Something’s brewing: The 24th edition of the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) is back from 5 – 14 November 2021. Presented by Arts House Limited (AHL) and commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC), this year’s hybrid festival (with some programmes held in-person and online) will bring together local and international authors to share candid thoughts and juicy opinions, creating safe spaces for the public to indulge in their literary pleasures.
The Singapore Writers Festival, one of Asia’s premier literary events, started in 1986 as a biennial festival. Now organised yearly by Arts House Limited, SWF is a much anticipated event on the cultural calendar, presenting the world’s major literary talents to Singaporeans while shining a spotlight on home grown and Southeast Asian creative talents.
Over the years, the Festival has become an exciting meeting point of writers, academics and thinkers in a choice spread of panel discussions, workshops, lectures and performances over 10 days. It has hosted literati the likes of two-time Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood, Whitbread First Novel Award winner Zadie Smith, British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Nebula winner Neil Gaiman and Lambda Literary Award winner Roxane Gay.
The Singapore Writers Festival is one of the few multi-lingual literary festivals in the world, celebrating the written and spoken word in Singapore’s official languages – English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil.
This year's festival will be a hybrid format with a mix of in-person and online events. International speakers will be joining digitally. For information on programmes, please click on the event website provided below; alternatively, here is a list of programmes that Sing Lit Station has co-curated with the festival:
6 Nov 2021 (Sat), 12:30–1 :30pm: How You Like That: Unpacking K-Pop
7 Nov 2021 (Sun), 12pm–1pm: Etchings of Legacy
9 Nov 2021 (Tue), 6:30pm–7:30pm: I Want It That Way
9 Nov 2021 (Tue), 7pm–8pm: Celebrity Crushes: Blurring The Lines Between Fact and Fiction
9 Nov 2021 (Tue), 9:30pm–10:30pm: The Sherlock To My Watson
13 Nov 2021 (Sat), 1pm–2pm: Bad To The Bone
13 Nov 2021 (Sat), 10pm–11pm: Storytelling Sessions: Slenderman and Other Internet Legends
13 Nov 2021 (Sat), 12pm–1pm: I Love Hemingway, You Love Addison Rae
14 Nov 2021 (Sun), 12pm–1pm: The Anatomy of A Wattpad Story
14 Nov 2021 (Sun), 1pm–2pm: Trust Me, The Book Was Better
VENUE: Various
ADDRESS: Various
EVENT WEBSITE: Singapore Writers Festival
DATE AND TIME
5-14 Nov 2021, various times, free / $20 / $35