Thank you once again to poet Lawrence Ypil and the Yale-NUS Writing Centre for inviting me and Meihan Boey (co-winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize for The Formidable Miss Cassidy, and the author of a science fiction novella, The Messiah Virus) to conduct a novel writing workshop with selected literature students.
This is the third such workshop I have done and I always find it such a rare pleasure to read the first manuscripts of new writers.
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is a Singapore-based Filipino writer. He is the author of The Infinite Library and Other Stories (Math Paper Press, 2017) and Here be Dragons (Canvas Press, 2015), which won the Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Award in 2012.
His writing has appeared in many publications including Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Likhaan Journal, Strange Horizons, Philippine 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, Maximum Volume: Best New Philippine Fiction, and the Philippine Speculative Fiction series.
Visit his blog at vrocampo.com or follow him on Twitter @VictorOcampo
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