David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship 2025–2026

The David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship is an annual award of 26,000 GBP to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about East and Southeast Asia to spend a year at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Applications for the Fellowship will be considered from established published as well as unpublished writers of any age and any nationality. 

The Fellowship will be awarded to a writer planning to produce a work of prose fiction in English which deals seriously with some aspect of life in East and Southeast Asia (including Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, China, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam).

Fellows take up their appointments on 1 October each year. The Fellow will be a member of the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and will be required to reside at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom for the academic year; accommodation will be provided on campus, to be paid for by the Fellow out of the Fellowship Award. Shared office space and computer facilities will be made available for the Fellow in the School. 

During the residential period, the Fellow will be required to submit written work to a nominated mentor and take part in Creative Writing Research Seminars. No teaching duties attach to the Fellowship. 

David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship 2025–26 application guidelines 

Deadline: 28 February 2025