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our story
Writing The City was founded in 2011 with the support of the British Council and the National Arts Council Singapore. Today, we are a literary arts platform in Singapore which supports a community of new, emerging and established prose writers to develop their writing craft.
Our purpose is to illuminate all the different, beautiful ways that writing can come to be. We do that through three programmes:
Writer's Cove:
This is a space for writers in Singapore to share their work, and to give and receive feedback. Just submit your work and then we review it together.
Write In Sessions:
Here, we come together to create. We'll spend the first hour working on our writing. Or, you can share your project so the rest can share their ideas. In the second hour, we'll have a light discussion on the things we've been working on.
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Writing Workshop:
In each workshop, we explore a specific thread of the writing craft, from writing about love, to the intricacies of worldbuilding. We’ve enlisted help from a diversity of local authors, from speculative fictionist Ng Yi-sheng, to Akshita Nanda, Singapore Literature Prize Winner and Straits Times columnist.
the people
Most of the programmes are run by Benedict Lim, a Malaysian artist living in Singapore. In May 2023, we were able to gain support from Sing Lit Station as they become our Programme Partner.
Benedict Lim
​Benedict is a sceptical idealist, forever dancing between two profundities. They were born and raised in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, Malaysia. Based in Singapore since 2013, they are keen to explore storytelling in all its forms.
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In 2021, they worked on thenational.api—a commission for the inaugural Southeast Asian Queer Cultural Festival by ASEAN SOGIE Caucus. The same year, their short story, Your Life in Singapore, was published in Call and Response 2:
A Singapore Migrant Anthology.
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Besides writing, Benedict is also pursuing the performing arts, appearing in 'The Swimming Pool Library Exhibition' and 'Metazomia, both by Brian Gothong Tan.
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Sing Lit Station
Sing Lit Station is a registered charity and Institution of Public Character (IPC) dedicated to promoting Singaporean literature. Our vision is to be a platform where readers and writers can meet.
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Find out more about us at www.singlitstation.com.
