The Literary Society is once again working with the National Book Council for their annual Young Writers’ Seminar, this year revamped as the All-in! Young Writers Media Festival. Below is an extract from their website:

Come join us at the All In! Young Writers Media Festival and explore the creative and career opportunities for writers in the new media. If you are in a secondary school, Junior College, ITE, Polytechnic or enrolled in any tertiary institution or just a young person who aspires to be a writer or interested in some aspects of writing and publishing this is the Festival to attend.

We have various sessions on social media, e-book publishing and e-book stores, writing, transmedia and much, much more! The programme has been specially organised with you in mind.

This event is suitable for students age 16 and above.

For more details and registration information, please go to http://bit.ly/allin-ywf

With such an exciting line-up of talks, workshops and forums, we are sure this event will be a blast. We hope to see you there!

Here are the details:
Date: 20 Jan 2012 (Friday)
Time: 1600hrs – 1800hrs
Venue: AS5/0309 (next to LT8)

Do e-mail your name and contact number to nusliterarysociety@gmail.com to let us know if you’re coming! We hope to see you there!

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,200 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

NUS Literary Society is proud to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the Creative Writing Competition (CWC) 2011!

Kindly note that there will not be a category for play-scripts this year. Do refer to the accompanying poster and the  CWC 2011 Entry Form for more details.

We look forward to receiving your entries!

As part of the Singapore Writers’ Festival, NUS Literary Society will be giving a short reading of orignal works written by our very own students! The works consist of poetry and prose surrounding the theme, “Milestones & Beginnings”, which is also the theme for the first issue of Symbal, our very own online publication.

The reading will be conducted at the Festival Pavillion, SMU Campus Green (Grass Patch between School of Information Systems and Li Ka Shing Library) from 2.45pm to 3.15pm.

So do stop by for an enjoyable afternoon of fun and literature! The event is free so bring all your friends and family and peek into the minds of our writers as they relate what the theme means to them through a medium that has existed since time immemorial.

Dear all,

NUS Literary Society will be launching the first issue of our online publication, Symbal, this semester. We are now accepting submissions from NUS undergraduate and graduate students, as well as pre-University students and NSFs.

The theme for this issue is “Milestones & Beginnings“. We are accepting either prose or poetry. There will also be an optional challenge specially for this issue (see below).

The deadline for submission of entries is 15 October.

Entries should be sent to symbalmagazine@gmail.com. Preface the subject field with “Submission: (title of work)“. For inquiries,  preface the subject field with “Inquiry: (issue of concern)“.

Do include your name, age, e-mail address, contact number, and institute of education.

The 25/250 Challenge

In anticipation of NUS Literary Society’s 50th anniversary, we are looking for entries that fulfill one of the following criteria:
a. Poetry with 25 words exactly
b. Prose with a maximum word limit of 250 words

All entries submitted for this challenge should adhere to the theme stated above as well.

The best entry in both categories will win a free Festival Pass to the Singapore Writers’ Festival (SWF), a 9-day pass to one of Asia’s premier literary events. Winners will also have their entry showcased in a short event during the SWF on 27 October.

We look forward to receiving your entries!

To join the Literary Society, do visit our link:  https://literarysociety.wordpress.com/sign-up-as-a-litsoc-member/

Here are the photos of that exciting day: https://literarysociety.wordpress.com/photos/t-net-club-english-masters-2011/

  The NUS Literary Society

Firstfruits, in collaboration with NUS Literary Society and SMU Literari, is proud to present – Texture: a firstfruits seminar on creative writing!

The concept of the seminar goes as such:

1 writer x 5 slides x 5 minutes of sharing
Featuring 8 local writers:
x cyril wong
x kensai
x mika g. yamaji
x nicholas liu
x aaron maniam
x yeow kai chai
x yong shu hoong

What are you waiting for?

Registration is free!

Here’s the facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=233150546736051

Sign up at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGU2ZlZwdVpRRGJvMUZOSmdSTFhJc1E6MQ

FASS is organizing an alumni talk, featuring Paul Tan who’ll be speaking on ‘The Value of Literature For the Layman in Singapore.”

Attached is the poster, and the link to sign up.

Details:

Date/Day: Sept 23rd, Friday

Time: 10am

Location: AS5 05-09A

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The NUS Literary Society will be having its Annual General Meeting for the Academic Year of 2011/2012, on August 24th (Wednesday) at AS 5 Room 03-09 (Room next to LT 8), 6pm.

Anyone who is an existing Litsoc member or wish to join the Society is welcome to the meeting.

We will be voting and deciding on the key exco positions for the AY 2011/2012; and firming the key activities of the Society for the upcoming year.

Whether you’re new to the University or a senior, you’re welcome to join us in the planning and charting of a new frontier for the NUS Literary Society

Until then, we warmly await to see you on Wednesday