More info on the Young Writer’s Seminar!

Oh man, the info I got was on a gif e-flyer so I’m retyping the major infos instead and oh I emailed them to ask who’s doing the plenary sessions too.

Date: 21 Feb 2009, Saturday

Time: 10am – 6pm

Venue: Blue room at The Arts House

Admission: Free

Plenary sessions:

Local Scene – Why It Matters

Publishing Scene – From Scribbles to Bookshelves: Demystifying the Publishing Industry, Royalties and Market Trends

Writing in Singapore – The Anxiety of Influence

The plenary sessions from 10am onwards will be conducted by Dr Gwee Li Sui, Toh Hsien Min, Fong Hoe Fang (representative from Ethos Publishing), Kenny Chan (representative from Kinokuniya), Daren Shiau and Cyril Wong. There will be a Q & A session followed by lunch, until 2pm when the concurrent sessions will start.

The workshops:

• Performative Poetry
• Writing Reviews
• Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels
• The Craft of Fiction

*There will be 4 workshops in the afternoon, 2 concurrently taking place from 2pm to 3:30pm and 2 concurrently taking place from 4pm to 5:30pm. Participants are to attend 2 workshops, one for each time slot.

• “Performative Poetry” by Mr Chris Mooney Singh and Ms Nansi Pooja, and “Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels” by Mr Jerry Hinds
• “Performative Poetry” by Mr Chris Mooney Singh and Ms Nansi Pooja, and “The Craft of Fiction” by Dr Yeo Wei Wei.
• “Writing Films and Interviewing Celebrities” by Mr Yong Shu Hoong, and “Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels” by Mr Jerry Hinds.
• “Writing Films and Interviewing Celebrities” by Mr Yong Shu Hoong, and “The Craft of Fiction” by Dr Yeo Wei Wei.

To register you got to sign up here.

Or to see get to that page from their website and stuff, click here for the NUS Literary Society.

Considering they want a student matriculation number and or school name… I might not attend even if technically I do have a student pass since uh, I’m not that young of a writer of their target audience and might instead go to my HSWG session instead.