Holding the Encounter: an Asia-Pacific Model for Writers and Writing Together

This event is one of a series of free, public, online forums brought to you by the non/fictionLab research group at RMIT. We welcome a local and global audience that brings non/fictionLab researchers together with other creative artists, industry leaders and academics, to discuss cutting edge questions and issues for our artforms, industries and communities.

Panel: Lily Rose Tope, Melody Ellis, David Carlin, Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe, Clara Chow

Moderator: Francesca Rendle-Short

This forum considers the space of encounter in relation to the WrICE program (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange) which began in 2014 and has brought together more than seventy writers from around the Asia-Pacific region. At the heart of WrICE is the proposition that there is value in creating opportunities for writers to connect and share ideas deeply with other writers, from different cultures and across generations. But what does it mean to be part of this encounter, to be together, to be present to give voice and to listen, to dream futures together? The very idea of encounter and holding space offers a range of generative and provocative considerations such as intimacy, kinship, collectivity, worlding. To discuss this and more, Holding the Encounter brings together WrICE alumni from the 2021 digital iteration of the program and members of the ARC Discovery research team: ‘Connecting Asia-Pacific Literary Cultures: Grounds, Encounter and Exchange.’ 

The non/fictionLab is supported by Writing and Publishing @ RMIT.

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