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The David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship is a unique and generous annual award of £26,000 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.
The Fellowship was launched in 1997 and the first Fellow appointed from 1st October 1998.
The Fellowship is named for its sponsor, the late Mr David T.K. Wong, a Hong Kong businessman who was also a teacher, journalist and senior civil servant, and a writer of fiction.
David T.K. Wong's first novel The Evergreen Teahouse was published in 2003, his collection of short fiction Chinese Stories in Times of Change in 2009. His last novel, The Embrace of Harlots, was published in 2011. To read excerpts from David Wong's work and for more information, please visit his website.
Fellowship Award 2024/25
We are delighted to announce that the 2024/25 David T. K. Wong Fellowship has been awarded to Doua Thao.
Doua Thao holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he also served as Fiction Editor of the Greensboro Review. For the past few years, he's made his home in Vientiane, Laos. His work has appeared in Fiction, Crab Orchard Review, Newfound, and elsewhere. His writing has been included in The O. Henry Prize Stories anthology as well as supported with a PEN/Bare Life Review Grant.
Former David T.K. Wong Fellows
You can read more about the former Fellows on UEA Writers.
Xing Zhao (2023/24)
Mishi Saran (2022/23)
John Bengan (2021/22)
Che Yeun (2020/21)
Joe Milan Jr. (2019/20)
Melissa Fu (2018/19)
Nathaniel Go (2017/18)
Meng Jin (2016/17)
Violet Kupersmith (2015/16)
Jack Wang (2014/15)
Sharlene Teo (2013/14)
Ramesh Balakrishna Pillay (2012/13)
Presca Ahn (2011/12)
Chau (Cab) Tran (2010/11)
Hanh Hoang (2009/10)
Nam Le (2008/9)
Balli Jaswal (2007/8)
Mulaika Hijjas (2006/7)
Linh Dinh (2005/6)
Rattawut Lapcharoensap (2004/5)
Lakambini (Bing) Sitoy (2003/4)
Wendy Law-Yone (2002/3)
Liisa Laing (2001/2)
Simone Lazaroo (2000/1)
José Dalisay (1999/2000)
Po Wah Lam (1998/99)
Applying for the Fellowship
Applications for the Fellowship are not open at present and this page will be updated when applications are open again.
Applications for the 2025/26 Fellowship will be open from 6 January 2025 and will close at midnight (GMT) on 28 February 2025.
Please contact the Fellowship Administrator if you have any queries.