NTU Creative Writing presented our first online open mic night on Friday 15 May 2020!
The event was livestreamed on Creative Writing at NTU‘s Facebook page. You can see the livestreamed video here.
The book recommendations are here.
Thank you very much to the organiser, Khalisah Wan, the moderator, Marc Nair, and all our poets and prose writers.
It was great to see so many people ‘tuning’ into the livestream.
We hope to hold another NTU Unmasked event next month.
The line-up of NTU alumni, students, staff & lecturers included:
🔈 Marc Nair (moderator)
Marc Nair is a poet whose work revolves around the ironies and idiosyncrasies of everyday life. He has published ten collections of poetry and is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University.
🎤 Arin Alycia Fong
Arin Alycia Fong recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at NTU, and is the co-editor of a collection of Asian diaspora poetry, ‘To Gather Your Leaving’. Her work appears in some journals and anthologies, including QLRS, ‘In This Desert, There Were Seeds’, and ‘this is how you walk on the moon’.
🎤 Barrie Sherwood
Barrie is a fiction writer and assistant professor in English at NTU. He is Canadian and French, and has been living in Singapore for the past eight years.
🎤 Broc Russell
Broc Rossell is the author of two poetry collections, Festival (Cleveland State University Press, 2015) and Alameda (Selva Oscura, 2020), and co-editor of Poetics and Praxis ‘After’ Objectivism (University of Iowa Press, 2018). He’s an assistant professor of Creative Writing at NTU.
🎤 Cat Chong
Cat is a transcultural twister child negotiating an embodied rejection of fixity and belonging, they’re a graduate of the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway and currently doing a PhD on global female-authored illness narratives at NTU. They’re a co-founder of the Crested Tit Collective.
🎤 Hidhir Razak
Hidhir graduated from NTU with a Bachelor’s Degree in English in 2014 and a Master of Arts degree in 2018, also in English, but with a focus on Creative Writing (Prose). He has also been a Senior Moderator for the Singapore Poetry Writing Month over the past two years.
🎤 Prasanthi Ram
Prasanthi is a PhD candidate for Creative Writing at NTU after graduating from The University of Sydney with an MA in Creative Writing. Her work has been published in The Tiger Moth Review with an upcoming piece in the Food Republic anthology. Outside of fiction, she also writes critical reviews for Singapore Unbound. Most recently, she co-founded and is the fiction editor of Mahogany Journal, an online literary journal dedicated to South Asian anglophone writers born or based in Singapore.
🎤 Ummi Tasfia
Tasfia is a Singaporean-Bangladeshi spoken word poet—former Australian Poetry Slam Victorian State Finalist, YODA Spoken Word Champion and two-time representative of Singapore in the Causeway Exchange Slam. Her poems have been published in the ‘Fight Evil with Poetry’ anthology, Mahogany Journal and The Arctic Circle’s ‘Artists & Climate Change’ blog.
And the open-mic-ers:
- Geraldine Choo
- Pallavi Mohan
- Ng Yi-Sheng
- Bee Bee Sng