Spoke & Bird returns to welcome a triple whammy of powerful writers: Tricia Tan, Diana Rahim & Choo Yi Feng!
Open mic-ers get 5 minutes, email spokeandbird@gmail.com for a slot.
VENUE: THE COUP Bar on ANN SIANG HILL
ADDRESS: 7 Ann Siang Hill Singapore, Singapore 069791
TICKETS: Here
DATE AND TIME
23 Jul 2024, 8pm-10pm
TRICIA TAN
Tricia Tan is a poet, doctor, and youth mental health advocate from Singapore. She is a winner of the Golden Point Award, a part of the Asia Creative Writing Programme, and a finalist of the Sing Lit Station Manuscript Bootcamp. Her writing has been featured on The Straits Times and Poetry.sg, among others. Out of wards, she is an Orygen Global Youth Mental Health Advocacy Fellow and the founder of the mindline.sg Youth Mental Health Fellowship. She writes as a way of being patient with the history of others and her own.
DIANA RAHIM
Diana Rahim is a writer and visual artist whose work circles around the experience of the environment and the politics of public space. Her fiction was recently published in Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting, The Best of World SF Vol. 4 and Best New Singaporean Short Stories Vol. 6. Her visual work has been exhibited by Singapore Art Museum and Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Japan. When she's not reading or being a community worker, she writes letters about her favourite songs on her substack or joyscrolls on Tumblr.
CHOO YI FENG
Choo Yi Feng (he/him) is an intertidal explorer, climate activist, ecologist and fiction writer. The Waiting Room is his debut short story collection. Elsewhere, his short stories have previously been published in Foglifter Journal, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Queer Southeast Asia and Alluvium, the journal of Literary Shanghai. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2022.