Campus Digest

HKBU greets international writers at welcoming reception

30 Oct 2014

Professor Albert Chan (fourth from left), Professor Douglas Robinson (fourth from right), Professor Kathleen Ahrens (third from left) and visiting writers kick off the International Writers’ Workshop Professor Albert Chan (fourth from left), Professor Douglas Robinson (fourth from right), Professor Kathleen Ahrens (third from left) and visiting writers kick off the International Writers’ Workshop
Professor Albert Chan (fourth from left), Professor Douglas Robinson (fourth from right), Professor Kathleen Ahrens (third from left) and visiting writers kick off the International Writers’ Workshop

 

The University welcomed five international writers of this year’s International Writers’ Workshop (IWW) at a reception yesterday (29 October). The theme for this year’s IWW is “The Magical Reality of Writing”. The visiting writers are now in residence at HKBU for a month of cross-cultural literary exchange with staff and students, local literary circles as well as the general public.

 

The IWW writers this year are Mr Ricardo de Ungria (Poet, The Philippines), Ms Khet Mar (Essayist, Short story writer, Journalist, Myanmar), Mr Philip Ó Ceallaigh (Short story writer, Journalist, Ireland), Ms Chung Wen-yin (Fiction Writer, Prose Writer, Photographer, Taiwan), and Mr Jing Ge (Fiction Writer, Calligrapher, Mainland China).

 

Officiating at the ceremony were Professor Albert Chan, President and Vice-Chancellor; Professor Douglas Robinson, Dean of Arts; and Professor Kathleen Ahrens, Director, International Writers’ Workshop.

 

At the Welcoming Reception and Creative Works Recital, visiting writers read and shared their creative work on the subject of magical reality.

 

The international writers will also attend a public talk entitled “Evidence of things not seen: The magic and reality of writing” on 31 October (1:30 pm, Room RRS 905, Sir Run Run Shaw building, Ho Sin Hang Campus) and a public recitation on 12 November (8:00 pm, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central). For enquiries and reservations, please contact 3411 2513.

 

For information on the writers and the public and campus activities that they will attend, please refer to http://iww.hkbu.edu.hk.