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Singapore Writers Festival 2022: 20 for 25

To mark its 25th anniversary, we pick 20 highlights out of the over 200 programmes

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Helmi Yusof

Helmi Yusof

Published Thu, Sep 29, 2022 · 06:00 PM
    • The Singapore Writers Festival, headed by Pooja Nansi (standing), returns post-pandemic more ambitious than ever. This year's festival stretches over 3 weekends and has more than 200 in-person programmes.
    • The Singapore Writers Festival, headed by Pooja Nansi (standing), returns post-pandemic more ambitious than ever. This year's festival stretches over 3 weekends and has more than 200 in-person programmes. PHOTO: AHL

    ACKNOWLEDGING that the world has just gone through a peculiarly dark period, the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) returns this November with a theme encapsulated in just 1 word: “if”. 

    Festival director Pooja Nansi explains that the time we live now is filled with harrowing uncertainties and hopeful possibilities: “There are many questions about where we are now as a global society and where we are headed towards as we cautiously make our way out of the pandemic.

    “The word ‘if’ conveys a feeling of hope and a second chance, as it allows for retrospection and ideation.”

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