The SBC Academy is the training arm of SBC.
We conduct short courses, talks, workshops and master classes in publishing, writing, reading and storytelling. Our workshops meet the training needs of professionals and the wider public. Our local and international trainers and speakers from countries such as the United Kingdom, United States and Australia are established, credible professionals from the literary arts and publishing field.
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Cultural Transnational Identity and the Writer
What does it mean to be an Anglophone writer who is from beyond the centres of Anglophone culture? If you write in English but are not from a primarily monolingual Anglophone world where English is the official or dominant language, what cultural identity do you adopt as “the writer”? In...
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Fire Walk With Me: Putting a Poetry Manuscript Together
So, you have at least 12 poems that you are proud of, and are mulling the possibility of readying your very first poetry manuscript for publication. What are the factors to consider, rather than randomly foisting a bunch of works together? This question is at the core of this three-week programme...
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Process, Publication, & Perspective: A conversation between Jemimah Wei and Wen-yi Lee
Join authors Jemimah Wei (The Original Daughter, Doubleday Books) and Wen-yi Lee (The Dark We Know, Zando; When They Burned the Butterfly, Tor) in a fireside chat about their writing process and publication trajectories, writing deeply Singaporean novels for international audiences, and navigating...
