WrICE Writers Jhoanna Lyn B. Cruz and Alvin Pang presented their practice based PHD examinations at RMIT’s Practice Research Symposium this month – an intensive, twice-yearly gathering of research candidates, supervisors and audiences. Alvin explores a practice of creative writing within a Singaporean context, challenging assumptions in considering what it means to work across multiple […]

WrICE Alumni Eliza Vitri Handayani completed a year-long Arts Leadership Program with Australia Council for the Arts and returned recently to Australia where she reconnected with many of her fellow WRICE writers. In 2020, Eliza is undertaking a secondment with SharingStories Foundation, which works with Indigenous communities to protect and grow stories and cultural heritage through cutting-edge digital media and art forms. […]

WrICE Writer and RMIT Adjunct Professor, Ali Cobby Eckermann spoke to The Garrett Podcast’s Astrid Edwards on the eve of her appearance at the 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival.

A packed audience experienced Writers Across Borders, an annual WrICE event as part of Melbourne Writers Festival, held at RMIT’s Kaleide Theatre. Writers Across Borders 2019 featured Melissa Lucashenko, Bernice Chauly, Ali Cobby-Eckermann, Joshua Ip, Michele Lee, Fiona Murphy, Alvin Pang, Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Rajith Savanadasa, Christos Tsiolkas and Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind. Interwoven with powerful […]

Over three exciting days Australian and International WrICE writers came together for a reunion and to participate in Melbourne Writers Festival events. On Friday 30 August, RMIT’s Urban Writing House hosted a friendly gathering and salon event for WrICE participants from across six years of the program to share food, drinks, and most importantly, stories. […]

RMIT has partnered with the 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival to host a series of events that will bring the City of Literature to life including a WrICE Writers Across Borders panel session featuring Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko on Saturday 31 August (pictured at a WrICE workshop in Penang in 2014). WrICE will bring together Asian […]

By Daryll Delgado In this wonderful interview hear Filipina writer Daryll Delgado share experiences of time in Manila, and walking the streets of Melbourne with Christos Tsiolkas during their WrICE residency, as together they explore explore faith, politics and privilege. Interview published in Kritika Kultura 33/34. “I want to challenge the censoriousness and smugness of […]

Playwright Michele Lee talked writing and developing plays with novelist and emerging playwright Rajith Savanadasa on stage at Castlemaine State Festival, as part of the WrICE Writers Across Borders panel. The panel session, adeptly chaired by writer-curator Andy Butler, began with readings from Aboriginal Australian writer Ali Cobby Eckermann who shared a moving account of […]

We look forward to welcoming another group of fabulous WrICE writers to Australia for events at Melbourne Writers Festival this year, all supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. Following on from another wonderful residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in May, this group of writers including Australian Aboriginal writer Ali Cobby Eckermann and one of Australia’s […]