Introduction: A Luxury Any Government Can Afford:
English-Language Creative Writing Pedagogies in Twenty-First-Century Asia
Darryl Whetter
Part 1. The Language…
- "Speak Good Singlish":
- Compromised Tongues: That "Wrong" Language for the Creative Writing We Teach in Asia
- Charisma versus Amnesia: The Rise of Creative Writing in English India
- The New Creative Writing Classroom of India: The Client-Student, Structures of Privilege and the Spectre of Privatization
- Reframing the Field: Genre and the Rising Twenty-First-Century Multilingual Writer
- Self-Translation from China: Aspects of Creative Writing in English as a Foreign Language
- Radical Translation: Teaching Poetry Writing in Hong Kong
- Another English: Filipinos Write Back
- The Problem of Memoir in the Philippines: A Possible Solution
- Teaching Creative Writing in Taiwan: Or, Taking the Worry Out of the Word "Creative"
- The Non-Fiction Selfie
- Writing Dance: Mentoring the Voices of Dance Artists across the Asia-Pacific
- Cosmopolitan Creative Writing Pedagogies: First-Person Plural and Writing/Teaching against Offence
An Ang Moh Directs Singapore’s First Creative Writing Master’s Degree, not Quite in Singlish
Darryl Whetter
Xu Xi 許素細
Saikat Majumdar
Nandini Dhar
Page Richards
Fan Dai and Ling Li
James Shea
Part 2. …and the Landscape
Jose Dalisay Jr.
Robin Hemley
Robert Anthony Siegel
Barrie Sherwood
Stephanie Burridge
Sreedhevi Iyer
Biography
Darryl Whetter is the author of four books of fiction and two poetry collections, including the 2020 climate-crisis novel Our Sands. After working as a writing professor at various universities in his native Canada, he was the inaugural director of the first full Creative Writing master’s program in Singapore.
