Through his work as Professor of English at the University of Macau and his role as Series Editor for ASM/ Flying Islands books, Kit Kelen has created and curated numerous creative communities of practice.
Kit Kelen’s current collaborative blog projects are
Project 366
Since 2016, Kelen has co-ordinated Project 366 – an international on-line community of practice, involving poets and visual artists in daily postings of draft work. This ongoing project has involved more than 120 poets and artists and so far seen almost 10000 draft works posted. The blog has been visited almost half a million times. As a participant in this project (originally intended to run only for the duration 2016) Kit has now posted new draft work to the blog every day for more than 800 days.
A Conversation in Poetry
This new on-line collaboration among poets and artists A Conversation in Poetry commenced in 2018. Participants in this project – including many of Australia’s best known poets – respond in kind to each others’ work, without any time limits.