Join us for this University of Washington panel with Southeast Asian writers Wahid Al Mamun and Sharmini Aphrodite, moderated by Marc Nair, part of the SEA x SEA Film and Literary Festival. Register for free here: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpd-6tqz0iE9PK9oqtZW9aG8Kr8v0Rzocp

This panel is co-organised by the journal Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA). Founded in 2020, PR&TA is a new peer-reviewed and open-access journal of creative practice with a broad focus on creative writing and related disciplines. The panel was made possible with the sponsorship of PR&TA co-founder, the poet Alvin Pang.

Creative Practice is more than just the practice of one’s chosen art form. It encompasses everything from ideation to incubation and execution. It is work that is not embarked on in a silo. It is made with an awareness of other practitioners in the field. It is cognizant of contemporaneous developments in politics and the minutiae of everyday life. It includes our sources and search for inspiration, our rituals and our willingness to live and even thrive within and against the ambiguity of making.

Southeast Asia is a particularly fragmented polyglot of culture, geography, language and myth, quite possibly held together only by a shared love for chili. It is one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but has not escaped the dogs of war, authoritarian governments or a growing income divide fueled by rampant capitalism.

In this panel, Jen Soriano, Wahid Al Mamun and Shamini Aphrodite, writers who practice in different genres and have roots in Southeast Asia, discuss their reference points for writing, the themes they lean towards and barriers to their practice. The session will be moderated by Marc Nair, a founding member of PR&TA (Practice, Research and Tangential Activities), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that explores traces of practice and praxis across Southeast Asia.

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