Writer to Writer
with Intan Paramaditha
Book a one-on-one mentoring session with award winning writer, Intan Paramaditha, to discuss your writing project. Intan will provide guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life.
Registration closes: 2 November 2023, Thursday, 11:59PM SGT
Summary
Course code: IP2
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
November to December 2023
By appointment only
Venue
Online (Zoom) or In-person (NTU)
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?
Writers – especially English and Indonesian language 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:
- $20 for adults
- $10 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 Intan Paramaditha
Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author based in Australia. Her novel The Wandering, translated from the Indonesian language by Stephen J. Epstein, was nominated for the Stella Prize in Australia and awarded the Tempo Best Literary Fiction in Indonesia, English PEN Translates Award, and PEN/ Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. She is the author of the short story collection Apple and Knife and the editor of Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets, part of the Translating Feminisms series of Tilted Axis Press. Her essay, “On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel,” was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2021. Her new novel Malam Seribu Jahanam was recently published in Indonesia. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and teaches media and film studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.
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