The International Centre for Creative Writing Research (ICCWR) conducts many many events and activities. These events include video-linked worldwide seminars and conferences, online chats, workshops, creative and/or critical exchanges, 'on-site' readings, conferences, seminars, workshops and talks (originating in the UK, the Centre also has considerable involvement from those in the USA and Australasia, and increasingly from those working in Asia, Africa and continental Europe). At present, events are conducted in the English language; however, there is no reason events could not be conducted in other languages, and we welcome all suggestions for events and activities.
The ICCWR is non-institutional - meaning, it is not a Centre "based-at . . . ", the "property of . . . ", or the "Centre located in . . . ". Rather, the ICCWR works through international collaboration and mutual exchange. The ICCWR's remit is to openly investigate knowledge, understanding and experience in the field of Creative Writing. The word "research" is seen to entail both creative practice and critical understanding.
Future events supported by the ICCWR include:
February 2011 - AWP Annual Conference. This year in Washington D.C. See you at the ICCWR booth. All Welcome!
September 2010 - Unmade: Making It in Universities, an international link exploring the nature of making the world through collaboration - in conjunction with COLLAB (Collaboration Laboratory).
August 2010 - the ICCWR is sponsoring a session on postgraduate study in Creative Writing in the UK, being held at the Swedenborg Centre in Bloomsbury, via the excellent NAWE (the UK's National Association of Writers in Education).
June 2010 - the annual Great Writing, international Creative Writing conference , now in its 13th year [the 14th annual conference will be announced in September 2010 and held in June-July 2011, in London]
April 2010 - the ICCWR is a sponsor at the annual AWP Conference (USA). being held this year in Denver. More information on this conference can be found on the Association of Writers and Writing Programs site
January 2010 - Second ICCWR International Creative Writing Skype-In. All Welcome to join in! Contact: chair@iccwr.org
** Suggestions for future events are very welcome.
Recent/Previous:
November 19/20th 2009. The Inaugural ICCWR Creative Writing Skype-In - involving Creative Writing Skype contributors across 3 continents! More events of this kind are now planned. All are invited to Skype-In at the Skype address: iccwr.org.
November-December 2009. Held in London, the ICCWR has supported the development of the inaugural National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) seminar and workshop series on Creative Writing in Higher Education. More information on the UK's NAWE Creative Writing Higher Education Network is available from the network coordinator, Hilary Jenkins, on h.jenkins@nawe.co.uk
Previous:
Video linked Seminars. Readings, Workshops - the inaugural Creative Writing video link between UK-USA-Australia ( 2005);
Inaugural international video-linked Creative Writing seminar/workshop - links to Princeton, UEA and NIECI (2002)
Inaugural international video conferences on Creative Writing - with Iowa (Frank Conroy), and other persons and locations in USA, Australia, South Africa, Canada, continental Europe.
Readings and Events ("on-site") at the AWP (New York, Chicago etc), in universities in USA, Australia, around the UK.
Publications - support for Special Issues of journals, with assistance in finding writers who are writing on Creative Writing research (practice-led and critical).
