Making:
A Scene
Talking to Singapore writers about craft.
What does making mean to you as a writer?
And what does a well-made piece of writing look like?
Every conversation here takes these two questions to a different writer, to find out how they see what it is that they do.
When anyone asks what it is I do all day, I find myself reaching for more tangible terms. How else to explain what goes into scaffolding an argument, workshopping a story, or polishing a poem? Yet even these words seem inadequate, for a truth that lies somewhere between ‘making’ and ‘make-believe’.
Inspired by projects like Prac Crit, CRAFT and The Critic and Her Publics, the interviews here aim to carve out a space for conversations about the craft of writing, beyond the MFA classroom. They bring together perspectives from writers across genres and generations, with the only criteria that their reflections are grounded in a Singapore context.
This is our scene, on making.
— Theophilus Kwek
Conversations
Felicia Low-Jimenez on
How We See Ourselves
Mok Zining on
Pleasure and Risk
Fairoz Ahmad on
Destabilising the Narrative
Lawrence Ypil on
The Swerve of Thought