Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do. No, not really. Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were. For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse.
Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.
In Canada, the ill-defined area of English literature known as Commonwealth literature takes on a major importance. No, not with much. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English. I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India. In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages.