Recently, the "He Jianming China Creative Writing Award" was officially established in Shanghai, donated by He Jianming, vice chairman of the China Writers Association and writer, and the China Creative Writing Center of Shanghai University as the executive agency, with the "Work Creation Award", "Emerging Writer Award", "Creative Writing Theory Award" and "Creative Writing Teaching Contribution Award", with a prize of 300,000 yuan per session.
From the early Stanford University classroom to the University of Iowa's writers' workshop, with the help of creative writing teaching concepts and methods, these writers break their boundaries and experiences with each other and make more cross-border attempts. From this point of view, the establishment of the "He Jianming China Creative Writing Award" reflects the encouragement of the source of creative writing to the spirit of inclusive, open and innovative literature, and provides a new channel for the outside world to understand creative writing.
In recent years, the multiple driving forces behind the diversified development of urban cultural and creative industries, the cross-influence of serious literature and genre literature, and the diversified reality of online writing can always be seen in the figure of creative writing and the voices from Shanghai universities. Over the past ten years, the localization of creative writing in China has begun from the development of discipline construction in colleges and universities, and has continuously improved the whole education system from undergraduate to postdoctoral and even to middle and high school composition, and at the same time, the founding of the magazine "Chinese Creative Writing Research" and the holding of the Chinese Creative Writing Conference for six consecutive years are important symbols of the deep localization of creative writing. The dissemination and development of a literary concept and literary spirit is also inseparable from the encouragement and promotion of literary awards.
On September 3, the "He Jianming China Creative Writing Award" was officially established in Shanghai, becoming another creative writing literary award that has attracted the attention of the literary world after the Peiyuan Cup of Peking University and the "Future Writers" Award of East China Normal University, and the first official award named after "Chinese Creative Writing". "He Jianming China Creative Writing Award" was established by He Jianming, vice chairman of the China Writers Association and writer He Jianming, settled in Shanghai University, with the China Creative Writing Center of Shanghai University as the executive body, under the "Work Creation Award", "Emerging Writer Award", "Creative Writing Theory Award" and "Creative Writing Teaching Contribution Award", with a prize of 300,000 yuan per session.
At the press conference held by the Shanghai He Jianming Literature Research Institute, He Jianming said that although creative writing has a disciplinary concept definition, it can also have a broader explanation, "Chinese literary writing, in fact, has changed a lot in these years, including stylistic changes, which have changed in novels, poetry and documentary creation, in fact, contemporary writers are facing the challenge of new reading forms and new media, they have been adjusting their writing forms." This change and the diversification and new development of the genre boil down to the fact that writers are exploring new creative methods and are all writing creatively. He especially mentioned the creative changes of writers like Zhang Wei and Liu Xinglong, who have been concerned in recent years, the former's children's literature writing, the latter's diversified writing in Wuhan, can be regarded as the exploration and innovation of contemporary mature writers in cross-genre and cross-border aspects, therefore, the original intention of the establishment of the award can be seen as based on the current situation of the literary world, facing the innovative spirit of mature writers, but also pay equal attention to the encouragement of young literary newcomers and the contribution of teachers. Tan Xudong, a professor of creative writing at Shanghai University and a writer of children's literature, responded at the scene that cross-border attempts such as mature writers' intervention in children's literature writing should be encouraged more. Blood Hong, president of the Shanghai Internet Writers Association, mentioned the effective interaction between creative writing and the development of online literature in recent years, especially in Shanghai, which provides a lot of inspiration and guidance for online writing on realistic themes.
Many writers in recent years consciously spontaneous cross-border attempts, do not think of themselves as creative writing, but in He Jianming's view, this is a writing phenomenon that should be encouraged and valued, he took the Shanghai anti-epidemic works he wrote last year, "First Time" and "Shanghai Expression", as an example, to tell how he called on the skills and concepts of creative writing to carry out non-fiction writing different from the past. The reporter also learned that out of concern for the theme and writing creativity of the book "Shanghai Expression", the Japanese version of the book was just published in August this year, and the Russian version and other translations are also in the process of being published.
Newly published "Shanghai Emoticons" Japanese version (left), Chinese edition and "First Time"
Ge Hongbing, professor of creative writing at Shanghai University, witnessed he Jianming's concern for and participation in the promotion of Shanghai's literary development and creative writing development for many years, and he also said at the scene that he witnessed the creation of creative writing from a few colleges and universities in China in the early days when only Fudan University and Shanghai University had disciplines to more than 500 colleges and universities today, and the number of undergraduate students participating in creative writing courses to varying degrees has exceeded 10,000, "These achievements will become the real cornerstone of cultural development and cultural and creative industries in the future." ”。
On the day of the press conference, Xu Daojun and Zhang Yonglu, heads of the organizing committee, read out the charter of the first "He Jianming China Creative Writing Award" on behalf of the organizers and introduced the relevant matters of the award, the nominated works were nominated and recommended by the nomination committee, at the same time, the expert recommendation and the writer himself recommended, it is expected to hold the award ceremony at the 7th Chinese Creative Writing Conference held in Guangdong in December this year. He Jianming expects that the establishment of the award will enable contemporary writers to pay more and more attention to creative writing, "and also hope that more writers and young writers will join the ranks of creative writing, so that Chinese literature can present a more wonderful phenomenon, and dedicate more and better Chinese creative writing works to the times and the world." ”
The original article is published in the "WeChat public account of the Literary Newspaper"
New Media Editor: Zheng Zhouming
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