From North America, creative writing proliferated across Asia as a result of alignments and associations initiated earlier by individuals and institutions such as The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Australian writer Tom Inglis Moore, Filipino writer F. Sionil Jose, The University of Western Australia’s literary journal Westerly, The Silliman University National Writers’ Workshop, Australian historian, sinologist, and writer Wang Gung-Wu, The Canberra Fellowship of Australian Writers, the Australian bookseller, book collector Lu Rees, the anthology Span, and the magazine Hemisphere. These individuals, institutions, and several publications and organisations cultivated a sense of interest and commitment to fostering groundbreaking linkages between Asia and the rest of the world. Since then, many Asian writers have become recipients of the Colombo Plan, Fulbright, British Council, and other scholarships. Today, Asian universities—especially in the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore—offer generous grants and fellowships for creative writers attending academic programmes, conferences, and workshops. An even more widespread network of competitions, prizes, organisations, and media has increased and developed among Asians, institutions with members of Asian extraction, and their supporters.