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Saleem Hadi with the students from Yishun Innova Junior College • The students reading excerpts from The Singapore Groom • #wordsgoround #wgr2020 #sgwritersfest (at Yishun Junior College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Y3yoTHb5l/?igshid=14nzjz06xgzzy

“Getting into it wasn’t that difficult but sustaining the business, the day to day, that’s the difficult part.” • “At the end of the day, if your experience at the bookstore is not good, you wouldn’t want to come back again.” • @kenny.leck, owner of independent bookstore @booksactually, sharing his life experiences and the art of selling books to a small group of students at @meridian_sec today as part of our Words Go Round programme • #wordsgoround #wgr2020 #sgwritersfest #booksactually #artandwork https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Tg2Ubni8c/?igshid=tacidi5v6uq9

Words Go Round 2018 ends with a cosy storytelling session as children and parents join Jeremy from The Storytelling Centre on an adventure making stone soup! • This storytelling is in conjuction with the Superhero We Festival and #BuySingLit Festival. • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at Enabling Village)

Kids busy making their vegetable prints after “making the stone soup” with Jeremy from The Storytelling Centre! • This storytelling and craft session is in conjuction with the Superhero We Festival and #BuySingLit Festival. • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at Enabling Village)

“Q: What inspired you to be a dinosaur? A: Jurassic Park” - Oliver Phommavanh on how he wanted to be a dinosaur when he grew up • “When writing stories, it is all about having problems. My one tip to writing stories is to read, read, read. The more books you read, the more ideas you can borrow.” • “All my stories here are about me. My number two tip, write about your family or about your friends. You have to write about what you love. To do that, you have to be observant.” • Oliver Phommavanh had the students and teachers of United World College SEA East, School of Science and Technology and Dulwich College in stitches with his antics, jokes and puns - amidst of course, writing tips. 🙃 • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest

“I wanted to explore what would happen if a character traded his humanity for the 5Cs.” - Felix Cheong • “In the best fiction, characters want something they cant have.” - Yeo Wei Wei • Felix Cheong and Yeo Wei Wei wrapping up their Here and Beyond talks to a sea of students at Temasek Junior College • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at Temasek Junior College)

“We often think of prejudice as happening somewhere else - it happens in fiction, in stories, in other countries, or in the past. But that’s not true. It might not be happening with the same intensity, but it’s still happening. Why not strive for it to not happen at all? That’s easier said than done. It requires us to call out prejudice when we see it. What sort of prejudices do we have that sometimes go unchecked?” - @ballijaswal at East Spring Secondary • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest (at East Spring Secondary School)

“We often think of prejudice as happening somewhere else - it happens in fiction, in stories, in other countries, or in the past. But that’s not true. It might not be happening with the same intensity, but it’s still happening. Why not strive for it to not happen at all? That’s easier said than done. It requires us to call out prejudice when we see it. What sort of prejudices do we have that sometimes go unchecked?” - @ballijaswal at East Spring Secondary • #wordsgoround #wgr2018 #sgwritersfest #authorvisit (at East Spring Secondary School)