Raising the profile of Asian literature

Laksmi Pamuntjak, Linh Dinh & Desmond Kon

Laksmi Pamuntjak, Linh Dinh & Desmond Kon

Eun Heekyung & Koh Jee Leong

Eun Heekyung & Koh Jee Leong

Launch of Deeds of Light & The End Comes Reaching

Launch of Deeds of Light & The End Comes Reaching

Joshua Ip moderating David Wong & Tse Hao Guan

Joshua Ip moderating David Wong & Tse Hao Guan

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Kenny Leck & Joshua Ip plotting the downfall of nations

Kenny Leck & Joshua Ip plotting the downfall of nations

Kenny Leck & Joshua Ip

Kenny Leck & Joshua Ip

Kenny Leck & Sarah Tang aka Wednesday Addams

Kenny Leck & Sarah Tang aka Wednesday Addams

Hau Huang & David signing their debut poetry collections

Hau Huang & David signing their debut poetry collections

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Words over Water with Ghazali Muzak, Michael Cheng, Verena Tay & Dee Palanisamy

Words over Water with Ghazali Muzak, Michael Cheng, Verena Tay & Dee Palanisamy

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MIchael Cheng

Verena Tay

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Michael Cheng

Verena Tay & her mother

Verena Tay & her mother

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Words over Water

Words over Water

Short does not mean easy

Short does not mean easy

Stephanie Ye, Daren Shiau, Ken Liu & Philip Holden

Stephanie Ye, Daren Shiau, Ken Liu & Philip Holden

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Stephanie Ye, Daren Shiau, Ken Liu & Philip Holden

Stephanie Ye, Daren Shiau, Ken Liu & Philip Holden

Anthology of Short Stories by NAC ITBM Yayasan Obor

Anthology of Short Stories by NAC ITBM Yayasan Obor

It Never Rains on National Day

It Never Rains on National Day

Jeremy Tiang, Desmond Kon & Joshua Ip

Jeremy Tiang, Desmond Kon & Joshua Ip

Verena Tay

Kenny Chan & Alvin Pang

Kenny Chan & Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang, co-editor of Union

Alvin Pang, co-editor of Union

UNION with Fong Hoe Fang, Alvin Pang & Ravi Shankar

UNION with Fong Hoe Fang, Alvin Pang & Ravi Shankar

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Ravi Shankar & Chandran Nair

Ravi Shankar & Chandran Nair

Andy Ang

Annaliza Bakri reads Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Annaliza Bakri reads Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Rafaat Haji Hamzah

Rafaat Haji Hamzah

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Verena Tay

Ann Ang

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Jason Erik Lundberg

Jason Erik Lundberg

Bashir Basalamah & his daughter

Bashir Basalamah & his daughter

Jerrold Yam & Desmond Kon in conversation ... something about conceptual poetry (the prose writer's eyes glazed over)

Jerrold Yam & Desmond Kon in conversation ... something about conceptual poetry (the prose writer's eyes glazed over)

Lontar Launch with Jason Erik Lundberg, Christina Sng, Daryl WJ Lim, Jerrold Yam, Desmond Kon

Lontar Launch with Jason Erik Lundberg, Christina Sng, Daryl WJ Lim, Jerrold Yam, Desmond Kon

Laksmi Pamuntjak, Linh Dinh & Desmond Kon

Eun Heekyung & Koh Jee Leong

Launch of Deeds of Light & The End Comes Reaching

Joshua Ip moderating David Wong & Tse Hao Guan

SWF Oct Nov 2015-5.jpg

Kenny Leck & Joshua Ip plotting the downfall of nations

Kenny Leck & Joshua Ip

Kenny Leck & Sarah Tang aka Wednesday Addams

Hau Huang & David signing their debut poetry collections

SWF Oct Nov 2015-9.jpg

Words over Water with Ghazali Muzak, Michael Cheng, Verena Tay & Dee Palanisamy

SWF Oct Nov 2015-11.jpg

MIchael Cheng

Verena Tay

SWF Oct Nov 2015-16.jpg

Michael Cheng

Verena Tay & her mother

SWF Oct Nov 2015-18.jpg

Words over Water

Short does not mean easy

Stephanie Ye, Daren Shiau, Ken Liu & Philip Holden

SWF Oct Nov 2015-23.jpg

Stephanie Ye, Daren Shiau, Ken Liu & Philip Holden

Anthology of Short Stories by NAC ITBM Yayasan Obor

It Never Rains on National Day

Jeremy Tiang, Desmond Kon & Joshua Ip

Verena Tay

Kenny Chan & Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang, co-editor of Union

UNION with Fong Hoe Fang, Alvin Pang & Ravi Shankar

SWF Oct Nov 2015-33.jpg

Ravi Shankar & Chandran Nair

Andy Ang

Annaliza Bakri reads Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Rafaat Haji Hamzah

SWF Oct Nov 2015-30.jpg

Verena Tay

Ann Ang

SWF Oct Nov 2015-34.jpg

Jason Erik Lundberg

Bashir Basalamah & his daughter

Jerrold Yam & Desmond Kon in conversation ... something about conceptual poetry (the prose writer's eyes glazed over)

Lontar Launch with Jason Erik Lundberg, Christina Sng, Daryl WJ Lim, Jerrold Yam, Desmond Kon

Singapore Writers Festival 2015 - The first few days

November 02, 2015 in Singapore, Writing, #SGLit

Images from the sessions I attended at Singapore Writers Festival on 31 Oct to 1 Nov 2015.

I enjoyed hanging out with Verena and Desmond (thanks for the Shiraz), and catching up with other friends (old and new).

Thanks Stephanie very much for mentioning We Rose Up Slowly (available in SWF shop under 'J') on the Short Doesn't Mean Easy panel.