The Write Match
featuring Kamal Al-Solaylee, Faisal Mohyuddin, Simone Heng and Ng Kah Gay
Feeling a little shy on the literary scene? Swap the nerves for excitement as we match you up in this whirlwind of literary connections with select writers and publishers #F2F. Engage in rapid-fire conversations, pitch your book ideas and potential publishing partnerships, or simply enjoy chatting about life. Who knows? Your next big break could be just a conversation away!
Course Information
Format: Meet the Author
Duration: 1.5 hrs
Recommended For: General Audience
Dates
18 July, Fri
7:30pm to 9:00pm (1.5 hrs)
Venue
In-Person
Gallery II
The Arts House (Level 2)
1 Old Parliament Lane
Singapore 179429
Please Note
Building on its successful debut at the ACWP’s 2024 Practitioners Conference, The Write Match offers a structured networking and ‘Ask-Me-Anything’ session designed for literary practitioners, primarily authors and publishers. The programme utilises a speed-dating format, where each author/publisher will connect with four groups of five attendees. Each group will have a dedicated 20-minute slot for an ‘AMA’-style interaction, focusing on topics relevant to writing and publishing for aspiring and intermediate writers. Following each 20-minute segment, the author/publisher will rotate to engage with the next group.
Ticketing and Registration
Course Fees
- $10* for adults
- $5* for senior citizens aged 55 and above, NSFs, unemployed individuals, and students from Singapore institutions, including undergraduate and postgraduate students
Terms and Conditions
- Doors open at 7:00pm.
- Please present your digital Eventbrite ticket at the venue upon entry.
- All tickets registered non-transferable.
- ACWP reserves the right to refuse entry to those not in compliance with our policies.
* Excluding Eventbrite fees
About The Speakers
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Vancouver-based Kamal Al-Solaylee is the author of the bestseller Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, winner of the 2013 Toronto Book Award and a finalist for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s Canada Reads and for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. His second book, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone) won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and was finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards for Nonfiction. His third book of nonfiction, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From, was published in 2021 and was named Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail and CBC Books. His nonfiction books mix personal narrative with geopolitics and field reporting.
Faisal Mohyuddin
Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Elsewhere: An Elegy (Next Page Press, 2024) and The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear, 2018), and of the poetry chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). He teaches high school English in suburban Chicago and creative writing at Northwestern University. He is also a visual artist.
Simone Heng
Simone Heng is a human connection specialist and award-winning author. She works with organisations to hardwire connection into their culture to drive performance, keep top talent engaged and improve productivity.
Simone has spoken to thousands, and often for Fortune 500 organizations. Her clients include Harvard University, SXSW, Google, Meta, Amazon, ByteDance, KPMG, Spotify, Salesforce, SAP, Lucasfilm, the United Nations, and many more. Simone and her work have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, Al Jazeera, Harvard Business Review, TEDx, Vogue, Glamour, LinkedIn Learning, BBC Radio, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others.
Simone is based and was born in Singapore but has also studied in Switzerland, was raised in Australia, and worked in the United Arab Emirates. She has a communications and cultural studies degree from Curtin University of Technology.
Her latest book Let’s Talk About Loneliness is published by Hay House and available globally. It is the winner of the 2024 silver Nautilus Book Award in the social change and social justice category. It is also a finalist in 4 categories at the 2024 International Book Awards. Simone also sits on the advisory board for the Foundation for Social Connection in the United States.
Ng Kah Gay
As publisher at Ethos Books, KG focuses on making books and supporting an environment for literature, the arts and culture in Singapore and Southeast Asia. The passionate and experienced team is part of a growing ecology of independent agents producing and circulating fiction, non-fiction and poetry that speak to our times, including critical concerns such as climate action.
Photo Credit: Alecia Neo