Graham Lawrence – Personal:
Graham Lawrence is now retired and living with his wife in Thailand where they lead a quiet life. He now concentrates actively on his writing. Both trying to find, collate and post old work and to add new into the mix. This is currently a huge task as over a hundred pieces of old writing have been found in various states of completion and new work is being written fairly regularly. These works are varied. These works are now published on the Musings page of this website. Please have a read, and if you can be bothered, let me know what you think.
When not working on these things, Graham likes to enjoy good food and an occasional drink. He will at some point get round to restringing the guitar and strumming away, too. Long walks and thinking are his other great loves in latter day life.
Graham – Professional Past
Graham Lawrence was a Thai based British specialist in teaching, training, website development, publishing, editing and the creative arts.
Graham Lawrence spent twenty-six years in two stints, working for the American University Alumni Language Center. He was finally the Director of Corporate & Online Department, which was growing at a over 100% per annum in his tenure. Previously he managed multiple successful branches across Thailand and was also involved in many teacher training projects. He had started as an ESL teacher here back in the mists of time.
In 2011 Graham decided to take a sabbatical to work on some personal goals. Probably the best known and most successful of these was the founding of Eastlit Journal. In December 2012, the first issue of Eastlit came out. It was, when launched one of the first online journals of English literature dedicated to work specifically from or connected to the combined regions of East and South East Asia.
In 2014 Graham launched Southlit a sister journal to Eastlit. Southlit is aimed at creative writing and art focused on South Asia. Towards the end of 2014 it was decided to integrate Southlit into its larger sister Eastlit. IN 2017 Eastlit was put on a hiatus owing to work pressures not allowing the time to dedicate to provide the quality service needed. It is intended to relaunch at a convenient point.
Prior to this, Graham worked in homelessness after completing a degree in his mid twenties. He had worked for 6 years as a fire investigator before leaving to do his degree.
