Thank you to everyone who attended “Breakout: A Gala Reading” at the Singapore Writers Festival last Saturday, (November 3), and especially to our moderator Stephanie Dogfoot.
It was such a great privilege to be able to share my work in the company of literary luminaries such as Australian poet Adam Aitken; Russian poet and Science Fiction Author Maria Galina; Hong Kong poet and editor of Fleurs des Lettres Law Lok Man, Louise 羅樂敏; PEN Open Book Award-winning author Nina McConigley from Wyoming in the United States; Sithuraj Ponraj, who won the Singapore Literature Prize for Tamil Fiction; and most especially the magisterial Yoko Tawada who has won numerous Japanese and German literary awards including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Goethe Medal, and the Kleist Prize.
Our excellent moderator Stephanie Dogfoot
Isabella with Yoko Tawada
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Published by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is the author of the International Rubery Book Award shortlisted The Infinite Library and Other Stories (Math Paper Press, 2017 ; US edition: Gaudy Boy, 2021) and Here be Dragons (Canvas Press, 2015), which won the Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Award in 2012. His play-by-email interactive fiction piece “The Book of Red Shadows” debuted at the Singapore Writers Festival in 2020.
His writing has appeared in many publications including Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Likhaan Journal, Strange Horizons, Philippines Graphic, Science Fiction World and The Quarterly Literature Review of Singapore, as well as anthologies like The Best New Singapore Short Stories, Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction, LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, the Philippine Speculative Fiction series and Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction.
He is a fellow at the Milford Science Fiction Writers’ Conference (UK) and the Cinemalaya Ricky Lee Film Scriptwriting Workshop, as well as a Jalan Besar writer-in-residence at Sing Lit Station (2020/2021).
Visit his blog at vrocampo.com
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