2023 Storytelling Festival

Thank you to everyone who came to the very well-attended 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋, organized by Migrant Writers of Singapore and generously supported by Sing Lit Station and National Library Board, Singapore last Sunday 30, July 2023.

Thank you also to Jane Lyn Dupingay and the MWS team for inviting me to read my flash fiction piece “Buhay ay Langit sa Piling Mo” (“Life is Heaven in your Arms”) and its lovely companion piece “Beginning of Autumn” by the Chinese poet and migrant worker Zhang Haitao. The paired pieces were part of the second volume of Call and Response 2: A Singapore Migrant Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2021), edited by Zakir Hossain Khoran, Bhing Navato, Poh Yong Han and Joshua Ip.

The 2020/2021 Jalan Besar Writing Residency at Sing Lit Station

Because of the writing and production of The Book of Red Shadows for the Singapore Writers Festival, it’s only now that I’ve gotten around to the other big news for this last quarter of 2020.

I am quite pleased to announce that multi-disciplinary artist nor; poet, fictionist and critic Sam Toh and I have been selected as the three writers-in-residence for the Jalan Besar Writing Residency at Sing Lit Station for the October 2020/March 2021.

I am the third person of Filipino descent to be part of this program, after fictionist and editor Noelle Q. de Jesus and award-winning poet Lawrence Lacambra Ypil.