The Nanowrimo kick-off for Singapore was wonderful. With 66 people sigining in, NOT including their parents/children or friends who came with them, they filled up the programme zone of the Bishan Library.
Category: The Literary
Being literary and other stuff.
The Evening of Everything
Everything is happening on the 27th of October this year.
Don’t forget that our Nanowrimo kick-off party is at Bishan library, programme zone, level 2. The party starts at 4pm! Nanowrimoer-s sign in the book to get your nanowrimo sticker.Our party theme is DIY! If you want to bring crackers/snacks to share, feel free to do so! Best if Halal so everyone can eat it too.
Our unofficial dress code is: Wear whatever is decent to the library that you want to wear and have no occasion to, so this is the best time to wear whatever you want or show your fandom through your attire.
Yes.
AND for everything else…
Nanowrimo 2012, Singapore Writers Fest and a play?
And here are the details for the Nanowrimo kick-off party 2012!
Location: Bishan Library, level 2, Programme Zone
Time: 4pm-6pm
Date: 27 October 2012, Saturday
Yesss. If you need a pictorial guide to the library from the MRT station, click here. Or if you need a VIDEO of the location, it’s here. It is the day after Hari Raya Haji and it is a fairly transparent place if you check out the pictures. Oh, of course it is free. This year’s unnofficial theme for Singapore s “Do It Yourself” cause we have no monies. Aha ha ha ha ha.
But in a way, teamwork it is!
And this is a video of us to YOU Nanowrimo-ers. Don’t forget to check the threads out on the forums at the main webby here!
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Game2Read and the Cat’s Purrzaar
The utterly unimaginative title of this post is pretty much… Well, Game2Read was a quiet affair. It was held at the airy space, The Plaza at the central National Library. It did mean a lot of space to walk around though.
Skoob versus I Love Books
The only official e-books stores in Singapore at the moment is Singtel’s Skoob and Mediacorp’s I Love Books.
It’s either these two or the altenative is to get e-books from Book Depository and independent stores or go through a more complicated way in which you fake that you aren’t in Singapore if you’re buying ebooks from Amazon itself. The whole the book is not available in your region thing gets to be quite annoying.
So let’s sign up and see how they are!
Note that at this time of post, I Love Books just launched while Skoob has had a lead start in the business even if they don’t seem to do much right now.
The Hunger Games… Vouchers… and Diablo 3?
Like The Hunger Games? We’re holding a competition and an event at the central library!
Yes! The Hunger Games Singapore, Liyanaland and us from the HSWG will be hosting it. Click the picture for a larger version of the poster. Mainly though, you can RSVP for the event here. The competition itself will let you win Hunger Games merch and books. There’s the:
- Short story contest (500-2000 words) – Tell us how life in the Capitol would be like. Open to all.
- Costume art contest. Two categories: Above 16 years old and under 16 years old. Design a tribute costume with a short description of your entry. 800px in jpg format.
For both competitions, send it to DENG_Anqi@nlb.gov.sg with the email titled “Hunger Games Short Story Contest 2012” or “Hunger Games Costume Art Contest 2012” by 9 June.
The event itself will be on 17 June from 2pm to 5pm at the central library! Yes. Feel free to dress up as the characters too.
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Win Book Depository Vouchers!
Also, do YOU want to win Book Depository vouchers up to $20? Liyanaland has a competition on her website here for more details on that. Seriously, if you like buying books especially from BD, go look at it since the competition is super simple.
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Chickens, fishes and lions! Oh my!
Let’s start off with a few submission calls with deadlines in decending order…
We have The Ayam Curtain which is a an anthology of very short fiction! Short (HA HA) details are that it has to be:
- speculative fiction in English
- either 100-150 words or 500 words to 1000 words (there are two categories)
- written by Singaporeans or residents of Singapore (not necessarily PRs)
- Deadline is 31 May 2012
For more details, check out their page here.
Back to the Old Kingdom once more
There was a literary cocktail with Garth Nix last week (1 March 2012), technically he was here in Singapore for a few school visits, a free event at The Arts House on Wednesday for a promo of his new book A Confusion of Princes and well, this one!
It was supposed to be at the Blue Room but it was held at the Earshot Cafe.
It’s cozier there.
The Steampowered Globe
Greetings to those who’ve come via the io9 article on our book! Just a short post here but you can get the book from Two Trees along with our other two books (Bubble G.U.M and Happiness at the End of the World).
If you want to know more about the process, I’ve got an interview about it via Silver Goggles too. So here’s just a little post before I write up a lengthier thing on how we did it and why! FYI, I’m one of the editors of this anthology if you haven’t guessed by now.
This coming Saturday!
Don’t forget! Come join our Nanowrimo Thank Goodness It’s Over Party/Steampunk book launch!