Writer to Writer
with Alice Pung
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Summary
Course code: AP2
30 mins to 1 hour mentoring session
For Foundation, Intermediate or Advanced Writers
Limited sessions available
Selective entry – we’ll offer places to writers who show promise
Dates
Register above and we will email you with available timings in February 2023
- Monday, 6 Feb 2023
- Monday, 13 Feb 2023
- Monday, 20 Feb 2023
By appointment only
Venue
Online via zoom
Overview and Learning Outcomes
- discuss your writing aspirations with an experienced writer in an encouraging environment
- obtain general advice from an experienced writer on your writing project
- obtain specific practical advice on aspects of the art and craft of writing, writing technique & your writing challenges
- obtain help on shaping your approach to your writing life
- understand what it takes to be a professional writer
Please note the one-on-one consultation is not a manuscript assessment.
Sessions will be most effective if participants submit a list of questions they’d like to discuss and also up to 2000 words of prose beforehand.
Who should register?
- Foundation Writers — Early stage, promising writers without any publication history. This includes those who are writing for the first time or have never written with deadlines or structure before, or
- Intermediate Writers — Writers who have chosen to pursue writing as a full time or part time career with a serious, professional intent but who are not yet published with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher.
- Advanced Writers — Writers who have published at least one book with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher, and/or published in at least one literary journal and/or anthology
Participants will be selected by the Visiting Writer with assistance from the Asia Creative Writing programme. A waiting list will be maintained.
Sessions will be most effective if participants submit a list of questions they’d like to discuss and also up to 2000 words of prose beforehand.
Registration and Pricing
Course Prerequisites
To sign up, please register via the link above with the following documents:
- A 300-500 word writing sample
- A short summary of your writing project or writing interests of ~100 words
- A short biography of 50-100 wordsIf you have registered with us before, you may send the same information again with an updated bio.
Course Fees
- For each 30 min to 1 hour session:
- $25 for adults
- $10 for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers
- Free for undergraduates and postgraduate students from Singapore tertiary institutions
- Non-refundable if cancellation 2 weeks or less before course starts
- Please email us if financial assistance is needed
About Alice Pung
Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning Australian writer, editor and lawyer. Her books include the bestselling memoirs Unpolished Gem (2006) and Her Father’s Daughter (2011), and the novel Laurinda (2014). She is the editor of the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia (2008), and created the Marly books for Penguin’s Our Australian Girl series (2015). Her latest book is the novel One Hundred Days (2021), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. She is a graduate of the Iowa International Writing Program, and has guest-lectured at Vassar College, Brown University, the University of Milan and the University of Bologna, as well as Peking University. She is the current Artist-in-Residence at Janet Clarke Hall, the University of Melbourne. In 2022, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to Literature.
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