Join us at Singapore Literature Book Club as we discuss Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Creative Writing. As this will be an interactive session, please come prepared to discuss the book and share your thoughts!
About the Author
Josephine Chia likes to capture vignettes of Singaporean history, life and fables in her books. She loves writing about her rich Peranakan culture and heritage. Josephine writes both fiction and non-fiction. Altogether, she has published 14 books. Ayam Buah Keluak and the Art of Writing will be her 15th book.
When she was living in the UK, she was a finalist for the Ian St James Award and won other UK literary prizes. She has a UK Masters in Creative Writing.
After her return to Singapore, she won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2014 for her nonfiction memoir, Kampong Spirit/Gotong Royong, which is based on the attap village she grew up in the 1950s. Goodbye My Kampong! is a sequel to this. Her children’s novel, Queen of the Sky, was shortlisted for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2018. In 2019, she won the Singapore Book Publishers Award for her first YA Novel, Big Tree in a Small Pot.
Josephine is a Creative Writing mentor on various writing programmes as she has a passion to nurture the future writers of Singapore. Several of her students are now published writers. She also runs Creative Writing workshops in schools and for adults.
VENUE: Central Public Library – Programme Room 1
ADDRESS: 100 Victoria Street National Library Board, Singapore, 188064
DATE AND TIME
20 Feb 2025, 7pm-8pm