Deadline: 17 January 2011
The David T. K. Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
The Fellowship is named for its sponsor Mr David T K Wong, a retired Hong Kong businessman, who has also been a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and is a writer of short stories himself. The Fellowship was launched in 1997 and the first Fellow appointed from 1st October 1998. The Fellow joins a community of writers founded by Sir Angus Wilson and Sir Malcolm Bradbury in 1971. Among our graduates are: Tash Aw, Trezza Azzopardi, Martyn Bedford, John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Andrew Cowan, Diana Evans, Sue Fletcher, Kathryn Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Toby Litt, Ian McEwan and Owen Sheers. Previous David T.K. Wong Fellows are: Po Wah Lam (1998), José Dalisay (1999), Simone Lazaroo (2000), Liisa Laing (2001), Wendy
Law-Yone (2002), Lakambini Sitoy (2003), Rattawut Lapcharoensap (2004), Linh Dinh (2005), Mulaika Hijjas (2006), Balli Jaswal (2007), Nam Le (2008) and Hanh Hoang (2009).
Terms and Conditions
Applications for the Fellowship will be considered from established published as well as unpublished writers of any age and any nationality. (Please visit the UK Border Agency Website at: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/infs/inf27pbstempworker in order to ensure that you are able to score the requisite number of points in order to apply for entry clearance. This only applies to individuals subject to a certificate of sponsorship currently living outside the UK.)
The Fellowship will be awarded to a writer planning to produce a work of prose fiction in English which deals seriously with some aspect of life in the Far East (Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Peoples’ Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam).
The successful candidate will be selected by a distinguished international panel. There will be no interviews, and candidates will be judged entirely on the quality and promise of their writing and the project they describe.
Fellows take up their appointments on 1st October each year. The Fellow will be a member of the School of Literature and Creative Writing and will be required to reside at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom for the academic year, accommodation will be provided on campus, to be paid for by the Fellow out of the Fellowship Award. Shared office space and computer facilities will be made available for the Fellow in the School. During the residential
period, the Fellow will be required to submit written work to a nominated mentor and take part in Creative Writing Research Seminars. No teaching duties attach to the Fellowship.
Application Procedure
Completed application forms should be submitted together with a typescript of an original unpublished piece of fiction of not more than 2500 words (please include word count on the first page), written in English. This must be a sample of the project applicants would undertake if awarded the Fellowship. The typescript should be a hard copy printed as a single-sided, double-spaced document. Please do not staple or otherwise bind the sheets of your typescript together. Handwritten work, fax or email applications will not be accepted. All submissions must be accompanied by a completed application form and the application fee of £10.00 Sterling. Do not include any additional documentation or materials. Work submitted cannot be returned to applicants.
Applications should be posted to:
Fellowship Administrator
The David T.K. Wong Fellowship
School of Literature and Creative Writing
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
Application and payment deadline: Monday 17 January 2011 (applications or incomplete applications will not be accepted after this date)
For inquiries: davidtkwongfellowship@uea.ac.uk
More information here.
The David T. K. Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about the Far East to spend a year in the UK, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
The Fellowship is named for its sponsor Mr David T K Wong, a retired Hong Kong businessman, who has also been a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and is a writer of short stories himself. The Fellowship was launched in 1997 and the first Fellow appointed from 1st October 1998. The Fellow joins a community of writers founded by Sir Angus Wilson and Sir Malcolm Bradbury in 1971. Among our graduates are: Tash Aw, Trezza Azzopardi, Martyn Bedford, John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Andrew Cowan, Diana Evans, Sue Fletcher, Kathryn Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Toby Litt, Ian McEwan and Owen Sheers. Previous David T.K. Wong Fellows are: Po Wah Lam (1998), José Dalisay (1999), Simone Lazaroo (2000), Liisa Laing (2001), Wendy
Law-Yone (2002), Lakambini Sitoy (2003), Rattawut Lapcharoensap (2004), Linh Dinh (2005), Mulaika Hijjas (2006), Balli Jaswal (2007), Nam Le (2008) and Hanh Hoang (2009).
Terms and Conditions
Applications for the Fellowship will be considered from established published as well as unpublished writers of any age and any nationality. (Please visit the UK Border Agency Website at: http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/infs/inf27pbstempworker in order to ensure that you are able to score the requisite number of points in order to apply for entry clearance. This only applies to individuals subject to a certificate of sponsorship currently living outside the UK.)
The Fellowship will be awarded to a writer planning to produce a work of prose fiction in English which deals seriously with some aspect of life in the Far East (Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Peoples’ Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam).
The successful candidate will be selected by a distinguished international panel. There will be no interviews, and candidates will be judged entirely on the quality and promise of their writing and the project they describe.
Fellows take up their appointments on 1st October each year. The Fellow will be a member of the School of Literature and Creative Writing and will be required to reside at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom for the academic year, accommodation will be provided on campus, to be paid for by the Fellow out of the Fellowship Award. Shared office space and computer facilities will be made available for the Fellow in the School. During the residential
period, the Fellow will be required to submit written work to a nominated mentor and take part in Creative Writing Research Seminars. No teaching duties attach to the Fellowship.
Application Procedure
Completed application forms should be submitted together with a typescript of an original unpublished piece of fiction of not more than 2500 words (please include word count on the first page), written in English. This must be a sample of the project applicants would undertake if awarded the Fellowship. The typescript should be a hard copy printed as a single-sided, double-spaced document. Please do not staple or otherwise bind the sheets of your typescript together. Handwritten work, fax or email applications will not be accepted. All submissions must be accompanied by a completed application form and the application fee of £10.00 Sterling. Do not include any additional documentation or materials. Work submitted cannot be returned to applicants.
Applications should be posted to:
Fellowship Administrator
The David T.K. Wong Fellowship
School of Literature and Creative Writing
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
Application and payment deadline: Monday 17 January 2011 (applications or incomplete applications will not be accepted after this date)
For inquiries: davidtkwongfellowship@uea.ac.uk
More information here.
