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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Embracing Possibility: A workshop on magical thinking and magical realism
More often than not, we hear writers lament about how they might find Singapore too boring to situate their stories in. We have to ask ourselves some pressing questions: When did the familiar become equated with the uninspiring? How might a writer of fiction retrain their ability to see, observe...
How You Say What You Say is Part of What You Mean
What defines imaginative writing and “creative nonfiction”? This lecture will examine one of the most inscrutable pieces of writing ever produced—James Agee’s six-page-long “Knoxville:nSummer, 1915”—to reflect on the too-often-overlooked foundations of the techniques, strategy, and purpose of...
கோடுகளுக்கு மத்தியில் – சிங்கப்பூர் பதிப்புச்சூழல் குறித்த ஒரு புரிதல்
பொதுவாக புகழ் பெற்ற நாவல்கள் எழுதிய எழுத்தாளர்களை மட்டுமே நாம் கொண்டாடுகிறோம். ஆனால் கையெழுத்துப் பிரதியிலிருந்து அச்சில் வெளியிடப்பட்ட புத்தகம் வரையிலான புத்தக உருவாக்கத்தின், இந்த சிக்கலான பயணத்தை உண்மையில் இயக்குவது யார்? இந்தப் உரையில், யாவரும் பதிப்பகத்தின் வெளியீட்டாளர் ஜீவ கரிகாலன்,...