2024 International Lamplight (Online) Residency - Shanghai
We’re pleased to announce the outcome of this year’s Lamplight (Online) Residency with Shanghai Writers’ Association.
This program is a one-week long online residency offered to three writers from Australia and three writers from China.
It includes:
A writers conversation with Isabelle Li and Pan Xiangli to talk about current work.
An online Q&A session with award-winning author Nicholas Jose.
An online Q&A session with award-winning Chinese poet, essayist, and author of children's literature Zhao Lihong.
Facilitated professional networking opportunities with peers throughout the week, including the opportunity to share work, talk about process, and receive feedback.
The callout was open to writers of fiction only and who are published Australian writers of fiction with a connection to Western Sydney University (as students, staff or alumni) and/or Varuna alumni, or to Chinese writers via the Shanghai Writers’ Association.
This program is generously supported by Creative Australia and Western Sydney University’s Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture (IAC).
Congratulations to the writers selected to participate this year.
Carol Major has been a professional writer for over thirty years. She holds master and doctorate degrees in creative writing from the University of Technology, Sydney, where she has taught at graduate and postgraduate levels. She is originally from Scotland, later educated in Canada and now lives in the Blue mountains of Australia. Carol’s short stories, social commentary articles and essays have been published in Australian and Canadian journals and anthologies. She has completed three novels, and also works as a commercial writer with a particular focus on creating narratives to inform urban design. More about Carol can be found at advancednarrative.com
Frances Olivia’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies, including Award Winning Australian Writing (Melbourne Books), Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (Hunter Publishers), Growing up in Country Australia (Black Inc), Overland, and Cordite. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney, a DCA in creative writing from Western Sydney University, and she is currently completing a PhD in creative writing at UTS. She lives and works on Gadigal land with her greyhound, Pegasus.
Hoa Pham is the author of eight fiction books and one play. She is currently working on "Miss Indochine-The Last Empress of Vietnam" a historical fiction novel and "The Story of Chi" with Jeremy Nguyen and Hiroki Kobayashi for Terrapin Puppetry Theatre which will tour Adelaide, Sydney and Tasmania in late 2024.
FU LIANG
Fu Liang is currently a member of the Shanghai Writers' Association and the vice chairman of the Hongkou District Writers' Association. He won the second prize in The New Concept Composition Competition in 2001. After a long period of interruption in literary creation, he restarted his literary career with the novel Electric Shock is No Match for Hypnosis in “Du Chang Tuan” magazine. In the last decade, his novels and essays have been published in literature magazines such as People’s Literature, Shanghai Literature, Mengya and Changjiang Literature & Art. He is also the author of The Detective in Time and Xun Long. Now he concentrates on creating "mystery works with literariness."
YUAN LI
Yuan Li is a writer, editor at MengYa magazine, and a playwright. Her works have been published in Harvest, Shanghai Literature, Wenweipo, Mengya and other periodicals. She has published short story collections including “What to Talk About Before We Fall in love” and “Buy a dog to kill time.” She has also conducted theatre and drama workshops for young people in Norway, the UK and China.
CHEN SI
Chen Si is a member of Shanghai Writers’ Association and currently works in the Creation and Liasion Department of Shanghai Writers’ Association. Her writings can be found in Xihu, Youth and Xinmin Evening News.
