Chatting about Teaching Creative Writing in Singapore

Dr Ros Prosser, Programme Leader, MA in Creative Writing

Dr Mandakini Arora, Graduate MA in Creative Writing

I had the pleasure of hosting the latest episode of The Asian Bookshelf podcast to talk with Dr Ros Prosser and Dr Mandakini Arora from LaSalle College of Art about Teaching Creative Writing in Singapore.

Here are links to books and writers mentioned. Note how ghastly I am at pronouncing Olga Tokarczuk and Benjamin Labatut:

Books mentioned

• Mathew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing & Workshopping (Catapult, 2021)

• Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom(Haymarket Books, 2021)

• Barbara W Tuchman, The Guns of August (Penguin Random House, 1994, originally published in 1962)

• Olga Tokarczuk, Flights (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017)

• Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac (Pushkin Press, 2023)

• Akhil Sharma, Teaching Creative Writing in Singapore (Akhil Sharma, 2023)

• Kamau Brathwaite, Calypso

• Joshua Ip, Sonnets from the Singlish (Math Paper Press, 2012)

Other Singapore writers mentioned in the context of international submissions & success

• Alfian Sa’at

• Sofia Mariah Ma

• Marcus Ong Kah Ho

• Jemimah Wei

• Amanda Lee Koe

• Rachel Heng

• Audrey Chin

• Victor Ocampo

• Noelle Q de Jesus

• Prasanthi Ram

• Balli Kaur Jaswal

• Jing Jing Lee

Other Links

• LaSalle College of Arts, Master of Arts in Creative Writing

• American Women’s Association Writing Group

• Darryl Whetter