The David T. K. Wong Creative Writing 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.
Graduates
The David Wong Fellow joins a community of writers founded by Sir Angus Wilson and Sir Malcolm Bradbury in 1971. UEA creative writing graduates include 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
Chau (Cab) Tran (2010/11)Hanh Hoang (2009/10)
Nam Le (2008/9)
Balli Jaswal (2007/8)
Mulaika Hijjas (2006/7)
Linh Dinh (2005/6)
Rattawut Lapcharoensap (2004/5)
Lakambini (Bing) Sitoy (2003/4)
Wendy Law-Yone (2002/3)
Liisa Laing (2001/2)
Simone Lazaroo (2000/1)
José Dalisay (1999/2000)
Po Wah Lam (1998/99)
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2012/13 Fellowship Information, Terms and Conditions (PDF)
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2012/13 Fellowship Application Form:
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The Application deadline has now passed - WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2012-13 FELLOWSHIP
The outcome of the 2012-13 award will be announced on the website by mid-May 2012.
The Official David T.K. Wong website contains information about David T.K.Wong and his writing; including downloadable content from his most recent Hong Kong novel 'The Embrace of Harlots'.
In this audio clip from February 2010, David Wong speaks about this collection of short stories and what the David T K Wong Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in the UK is all about. Download the file in MP3 format here.
Fellowship Award 2011/12
We are pleased to announce that the 2011/12 David T. K. Wong Fellowship has been awarded to Presca Ahn.
Presca is from New York City. She is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. English, with distinction, 2010) and the Brearley School (2005). At Yale, she was a recipient of the English Department’s Paine Memorial Prize for outstanding senior thesis, a Yale Writing Center Prize, the Kilborne Memorial Traveling Fellowship for literary research in England, the Schoenberg Prize in American Literature, the Rossborough Fellowship for feminist projects, and the Light Fellowship for study and travel in East Asia. She was the founding editor of Broad Recognition, and has contributed reportage to the New Haven Advocate and CNN. She has also worked on several documentary films. After graduating from Yale, Presca was a Fulbright Scholar in England. She plans to use her time in Norwich to draft a novel about occupied Korea.
