CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2006 FELLOWSHIP: 31st JANUARY

The David TK Wong Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award - £25,000 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 shortlisted entries will be judged by a distinguished international panel, and since there will be no interviews, candidates will be judged entirely on the quality and promise of their writing, and the project they describe. There is no age limit, and no means test of any kind.

The Fellowship was launched in 1997 and the first Fellow appointed form 1st October 1998. The Fellow joins a community of writers founded by Sir Angus Wilson and Malcolm Bradbury in 1971. The Creative Writing programme at UEA is currently led by Professor Patricia Duncker and Professor Michele Roberts. Among our graduates are Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Andrew Cowan, Martyn Bedford, Michael Jackson, Toby Litt, Trezza Azzopardi, Tracy Chevalier, Ben Rice, Owen Sheers, Sue Fletcher and Diana Evans.

Previous Fellows: Po Wah Lam (1998), José Dalisay (1999), Simone Lazaroo (2000), Liisa Laing (2001), Wendy Law-Yone (2002), Lakambini Sitoy (2003). The 2004 Fellow is Rattawut Lapcharoensap (2004). The 2005 Fellow is Linh Dinh.

THE DAVID T K WONG PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION

International PEN is delighted to announce a new prize to promote literary excellence in the form of the short story and to further the awareness of and support for the ideals of PEN worldwide. Unpublished stories, written in English, are welcome from writers world-wide but stories must incorporate one or more of International PEN’s ideals as set out in its Charter. Since the prize also hopes to help raise funds for individual centres, entries should not be sent direct to International PEN but should be submitted via the entrant’s local PEN Centre.

The first prize is £7,500.

Further details on http://www.internationalpen.org.uk

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