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Kingsley Bolton – Symposium host. Chair Professor of English and Head of Department of English at The City University of Hong Kong.
Kim Cheng Boey - Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Newcastle, Australia
Rukmini Bhaya Nair – Professor of Linguistics and English at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
Jane Camens – Moderator. Director, Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership (University of Adelaide)
Brian Castro - Chair of Creative Writing, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Bernice Chauly - Doctoral candidate, University of Malaya.
Catherine Cole – Chair of Creative Writing, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Jon Cook - Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and is the Director of the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Andrew Cowan - Director of the Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Marilyn Chin - Teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University, USA.
Isagani Cruz – Former Philippine Undersecretary of Education and a Professor Emeritus at De La Salle University
Fan Dai - Chair of the Department of English, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Jose Dalisay - Teaches English at the University of the Philippines, where he also serves as Director of the Institute of Creative Writing.
Rodney Jones – Host/Co-organiser. Associate Professor of English and Associate Head of the Department of English at The City University of Hong Kong.
Robin Hemley – Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa, USA.
Justin Hill- Novelist currently teaching at The University of Hong Kong.
Alex Kuo – Writer and administrator of writing programs, literature and ethnic studies at universities throughout the USA for more than forty-five years.
Agnes S. L. Lam - Poet and Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Leung Ping-kwan - Poet & writer teaching comparative literature, film studies and creative writing (in Chinese) at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Sharmistha Mohanty - Writer who studied fiction at the Iowa Writers Workshop and lives in Mumbai.
Dinah Roma-Sinaturi - Associate professor of literature and (retiring) Director of the De La Salle University’s Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (Manila).
Ouyang Yu - Writer, poet, translator and researcher attached to the University of Wollongong.
Nury Vittachi - Teaches storytelling skills at City Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Xu Xi - Moderator. Chair, Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership, Writer-in-Residence at The City University of Hong Kong and Faculty Chair at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing, USA.
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