Here you’ll find a whole host of writing events and competitions to satisfy your literary taste buds. If you are running any events with a literary focus, please contact us here so that we can include them in our event selection.
Events taking place in SINGAPORE:
Writing the City’s Spoken Word (Singapore Arts Festival)
Come down to the Festival Village on Saturday, 26 May for an evening of performance and poetry. Surrounding the Singapore Arts Festival 2012 theme of ‘Our Lost Poems’ the Writing the City Spoken Word Event will delve into the world of hidden myths and forgotten memories.
Featuring readings and performances by guest poet Ng Yi-Sheng and accompanied by the winning and shortlist entries of Writing the City’s ‘Our Lost Poems’ Competition, the Writing the City Spoken Word event will be held at the Black Box.
Date: 26 May 2012
Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Venue: Black Box, Festival Village
The Ayam Curtain: Open Call for Submissions
In conjuction with Math Paper Press, we are assembling a collection of very, very short speculative fiction stories to be published in the second half of 2012. Anchor contributors to the anthology include Dave Chua, Judith Huang, and Alvin Pang.
Speculative fiction is fiction that contains speculative elements — things that are different from the world we live in. It covers the genres of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror etc., although it is certainly not limited to that. The Handmaid’s Tale is speculative fiction. Midnight’s Children is speculative fiction. 1984 is speculative fiction. Anything with an imaginative element to it falls under the broad umbrella of speculative fiction.
We are looking for stories of alternate worlds marinated with a local flavour: Tell us your visions of an alternate Singapore. Airships? Robots? Exciting new laws? Let your imagination take wing.
Our submissions fall into two categories:
Category I: SPEAKING BIRD LANGUAGE
From the branches above Orchard Road to the void decks where old men with cages gather, bird share stories of fantastic realities they have visited in a cacophony of tweets.
Send us microscopic glimpses into fantastical worlds of lengths between 100-150 words.
Category II: THE AYAM CURTAIN
Numbering more than 23 billion across the globe, there are more specimens of Gallus gallus, the domestic chicken, than any other bird in the world. On paper, by the reckoning of numbers, they are a runaway success as a species. But what utopias do they dream of, caged in their factory farm coops?
Send us 500-1000 word stories of worlds where the boundaries have been shifted in strange ways.
For more information on submissions, please visit http://speculativesingapore.wordpress.com/ayamcurtain/
Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2012
This year’s AFCC is holding its biggest festival yet! Look forward to more than 80 speakers gracing the four major conferences – Teachers Congress, Parents Forum, Asian Children’s Writers & Illustrators Conference and the Media Summit.
Date: 26 – 29 May 2012
Venue: The Arts House, Singapore
If you:
- Want to develop your child/student into a more competent, critical and creative reader
- Have aspirations to develop your own writing and illustrations for children’s’ books
- Work in industries related to creating children’s content
Sign up here: http://www.singaporebookcouncil.eventbrite.com/
Singapore Arts Festival presents: Circle of Sound Masterclass by Soumik Datta & Bernhard Schimpelsberger (UK)
Calling all instrumentalists and singers! Learn from artists Soumik Datta and Bernhard Schimpelsberger as they demonstrate and talk about their musical influences and experiences. This interactive 2-hour Masterclass will also cover improvisation in Indian music and how it is expanding into new musical styles. $25 (Limited to 30 Participants).
Date: 26 May
Time: 2.00pm
Venue: Black Box, Festival Village
More details at: http://www.singaporeartsfest.com/event/circle-of-sound/
Catch Soumik Datta & Bernhard Schimpelsberger (UK) at this year’s Singapore Arts Festival!
Come down to the Main Stage, Festival Village on 25 & 26 May for a truly unique audiovisual experience. The musical duo cleverly weaves Indian music, drum and bass, electronics and visuals to spectacular effect in the Circle of Sound. This performance is free!
Date: 25 & 26 May
Time: 10.00pm
Venue: Main Stage, Festival Village
More details at: http://www.singaporeartsfest.com/event/soumik-datta-bernhard-schimpelsberger/
Muse on Mondays @ Earshot Cafe (The Arts House)
You’ve spent hours crafting your short story and novel chapter and you wonder if your effort has been worthwhile… Now there is a chance for you to receive professional and quality feedback on how to improve your writing. In Muse on Mondays, submit your text (maximum 2,000 words of prose) by the Wednesday before, and experienced writers Verena Tay and O Thiam Chin will give their personal responses and facilitate an in depth group critique of your work.
About Verena Tay
For 25 years, Verena Tay has acted, written and directed for local English-language theatre in Singapore. She has worked with The Necessary Stage, ACTION Theatre, TheatreWorks and Practice Theatre and was an Associate Artist of The Substation (2002-09). She has published three collections of plays: In the Company of Women (2004), In the Company of Heroes (2011) and Victimology (2011). She is also a storyteller and a voice/presentation skills coach. For more information, please visit http://verenatay.com.
About O Thiam Chin
O Thiam Chin is the author of three collections of short stories, Free Falling Man (2006), Never Been Better (2009), and Under the Sun (2010). His short stories have been featured in many anthologies, journals such as the QLRS, World Literature Today, and The International Literary Quarterly. Never Been Better was longlisted for the 2010 Frank O’Conner Short Story Award. O was an Honorary Fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program in 2010.
Submission Dates
Wed Mar 28 for Mon Apr 2 @ Earshot Cafe, The Arts House, 7 – 9pm
Wed May 2 for Mon May 7 @ Earshot Cafe, The Arts House, 7 – 9pm
Please submit your work to paul_rozario@toph.com.sg. Each Muse on Mondays session can critique four scripts in total. Writers who have submitted their work for critique must attend the relevant Muse on Mondays session. Please bring friends and family.
Lines of Flight Literary Festival
Lines of Flight is organised by the Creative Writing programme at NTU English. There are lots of readings, workshops and performances by major local and international writers. Lunch and dinner will be served. To register, click here.
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