Bringing you three of our most popular school workshops, Book A Writer presents a trio of writing workshops across June. Meet authors Neil Humphreys, Daryl Qilin Yam and Amanda Chong during these exclusive open classes and take part in our acclaimed school-based writing workshops, now open to all ages and experience levels.
With limited seats available, book now to experience the magic of our Book A Writer programmes.
VENUE: Sing Lit Station
ADDRESS: 22 Dickson Road, #02-01, Singapore, 209506
TICKETS: Peatix
DATE AND TIME
8 June 2024, 2pm-4pm
15 June 2024, 2pm-4pm
22 June 2024, 2.30pm-4.30pm
NEIL HUMPHREYS is one of Singapore’s best-selling authors. He has written 26 books. His works on Singapore - from Notes from an Even Smaller Island (2001) to Saving a Sexier Island: Notes from an Old Singapore (2015) – are among the most popular titles in the last 20 years. Having written works spanning a wide repertoire of themes and genres, Humphreys is currently working on an Inspector Low TV series with an international broadcaster. His new children’s book series, Princess Incognito, is a contemporary middle grade series of children’s books, with six best-selling titles to date.
DARYL QILIN YAM is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. He is the author of the novella Shantih Shantih Shantih (2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize, and the novel Lovelier, Lonelier (2021), the Singapore nominee for the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award. His fourth title, the short story collection Be Your Own Bae (2024), is forthcoming from Epigram Books.
AMANDA CHONG is a lawyer trained in Cambridge and Harvard who explores themes of gender and power in her work as a writer. Her poetry collection, Professions, was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018, and her poetry is studied as part of the Cambridge International GCSE Syllabus. Her plays include the one woman show Psychobitch which played to sold out audiences in an extended run (Wild Rice, 2023), the musical The Feelings Farm (Esplanade Theatres, 2021) and the award-winning #WomenSupportingWomen (T:>Works, 2022) which was also staged in Cambridge, UK. Amanda also co-founded a literacy charity, served as an adviser to the Youth Court, and received the Commonwealth Points of Light Award in 2022 from Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II.