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25 May 2013

Events

The Singapore Writers Festival is rolling around again, and for their full programme we recommend checking out their website, but here are our highlights.

10 Years of QLRS - Celebrating the Independent Literary Spirit
Tues 25 Oct 2011
8pm - 10pm, Glass Hall, Singapore Art Museum

We celebrate our first decade with a party. QLRS contributors Chan Ziqian, Grace Chua, Gwee Li Sui, Bani Haykal, Gilbert Koh, Nicholas Liu, Leonard Ng, O Thiam Chin, Daren Shiau and Stephanie Ye will be reading their works, while Bani and Kelvin Tan will share their music.

PasSAGES Unwound
Sun 30 Oct 2011
3:30pm - 4:30pm, Learning Gallery, Singapore Art Museum @ 8Q

In the PasSAGES project, eight Singapore writers visited HCA Hospice Care, SWAMI Home and senior citizens’ flats to unearth heartfelt stories that would have otherwise gone unheard. Conversations with the residents provided inspiration for the crafting of short stories for submission to the online journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Participating writers – like O Thiam Chin and Jayanthi Sankar – will share their experiences and feelings relating to their thought-provoking interactions with the elderly. Moderated by: Yong Shu Hoong

Announcements

Asia and Pacific Writers Network
An Asia and Pacific Writers Network is being developed by the Melbourne PEN Cente and Asialink, a non-government organisation based at the University of Melbourne. They are at the first stage of developing the Network, which is identifying writers, academics and organisations in the region who are interested in participating and adding them to a database. As the database is accessible to all participants, they require permission for people to be listed. If you are interested in participating in this network or know of other writers who are interested, please contact Berni M Janssen directly.

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	NAC Artist-in-School Programme Birds of a feather flock together. The NAC have sent this on to us. Under the Literature component of the NAC-AEP Artist-In-School (AIS) programme, the AEP team is able to recommend established writers to conduct paid creative writing activities and workshops in schools with the aim of heightening students interest and appreciation for the literary arts. The residency programmes will be discussed before hand between the writer and the school and will be customized to suit the needs of the students. The details (cost, length, subject matter...) of the course is up to the discretion of the writer and the school and schools will be able to tap the Tote Board Arts Grant to pay the writer. Either the writer or the school must submit the AIS application form to NAC-AEP and obtain an endorsement letter before the programme may commence. For more information please contact the National Arts Council directly.



	Where can you find Singaporean poetry outside Singapore? Just for starters... City Lights, corner of Columbus and Broadway, San Francisco. Shakespeare & Co., rue de la Bücherie, Paris. Avid Reader, Boundary Street West End, Brisbane. The Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, London. The Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton's Close, Edinburgh. Literaturhaus, Møllegade, Copenhagen. gleebooks Bookshops, Sydney. Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne. Collected Works, Swanston Street, Melbourne. Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, Hong Kong.

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