Manuscript Bootcamp 2024 (Nonfiction)
We’re switching things up. The fifth edition of our prose-centric Manuscript Bootcamp is entirely focussed, this time, on the production of creative nonfiction in Singapore. Rather than solicit manuscripts of creative nonfiction, we’re also gonna use Bootcamp to seed new manuscripts and to prioritise the imparting of skills and knowledge from experienced practitioners to junior, aspiring nonfictionists.
We will only be offering four places to writers in Singapore to participate in Manuscript Bootcamp 2024 (Nonfiction). Our Bootcampers are expected to attend four workshops held in late Jul / early Aug 2024; generate four essays, approx. 2,500 words each, over the month of Aug 2024; and to receive critique from our esteemed lecturers over four follow-up workshops conducted in late Sep 2024.
Applicants to Manuscript Bootcamp 2024 (Nonfiction) will have to submit a literary CV and portfolio of materials comprising a book proposal with accompanying writing sample (max. 5000 words), and a 1,000-word essay written in response to an excerpt from Boey Kim Cheng’s essay “Something Fine”, collected in his seminal essay collection Between Stations (2009).
For more info, visit: singlitstation.com/bootcamp
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PR&TA Issue 3
In the spirit of opening u, of seeking to go beyond borders, PR&TA opens up our call for Issue 3. We invite submissions of both original work in English and translations into English from Southeast Asia, on any theme. Send us your most interesting unpublished work! Deadline: 13 March 2023.
As with our inaugural Issue, all submissions should be complete with a brief Critical Praxis. For an example, see here.
Submission guidelines for genre, length and cover letter are found here on our website.
Where possible, our Editorial Manager will alert you if your submission is incomplete, but we will not be able to process updated submissions after the deadline.
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SING LIT STATION LTD (est. July 2016) is a non-profit organisation, registered charity and Institution of Public Character (IPC). Our core mission is to grow the local literary community. Through our programmes and initiatives, we aim to be a platform where readers and writers can meet. For more info, visit: singlitstation.com
The fifth edition of our prose-centric Manuscript Bootcamp is entirely focussed, this time, on the production of creative nonfiction in Singapore.
We will only be offering four places to writers in Singapore to participate in Manuscript Bootcamp 2024 (Nonfiction). Our Bootcampers are expected to attend four workshops held in late Jul / early Aug 2024; generate four essays, approx. 2,500 words each, over the month of Aug 2024; and to receive critique from our esteemed lecturers over four follow-up workshops conducted in late Sep 2024.
The 2024 edition of Manuscript Bootcamp will be open for submissions of creative nonfiction from 1 Apr to 30 May, 2359 hours, for a Bootcamp held across various dates in Jul to Sep. For more info on our selection critera, visit our website.
OPEN: Issue 4 Call for Submissions
Heat
Heat: a flush in the face; the slow swoon of the tropics when the winds stand still. Sea-levels rise, and rain stops falling across hills and bays and archipelagos. The baking of bare feet on sand; sambal-grazed lips; white hot glares across an aisle. The wrong word; the mercurial gesture; a misunderstanding; a mistranslation. The flash of knife and gun; the press of bodies in protest, or against each other. The fevered pulse of your hand in mine.
From apocalyptic visions of a region on fire to a body slow-cooking across the heat-spectrum, Southeast Asia burns at every turn, from the homely warmth of pounded spices to visions and words seared on lips and tongue.
For PR&TA Issue 4, we invite creative and critical submissions that explore the theme of heat, and interrelated themes such as bodily states, climate change, political insurgencies, culinary ventures, violence, romance and other burning urgencies.
Submission deadline: 5 February 2024
As with our inaugural Issue, all submissions should be complete with a brief Critical Praxis. For an example, see here.
Submission guidelines for genre, length and cover letter are found here on our website.
Where possible, our Editorial Manager will alert you if your submission is incomplete, but we will not be able to process updated submissions after the deadline.