Writer to Writer
with Zen Cho
Registration closes: 4 March 2024, Monday, 11:59PM SGT
Summary
Course code: ZC2
30 mins to 1 hour mentoring session
For Foundation, Intermediate to Advanced Writers
Limited sessions available
Selective entry – we’ll offer places to writers based on writing samples sent on application
Dates
March to April 2024
By appointment only
Venue
Online (Zoom)
Overview and Learning Outcomes
During a Writer to Writer session (30 mins to 1 hour) with the Visiting Writer you will:
- 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?
Writers – especially 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
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 2,000 words of prose beforehand.
Registration and Pricing
Course Prerequisites
To sign up, please register at the link above with the following documents:
- A 500 word writing sample
- A short summary of your writing project of ~100 words
- A short biography of ~50 to 100 words
If 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:
- $10 for adults
- $5 for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers
- Free for undergraduates and post graduates from Singapore tertiary institutions
- Non-refundable if cancellation 2 weeks or less before course starts
- Please email us if financial assistance is needed
About Zen Cho
Zen Cho writes fantasy and romance. Her newest novel, The Friend Zone Experiment, is a contemporary romance set among London’s East and Southeast Asian community. Zen is a winner of the Hugo, Crawford and British Fantasy Awards and the LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize, as well as a finalist for the World Fantasy, Ignyte, Lambda, Locus and Astounding Awards. She was born and raised in Malaysia, resides in the UK, and lives in a notional space between the two.
Other Courses & Events with Zen Cho
Aspiring Novelist Bootcamp
Designed for Intermediate to Advanced fiction writers, this course will consist of workshops on writing craft and career strategy, focused on practical tips and strategies for building sustainable careers as published authors of genre and commercial fiction.