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Buy Local, Read Our World

Writer takes on taboo issues

Balli Kaur Jaswal is one of Singapore's hottest young novelists, but her latest book is one her former schoolteachers would have stopped her from reading.

GetLit! Part 3: We Apologise For The Inconvenience Caused

#BuySingLit - Happenings

GetLit! Part 3: Punggol Redux

GetLit! Part 3: Going Under

GetLit! Part 3: 2035

Mum and daughter bond by writing kids' book

#WhySingLit: Singapore literature's coming of age

Set a good example and kids will 'naturally pick up reading'

Feb 23, 2017, 5:00 am

GetLit! Modern Myths: A Hantu Kum-kum story

GetLit! Modern Myths: Hou Yi

Cultivate a love for reading

GetLit! Part 1: Poems of the MRT

Win #BuySingLit book vouchers

Don't underestimate value of studying local literature

  • Author Neil Humphreys with a copy of his book Return To A Sexy Island.

On the trail of murderers

  • Author and storyteller Jumaini Ariff at the launch of the #BuySingLit campaign last week. The event from Feb 24 to 26 aims to promote the purchase of local literary works in print form.

Help bookstores in Singapore survive

From historical epics to Singlish nursery rhymes

  • Authors Amon Chua (centre, in New York shirt) and Andy Chua (right, in blue) will meet readers later this month as part of #BuySingLit.

Read, play and learn

  • Si Ma Guang And The Giant Jar's author, Ms Lee (far right), with illustrator, Ms Tan (centre), and Helang Books founder, Ms Hidayah. The book has Braille dots for the blind, and text in a font designed for readers with dyslexia.

Singapore book for special needs kids lauded

  • Localbooks.sg's co-founders Callie Chong (far left) and Julie Hyun.

One-stop website for local reads

#BuySingLit weekend drive

Old bookstores in Singapore which have stood the test of time

Roping in readers for Singapore books

New movement to get Singaporeans to buy local books

Local books going global

  • Beyond Wilderness, a book by Chua Chye Teck (above), features black-and-white photographs of forests.

Connecting with the wilderness

  • Middle & First (above) by Simon Tay is his first literary book to be published in seven years.

Being in the middle of things

Singapore Shelf

  • From left: Poet Tan Chee Lay, Sa's Andy Chia, Natalie Tse and Cheryl Ong, and writer Hassan Hasaa'Ree Ali.

Melding music and literature

  • Jean Ng (left) and Serene Chen read extracts from academic journals, book reviews and news reports about writers, publishers and the books industry in Rant And Rave II.

Illuminating the heart of local literature

Singapore Literature: A moral force to be reckoned with

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