The Winding Path to Publication: A Chaotic Breakdown

Do come and join Prasanthi Ram, Max Pasakorn & me on Sunday at 3pm on 29 September 2024 at Book Bar, 57 Duxton Road Singapore 089521.

We will each share our diverse journeys to publishing our books, what it’s like to work with the stakeholders involved such as editors and publishers, and our tips for emerging writers.

We are collecting questions during registration and will discuss these as well as have an informal discussion & chit chat 😊

Free registration here.

The panel includes:


Prasanthi Ram - the author of Nine Yard Sarees (2023) that earned a double shortlist at the 2024 Singapore Literature Prize, and was also shortlisted for the 2024 Singapore Book Awards. Her short stories have been published in The Willowherb Review and Best Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five (2022), while her essays can be found in Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (2021) and The Serangoon Times (2024) among others. She co-founded and is the prose editor of Mahogany Journal, which spotlights South Asian writers born or based in Singapore.

Max Pasakorn (he/she/they) is the author of creative nonfiction chapbook A Study in Our Selves (Neon Hemlock Press, 2023). Max’s writing, which sits at the crossroads of queerness, food and popular culture, has won the 2024 swamp pink prize in Nonfiction and the Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers’ Contest in Poetry.

Max is the co-founder of home-brewed poetry journal Kopi Break, and co-editor for Perks of Being Dumped (Marshall Cavendish, 2024), an anthology of local heartbreak writing. Read more at maxpasakorn.works or follow Max on Instagram at @maxpsk_writes.

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

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