Wee Kim Wee Centre seeks to enhance and enrich a budding young writer’s experience, at this year’s 51st Silliman University National Writers Workshop held in the Philippines.
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Despite being the only Fellow who isn't from Philippines, I felt truly at home throughout the workshop. I lost part of myself when I left Philippines.
This encapsulates my entire experience at the 51st Silliman University National Writers Workshop in Philippines. I learned more about creative writing and about myself than I ever did in Singapore.
The National Writers Workshop is the oldest creative writing program in Asia. It stretches over three-weeks and its aim is to help writers hone their craft in the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama.
When I first met the fellows, I was awed by their raw intellect and their breadth of vision for themselves and their country, Philippines. This fierce and hopeful idealism truly gripped me. The practical -- perhaps even cynical – ‘Singaporean’ in me immediately went into remission and has not returned since.
It was not the bucolic landscape that I missed the most – the idyllic village, crisp mountain air, the verdure and the chorus of cicadas – but the many mornings and afternoons the fellows and I spent together and the friendships forged.
...... Aw Ming Kun
