What a week. I was on a prose panel at NTU for their English & Drama Society, Epiphany. One of my favourite writers, Nicholson Baker, was on the panel too together with the talented Agnes Chew and Diana Rahim. I have vivid memories of borrowing Vox & Fermata in the mid '90s and finding I loved the very different Room Temperature. Nicholson Baker was warm and generous. We talked about photography and he mentioned how his father once had a Rolleiflex.
Just a heads up on my To Do List for the next few months.
I need to finish:
- my story, Brothel in the Jungle: a dark tale of lust from Spottiswoode Park
- a draft of a story/essay on The Eurasian in History (Tales from the Uncanny Valley)
- a draft of my creative non fiction book on foreign workers in Singapore
Images to be published in 2016:
- images supporting Verena Tay’s words in a new photo book Left-Right curated by Geraldine Kang & Kenneth Tay
- a photo story with a construction worker who broke his leg in This is Not A Safety Barrier (Ethos Books) to be published in 2016
Stories to be published in 2016:
- a story in In Transit edited by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow & Ruihe (Math Paper press) to be published mid 2016
- a story in Esquire Singapore in April 2016
- A Long Bicycle Ride into the Sea will be published in Singapore Love Stories (Monsoon Books) sometime in 2016
- Two stories will be published in the US edited by Jee Leong Koh
Other stuff:
- a prose piece for SWF’s Poetry Among Stars
- SOTA writer in residence in October 2016
I have to go back to work to feed the family soon - before then I will try to write as much as possible