SPOKE & BIRD RETURNS TO THE STAGE THIS SEPTEMBER! Come join them at their fabulous new venue, ULTRASUPERNEW with an all-star lineup featuring sets by poets ANG SHUANG, PHONG HUYNH, TASFIA & JEDIDIAH HUANG!
Ang Shuang graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing has been published by the Asian American Writers' Workshop, the Rumpus, and Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Shuang enjoys crisp cider, Taylor Swift songs, and snuggling with her dog. Her debut collection, How To Live With Yourself, is forthcoming in November.
Phong is a painter and writer based in Singapore. He is currently completing his Masters in Creative Writing at LaSalle School of the Arts and writing a novel about gay conversion therapy in Singapore. He has been published in the Best Asian Short Stories 2020 and self-published a poetry anthology called Air. His writings explore the love and tensions of LGBTQ community in Singapore, the unspoken eccentricities of Asian family and the search for self-identity in modern life. Phong has a cat that is both his muse and his Tiktok star.
Tasfia is a Singaporean-Bangladeshi poet – former Australian Poetry Slam Victorian State Finalist (2017), YODA Spoken Word Champion (2018), two-time representative of Singapore in the Causeway Exchange Slam (2018 & 2019). She is the convener of Wild Poets’ Den, Singapore’s first alcohol-free poetry open mic which includes sign-language interpretation and accessibility elements in collaboration with Equal Dreams SG. Her poems have been published in the Fight Evil With Poetry anthology, Mahogany Journal, The Arctic Circle’s Artists & Climate Change blog and SingPoWriMo. She moonlights as a sustainability innovation professional when not wearing her poet hat. She writes on home, immigration, love and empowerment.
Jedidiah is a Singaporean spoken word poet. His attempts at processing his trauma have led him to be published in three anthologies, become a YODA Spoken Word Runner-Up (2018), win the 2019 Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition ($10,000 prize), become a finalist at the 2020 National Poetry Competition and represent Singapore at the Causeway Exchange Slam 2019. He is obsessed with stories and all the best ways to tell them.
VENUE: UltraSuperNew
ADDRESS: 168 Tyrwhitt Rd, Singapore 207572
EVENT WEBSITE: Facebook
DATE AND TIME
30 Sep 2021, 8pm–10pm, $10 / $15