Spoke & Bird ft. Daryl Qilin Yam, Jemimah Wei & Judith Huang
Schedule
Tue Oct 22 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC+08:00Location
THE COUP Bar on ANN SIANG HILL | Singapore, SG
About this Event
Spoke & Bird returns this OCTOBER 2024 to welcome a triple whammy of powerful writers: DARYL QILIN YAM, JEMIMAH WEI & JUDITH HUANG! Happening at our brand new venue, Coup Bar on Ann Siang Hill!
Email us at [email protected] for a slot!
Every open micer gets 5 minutes.
OPEN MIC-ERS DO NOT NEED TO BUY TICKETS TO JOIN THE SHOW!
8 open mic spots up for grabs!
Tickets: $10
DARYL QILIN YAM
Daryl Qilin Yam (b. 1991) is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. He is the author of the novella “Shantih Shantih Shanith” (2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize, and the novel “Lovelier, Lonelier” (2021), the Singapore nominee for the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award. His latest title is the short story collection “Be Your Own Bae” (2024), available now from Epigram Books. He co-founded the literary charity Sing Lit Station.
JEMIMAH WEI
Jemimah Wei is the author of THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER, forthcoming 2025 from Doubleday Books (US) and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK). She is a 2022-4 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a 2020 Felipe P. De Alba Fellow at Columbia University, and a Francine Ringold Award for New Writers honouree. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize and been published in Narrative, Guernica, and Nimrod, amongst others. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, recognized by the Best of the Net anthologies, and received scholarships from Singapore’s National Arts Council, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, and Columbia University, where she earned her MFA. For close to a decade, Jemimah was a host for various broadcast and digital channels, and has written and produced short films and travel guides for Laneige, Airbnb, and Nikon. Say hi at @jemmawei on socials or jemmawei.com
JUDITH HUANG
Judith Huang is an Australian-based Singaporean author, poet, science fiction translator, serial-arts-collective-founder and multimedia artist.
Her first novel, Sofia and the Utopia Machine, was shortlisted for the EBFP 2017 and Singapore Book Awards 2019. She was the founder of YAWP!, the longest-running performance poetry competition in Singapore (since 2004), a founding member of the Spittoon Collective in China which is now in 14 cities, and the co-founder of Chilli Jam Open Mic in Perth.
Where is it happening?
THE COUP Bar on ANN SIANG HILL, 7 Ann Siang Hill, Singapore, SingaporeEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
SGD 13.68
