The David T.K.Wong Fellowship
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 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: 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) and Nam Le (2008).
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www.davidtkwong.com - Official website with information about David T.K.Wong and his writing; includes downloadable content from his Hong Kong Stories.
Fellowship Winner 2009
Hanh Hoang is the new David T. K. Wong fellow at UEA. Born in Vietnam, Hanh did her undergraduate studies at Scripps College in California as well as at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, and her graduate studies at New York University. In 2004, she received writing scholarships from Saint Mary’s College of California, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing. Hanh has worked as a Spanish-English bilingual teacher and a French high-school teacher in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California; as a freelance journalist; as an English teacher at Florida State University; and as an editor in Bill Drafting in the Florida Senate.
She is a PhD student in Creative Writing at Florida State University. Hanh has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Her short short story ‘Field of Heads’, winner of the Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition in 2005, was anthologized in a book edited by Maxine Hong Kingston, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, which won the 2007 Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing. While at UEA, she will work on a novel and a collection of short stories that are set in Vietnam.
