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A Writer’s Survival Guide: Online Seminar

A Writer’s Survival Guide: Online Seminar

In this online public seminar, award winning writer, AL Kennedy will discuss A Writer’s Survival Guide. AL Kennedy, will explore how a writer can make their work as good as possible so that it has a fair chance of being published in a ‘fair’ world.

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How to Write Speculative Fiction

How to Write Speculative Fiction

In this four week online workshop series, award-winning writer Aliette de Bodard, will teach the fundamental building blocks of a speculative fiction story, how to harness your creativity and help you discover and define your writing process from first idea to completed draft of a speculative fiction story.

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Chinese Creative Writing – Fiction

Chinese Creative Writing – Fiction

This programme focuses on practical works. The techniques of fiction writing will be taught. Participants will acquire techniques in generating, writing, and editing Chinese fiction suitable for children or young adults.

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Advanced Creative Writing: Chinese Fiction

Advanced Creative Writing: Chinese Fiction

This is a 13-weeks semester-long course places special emphasis on intensive practice of Chinese fiction. The objective of this course is to guide you into producing Chinese fictions which possess creativity and to encourage you to publish your works.

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Writer to Writer with Sharlene Teo

Writer to Writer with Sharlene Teo

Book a one-on-one mentoring session with Sharlene Teo to discuss your writing project. Sharlene will provide guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life.

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The South East Asian Uncanny

The South East Asian Uncanny

This three-week workshop explores the Asian Gothic and the Asian uncanny in Southeast Asian contemporary fabulist fiction. Participants will also look at how to integrate the uncanny in short fiction or a novel, uses of the uncanny, adaptations of existing myths, and finally editing.

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Finding Your Novel’s Voice

Finding Your Novel’s Voice

This four‐week workshop combines a review & critique of participants’ work & discussion on assigned readings of Asian & Asian disasporic writers. The workshop would look at distinctiveness of voice on a sentence level, and then move on to voice in dialogue, voice on a thematic level and finally voice on an affective level.

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