Bibliobibuli

Singaporean author Wena Poon's first novel Alex y Robert is published on 24th August in the UK.  The Salt Publishing blog captures ...

Some of the challenges that we face are universal. It is difficult to make a living and a career out of writing and publishing in Singap...

Congrats to Singaporean author Wena Poon who has won Willesden Herald's Short Story Prize with a piece called The Architects . The resu...

One of the great conundrums of local writing - how come Singapore produces so many excellent poets but comparatively few writers of fictio...

English matters. As a medium of communication, we reach the world with it and the world reaches us. That’s a fact we can’t ignore. Hence, ...

This is just to give you an idea of how volatile writers like myself are and how our minds go tuk-tuk-tuk like fireworks all the time. Si...

You may remember the name O Thiam Chin from a long-time ago story about his struggle to sell his first self-published collection of stories...

It was very nice to hear this morning (via Twitter) that Singaporean author Wena Poon is going to be appearing with novelist Isa Kamari (le...

Wena Poon has just launched a website for her new collection of stories , The Proper Care of Foxes , which is published by Ethos in Singapo...

When I went down to Singapore last week for the talk at The Arts House with Wena Poon, one of the best things about the trip was meeting wri...

Last month I told you about Salil Tripathy's essay on the political imagination and literature of Malaysia and Singapore being publishe...

Shirley also sent me scan of this article written by Wena Poon from the local edition of Marie Claire . Do read it because there are some l...

While Malaysia is anything but a full-fledged democracy, its relative openness permits a spectrum of debate, which allows for a certain flo...

Despite being excited about the opportunity to read from my book at Cork, I had my reservations. I've always had a horror of "lit ...

The shortlists for the Singapore Literary prize have been announced by the National Book Development Council (and many thanks to Philip Tat...

I'm excited for Wena Poon all over again. Longlisted for the the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, she had no chance of being shortl...

Here's another local author to give a big cheer to. Malaysian born, Singapore resident Shamini Flint has bagged a three book publishi...

I wish to write about a place of which I know everything yet nothing, where everything is familiar yet strange, a place where I feel I go ...

The seventh book in the Silverfish New Writing series is also, of course, the last in the series of the short story anthologies which has ...

Wena Poon is thrown some searching questions by Intan Maizura Ahmad Kamal in the New Sunday Times . On where she gets her ideas : Like many...