Jen Webb, a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, is known for her collaborative research approach. She was the inaugural director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research and remains a core member of that Centre. Webb’s recent works include the scholarly volume Researching Creative Writing in 2015. Her current major projects, which investigate aspects of creativity, creative production, and the creative producer, have been supported by several ARC Discovery projects, the most recent of which is “So what do you do? Graduates in the creative and cultural industries”. Liu Wei-Dong is a writer and researcher; he obtained his master’s degree in creative writing from Shanghai University in 2016 and gained a doctoral degree at Southwest Jiaotong University in 2021. Now, he is a contract research fellow at Shanghai University’s Chinese Creative Writing Centre and a lecturer at Wenzhou University’s Creative Writing Research Centre. He has been the executive editor of Chinese Creative Writing Studies since 2019, a secretary of the Global Association of Chinese Creative Writing, and an editor of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Publishing at Shanghai University. This interview was conducted in December 2022.