NTU Creative Writing presented our second online open mic night on Friday 3 July 2020!
The event was livestreamed on Creative Writing at NTU‘s Facebook page. You can see the livestreamed video here.
Thank you very much to the organiser, Khalisah Wan, the moderator, Charlotte Hand, and all our poets and prose writers.
The line-up of NTU alumni, students, staff & lecturers included:
Line-up of readers:
🔈 Charlotte Hand (moderator)
Charlotte Hand is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Oxford, where she holds the Drue Heinz Scholarship for American Literature. Her short fiction, ” 面子” (miàn zi), was published in the anti-realist anthology, this is how you walk on the moon (2016).
🎤 Ann Ang
Ann is an occasional poet who is occasionally published, and the author of Bang My Car (Math Paper Press, 2012), a Singlish-English collection of short stories. She is in hot pursuit of a PhD in postcolonial writing at Oxford – the PhD is a coy mistress.
🎤 Jen Crawford
Jen Crawford is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Canberra and the author of seven published poetry books and chapbooks. She will read from her unpublished manuscript ‘A General Image of the Whole Countryside Recovering from the Effects of Winter’, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest.
🎤 Marylyn Tan
Marylyn Tan is a delicious, promiscuous, large-beasted, queer linguistics graduate, poet, and artist, who has been performing and disappointing since 2014. Her first child, Gaze Back (published by Ethos Books; Lambda Loser), is half bible, half shitpost, fully the trans-genre Singaporean lesbo grimoire you never knew you needed.
🎤 Shirley Chew
Shirley Chew is Emeritus Professor, Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, at the University of Leeds, and, having relocated back to Singapore, a Professor at the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University. She is the founding editor of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings (2001-present).
🎤 Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow is the co-author of Singapore: A Biography and co-editor of In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel. Her short fiction has won the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Our open miccers:
🎤 Megan Sin
Megan is a fresh graduate from Nanyang Technological University with a major in English Literature. She writes and moves to the details of life, with a constant effort to make sense of the incomprehensible transience.
🎤 Sarah Farheenshah Begum
Sarah Farheenshah Begum is an alumna of NTU Creative Writing and History – with a love for writing even with its constants and pauses. She writes for herself, her past selves, and the way her future smells (both good and bad).
🎤 Laili
Laili is an English Undergraduate student from NTU who started to realize, after poring through various readings, that the best way for her to see more of herself in what she read is to write it herself. As a budding writer, she writes to make sense of the senseless, including herself.