Unpublished items. These represent an anomaly in a bibliography, but because they exist, are included for archival interest in the same spirit of the National Library’s intention when in 1993, it actively solicited Singaporean writers to donate their unpublished works or manuscripts ‘to add to the country’s understanding of its literary heritage’. These are usually typescripts, play scripts, manuscripts and writers’ early drafts, and even an occasional writer’s ‘ portfolio.’ They were either donated by the authors or were the winning entries of the National Short Story competition held in the 1980s and short-listed Singapore Literature Prize entries from the 1990s. Although not publications proper, they are included in the Annotated Bibliography partly to alert readers and researchers to their existence – that they are catalogued and available in the National Library – and partly because quite a few were eventually revised and published; some of the competition winners have eventually established themselves as well-known authors; and the unpublished items could be of particular interest to researchers, literary historians and others.
