Thank you all, the wonderful audience, volunteers, readers, moderators and writers, for yet another memorable festival! See you 2011!

The SWF Team

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Dear all,

Due to unfortunate circumstances, Tamil writer Mathumai Sivasubramaniam will not be joining us in this year's SWF. As such the Meet the Author session with Ms. Sivasubramaniam will be cancelled:

Saturday 31 October 2009 | 6pm - 7pm | Chamber
Meet the  Author: Mathumai Sivasubramaniam

However, Speak Your Mind - Female Tamil Writers with writers Jayanthi Sankar and Latha will still be on as scheduled.

Saturday 31 October 2009 | 7pm - 8pm | Chamber
Speak Your Mind: Female Tamil Writers

Regards,

The SWF Team

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Dear all,

Neil Gaiman will be holding autograph signing sessions after these events:

Sat, 31 Oct | Chamber | 4.30pm – 5.30pm
Who Killed Amanda Palmer
 
Sun, 1 Oct | Victoria Theatre | 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Neil Gaiman on Graphic Novels and Fantasy

Though Neil Gaiman’s autograph signing session on Saturday is open to public, priority will still be given to ticket holders.  Sunday’s signing, due to venue and time constraints, will only be for ticket holders of “Neil Gaiman on Graphic Novels and Fantasy”. We thank you for your understanding and apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The SWF Team

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Please be informed that the Launch of Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore, will be brought forward to Friday, 30th October. It will be held at the Play Den from 6 to 7.30pm.

Fri, 30 Oct | Play Den | 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Launch of Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and do welcome you to join us at the rest of our exciting line-up of programmes during the festival.

The SWF Team

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SWF is proud to present Singapore's young talented writers to you this Sunday. Come meet and listen to the young writers from the Creative Arts Programme as they read and share their literary creations with you:

Bright Young Stars: First Words
Sun, 1 Nov | 1.30-2.30pm | Screening Room

Go to event details.

The SWF Team

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Dear all,

Troy Chin will be the solo featured writer in "Our Local Superhero" (Sunday 1st November) as fellow panelist Sonny Liew has to pull out of the session due to last minute commitments.
Go to event details.

Amanda Palmer will be having a solo performance on Halloween night! You are invited to the graveyard party at The Arts House Front Lawn!
Go to event details.

The festival looks forward to welcoming all of you this Saturday!

The SWF Team

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Starting today, readers can enjoy a 20% discount on books by participating festival authors! Catch this promotion at all participating Times bookstores before it ends!

Promotion ends 1st November

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SWF 2009 is pleased to announce that celebrated author of Beijing Coma and Stick Out Your Tongue, Ma Jian, will be joining us in this year’s festival.

Ma Jian first came to the attention of the English-speaking world with his controversial story collection Stick Out Your Tongue which depicted traditional Tibetan culture in an unadulterated harsh and inhumane light. His book was subsequently banned in China.

Ma Jian went on to write Beijing Coma, a story on the Tiananmen Square protests seen through the eyes of a fictional character. His novel won mass approval with Tom Deveson of The Times describing it as "epic in scope but intimate in feeling … magnificent" and the Financial Times calling it “an epic yet intimate work that deserves to be recognised and to endure as the great Tiananmen novel.”

Do visit Ma Jian’s bio page for more information on the critically acclaimed writer and check out the programmes page regularly for upcoming details on Ma Jian’s events, as well as other updates.

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For all ticketing and registration enquires and booking through email, please send to tickets@singaporewritersfestival.com.

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This week we have two more reviews from Year 3 SOTA students. Clara Ann Pryke talks about Edwin Thumboo's Still Travelling, and Marsha Ho reviews Chris Pash's The Last Whale.

Remember, for each week leading up to the Singapore Writers Festival we will bring you two new student reviews, so don't forget to check in with our blog every week.

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The Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) is proud to work with the Year 3 students and Department of Literature in English from the School of the Arts (SOTA)! As part of its outreach programme, the students will be reviewing books written by the authors invited to this year's SWF. The first two come from Janel Ang, who reviewed Wena Poon's Lions in Winter, and Charis Tan, who reviewed Taichi Yamada's In Search of a Distant Voice. Look out for more reviews on Edwin Thumboo, Chris Pash, Wong Phui Nam, Kate McCaffrey, Suchen Christine Lim, and more in the upcoming weeks!

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Chris Pash's book The Last Whale re-creates the standoff between the last whalers in Albany, Western Australia, and a group of environmental activists in 1977.

The Last Whale has just been shortlisted for the 2009 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize, an award named after Australian maritime historian Frank Broeze. Read more about it here.

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