The International Center for Creative Writing Research (ICCWR) conducts many many events and activities. Now for over a dozen years, the ICCWR has supported video-linked worldwide seminars and conferences, online chats, workshops, creative and/or critical exchanges, 'on-site' readings, conferences, seminars, workshops and talks. 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 Center "based-at . . . " or "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.
Forthcoming:
100 Minutes of Creative Writing, June 30 2016, a global invited event to celebrate 100 hours of ICCWR activities from 1998 to 2016. Participants from the USA, UK, Australasia and beyond. 100 minutes of discussions, readings, presentations.
Recent events supported by the ICCWR include**:
Great Writing: the International Creative Writing Conference, Imperial College, London, June 18-19, 2016. Now in its 19th year. Creative writers from around the world meet to explore the practice, teaching and researching of creative writing. Almost every country in the world has been represented at some point at Great Writing. While the majority of presenters and participants are from the UK, USA and Australia, creative writers from China, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, Greece, Croatia, UAE, and many more!
Changing Creative Writing in America - November 19-20, 2015. In April 2015, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) held its 2015 annual national conference in the "twin city" of Minneapolis. In November 2015, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) will also hold its annual convention, "Responsibility, Creativity, and the Arts of Language" in the city of Minneapolis. This "twinning" of interests and commitments and enthusiasms seems so clearly to represent the need to look to building bridges between those with interests in creative writing wherever they are based in US education, to look to the future, to the possibilities and indeed developments and developing the practice and teaching of creative writing. With this in mind, we aim to host (in Minneapolis in November during the time of the NCTE conference) an historic off-site event entitled "Changing Creative Writing in America".
** Suggestions for future events are very welcome. Contact Graeme: chair@iccwr.org
Here, just a few examples previous activities in the past dozen years:
February 2016 - Action in Creative Writing - Five site discussion of action in writing, undertaken across the USA
December 2015 - Global Creative Writing Hangout - Americas, Europe, Australasia and Africa. On this day we will link up to 10 locations around the world for an all day creative writing discussion, series of readings, and a range of opportunities to meet creative writers, creative writing faculty and creative writing students from around the world.
April 2015 - International video link: USA-South Korea. Students and faculty discuss the nature of poetry writing in their countries, and what it is like to be a student of poetry in universities in these two countries.
April 2015 - Discussion at annual AWP Conference, Minneapolis, USA - conference ICCWR booth 'round tables' and meetings.
June 2014 - 17th Annual Great Writing international Creative Writing conference - Imperial College, London, June 28th - 29th 2014. Contact: Great Writing.
March 2014 - Examination of doctoral work in Creative Writing - an international comparison.
November 2013 - Google Hangout with USA, UK, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand. Inaugural 5 country video discussion on creative writing in higher education.
June 2013 - 16th Annual Great Writing international Creative Writing conference - Imperial College, London, June 29th - 30th 2013. Contact: Great Writing.
February 2013 - ICCWR beams from AWP annual conference in Boston, MA.
June 2012 - 15th Annual Great Writing international Creative Writing conference - Imperial College, London, June 16-17th 2012. Contact: Great Writing
February 2012 - video link with Australia. Discussion of creative writing graduate degrees.
June 2011 - 14th Annual Great Writing international Creative Writing conference - Imperial College, London, June 18th - 20th 2011. Contact: Great Writing.
February 2011 - AWP Annual Conference. This year in Washington D.C. See you at the ICCWR booth. All Welcome!
December 2010 - Creative Knowledge. A video link series, exploring the nature of imaginative understanding: links between the USA, UK, Australasia.
September 2010 - 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
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.
Video linked Seminars. Readings, Workshops- the inaugural Creative Writing video link between the UK-USA-Australia (March 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, March 2002.
- Additional and other general activities -
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).
