Epigram @ SWF 2018
The Singapore Writer's Festival is back again!
The 2018 edition runs from 2 to 11 November, and you can join Epigram's authors at more than 50 sessions throughout the festival.
To help friends of Epigram navigate through the sea of information, we've put together a quick-and-easy table below that shows these sessions with our authors.
Festival passes are available here at $25, while individual tickets for ticketed events are sold separately. Enjoy the festival!
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Date |
Time |
Epigram Author |
Session title |
Venue |
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Free |
Nov 2 |
8:00 PM |
Amanda Lee Koe |
Germany’s New Wave: A Night of Celebration |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Free |
Nov 2 |
8:00 PM |
Nuraliah Norasid |
The Worlds We Orbit |
The Arts House, POP Stage |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 2 |
8:00 PM |
Jason Erik Lundberg |
Achieving Utopia |
The Arts House, Gallery II |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 3 |
11:30 AM |
Warran Kalasegaran |
Somewhere in Time |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 3 |
12:30 PM |
Akshita Nanda |
Art Blurbs Underrated? |
Funan Showsuite |
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Free |
Nov 3 |
1:30 PM |
Ng Yi-Sheng, M Shan |
[Launch] Quick Reads: Short Stories About Home |
The Arts House, Gallery II |
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Free |
Nov 3 |
2:00 PM |
Melvin Koh |
Of Growing Up and Moustaches |
Empress Lawn, SWF Empress Tent |
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Free |
Nov 3 |
3:00 PM |
David Seow, Linda Locke, Swapnil Mishra |
[Launch] Writing for Children |
The Arts House, Gallery II |
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Free |
Nov 3 |
3:30 PM |
Quek Hong Shin |
The Incredible Basket |
Empress Lawn, SWF Empress Tent |
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Free |
Nov 3 |
5:00 PM |
Daryl Qilin Yam |
Engendering Change |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 3 |
5:00 PM |
Boey Kim Cheng |
Aliens and Outsiders |
Asian Civilisations Museum, Ngee Ann Auditorium |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 3 |
5:00 PM |
Robert Yeo |
Love Poetry I @ Gallery |
National Gallery Singapore, Supreme Court Wing’s Foyer |
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Free |
Nov 3 |
7:30 PM |
Carissa Foo, Teo Xue Shen, Khor Kuan Liang |
[Launch] For the first time: Getting started on the debut novel |
The Arts House, POP Stage |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 4 |
11:00 AM |
Balli Kaur Jaswal |
A Woman’s Work |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 4 |
11:30 AM |
Cyril Wong |
Make or Break: Running a Journal in Asia |
Funan Showsuite |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 4 |
12:00 PM |
Suffian Hakim, O Thiam Chin |
Voices from the Edge |
National Gallery Singapore, Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium |
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Free |
Nov 4 |
12:30 PM |
Linda Locke |
Agnes and her Amazing Orchid |
Empress Lawn, SWF Empress Tent |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 4 |
1:30 PM |
Nuraliah Norasid |
Time for the Women! |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 4 |
3:00 PM |
Balli Kaur Jaswal |
The Unspoken |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Free |
Nov 4 |
3:30 PM |
Ken Kwek |
Ken Kwek: Why Stories Matter |
Empress Lawn, SWF Empress Tent |
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Free |
Nov 4 |
5:30 PM |
Boey Kim Cheng |
The Texts of Inspiration |
Empress Lawn, SWF Empress Tent |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 4 |
8:00 PM |
Danielle West |
Grit Within the Pages |
Empress Lawn, SWF Empress Tent |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 4 |
8:30 PM |
Akshita Nanda |
What is Home?: The Meaning of Rootedness |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Free |
Nov 4 |
8:30 PM |
Adan Jimenez |
Worldbuilding in Video Games |
The Arts House, Play Den |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 5 |
7:00 PM |
Gwee Li Sui |
Turn Me On(line): Singaporean Poetry and Social Media |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 5 |
7:00 PM |
Andre Yeo, Suffian Hakim |
The Appeal of Self-Publishing |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 5 |
7:00 PM |
Judith Huang, Ng Yi-Sheng, Tham Cheng-E |
