NTU Creative Writing presented our second online open mic night on Thursday 1 October 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, Ben Slater, and all our writers.
The line-up of NTU alumni, students, staff & lecturers included:
Line-up of readers:
🔈 Ben Slater (moderator)
Ben Slater is a screenwriter, script editor and critic with considerable experience working across various creative fields, including film production, theatre, performance, publications and digital and audio art.
🎤 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.
🎤 Juliana Mei
Juliana Mei was born in 1996, and is a senior in English at Nanyang Technological University. She also covers music for Melted Magazine. Her interests, in creative writing and research, include the study of aesthetic expression in the context of women’s writing, and its implications on self-identity.
🎤 Cheryl Julia Lee
Cheryl Julia Lee is an Assistant Professor with the English department at NTU. Her poetry collection, We Were Always Eating Expired Things, was published in 2014, and was nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize.
🎤 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.
🎤 Reginald Kent
Reginald Kent is a biracial British Baba with no allegiance to scones or buah keluak. He graduated with a B.A of Communications Studies (WKWSCI) and is currently pursuing a Creative Writing M.A at NTU where he is also serving as a Research Assistant. His research and practice revolves around the queering of the modern short story.
🎤 Terisha Tan
Terisha Tan is an English Literature and Art History student who is passionate about stories across visual culture and the written word. Outside of school, she is a screenwriter whose scripts have been seen on local television channels, though she aspires to branch into other forms of creative writing.
🎤 Esther Vincent
Esther Vincent is the editor-in-chief and founder of The Tiger Moth Review, Singapore’s first independent eco journal of art and literature. She is co-editor of two poetry anthologies published by Ethos Books: Poetry Moves and Little Things. Her unpublished manuscript, Red Earth, which is also her working MA thesis, was a finalist for the Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize 2020 (New York).
🎤 Chow Yean Li
Yean Li is a budding writer who is interested in writing in general but leaning more towards scriptwriting. In her spare time, she enjoys reading movie scripts and watching dramas. She majors in Visual Communications and Interactive Media in ADM.
🎤 Daryl Qilin Yam
Daryl Qilin Yam is the author of the novel Kappa Quartet (2016), editor and an arts organiser / producer. He also is a director at the literary non-profit Sing Lit Station.