Panels

SPORE-CON SFF PANEL & BOOK SIGNING
“Yes, We do exist - SFF writing in Singapore”

Room: CONFERENCE ROOM
Date: 5/6/2010

Time: 11am-12pm

We have readings and a book signing!

THE PANELISTS

Joyce Chng lives in Singapore, loves sf/f, reading, writing, cooking, gardening and assorted stuff. She has two lovely daughters and a wonderful husband. Her cat drives her crazy but he is very lovable.

Her short stories appear in sf/f publications such as Fang, Claw and Steel (2000), Crossed Genres (Issue 9 – Alternate History, Issue 18 - Eastern issue), Semaphore Magazine (September 2009, June 2010), Bards & Sages Quarterly (January 201o) and Everyday Fiction (May 2010). Forthcoming fiction will be featured in Drollerie Press (an anthology) and Lyrical Press (a novel).

Her writerly website is situated at http://awolfstale.wordpress.com

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Dave Chua was born in Malaysia in 1970 and came to Singapore at the age of ten. He was educated in Dunman High School and Victoria Junior College before studying for a degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His short story, “Father’s Gift”, won a Singapore Press Holdings-National Arts Council Golden Point Award in 1995. His first novel, Gone Case, was given a Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1996 and was published the same year.

Chua works as a freelancer mainly in the creative and media industry. He writes for various publications  and is the Vice Chairman of the Singapore Film Society. He is currently working on a book of short stories, with some of the stories having magic realistic and fantasy elements, and a graphic novel adaptation of Gone Case with the artist Koh Hong Teng.

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Sarah is the municipal liaison of Nanowrimo (http://www.nanowrimo.org) in Singapore and also part of the Happy Smiley Writers Group who have published a book titled “Happiness at the End of the World” (http://www.twotrees.com.sg/books.html). Prior to this, she had been published in an anthology, “So You Think You Can Write A Novel?” by Marshall Cavendish.

Sarah also writes a weekly Monday post on her website Seriously Sarah (http://www.seriouslysarah.com/blog) about adventures in Singapore for research and of literary events on other days.

Having a diploma in interactive media design and a bachelor’s degree in media arts, she also gets involves in short films and all sorts of online media. When not writing about events, she writes young adult fiction and leans more towards the chic-lit side with a large dose of fantasy and adventure.

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Rosemary Lim is from Northern Ireland and has lived in Singapore since 1990. Besides being a writer and editor, she has a strong interest in the lesser-known aspects Singapore’s history, including the areas that have connections with well-known writers. She is Singapore’s only licensed Specialised Literary Tour Guide. In 1998 she was co-winner of the Singapore Literature Prize Merit Award with a book of short stories entitled The Seed from the Tree. The following year she was a Commonwealth Short Story Competition Asia-Pacific Runner-up. In 2006 she edited a book of novel excerpts from 19 Singapore writers So You Think You Can Write A Novel.

Rosemary has two master’s degrees, the first in publishing and the second in writing.

You can find out more about Rosemary here: http://literarytourofsingapore.com/About.html