EVENTS
2024
THE 2nd INTERNATIONAL MINANGAKABAU LITERACY FESTIVAL, WEST SUMATERA, INDONESIA, 8th MAY TO 13th MAY, 2024.
Book Launch of ‘Have I Got Something To Tell You’ (Singapore, Penguin Random House SEA)
8 May 2024
KUALA LUMPUR BOOK LAUNCH OF ‘HAVE I GOT SOMETHING TO TELL YOU’ (SINGAPORE, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SEA) ON 28th APRIL 2024
KUALA LUMPUR WRITERS FESTIVAL 2024
27 April 2024
POETRY WORKSHOPS FOR ORBIX INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, KLANG, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
23 April 2024
INVITED WRITER AT MARCH 2024 READINGS@SEKSAN, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
30 March 2024
INVITED SPEAKER AT THE WOMEN TRANSCENDING THE CHALLENGES OF GENDER CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, NINGBO, CHINA
20 March 2024
Title of Public Talk: Writing Women in Fiction
INVITED INTERNATIONAL WRITER AT 9th NATIONAL READING DAY, CAMBODIA AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PHNOM PENH
11 March 2024
MEET THE AUTHOR SESSION AND POETRY WORKSHOP FOR NEXUS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL STUDENTS, PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA
7 March 2024
INVITED MALAYSIAN AUTHOR AT CHENNAI INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR, CHENNAI, INDIA, 16th TO 19th JANUARY 2024
17 January 2024
Talk title: The Poetry of a Malaysian Poet and His Tamil Heritage
INVITED SPEAKER AT ‘MALAYSIAN WRITERS IN CONVERSATION: MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES’ AT UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOJI MALAYSIA (UITM), SHAH ALAM, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
11 January 2024
INVITED SPEAKER AT THE SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE, UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA, SERDANG, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
11 January, 2024
Title of talk: Poetry as Narrative
2023
INVITED POET AT RA INTERNATIONAL POETS, WRITERS AND READERS 2023 FESTIVAL, PETALING JAYA, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
8 – 11 December 2023
INVITED POET TO THE SPECIAL EDITION OF READINGS@SANTAI SENIMAN X ORGANIZED BY RA ARTS HAVEN, STRAND MALL, KOTA DAMANSARA, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA
30 December 2023
IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA SALLEH AT HER BOOK LAUNCH, ‘SALLEH BEN JONED: TRUTH, BEAUTY, AMOK AND BELONGING’ (MAYA PRESS) AT CULT GALLERY, KUALA LUMPUR
1 December 2023
IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA SALLEH. ANNA SALLEH’S BOOK LAUNCH OF ‘SALLEH BEN JONED: TRUTH, BEAUTY, AMOK AND BELONGING AT THE GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL 2023
25 November 2023
MAYA PRESS TRIPLE BOOK LAUNCH AT THE GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL 2023
28 November 2023
Moderating three Maya Press book launches.
INVITED POET READING POEMS FROM ‘RAMBUTAN KISSES’ (MAYA PRESS, 2022) AT THE WORLD POETRY MOVEMENT SESSION AT GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL 2023
23 November 2023
INVITED POET AT A WASTELAND OF MALAYSIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH EVENT AT GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL 2023
25 November 2023
INVITED POET AT THE BYATIKRAM INTERNATIONAL WRITERS MEET IN GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA
16 – 19 November 2023
INVITED POET AT THE ‘THINKERS’ AND WRITERS’ PEACE MEET IN KOLKATA, INDIA
13 – 15 November 2023
POETRY APPRECIATION WORKSHOP FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AT SMJK CHUNG CHING, RAUB, PAHANG, MALAYSIA
5 October 2023
BOOK LAUNCH OF ‘THE SECOND LINK’ AT LIT BOOKS, PETALING JAYA.
16 September 2023
‘MEET THE AUTHOR’ EVENT AT SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND ARTS, SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY, KUCHING, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA
5 September 2023
‘MEET THE AUTHOR’ EVENT AND POETRY WORKSHOP AT LODGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, KUCHING, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA
4 – 5 September 2023
AMONG FIVE MALAYSIAN POETS READING AND TALKING POETRY WITH CLAIRE BETTIA DE GUZMAN AT POETRY FESTIVAL SINGAPORE 2023 (ONLINE SESSION)
5 August 2023
POETRY APPRECIATION WORKSHOP FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AT SM ST MICHAEL. PENAMPANG, SABAH, MALAYSIA
22 July 2023
‘MEETING OF MINDS 2023’, PROMENADE HOTEL, KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, MALAYSIA
A teacher development programme.
