Making Place: A Conversation and Reading
Do come and join Jee Leong Koh, Diana Rahim, Marcus Ong, Lawrence Ypil & me on Tuesday 7pm, 6 Aug 2024 at a venue in central Singapore to be advised on registration.
...for a gathering of writers talking about the role of place in their work 🎉
The plan is to have the 5 of us reading for less than an hour combined then informal discussion & chit chat 😊
Free registration here.
The readers include:
Jee Leong Koh - the author of Steep Tea, named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times. His Snow at 5 PM won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. His Inspector Inspector and Sample and Loop have been shortlisted for the 2024 Singapore Literature Prize in English poetry and English creative nonfiction, respectively.
Diana Rahim - who writes and makes photos circling around experience of environment and the politics of public space in Singapore. 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.
Marcus Ong Kah Ho - a Singaporean writer and literary arts teacher. He has received support from Tin House and Community of Writers workshops. His stories have been published in American Short Fiction, Chicago Quarterly Review, Granta, and more.
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil - the author of The Experiment of the Tropics. He explores the intersection of history, photography and poetry. He teaches creative writing at Yale-NUS College.
Jon Gresham - the author of Gus: The Life & Opinions of the Last Raffles’ Banded Langur (Shortlisted for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize) and We Rose Up Slowly (Math Paper Press 2015). His story 'The Visit' was shortlisted for the 2020 Short Fiction/Essex University Prize