AIMS OF THE APWP
Our Aims & What We Do
The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership’s mission is to assist international understanding of the region through literature, as well as to enrich writers in Asia, Australia, the Pacific and beyond by exposure to the region’s diverse cultures, languages and creative approaches.
The Partnership seeks to explore, nurture and promote excellence in creative writing from the region. It looks for news ways to do this.
The Partnership’s aims are to:
- Encourage and support writers’ networks, literary interchanges, and dialogues about the region’s literatures.
- Establish systems of literary patronage for writers in the region.
- Support the development of scholarship on literary studies and writing within the region.
- Enhance the region’s diverse literatures where appropriate through:
- writing and translation programs
- the study of regional literature inside and outside the region
- literary studies and writing conferences
- reading programs
- literary magazines
- jobs (in academia and outside) for novelists, poets and other creative writers, as well as literary scholars with expertise in literature from the region, whether by contemporary writers or the region’s classics.
- developing new local, regional and international audiences for contemporary literature from the region (e.g. through literary festivals, readings and school visiting writer programs)
- sponsoring literary mentorships
- regional writer-in–residence programs
- international teacher and student exchanges for writers
- information sharing.
- Further promote internationally and locally the work of writers engaged with the region (including writers not from the region but whose writing engages with the region).
- Undertake research projects that enhance understanding of the literatures from the region.
- Facilitate opportunities for the region’s publishers wanting to better showcase their work within the region and beyond.
- Facilitate, encourage, support and link literary translation centres in the region as well as interactions with translation centres beyond the region.
- Assist, where there is demand, the development of writing programs in universities in the region.