Bridging the gap between text and technology, Sing Lit Station presents an online masterclass series, Zoom A Writer. The Zoom A Writer series gets you up close and personal with poetry, fiction and literary practice in Singapore. Learn about various facets of creative writing from Singapore’s leading writers while baring your soul in the privacy of your own home.
Learn what it means to write about emotional hardship and discover ways in which writers operating in a variety of mediums have represented pain, grief and existential suffering via the journeys their characters have undertaken, and explore how these creative trajectories can consequently inform our own practices of fiction. Each participant will be equipped with pre-assigned readings that illuminates the human condition, strategies to generate stories and scenarios, and opportunities to have their own work examined and critiqued.
Participants will need to come 1) fully prepared to discuss the pre-assigned reading and 2) to do some generative, on-the-spot creative writing exercises. Participants will also need to submit a piece of fiction (1500 - 2000 words) for critique. Finally, due to the potentially sensitive and triggering nature of the content that might be shared, participants will also need to be respectful of one another's needs while also bearing an open heart and an open mind; participants found to be repeatedly disrespectful and intentionally disruptive will be asked to leave the class.
Daryl Qilin Yam (b.1991) is a writer of prose and poetry, editor and arts organiser. His first novel, Kappa Quartet (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2016), was longlisted for the inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and has been released in Singapore and in the U.K. It was selected by The Business Times as one of the best novels of 2016, and was described by QLRS as “[breaking] new ground in Singaporean writing… a shimmering and poignant novel, an immensely sympathetic and humane exploration of our existential condition.”
VENUE: Online
LINK: To be provided to ticket-holders
EVENT WEBSITE: Peatix (for tickets)
DATE AND TIME
15 Oct 2020, 7.30pm–10.30pm, $60 / $30 (students)