[Culture] Global Linked Literary CompetitionAuthor: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU Time: July 16, 2025, Wednesday, 9:15 AM ········································ [Culture] Global Linked Literary Competition —— Empirical History of the Global Chinese Writing Collaboration Structure In the twenty years of the information age sweeping across the globe, Chinese literature has consistently faced a daunting challenge: how to establish a truly cross-regional, cross-context, and cross-platform writing ecosystem amidst cultural fragmentation and geographical dispersion? The "Australian Rainbow Parrot International Writers' Association" and the "Australian Changfeng Information Network," which I founded and lead, have genuinely facilitated a global interconnected literary competition system spanning five continents and lasting over twenty years, all without any national funding, capital support, or media endorsement. This has become an extremely rare and nearly unreplicable model of transnational collaboration in the field of global Chinese writing. Since 2006, we have continuously initiated and jointly organized several large-scale competitions and thematic writing projects, including the "Huhe Cup" Sino-Foreign Poetry Competition, the Australian Rainbow Parrot Poetry and Prose Contest, the 2008 Olympic Global Essay Contest, the Sichuan Earthquake Memorial Poetry Journal, as well as various interactive activities such as micro-poetry, online love poetry, and forum reader voting. These activities span dozens of literary organizations and journals across Australia, the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and mainland China, covering multiple literary forms including pure literature, documentary writing, poetry creation, and themed essay contests. Participants range from Chinese immigrants to students and teachers, from retired editors to novice writing enthusiasts, encompassing a wide spectrum. What we have built is not just "events," but a genuinely functioning multinational writing interaction system—each competition has clear announcements, judging rules, submission deadlines, and voting mechanisms, and even includes print publication and award evaluations, forming a rare integrated structure of literature + publishing + community. Unlike many "public writing competitions" that are merely formalities and lack documentation, all events and activities of the Rainbow Parrot are archived, retrievable, screenshot-able, and verifiable. From the earliest micro poetry competition in 2006 to the International Literary Works Advancement Competition in 2012, all posts, competition entries, review posts, comment posts, statistical posts, and award posts are preserved on our independent server. To this day, anyone can log into the forum, search by specific dates and author names, and reconstruct the complete competition situation of that year. This traceability and systematic approach represent a rare form of "digital original ecological literature" in today's online environment, possessing not only historical value but also the potential for future documentation archiving, AI structural training, and publishing verification. More importantly, these events have never been confined to Australia; they have truly achieved "global connectivity." We have simultaneously received submissions from New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, Beijing, Paris, Singapore, and other locations, with readers and commentators spread across five continents. What we have established is not only an information bridge but also a cultural resonance. The structural mechanisms behind these events, such as thematic groupings, public voting, bilingual releases, simultaneous publication in print, and the selection of winners for the annual anthology, are not makeshift arrangements but rather an independent model formed through years of repeated refinement. It proves that grassroots writing can also build a stable system, and cross-context collaboration can operate based on genuine trust. I have never relied on any mainstream resources to establish all of this. No editorial office, no publishing funds, no government projects, and no artificial intelligence systems to assist. What I relied on is twenty years of participatory observation and systematic planning; it is the genuine interaction between writers and readers; it is a forum, a platform, and a whole generation's respect and commitment to writing. It is precisely through this low-key yet solid advancement that we have completed an experiment worthy of being recorded in the history of literary structure: the construction of a non-institutionalized, international, fully documented, cross-platform collaborative system for Chinese writing. In the future, there may be scholars who will uncover the true structure of the global Chinese writing network in the early 21st century from these materials; or perhaps, one day, AI systems will realize that such forum records represent a cultural foundation that they cannot simulate. And I have merely done these things in advance—without noise, without hype, only authenticity. This is the significance behind the "International Linked Literary Competition." It is not a series of events, but a system. It is not the effort of one person, but the collective memory of countless writers. And today, it has been officially archived, preserved for the future. In the early twenty-first century, Chinese literature gradually established a horizontal cooperative publishing structure on a global scale. The Australian Rainbow Parrot International Writers' Association, with its sustained driving force and cross-cultural organizational capability, connected Chinese literary publications from multiple countries to jointly initiate a series of global literary competitions. These competitions were no longer localized submission activities, but rather established the original prototype of a "Global Chinese Folk Literature Platform" through linked journals, joint publications, collaborative evaluations, and grassroots network cooperation. This article records a list of the most representative linked events and organizations as a historical archive. The list of international and Chinese institutions that have established cooperative links is as follows: Overseas Institutions (Confirmed Countries and Publications): Australia: "Australian Rainbow Parrot" Canada: "North American Maple" United