21 July 2023
INVITED POET AT VIRTUAL POETRY READING PROGRAMME ORGANIZED BY WORLD POETRY MOVEMENT CONGRESS, MALAYSIAN EDITION
13 July 2023
MEET THE AUTHOR EVENT ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN, KAMPAR, PERAK, MALAYSIA
5 July 2023
BOOK SIGNING AT KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
27 May 2023
‘MEET THE AUTHOR’ SESSION ORGANISED BY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION, PENANG, MALAYSIA
6 May 2023
TESL POETRY WORKSHOP AT FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES,
UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA
15 April 2023
MARCH 2023 READINGS@SEKASAN ORGANISED BY SHARON BAKAR
Date: 25 March 2023
Place: Seksan Gallery, Bangsar, KL.
Time: 3.30-6.00pm
INAUGURAL READINGS SESSION ORGANISED BY RAJA AHMAD AMINNULAH
Date: 11 March 2023
Time: 3-5pm
Place: R A Arts Haven, Strand Mall, Kota Damansara
RAMBUTAN KISSES BOOK LAUNCH
Date: 18 February 2023
Time: 4-6pm
Place: Merdekarya, Petaling Jaya
MATHRUBHUMI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LETTERS’23, (MBIFL)
2-5 February 2023, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
POETRY WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
Date: 14 January 2023
Time: 9.30 – 12pm
Place: HELP University, Kuala Lumpur
2022
BANGALORE LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Date: 3 & 4 December 2022
Place: Lalit Ashok Hotel, Bangalore
ASIA PACIFIC WRITERS AND TRANSLATORS CONFERENCE & ASIA PACIFIC LITERARY FESTIVAL, 2022, BANGALORE, INDIA
RAMBUTAN KISSES BOOK LAUNCH
Date: 29 November 2022
Venue: School of Liberal Arts, Alliance University,
Bengalaru, India
Time: 1.30 – 3.00pm
GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL, 24-28 NOVEMBER 2022
GEORGETOWN, PENANG, MALAYSIA
THE SEVEN O’CLOCK TREE BOOK LAUNCH
Date: 22 November 2022
Time: 10am
Place: Auditorium Sri KL
Teachers Workshop at Wawasan Open University, Penang
with Associate Professor Dr Too Wei Keong
Date: 3 September 2022
Time: 9-12pm
Place: Wawasan Open University, Georgetown, Penang.
BOOK LAUNCH AND MEET THE AUTHOR
Date: 2 September 2022
Venue: Hikayat Bookshop, Georgetown, Penang.
Time: 7.30 – 9.00pm
BOTTOMS UP: A POETRY JAM
Poetry Festival Singapore Edition
Online poetry reading session hosted by Lawin Bulatao & Serene
Date: 7 August 2022.
LOVE AND LOSS BOOK LAUNCH
Date: 18 July 2022
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Teaching Centre, University of Nottingham Malaysia
Time: 4-6pm
BOOK SIGNING AT KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR 2022
Date: 4 June 2022
Time: 3-5pm
Venue: Hall 3, Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur
2021
My play ‘Lockdown’ has been shortlisted for the Short + Sweet Malaysia 2021 Competition. Do come and if you enjoy it, you can vote for it.
The tickets are on sale now.
https://www.cloudtix.co/shows/short-sweet-theatre
20 & 21 November 2021
Malaysian Writers Society presents
MYWRITERSFEST 2021
24 October 2021, 2pm – 3pm
World Thinkers’ and Writers’ Peace Meet:
Live poetry reading session
09 October 2021, 10pm (Malaysian time)
Poetry workshop with SMK Yong Peng Form 6 students.
24 September 2021, 12.30pm – 2.30pm
Celebrating Malaysian Poet, Wong Phui Nam’s 86th Birthday!
20 September 2021
Announcement of stories selected for The Best Asian Short Stories 2021 edited by Malachi Edwin Vethamani
19 September 2021 at 11am (Online Google Meet Event)
Forum Long Live Literature
Organised by University Book Store Malaysia and Ministry Education of Malaysia
28th July 2021 4.15pm – 5.15pm
Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) ISO Break V.10
6 June 2021 10am
Malaysian Poetry Writing Competition 2021:
Call for Submissions
April 2021
Anugerah Buku Nasional
Organised by Malaysian Publisher Association.
21 April 2021
29 – 30 March 2021
2-day workshop with Hin Hua High School, Klang students.
2020
1 September 2020, 4pm Malaysian time.
Invitation to attend online lecture.
30 July 2020, 4-6pm
Online Creative Writing Taster Workshop.
If you are planning to do under-graduate or post-graduate studies in creative writing, this workshop will be of interest to you.
27 July 2020
Invitation to attend online lecture.
