Centre for Stories
Stories
Stories are at the heart of what we do. The aim of our story archive is to make good stories available to a wide audience in the hope of strengthening connections between people and encouraging a more inclusive and informed community.
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Singapore Hot Takes
Warran Kalasegaran
"I try to tell stories of Singapore through the eyes of the small Tamil community in English, and put Tamil heroes and heroines at the front of these stories."Read More -
Singapore Hot Takes
May Seah
"The thought of eventually writing a book was on my mind, of course, but I always thought I’d do it when I was old and wise and had suffered enough."Read More -
Singapore Hot Takes
Deborah Emmanuel
"For me, the emotions are so deep and intense that the only way to survive is to find a way to articulate them so I do not drown within an ocean of my own making."Read More -
Singapore Hot Takes
Barrie Sherwood
"Art for art’s sake is a valid, valued enterprise here; it was not always this way."Read More -
Five Minutes With
Soibam Haripriya
Read MoreMy gender and the context of violence is also crucial. I do not think I would have written poetry in the manner that I do if I were a man living in another context.”
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Singapore Hot Takes
Balli Kaur Jaswal
"I wanted to write about how the diaspora experience influences these women and adds to their complicated relationship to a country that at once feels like the motherland, but also seems foreign and confounding."Read More -
Five Minutes With
Yogesh Maitreya
"I write poems because I can not help it given the brutal nature of experience under caste society which people like me and my community has to go through."Read More -
Five Minutes With
Zilka Joseph
"Yet there are moments when the beauty of some living being or an object or event/story will move me, overwhelm me."Read More -
Special Conversations
In Conversation - Alice Muhling and Amy lin
Emerging Writers' Festival Director and co-CEO Alice Muhling in conversation with Perth poet Amy Lin.Read More