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One For The Scrapbook

Submitted by Bensays from Google Reader

Nov 02, 2009

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Stephanie Yap is a sub-editor for the Life! section of the Straits Times. She was also one of the 12 writers invited to join the recent Ubin writing retreat.

Last week she wrote an article in Life! about the experience. I'm posting the article here, as a little souvenir from the trip. ST Oct 29, 2009
Ubin for inspiration
No TV, no Internet, but plenty of creative energy when writers get together on a five-day island retreat

By stephanie yap

On a sweltering Monday afternoon, while the rest of Singapore was cooped up in air-conditioned offices battling food comas, a dozen of us were herded to a quiet offshore island. Among our number on the bumboat bound for Pulau Ubin were winners of the Singapore Literature Prize and other assorted literary awards, prolific authors with double-digit bibliographies, Singapore literary pioneers and one Straits Times journalist.

We were the guinea pigs of the first Catalyst Creative Writing Residential Retreat, organised by non-profit organisation The Literary Centre in collaboration with the British Council and supported by the Natio ...Read the full article

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