AustLit
History
'Since 1991 Asialink's Arts Residency Program has provided professional development opportunities for arts professionals working in and across artforms, in exchange for the sharing of skills, knowledge and networks with local host communities. Asialink Arts Residencies are innovative, flexible and supportive, and are grounded in personal and enduring relationships. The program promotes sustained cross-cultural dialogue by facilitating reciprocal residencies and trialing new models of engagement.'
(Source:http://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts/residency_program )
Known as the Asialink Arts Exchanges Program since 2018.
Notes
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The Asialink Literature Residency Program began in 1997 and has selected writers for residencies in 11 countries including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.
'The program has involved writers of fiction, poetry, history, essays, playwriting, screenplays, young adult fiction and travel [...] Hosts vary from Australian Studies Centres and University Literature departments to artists retreats, writers centres and publishers.'
(Source: Asialink website, http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts/residencies/Litresintro.html)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2019
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Year: 2018
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Year: 2015
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Year: 2014
Julienne Van Loon Van Loon says she will use her residency to commence a new work of long fiction that reinterprets several traditional stories of early Buddhist nuns. -
Year: 2012
Works About this Award
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Pandora : A Guided Tour of Various (Non) Fictions 2012 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Wanderings in India : Australian Perspectives 2012; (p. 198-207)'I’m still trying to process my Indian experience and my surprise at discovering that there was another place in the world where I belonged, that felt like home. It was a strange experience, as residencies are, because on the one hand I was a tourist in the brash, exaggerated landscape of what Mark Twain called the ‘most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds’ (Paine 1912:1013), and on the other I was isolated from the glare of that sun by my containment within the residency.' (Introduction)
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Writing Place in India - A Personal Journey from Prose to Poetry 2012 single work prose travel
— Appears in: IJAS , no. 5 2012; (p. 9-15) -
Indonesian Journey 2008 single work prose
— Appears in: Gang Re:Publik : Indonesia-Australia Creative Adventures 2008; (p. 63-67) -
Dua-duanya : Tri & Jan 2008 single work prose
— Appears in: Gang Re:Publik : Indonesia-Australia Creative Adventures 2008; (p. 38-40) -
A Case for Literary Contamination 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Summer no. 18 2007; (p. 67-78)
