As Asia Writes attempts to move forward on its seventh month, we acquired today the domain asiawrites.org to give the site a professional representation. As you may have noticed, the site layout has also been streamlined and we have raised our standards in screening submissions to make our posts more relevant to writers in Asia or of Asian origin. Our staff are also online 16 hours a day to copy-edit the posts, see if there are broken links, and scout for more news and announcements of interest to Asian writers.
With this transition to the new domain, Asia Writes will now be covering not just Asia but the whole of Asia-Pacific. We have been posting updates relevant to writers in Australia and New Zealand, but we will also bring in stories and news for our friends in Papua New Guinea, Oceania, North Asia and the rest of the Pacific Islands Forum.
We have started featuring articles on Asian literature and books with Professor Chamar Lal's Issues and Facts about NCERT Books, and later we will publish our Q&A article with Ubud Writers Festival Director Janet de Neefe. More articles on the Asia-Pacific literary scene are lined up. In line with this, we are seeking your submissions for this section, where, apart from articles, commentaries and critical/scholarly papers on Asian literature, we will also consider Asian book reviews and even travel articles, a genre that is becoming increasingly popular among Asian writers.
For our Featured Works section, we are now reading creative non-fiction. You may still send works to asiawritesmail@gmail.com, but we can also be reached through our new e-mail address - info@asiawrites.org.
We may have been able to acquire a new domain, but this does not mean that Asia Writes is an "endowed" organization. Asia Writes remains to be unfunded and not affiliated with any writing/literary institutions in Asia. We do not even have a Paypal Donate button to solicit funds. As such, we still cannot pay contributors at this time. What we can offer is the possibility of wider readership, nomination to writing awards (see our Best of the Net nominations here), and the inclusion of your bio and links to your personal website. Asia Writes maintains a not-for-profit status, being a voluntary collaboration among writers from the region.
Thank you to our visitors and friends on our Facebook and Twitter network for making all this possible. Welcome to your NEW HOME.
With this transition to the new domain, Asia Writes will now be covering not just Asia but the whole of Asia-Pacific. We have been posting updates relevant to writers in Australia and New Zealand, but we will also bring in stories and news for our friends in Papua New Guinea, Oceania, North Asia and the rest of the Pacific Islands Forum.
We have started featuring articles on Asian literature and books with Professor Chamar Lal's Issues and Facts about NCERT Books, and later we will publish our Q&A article with Ubud Writers Festival Director Janet de Neefe. More articles on the Asia-Pacific literary scene are lined up. In line with this, we are seeking your submissions for this section, where, apart from articles, commentaries and critical/scholarly papers on Asian literature, we will also consider Asian book reviews and even travel articles, a genre that is becoming increasingly popular among Asian writers.
For our Featured Works section, we are now reading creative non-fiction. You may still send works to asiawritesmail@gmail.com, but we can also be reached through our new e-mail address - info@asiawrites.org.
We may have been able to acquire a new domain, but this does not mean that Asia Writes is an "endowed" organization. Asia Writes remains to be unfunded and not affiliated with any writing/literary institutions in Asia. We do not even have a Paypal Donate button to solicit funds. As such, we still cannot pay contributors at this time. What we can offer is the possibility of wider readership, nomination to writing awards (see our Best of the Net nominations here), and the inclusion of your bio and links to your personal website. Asia Writes maintains a not-for-profit status, being a voluntary collaboration among writers from the region.
Thank you to our visitors and friends on our Facebook and Twitter network for making all this possible. Welcome to your NEW HOME.
