Epigram Books at the 2022 Singapore Writers Festival!
The Singapore Writers Festival is back in-person and so many of our authors are there. Catch our authors over three weekends of literary happenings, as part of panels, workshops, lectures, and games.
Here's our full list, sorted from A-Z. Get your tickets and see you there!
AJ LOW
Jio Play Game: Ready Player Two
Game | 12 Nov, Sat, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Reluctant Heroes and Good Villains: How To Write Adventures
Workshop |19 Nov, Sat, 11am - 12:30pm
ADIA TAY
Quiet is the New Loud: Songwriting for Tweens
Workshop | 20 Nov, 5:30pm - 7pm
AKSHITA NANDA
If I Love You Was a Promise: Our Relationships with Cities
Panel | 5 Nov, 5pm - 6pm
Because I Still Love It: Re-re-reading Pleasures
Panel | 6 Nov, 4:30pm - 5pm
ANITTHA THANABALAN
Absurdity in the Singaporean Mundane
Panel | 12 Nov, 2pm - 3pm
Classics or “Nah-sis”?
Panel | 13 Nov, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Be Like the Cool Kids: Teen Identity in Fiction
Panel | 20 Nov 11am - 12pm
ATIQAH HALIM
How Far Away from Home?
Workshop | 5 Nov, 12 Nov, 13 Nov, 2pm - 3:30pm
BALLI KAUR JASWAL
So What If I'm Becoming My Mother? The Mother Figure in Fiction
Panel | 5 Nov, 1pm - 2pm
What You Can’t Get: The Politics of Unfulfilled Desire
Panel | 13 Nov, 8pm - 9pm
BARRIE SHERWOOD
Like a Version
Panel | 12 Nov, 11am - 12pm
BOEY KIM CHENG
Glocalised Identities
Panel | 12 Nov, 11:30am - 1pm
The Beginning of Everything Else: A Sharing
Panel |13 Nov, 4:30pm - 6pm
CARISSA FOO
Classics or “Nah-sis”?
Panel | 13 Nov, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
CONSTANCE SINGNAM
If I Love You Was a Promise: Our Relationships with Cities
Panel | 5 Nov, 5pm - 6pm
Occasionally Fiery, Always Fabulous: An Epic Women's Roundtable
Roundtable | 12 Nov, 8pm - 9pm
CYRIL WONG
Festival Closing Event with Cyril Wong: If This Is the End… What Else Is There?
Reading | 20 Nov, 7:30pm - 8pm
DARYL QILIN YAM
Gorgeous, Gorgeous Words: The Relationship between Writing and Design
Panel | 20 Nov, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
DAVE CHUA
If Anything Happens...A Reading
Reading | 12 Nov, 1:30pm - 2pm
FAR'AIN JAAFAR
My Parents Would Be Cooler If...
Panel | 13 Nov, 11am - 12pm
GRACE CHIA
Otherworldly Femininities
Panel | 6 Nov, 6pm - 7pm
Occasionally Fiery, Always Fabulous: An Epic Women's Roundtable
Roundtable | 12 Nov, 8pm - 9pm
She's A Little Bit Dangerous: Female Crime Fiction
Panel | 13 Nov, 11am to 12pm
GWEE LI SUI
Festival Gala: A Singaporean Canon – Can or Cannot?
Panel | 5 Nov, 4:30pm to 6pm
INEZ TAN
Caught In The Undertow: Writing the Struggle
Panel | 19 Nov, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
JASON ERIK LUNDBERG
Fish Eats Lion Redux
Book Launch | Free Admission | 12 Nov, 4pm - 5pm
Just The World I'm Looking For: The Multiverse and Fiction
Panel | 12 Nov, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
A Warning, or a Mirror? – Living in a Dystopian World
Panel | 13 Nov, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Occupying the "If": Embracing the Unknown
Panel | 19 Nov, 11am - 12pm
JUDITH HUANG
Anthology of Modern Anxiety
Panel | 6 Nov, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
KEVIN MARTENS WONG
It's Not a Phase, Mom!
Panel | 13 Nov, 5pm - 6pm
MEIHAN BOEY
Fish Eats Lion Redux
Book Launch | Free Admission | 12 Nov, 4pm - 5pm
If The Shoe Fits
Workshop | 20 Nov, 4pm - 6pm
Just The World I'm Looking For: The Multiverse and Fiction
Panel | 12 Nov, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
NISHA MEHRAJ
Caught In The Undertow: Writing the Struggle
Panel | 19 Nov, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
NURALIAH NORASID
Just The World I'm Looking For: The Multiverse and Fiction
Panel | 12 Nov, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Classics or “Nah-sis”?
Panel | 13 Nov, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
O THIAM CHIN
25 Pauses in Mid Thought: Writer Interventions
Panel | 4 - 20 Nov, Various timings (TBC)
QUEK HONG SHIN
The Humpback Whale
Panel | 13 Nov, 11am - 12:30pm
ROBERT YEO
Between the Lines: Silences in Poetry
Panel | 12 Nov, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
The Singapore Trilogy by Robert Yeo
Panel | 17 Nov, 8pm - 9pm
SANDRA CHUA
So What If I'm Becoming My Mother? The Mother Figure in Fiction
Panel | 5 Nov, 1pm - 2pm
Romance and Bad Boys
Panel | 12 Nov, 4pm - 5pm
SEBASTIAN SIM
If This Was Your Last Paper and Ink
Panel | 13 Nov, 1pm - 2pm
Caught In The Undertow: Writing the Struggle
Panel | 19 Nov, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
SUFFIAN HAKIM
If You Can Believe It: Flash Fiction Flash Mob
Reading | 5 Nov, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Fish Eats Lion Redux
Book Launch | Free Admission | 12 Nov, 4pm - 5pm
If I Had More Than 24 Hours a Day...
Panel | 12 Nov, 6pm - 7pm
From Head to Screen: Protecting the Tangible Form of an Idea
Panel | 19 Nov, 4pm - 5pm
Last Year You Were Somewhere Else: Writers on Growth
Panel | 20 Nov, 5pm - 6pm
VIVIAN TEO
My Parents Would Be Cooler If...
Panel | 13 Nov, 11am - 12pm
WARRAN KALASEGARAN
A Historical State of Mind
Panel | 5 Nov, 11:30am - 12:30pm
WESLEY LEON AROOZOO
Like a Version
Panel | 12 Nov, 11am - 12pm
I Woke Up And Chose Chaos
Panel | 20 Nov, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
YEOH JO-ANN
Absurdity in the Singaporean Mundane
Panel | 12 Nov, 2pm - 3pm