K-pop acts often employ concepts and narratives to make their music more immersive. How can we be inspired by these stories, images and songs to kick-start our own original writing? How do we delve deeper and extend the world of a three-minute title track? And how might we transpose our love for these groups and soloists into a literary response? In this session, we will read and consider works by Tablo (Epik High), Jannabi, Jonghyun (Shinee) and Jessica Jung (former Girls’ Generation). We will then write on prompts related to K-pop. At the end of two hours together, we would hopefully have generated new drafts and fresh perspectives on our particular fanhood.
Upon registration, participants will be sent a confirmation email with the Zoom link to the workshop.
We do not want cost to be a barrier for interested participants; as such, workshop scholarships are available on a financial needs basis. Please reach out to us via contact@singlitstation.com if you'd like to apply for a scholarship.
Clara Chow is the author of fiction collections Dream Storeys (Ethos, 2016) and Modern Myths (Math Paper Press, 2018, shortlisted for 2020 Singapore Literature Prize), and Not Great, But At Least Something (Hermit Press, 2021). Under her independent Hermit Press imprint, she has also published two travelogues, New Orleans (2020) and Caves (2021), and the bilingual poetry collection 几首烂情诗 / Lousy Love Poems (2021). Having started her career as a journalist, she has been writer-in-residence at Toji Cultural Center in South Korea, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture in Australia and Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia, as well as a 2019 honorary fellow at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. She has a particular interest in making book objects by hand.