Writer to Writer Mentoring Session with Claire Keegan

During the 30-minute to 1-hour Writer to Writer session with the Visiting Writer you will:
1. Discuss your writing aspirations with an experienced writer in an encouraging environment
2. Obtain general advice from an experienced writer on your writing project
3. Obtain specific practical advice on aspects of the art and craft of writing, writing technique & your writing challenges
4. Obtain help on shaping your approach to your writing life
5. Understand what it takes to be a professional writer
* Please note the one-on-one consultation is not a manuscript assessment.

This session is kindly supported by NTU’s School of Humanities and the National Arts Council.

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 ABOUT CLAIRE KEEGAN:
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm on the Wicklow/Wexford border. Her works have won numerous awards and are translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story — was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works to be published in the 21st Century. It is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland. Her latest, Small Things Like These, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Ambassadors’ Prize for best Irish novel published in France, and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the year. It is now nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest literary prize, which is presented annually for the best novel in the world written or translated into English.

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 ABOUT ACWP:
The Asia Creative Writing Programme is a joint initiative funded by the National Arts Council of Singapore and the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University.
Leading international and local writers are appointed as Visiting Writers to teach creative writing workshops and masterclasses, as well as mentor and guide emerging, developing and advanced writers in Singapore.

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 For more information on the course: https://bit.ly/acwp-ck2
 If you have any queries or have problems registering, email us at:
soh-ACWP@ntu.edu.sg
 Register here: https://bit.ly/acwp-ck2
Deadline for registration: 10 March 2023, Friday, 5:00 pm

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 WHEN:
By appointment only:
– Register above and we will email you with available timings in April/May 2023

 WHERE:
Online via Zoom

 WHO:
– For Intermediate or Advanced Writers, especially in fiction
– Limited places available
– Selective entry – we’ll offer places to writers who show promise

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 FEES:
For each 30 min to 1 hour session:
– $25 for adults
– $10 for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers
– Free for undergraduates and postgraduate students from Singapore tertiary institutions
– Please email us if financial assistance is needed