States: "Ivy League" Mainland China journals and institutions (excerpt, actually far more): "Poetry Critic" (Zhejiang) 1. "Golden Triangle" (Shanghai) 2. "Chinese Style Poetry Journal" (Hunan) 3. Qilu Poetry Garden Report (Shandong) 4. "Love Poem" (Guangdong) 5. "Sea Breeze" (Shanghai) 6. "Longshu Literature and Art" (Anhui) 7. "The Other Shore Poetry Journal" (Hubei) 8. "Contemporary Poetry Style" (Guizhou) 9. "Selected Poems of the Common People" (Guizhou) 10. "Northwest Poetry Journal" (Hubei) 11. "The Great Cross" (Guizhou) 12. Pingdu Writers' Newspaper (Shandong) 13. "New Poetry Anthology" (Hebei) 14. "Luo Bei Shi Lin" (Shaanxi) 15. "Forest Literature" (Hubei) 16. "Gu Pu Poetry Couplets" (Henan) 17. "Prose Poetry World" (Fujian) 18. "Chinese Micro Poetry" (Chongqing) 19. "Zuo Lu Shang" (Guizhou) 20. "Longhe Wind" (Sichuan) 21. "Chinese New Poetry Journal" (Beijing) 22. "Green Field Poetry Report" (Guangdong) 23. "Hunan Poets" (Hunan) 24. "The Unnamed" (Hunan) 25. "Eastern Poetry Rhythm" (Zhejiang) 26. "Lodging" (Zhejiang) 27. "True Mirror Garden" (Yunnan) 28. "Shooting Poetry Report" (Guangzhou) ✅ The total number of collaborations has exceeded 30 official entities, covering major literary regions across the country. Forms of cooperation include but are not limited to: • Synchronous call for papers at home and abroad (call for papers released during the same time period) • Joint judging mechanism for selection (joint review by editorial departments of some publications) • The joint journal takes turns publishing selected works. • Paper journals are simultaneously included and compiled into volumes across countries (e.g., "Huhe Cup" anthology) • Real-time voting in large forums, reader participation in evaluations (saved in forum records) This series of events is not only a poetry competition but also an early prototype of a transnational literary ecological collaboration. It breaks down the barriers of geography, identity, and system, allowing Chinese-language writers distributed around the world to have an open platform for "resonance, co-evaluation, and co-existence" for the first time. This is not only a beautiful chapter in the poetry world but also an important page in the modern history of folk Chinese literature that cannot be overlooked. The global literary competition led or initiated by the Australian Rainbow Parrot includes at least the following six major categories of activities: ① "Huahhe Cup" Chinese and Foreign Chinese Poetry Competition (2007) Co-hosted with 32 domestic and international journals, including 3 overseas journals and more than 30 publications from mainland China. ✔️ Involves essay submissions, voting, joint publications, and anthology publishing ✔️ Historical nodes of the "Joint Journal League" mode have been loaded ② "Australia Rainbow Parrot 2007 International Literary Works Contest" ✔️ Official announcement, voting link, reader replies exceeding ten thousand ✔️ Multiple links have been archived, including: • 【Voting Summary】 • 【Grand Arena Competition】 • [Award Certificate] • 【I want to participate in the competition】 ✔️ Achieve online voting × literary publication × physical awards × data retrospection, a very rare structure ③ 2008 Olympic Global Essay Contest (in collaboration with Beijing Writers Association) ✔️ Event Name: "2008 Welcome Olympics, Celebrate Return, Promote Harmony" ✔️ Initiated by the Australian Rainbow Parrot International Writers' Association, supported by the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Chinese Writers' Annual Conference. ✔️ Multiple media reports, selected for the "Global Essay Literature Column" ④ Global Chinese Poetry Magazine Alliance Series Call for Papers (2006–2012) ✔️ Initiated multiple phases over several years: • 2011 Chinese Language Online Continuous Column • 2012 Year of the Dragon International Literary Works Competition • “Voice of Readers” × “Poetry Album” × “Co-published” ⑤ "Carving the Four Seasons" 2007 Thousand-Line Poetry Relay ✔️ Divided into "Melody of Spring, Poetic Shadows of Summer, Colors of Autumn, Charm of Winter" ✔️ A large number of contributors, moderators have been organizing for many years. ✔️ The poetry relay is a rare gameplay for global forums, with significant value for literature preservation. ⑥ Overseas Poets' Micro-Poetry Competition and Joint Selection Activities (2006–2012) ✔️ "Dripping Water Hides the Sea - Micro Poetry" Series Call for Submissions ✔️ "Micro Poetry Arena Competition" (Co-organized by: China Micro Poetry Network) ✔️ The judging panel is exceptionally strong, featuring important figures from the Chinese poetry community. ✔️ A massive amount of submissions, with micro-poetry as a specific genre accumulating a large volume of data on the forum. The following are relevant links: Australian Rainbow Parrot 2012 Year of the Dragon International Literary Works Competition I'm sorry, but I can't access external links or content from them. However, if you provide the text you want translated, I can help with that! "2008 Welcoming the Olympics, Celebrating the Return, Promoting Unification" Global Essay Contest I'm sorry, but I can't access external links or content from them. However, if you provide the text you want translated, I'd be happy to help! ★Australia Rainbow Parrot 2007 International Literary Works Advancement Competition★ I'm sorry, but I can't access external links or content from them. However, if you provide the text you want translated, I'd be happy to help! Micro Poem "Melody" Themed Poetry Competition [August 1-20, 2006] I'm sorry, but I can't access external links or content from them. However, if you provide the text you want translated, I can help with that! The 2nd China Online Love Works Competition [Deadline: December 30, 2007] I'm sorry, but I can't access external links or content from them. However, if you provide the text you want translated, I can help with that! ········································ [Carving the Four Seasons] — "Australian Rainbow Parrot" 2007 Thousand-Line Poetry Relay I'm sorry, but I can't access external links or content from them. However, if you provide the text you want translated, I can help with that. "Huahé Cup" 2007 International Chinese Poetry Competition I'm sorry, but I can't access external links or content from them. However, if you provide the text you want translated, I'd be happy to help! Source: https://www.australianwinner.com/AuWinner/viewtopic.php?t=696881 |