review among others. In 2013 Peter was featured as an emerging...

Fan Dai

(China)
Fan Dai is a Chinese writer and professor of English in the Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University. She has a PhD in Linguistics and a Master’s degree in Human Geography. She initiated Creative Writing course...

Eliza Vitri Handayani

(Indonesia)
Eliza Vitri Handayani has published works in respected Indonesian literary outlets as well as in the Asia Literary Review, Exchanges Journal, and Griffith Review New Asia Now. Her novel, 'From Now On Everything Will Be Different' (Vagabond Press, 2015) tells...

Michele Lee

(Australia)
Michele Lee is an Asian-Australian playwright and author who works across stage and audio. Her works are about identity, otherness, intimacy and chaotic worlds. She is currently working on a digital theatre commission, The Naked Self, for Arts House, and...

Alice Pung

(Australia)
Alice Pung is the recipient of the WrICE 2016 Established Writer Fellowship, and will travel to China in 2016 with the WrICE program. She is an award-winning writer, journalist and essayist. She is one of Sydney Morning Herald's Young Novelists of...

Ara Sarafian

(Australia)
Ara Sarafian is a Melbourne-based writer and editor. He’s been published in The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings and The Conversation, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Monash Creative Writing Prize. He also won a short, short story competition with...

Maggie Tiojakin

(Indonesia)
Maggie Tiojakin is an Indonesian writer, journalist and translator. She is the author of two short-story collections, Ching-Ching’s Ballads, which was shortlisted for the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2010, and As Long As We Are Lost in Space (2013). Her debut novel, Winter Dreams (2011),...

Mia Wotherspoon

(Australia)
Mia Wotherspoon is a Melbourne-based writer and editor, currently completing her final year of RMIT’s Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing. She has been published in The Big Issue, Catalyst, Talking Trash, The Reykjiavic Grapevine, Visible Ink and an...

Lawrence Lacambra Ypil

(The Philippines)
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil is a poet and essayist from Cebu, Philippines. He received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Washington University in St Louis on a Fulbright Scholarship, and has recently completed an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University...