I’m sure I’ve missed a few upcoming events, but here are some possibilities! On this Saturday, there are a series of events surrounding the launch of Text and the City, a campaign to popularise Singapore poetry through a competition and an app for smartphones. Check out the link for a number of events during the day at the Arts House.

The following week (October 11), at the same venue, there’s a symposium on Reinventing English Language and Literature for a New Generation, with speakers from NIE: this might tie in nicely with the upcoming Week 10 session in which Pooja and Erin come in to talk to us about their teaching experiences. On the same day, the Book Council are featuring a panel of writers whose work has been shortlisted for this year’s Singapore Literature Prize.

Back at the Arts House, on 16 October, the mother of all Singapore writers, Catherine Lim, is launching a new book.

Looking ahead a bit further, there’s an upcoming session with Claire Tham on October 25 at the National Library. I very much enjoyed her recent novel The Inlet, and she’s also an important short story writer, starting out with her first collection Fascist Rock over twenty years ago…