Highlights

Tapun Ma Tatef

Tapun Ma Tatef (Circular Connections) was an Indigenous-led WrICE residency conceived, curated and facilitated by the project’s Artist Fellows Ali Cobby Eckermann and Dicky Senda. The residency included First Nations writers from around the Arafura Sea, and was hosted by Dicky Senda and his community in West Timor in 2023.

CoLab Singapore

WrICE Digital Residencies

CoLab Singapore was staged as a Public Residency, a week-long durational event with the invited writers, from multiple countries, developing and sharing work in the Supreme Court Foyer of the National Gallery of Singapore. The CoLab Singapore, and an associated Public Reading at Arts House, Singapore, formed part of the 2022 Singapore Writers Festival.

In 2020, the WrICE team partnered with Singapore literary development organization, Sing Lit Station (co-directed by WrICE alumni Joshua Ip), to co-fund a series of three annual WrICE residencies across 2020-2022. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that these residencies pivoted from face-to-face to fully online events, exploring how the ethos of encounter and exchange could be translated into digital gatherings.

The Art of Cultural Exchange Symposium

Other People’s Windows: New Writing Across the Asia-Pacific

A warm, lively, inclusive space of dialogue and conversation, both creative and scholarly, addressing questions of ethical encounter and exchange in creative writing and the arts across the Asia-Pacific. The Art of Cultural Exchange Symposium took place in Naarm/Melbourne in 2024, with participation from across the region.

Since the WrICE residencies, whether online or in-person, are centred around the intimate sharing of new work, it feels fitting that this anthology—the third in a series after The Near and the Far, Vols I & II (Scribe Publications, 2016 and 2019)—is another kind of gathering, bringing together writers and writing from across the three digital residencies. other people’s windows: new writing across the Asia-Pacific is published by Bowen Street Press (2024).