Sharlene Teo
Residency Period
4 September to 2 October 2021 (Online)
27 June to 15 August 2022
Sharlene Teo’s debut novel Ponti was published by Picador and Simon and Schuster in 2018. Her work has been translated into eleven languages and featured in places such as the Guardian, the TLS, LitHub, Granta and Vogue. She completed an MA in Prose Fiction and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. She lectures at the University of Kent and lives in London.
© Photo credit: Amaal Said
Awards
- 2018: Shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Award
- 2018: Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize
- 2018: Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Writing Award
- 2017: Shortlisted for the Berlin Writing Prize
- 2017: Iowa International Writing Fellowship
- 2016: Winner of the Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award
- 2014: Sozopol Fiction Fellowship
- 2013: David TK Wong Fellowship
- 2012: Booker Prize Foundation Fellowship
Publications
- Ponti (novel), Picador, 2018
- “Sit Bones” in Go Home!, Feminist Press, 2018
- “Echolocation” in At the Pond, Daunt Books, 2018
- Foreword in Stories of the Sahara, Bloomsbury, 2019
- “Our Lady of Forgetfulness in Spiritus Mundi, Liminal 11, 2022
- “Mistaken for Strangers” in East Side Voices, Sceptre Books, 2022
Literary Focus
- Unreliable memory, unstable identity, the uncanny, online/offline culture, food, migration and displacement.
Courses & Events
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4 weekly workshops
2 to 5 pm Venue: Venue: National Library Board and Prime 53 $150 for 4 sessions* (Intermediate to Advanced) |
[Course Completed] Finding Your Novel’s VoiceThis four-week workshop first considers the distinctiveness of voice on a sentence level, and then looks at voice in dialogue, voice on a thematic level and finally voice on an affective level. Participants will gain a stronger grasp of their literary voice and the ability to sustain and vary it over a longer form such as a novel. This course will help you become a more attentive reader and better editor of your own work. Course code: ST1 |
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3 weekly workshops
2 to 5 pm Venue: Venue: National Library Board and Prime 53 $110 for 3 sessions* (Intermediate to Advanced) |
[Course Completed] The South East Asian UncannyThis three-week workshop explores the Asian Gothic and the Asian uncanny in Southeast Asian contemporary fabulist fiction. Participants will look at what is fabulism from a Southeast Asian perspective, when notions of superstition and superstitious figures are so culturally distinct in Singapore and Malaysia. 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. Course code: ST2 |
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July – August 2022 (Intermediate to Advanced) |
[Course Completed] Writer to WriterBook 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. Course code: ST3 |
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1 session on 26 July 2022, Tuesday 7pm to 9:30 pm Venue: NTU@one-north Free; limited places available. (Foundation to Advanced) |
[Course Completed]Time, Memory, History: A Hybrid Genre WorkshopThis free workshop helps creative writers make a hybrid genre text, co-presented by two of Singapore’s leading, award winning writers, Sharlene Teo and Jing-Jing Lee. Course code: JJL6 |
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4, 11 & 25 September, 2 October 2021 (Saturdays) 5:00 to 7:30 pm SGT Online course (Foundation to Intermediate)
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[Course Completed] How to Write a NovelThis four-week online introductory course for emerging and developing writers covers the fundamental skills, techniques and approaches to writing a novel. Participants will benefit from the experience and advice of Sharlene Teo, an international award winning, Singapore novelist. Course code: ST6
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* Concession rates available for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers & free for undergraduates from Singapore tertiary institutions.
Publications
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