PRS Asia SEA Workshop: Poetic, Narrative & Creative Inquiry Workshop

This workshop will use creative writing methodologies to capture impressions, dialogues, observations and other meaningful ‘data’ gleaned from the 'Regen VN' Social Innovation Challenge cluster activities, and to transmute that material into engaging creative outcomes. Participants will be encouraged to produce multiple short pieces - individually and as a collective - that will be redrafted for limited edition print publication and developed for possible dissemination as NTROs via journal publication.

Facilitators:

Michelle Aung Thin is a novelist, essayist and academic. She writes about colonial Burma and contemporary Myanmar, cross-cultural identity, mythology and encounter. 

David Carlin is an award-winning essayist, scholar and interdisciplinary creative artist, who has worked as a writer and director across theatre, film and circus. He co-founded RMIT’s non/fictionLab research group and the transnational Asia-Pacific WrICE program. 

Nhã Thuyên secludedly anchors herself to Hà Nội, Việt Nam and totters between languages as a writer, translator and editor. She has been unearthing her notebooks and rubbing her words, learning to quietly speak up with care. 

Alvin Pang, PhD, is an internationally published poet whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. A Consulting Editor with his own practice, he is also editor-in-chief of public policy journal ETHOS, and Adjunct Professor of RMIT University. 

Jessica Wilkinson is a poet and academic who writes and writes about ‘poetic biography’ and documentary poetry.