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Reminiscing on the time I went to the Singapore Writers Festival back in November 🥹

I had such a lovely time at SWF. Listening to Jack Edwards chat so enthusiastically about all things books and content creation really inspired me and reminded me of why I fell in love with reading in the first place. Then having the opportunity to meet him and talk about Taylor Swift and his debut book, The Uni-Verse, was a dream come true.

This was the first time I’ve been to any sort of book event and it was better than I could’ve ever anticipated 🤍 Would 100% go again next year (and SWF should invite Jack for every year this event happens)

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Super excited Marie Lu fans at their book signing! . #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament)

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Saleem Hadi with the students from Yishun Innova Junior College • The students reading excerpts from The Singapore Groom • #wordsgoround #wgr2020 #sgwritersfest (at Yishun Junior College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Y3yoTHb5l/?igshid=14nzjz06xgzzy

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“Getting into it wasn’t that difficult but sustaining the business, the day to day, that’s the difficult part.” • “At the end of the day, if your experience at the bookstore is not good, you wouldn’t want to come back again.” • @kenny.leck, owner of independent bookstore @booksactually, sharing his life experiences and the art of selling books to a small group of students at @meridian_sec today as part of our Words Go Round programme • #wordsgoround #wgr2020 #sgwritersfest #booksactually #artandwork https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Tg2Ubni8c/?igshid=tacidi5v6uq9

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#swf19 takeaways

I love going to the Singapore Writers’ Festival, better known as SWF. It’s like a pilgrimage of sorts, and a way for me to take inspiration from all these amazing people, and to remind myself to keep pursuing my dreams of being a published author, to give life to the stories and characters that are inside of me. 

I missed the 2018 festival because I was 6,000km away in Canberra, so I was…

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10 Nov 2019

Fresh out of corporate drudgery and back where it feels like home. This year's Singapore Writers Festival was heavy as hell. With panels structured around the theme of language, writers, arts practitioners, journalists and academics wrestle with the implications of language on societies and individual lives. This panel was about the body, especially marginalised ones. Fat bodies, black bodies, queer bodies. What it means to inhabit a body that is relentlessly scrutinised and policed by the people around you, and how language contributes to marginalisation. On the panel were Joel Tan, a queer Singaporean playwright, Kagiso Lesego Molope, a South African writer now residing in Canada, and Roxane Gay—well, we all know Roxane Gay.

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“Choose the important over the urgent. It’s good life advice, but also for writing... It’s also very good advice for dating. In this age of dating and Tinder.. think about it.” 😂 • “It’s readers who are holding up civilisation. Not writers.” • “I’d love to write really good screenplays... for action films.” - on what other genre she’d love to write • “As a child, I wanted to be a carpenter.” - in response to the question on what career she’d pursue if she wasn’t a writer or lawyer • “Chilli crab. Laksa. Chicken rice. - on three words to describe Singapore • We had a wondrous time in our Hour with Min Jin Lee yesterday. @lee_minjin 🤩 • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown #minjinlee (at Victoria Theatre Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4rq-rsHMrV/?igshid=dx71xxsvmot4

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”我觉得很多powerful 的东西其实是很冷静，很克制的。” - Stanley Chen Qiufan 陈楸帆 • #sgwritersfest #swf2019 #alanguageofourown #stanleychen https://www.instagram.com/p/B4rkUCKnbfk/?igshid=957h61a8g3h1