Writer To Writer
with Kamal Al-Solaylee
Share your ideas, gain fresh insights. Book a one-on-one mentoring session with author Kamal Al-Solaylee to receive expert guidance on your writing project and support for your writing journey.
Registration closes 15 June 2025, 11.59pm SGT or when full capacity is reached.
Course Information
Course Code: WTW-KA
Duration: 1 hour
Recommended For:
Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced Writers
Dates
July 2025
Venue
Online (Zoom) or In-Person (Venue TBC)
Please Note
- Each registration submission is for one participant only.
- Registrants will undergo a selection process, and those selected must complete payment to confirm their placement.
- ACWP will maintain a waiting list once the maximum number of participants is reached.
- Shortlisted participants will be contacted for payment and confirmation of your session’s date and time.
Overview and Learning Outcomes
During a Writer To Writer session with the Visiting Writer, you will:
- Receive general advice from an experienced writer on your writing project.
- Gain specific, practical insights on the art and craft of writing, including techniques and addressing writing challenges.
- Get help shaping your approach to your writing life.
- Understand what it takes to be a professional writer.
Please note that the one-on-one consultation is not a manuscript assessment.
Who Should Apply?
- Foundation Writers: Early-stage, promising writers with no publication history required. These writers may be 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 serious, professional intent but are not yet published with a mainstream or recognized independent publisher.
- Advanced Writers: Writers who have published at least one book with a mainstream or recognized independent publisher, and/or have been published in at least one literary journal or anthology.
Participants will be selected by the Visiting Writer with assistance from the ACWP. A waiting list will be maintained.
Registration and Pricing
Course Pre-requisites
To sign up, please register at the link above and provide the following documents:
- A short summary of your writing project (approximately 100 words)
- A brief biography (50 to 100 words)
If you have registered with us before, you may resubmit the same information with an updated biography.
Course Fees
- $25 for adults
- $10 for senior citizens aged 55 and above, NSFs, and unemployed individuals
- Free for students from Singapore institutions, including undergraduate and postgraduate students
Fees are non-refundable.
For all other inquiries including financial assistance, please email us.
About 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.