Teaching Creative Writing in Asia

Darryl Whetter is the author of four books of fiction and two poetry collections, including the 2020 climate-crisis novel Our Sands. After working as a writing professor at various universities in his native Canada, he was the inaugural director of the first full Creative Writing master's program in Singapore.

This book examines the dynamic landscape of creative educations in Asia, exploring the intersection of post-coloniality, translation, and creative educations in one of the world's most vibrant landscapes to epitomize STEM versus STEAM educational debates.

Introduction: A Luxury Any Government Can Afford: English-Language Creative Writing Pedagogies in Twenty-First-Century Asia Part 1. The Language... 1. "Speak Good Singlish": An Ang Moh Directs Singapore's First Creative Writing Master's Degree, not Quite in Singlish 2. Compromised Tongues: That "Wrong" Language for the Creative Writing We Teach in Asia 3. Charisma versus Amnesia: The Rise of Creative Writing in English India 4. The New Creative Writing Classroom of India: The Client-Student, Structures of Privilege and the Spectre of Privatisation 5. Reframing the Field: Genre and the Rising Twenty-First-Century Multilingual Writer 6. Self-Translation from China: Aspects of Creative Writing in English as a Foreign Language 7. Radical Translation: Teaching Poetry Writing in Hong Kong Part 2. ...and the Landscape 8. Another English: Filipinos Write Back 9. The Problem of Memoir in the Philippines: A Possible Solution 10. Teaching Creative Writing in Taiwan: Or, Taking the Worry Out of the Word "Creative" 11. The Non-Fiction Selfie 12. Writing Dance: Mentoring the Voices of Dance Artists across the Asia-Pacific 13. Cosmopolitan Creative Writing Pedagogies: First-Person Plural and Writing/Teaching against Offence