2013: Blasting Ahead!
2013 is a year of writing, lots of it, as I focus on my MFA in Creative Writing with the City University of Hong Kong. In the meantime, life continues as usual with conducting workshops and storytelling:
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New Writing, New Publication
My short short, 'Connoiseur', has been published in Twenty-Four Flavours: Sushi, a new Math Paper Presss anthology of 250-word flash fiction that has just come out in April 2013. For more information and how to purchase, please click here.
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New Guise for an Old Story
My short story, 'Fast Food 1979: Portrait of an Old Lady' (which appears in my short story collection, Spectre: Stories from Dark to Light), has just been published online on the Birbeck, University of London, Writers’ Hub website.
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Causeway Exchange 2013 (Georgetown Festival, Penang)
I will be telling stories from Spectre: Stories from Dark to Light as well as launching the book during Causeway Exchange 2013 in Penang at Sekeping Victoria on 21 & 22 June 2013. As part of this exchange, I will be telling folktales from Singapore and Malaysia to children on the afternoons of 22 & 23 June 2013, also at Sekeping Victoria. For more details, please visit the MoonShadow Stories website or the Causeway Exchange website.
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Supernatural Storytelling on 31 October 2013
MoonShadow Stories will be conducting a storytelling performance, based on my story, 'The Land', that appears in Spectre. The performance will take place at the Play Den, The Arts House. More details will be announced later.
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My books available online
My books published by Math Paper Press (In the Company of Heroes, Victimology, Spectre and Balik Kampung) can now be purchased online via http://booksactually.bigcartel.com/. Please do check out this new and exciting website!
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artBITE interview by OKTO
At the end of 2012, I was interviewed for OKTO. To view the clip, please visit http://video.xin.msn.com/watch/video/artbites-playwright-verena-tay/1tthr62h7.
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On Sight
6 February 2012 (Mon), Uncategorized
It is amazing how mankind has evolved in such a way that we are very dependent on sight as one of our five senses. For those of us who were born sighted, we use this faculty a great deal to filter our perception of the universe. And yet we are often reminded that all that [...]
Quest for Solitude
9 January 2012 (Mon), Uncategorized
I read two things lately that have struck me as significant. The first is an online essay about the qualities of an introvert: apparently, introverts are quiet because their brains are hardwired to absorb a lot of information all at once and do not need the same degree of external stimulation as an extrovert, lest [...]
‘Tis the Season…
22 December 2011 (Thu), Uncategorized
In my younger days, I could stride into shops, battle for hours with the crowd to get the best deals and emerge happy and contented. Gone are those times. Last Sunday, I went looking for my last Christmas presents. I entered only one mall. One department store, two shops and two hours later, I had [...]