St Joseph's Cathedral, Hanoi

Leica M6, 2004

Camp Lit 2018

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Singapore Writers Festival 2018

Images from Singapore Writers Festival 2018 including NTU English Literature and creative writing students and teachers, Outgoing SWF Director Kai Chai with Desmond Kon and Yong Shu Hoong, Ivan Coyote, Amanda Lee Koe and Cyril Wong, and In The Twine by Charlene Shepherdson and Cheyenne Phillips.

Gallery here

Graphic Medicine @SingLitStation

I have enjoyed helping organise Graphic Medicine workshops over the last few months at Sing Lit Station. It’s encouraging see the level of engagement from participants. A big thanks to Klarissa and Olivia, Prof Graham, Don and James for their work on this project.

You can read more about Graphic medicine in Singapore here and you may also want view our FAQ on Graphic Medicine.

We are looking for funding to continue the workshops next year so please do contact me if you are interested in helping out.

Kid, Jakarta & Rules for Writing

Here are over 400 rules for writers from 40 writers

I like Philip Pullman's rule: 

“My main rule is to say no to things like this, which tempt me away from my proper work.”

Sing Lit Station Prose Bootcamp 2018

Sing Lit Station’s second Prose Manuscript Bootcamp was held from 3-5 August 2018 at 3A Jalan Kubor with campers, Hidhir Razak (a novel "Kemunting"), Aleithia Low (a creative non-fiction text "Written By Light"), Jocelyn Suarez (a novel "The Literature Historian") and Annabel Tan (a short story collection "Potted Jungle").

I was honoured to be a judge at the camp with Yu-Mei Balasingamchow and Wena Poon.

Well done to Tse Hao Guang on a very well organised event, and a big thank you to all the panellists. At the end of the weekend the other long listed writers joined the camp.

Images from the last Prose Bootcamp in 2016 are here.

On 18 August at 2pm a reading will be held at Sing Lit Station where the four campers will read from their work.

Lombok

Details on how you can help victims of the Lombok earthquake are here at the Jakarta Post

Boys, Jakarta

... Listening to Karaindrou: Eternity and A Day