An Evening with Claire Keegan
Registration closes: 12 May 2023, Friday, 5 PM.
Registrations may close earlier if all slots have been taken up.
Summary
Course code: CK3
A reading, conversation and question and answer session with Claire Keegan.
This is a ticketed event. Please register to secure your seat.
For all readers & lovers of literature
For Foundation, Intermediate & Advanced Writers, Students & Educators – especially fiction writers
Dates
14 May 2023, Sunday
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm SGT
Venue
In-person.
Ngee Ann Auditorium
Level B1
Asian Civilisations Museum
1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555
Overview
Join us for an evening with Booker Prize shortlisted writer, Claire Keegan, where Claire will read from her fiction and answer questions about her work and writing life.
This event will be moderated by fiction writer, Dr Prasanthi Ram.
Who should register?
The key target audience are fiction writers including:
- Foundation Writers — Early stage, promising writers with no requirement for any publication history. Foundation writers are those who are writing for the first time or have never written with deadlines or structure before.
- 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.
Registration and Pricing
Course Prerequisites
There are no course pre-requisites for this session.
Course Fees
- $10 per attendee to secure your seat
About Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm on the Wicklow/Wexford border. Her works have won numerous awards and are translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story — was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works to be published in the 21st Century. It is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland. Her latest, Small Things Like These, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Ambassadors’ Prize for best Irish novel published in France, and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the year. It is now nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize, which is presented annually for the best novel in the world written or translated into English.
About Dr Prasanthi Ram
Dr Prasanthi Ram is a full-time writing lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, where she completed her PhD in creative writing. Her short stories can be found in a variety of publications including Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five (Epigram Books: 2021), and her personal essays can be found in What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian (AWARE: 2022) as well as Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore (Ethos Books: 2021). She is also the co-founder and fiction editor of Mahogany Journal. Her debut short story cycle Nine Yard Sarees will be published by Ethos Books later this year.
Other Courses & Events with Claire Keegan
How Fiction Works
This advanced course led by Booker Prize shortlisted, Irish writer, Claire Keegan will develop writers’ understanding of how fiction works, its forms, structures and techniques.
Writer to Writer with Claire Keegan
Book a one-on-one mentoring session with Booker Prize shortlisted writer, Claire Keegan, to discuss your writing project. Claire will provide guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life.