Creative Writing Workshops & Author Talks for Primary Schools
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Book A Writer connects primary school students in Singapore with published local authors through interactive workshops and literary talks. Schools can choose from poetry workshops, fiction writing sessions, comics and visual storytelling programmes, and author talks that support literacy, creativity and engagement with Singapore literature. Explore our full roster of Singapore writers, poets and literary artists available for school programmes and talks here.
★ Workshops marked Tote Board eligible qualify for the Arts Grant Subsidy 2026–2028. Please contact us if you have any questions about the subsidy.
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POETRY
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Students transform everyday emojis into original poems, exploring poetry as a playful and modern form of storytelling and self-expression.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Upper Primary, Secondary
Duration: 2 hours -
Students explore eco-poetry as a multidisciplinary form that responds to environmental issues, analysing examples before crafting poems on local ecological concerns.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Upper Primary, Secondary, Junior College
Duration: 2 hours -
Students explore the fundamentals of poetry-writing through discussions on imagery, metaphor, imagination and generative writing strategies.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: All students
Duration: 2–3 hours -
Students explore ideas of home and identity through Singapore poetry, using metaphor and symbolism to craft original poems inspired by their own experiences.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: All students
Duration: 2 hours (single or multiple sessions)
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Students explore poetry through improvisational word games, collaborative writing, and playful experiments with language and poetic form.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: All students
Duration: 2–3 hours -
Students experiment with magnetic poetry, metaphor games, and collaborative writing activities to create poetry in fun, visual and interactive ways.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Primary, Secondary, Junior College
Duration: 2–2.5 hours -
Students discover different types of poetry and poetic devices before experimenting with their own creative writing individually and in groups.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Upper Primary, Lower Secondary
Duration: 2 hours -
Students explore the fundamentals of poetry writing through guided exercises that help them create and appreciate poems of their own.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Upper Primary, Secondary
Duration: 2 hours
PROSE & FICTION
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Students create intriguing characters, mysterious settings and engaging plots while learning the fundamentals of detective and genre storytelling.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Lower Primary, Upper Primary
Duration: 3 hours -
Students explore how plots are structured through suspense, causality and narrative sequencing before crafting story plots of their own.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: All students
Duration: 3 hours -
Students explore how to develop a distinctive human writing voice in an AI-assisted world, learning practical techniques for making written work, communication and presentations stand out.
Format: Talk / Workshop
Suitable for: All students
Duration: 1–3 hours -
Students learn how to write and perform engaging stories by analysing storytelling techniques and developing their own live readings.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Primary, Secondary, Junior College
Duration: 2 hours per session (2 sessions) -
Students explore how schools can become compelling settings for fiction, using familiar spaces, character tropes and conflicts to develop original stories across different genres.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Primary, Secondary
Duration: 2 hours -
Students use role-playing dice games and creative prompts to develop dynamic characters and original story ideas through collaborative storytelling.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Lower Primary, Upper Primary
Duration: 1.5–2 hours -
Students reimagine the classic tale of Red Riding Hood by creating their own comic versions while learning the shared building blocks of storytelling.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Primary, Secondary
Duration: 2.5 hours
SPOKEN WORD & PERFORMANCE
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Students explore poetry as an oral and performative tradition, examining how poetry has evolved across time and how different poetic forms continue to shape contemporary expression.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: All students
Duration: 2 hours
COMICS & VISUAL STORYTELLING
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Students explore the journey from book to television screen through scriptwriting, dialogue adaptation and behind-the-scenes insights into TV production.
Format: Talk / Workshop
Suitable for: Upper Primary, Lower Secondary
Duration: 1 hour per session (3 sessions) -
Students explore the fundamentals of scriptwriting through role play, dramatised readings and collaborative scene creation inspired by television storytelling.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Upper Primary, Lower Secondary
Duration: 2–3 hours -
Students learn the fundamentals of comic creation, from storyboarding and composition to lettering and visual storytelling techniques.
Format: Workshop
Suitable for: Upper Primary, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Duration: 2 hours
PUBLISHING & CAREERS
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Authors Adan Jimenez and Felicia Low-Jimenez share how they built writing careers through storytelling, collaboration and creative inspiration across different media.
Format: Talk
Suitable for: Upper Primary
Duration: 45 minutes
ABOUT OUR PROGRAMME / OUR WRITERS / OUR WORKSHOPS / OUR CAMP / F.A.Q.
Book A Writer is Sing Lit Station's workshop-for-schools programme, featuring a roster of Singapore's most important writers at work today. *Want to Book A Writer? For general enquiries on availability, workshop rates, programme content and more, do fill in our contact form here.