Too Close to Home: Is Reality Overtaking Fiction? |
The Arts House, Play Den |
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Free |
Nov 5 |
7:30 PM |
Cyril Wong, Jason Erik Lundberg |
Readings from Alluvium, the Literary Shanghai’s journal |
The Arts House, Gallery II |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 5 |
8:30 PM |
Suffian Hakim, Judith Huang |
The Next Wave: Singapore’s Emerging Writers Speak Out |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Free |
Nov 5 |
9:00 PM |
Gwee Li Sui, Imran Hashim |
Late Night Confessions: “I Never Told Anyone…” |
Empress Lawn, SWF Empress Tent |
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Free |
Nov 6 |
1:30 PM |
Ng Yi-Sheng |
SingPoWriMo 2018: The Anthology |
The Arts House, Gallery II |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 6 |
2:00 PM |
Sebastian Sim |
Keep It Real |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 6 |
2:00 PM |
Tham Cheng-E |
Re-imagining and Re-telling Spaces |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Free |
Nov 6 |
3:00 PM |
Danielle West |
[Launch] A Road Less Travelled: Danielle West |
The Arts House, Gallery II |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 6 |
4:00 PM |
Ng Yi-Sheng |
Raffles Restitution: Artistic Responses to Singapore’s 1819 Colonisation |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 6 |
6:00 PM |
Gwee Li Sui |
From English to Singlish to the Blue Yonder |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 6 |
6:30 PM |
O Thiam Chin |
The Supporting Cast |
The Arts House, Play Den |
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Free |
Nov 6 |
8:00 PM |
Suffian Hakim, Tham Cheng-E |
[Launch] Second time around: writing novel #2 |
The Arts House, Gallery II |
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Free |
Nov 6 |
8:00 PM |
Shelly Bryant |
A Touch of Zen: Haiku Open Mic |
The Arts House, Play Den |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 7 |
7:00 PM |
Paige Parker |
The Idea of “Authenticity” in Travel-Writing |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 7 |
7:30 PM |
Daryl Qilin Yam, Sebastian Sim |
Excuse Me, Are You a Singaporean Novel? |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 9 |
7:30 PM |
Edwin Thumboo |
Singaporean Poetry — Laying Down the Foundation |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Ticketed |
Nov 10 |
10:00 AM |
Adan Jimenez, Felicia Low-Jimenez |
The Write Morning |
Asian Civilisations Museum |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 10 |
10:30 AM |
Nuraliah Norasid |
Sepculative Fiction as Moral Compass |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 10 |
12:00 PM |
Tham Cheng-E |
Reaching Out to Youth with Learning Disabilities |
The Arts House, Play Den |
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Ticketed |
Nov 10 |
12:00 PM |
Shelly Bryant |
Translating Humor |
Asian Civilisations Museum |
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Free |
Nov 10 |
12:30 PM |
Paige Parker |
The Write Way to Parent |
Funan Showsuite |
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Free |
Nov 10 |
3:30 PM |
Amanda Lee Koe, Cyril Wong |
The “I”s in Identities |
The Arts House, Play Den |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 10 |
5:00 PM |
Edwin Thumboo, Kirpal Singh, Robert Yeo |
Love Poetry II @ Gallery |
National Gallery Singapore, Supreme Court Wing’s Foyer |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 10 |
7:00 PM |
Boey Kim Cheng |
“For Emperor and Country, or Love and Family?” |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 11 |
10:30 AM |
Danielle West |
Navigating Emotional Pitfalls |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Free |
Nov 11 |
12:00 PM |
Adeline Foo |
Resurrecting the Bad Old Days |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 11 |
2:00 PM |
Shelly Bryant |
Translating Cultural Baggage |
The Arts House, Blue Room |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 11 |
3:30 PM |
Peh Shing Huei |
Pitfalls to Avoid in Writing Authorised Biographies |
The Arts House, Living Room |
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Free |
Nov 11 |
5:00 PM |
Judith Huang, Ng Yi-Sheng |
Things That Go Bump in the Night II: A Reading |
The Arts House, Chamber |
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Festival Pass |
Nov 11 |
7:00 PM |
Daryl Qilin Yam, Gwee Li Sui |
This House Believes that Singaporeans are Better Off With Social Media |
Victorial Theatre |