Rising Stars: An Evening with Singaporean Writers

Amanda Chong is a lawyer trained in Cambridge and Harvard who writes when she should be sleeping. Amanda explores themes of gender and power in her work as a poet and playwright. Her poetry collection, Professions (2016), was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. Her poetry has bee... Read more

Born in Chennai, India, Shivram Gopinath is a poet who has called Singapore home for more than two decades. He arrived for a business management degree and stayed for the Char Kway Teow. His work has been heard at Singapore Writers Festival, Borobudur Cultural and Writers Festival, Jaipur Literary F... Read more

Joshua Ip is a Singaporean poet, editor, and literary organiser. He has published six-ish poetry collections, won the Singapore Literature Prize for his debut, sonnets from the singlish (Math Paper Press, 2012), and placed in three different categories of the Golden Point Award. His latest collectio... Read more

Daryl Lim Wei Jie 林伟杰 is a poet, editor and translator from Singapore. He is the author of A Book of Changes and Anything but Human, a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He conceptualised and co-edited two anthologies: Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet, which won ... Read more

Daryl Qilin YAM (b. 1991) is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. He is the author of the novella Shantih Shantih Shantih (2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize, and the novel Lovelier, Lonelier (2021), the Singapore nominee for the 2023 International Dublin Liter... Read more

Dr Sreedhevi Iyer, an Indian-Malaysian-Australian author, is a graduate of the first cohort of City University Hong Kong’s unique MFA program in Asian Writing in English. Her fiction work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in the United States, along with publications in literary journals in ... Read more