Digital Residencies 

In 2020, the RMIT University WrICE team partnered with Singapore literary development organization, Sing Lit Station (co-directed by WrICE alumni Joshua Ip), to co-fund a series of three annual WrICE residencies across 2020-2022. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that these residencies pivoted from face-to-face to fully online events.

The WrICE digital residencies took place on various online platforms, each time over a two-week period. Many of the WrICE residency design elements were tweaked but the core methodology remained the same.

This phase of the research has examined the adaptations and affordances of a digital WrICE residency. How can a sense of genuine connection and encounter occur in a video-conferenced residency? How is access affected? What barriers arise, and what barriers are reduced? 

Details of the WrICE 2020-2022 Fellows can be found here, on the Sing Lit Station website. 

Digital WrICE residency 2021, (participants left to right from top row) John Bengan, Francesca Rendle-Short (writer/facilitator), Alvin Pang (writer/facilitator), Eugen Bacon, Audrey Chin, Ramya Jirasinghe, Rina Kikuchi, Clara Chow, Tim Tim Cheng, Nguyễn-Hoàng Quyên, Annika Mok (Sing Lit Station), Charlene Shepherdson (Sing Lit Station), Pandora, Melanie Mununggurr, image Francesca Rendle-Short