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EBFP Forum 2022: Can you afford to dream? 👁️Speakers: Karina Robles Bahrin, Nisha Mehraj, Ng Ziqin, moderated by Pam HoVenue: Crane @ Robertson Quay, 46 Kim Yam Road, #01-06, Singapore 239351The session has been oversubscribed. We will not be accepting any more guests.Are dreams worth pursuing? With the "great resignation" and an oversaturated attention economy, most of us find ourselves straddling more than one role or function. We have day jobs and then nurse our dreams in the moonlight. Or we smuggle time to chip away at our dreams in between work, school, and social commitments. On the horizon, there seems to be a renewed enthusiasm to heed the call to change and attend to our dreams but how many of us can afford to dream? A room of one's own is not nearly enough to go from writer to author, not when the cost of living eats away at precious time and resources. Hear from our EBFP winner and finalists, all of whom hail from different backgrounds and professions about how they (and the diverse protagonists of their stories) chart pathways to best manage dreams and the shifting demands of reality.Due to a scheduling conflict, Tan Lip Hong, finalist of the EBFP 2022, and author of Lost Treasure of the Lanfang Republic, will not be joining us at the forum. Forum Schedule 7pm to 7:15pm  |   Registration and Light Bites 7:15pm to 8:30pm  |   Moderated Discussion and Q&A 8:30pm to 9pm  |  Book Purchase & Signing by Karina Robles Bahrin and Nisha Mehraj Light bites will be served at the start of the forum. The menu is halal. Admission is free with registration. Please direct all questions to marketing@epigram.sg. 💭💭💭 Book Synopsis and Biographies The Accidental Malay by Karina Robles Bahrin Published in August 2022Winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2022
 Jasmine Leong wants to be the next CEO of Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its bak kwa. But when Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim, her newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions. Set in Kuala Lumpur and other areas of Malaysia, The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a country’s racial policies, and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her.Karina Robles Bahrin got her first break as a writer when she guest edited a weekly teen column in The New Straits Times a very long time ago. Her short fiction has been published in venues such as Urban Odysseys: KL Stories, KL Noir: Blue, A Subtle Degree of Restraint & Other Stories and Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed. She is a former columnist with The Heat, a weekly by Focus Malaysia. She currently lives and works on the island of Langkawi, Malaysia. The Accidental Malay is her first novel. We Do Not Make Love Here by Nisha Mehraj 
Published in August 2022Finalist of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2022
 Chandru, a third-generation Singaporean, realises his ambition through an arranged marriage. His wife, Meera, fights her fate by living a double life. Unhappily married, they make sense of their decisions through a study of their own past. Siddharth, their only son, is practically raised next door with their neighbour’s granddaughter Malli. As the childhood best friends grow up, they helplessly watch their tumultuous love tear them apart. A generation raised on the Singaporean dream gives birth to another sheltered in its shadows. They are not the marginalised or the oppressed, merely the majority doing their best.Nisha Mehraj left full-time teaching and became a private tutor so she could pursue writing. The only home she has ever known is Singapore, yet she lives vicariously through her characters and escapes into the safety of the worlds she creates. It was her grandmother’s passion for life that fuelled Nisha's own ambitions; she'd like to think she made her proud. Her short story “Chai” was published in Mascara Literary Review in 2012. We Do Not Make Love Here is her first novel. Every School a Good School by Ng Ziqin Published in September 2022Finalist of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2022
When the eccentric new education minister unveils a radical local exchange programme called INSTEP, two Secondary 3 girls find themselves uprooted from their lives and transplanted into unfamiliar new surroundings. Rowena, a mediocre student at one of Singapore’s top girls’ schools, and Janice, the overachieving pride of a “heartland institution”, must each find a way to survive one term at the other’s school. But just when they think they have it all figured out, a rash of misfortune threatens to shut INSTEP down. How will the girls fare? Who’s trying to sabotage INSTEP? Can the girls save the day?Ng Ziqin is an undergraduate law student at the National University of Singapore. Her writing has been featured in RICE and Asia Law Network. In 2020, she placed third in a youth op-ed competition with her piece, “We Need to Stop Promoting Science as the Default JC Stream.” Her biggest literary heroes are Terry Pratchett and Adrian Tan, and she has a growing taste for mystery novels and psychological thrillers. One day, Ziqin hopes to achieve her lifelong dream of retiring in a cave house, where she will write whodunits that take place in Yishun. Every School a Good School is her first novel. The forum is moderated by Pam Ho who is a writer, editor and former journalist. She was the editor of The A List (an arts publication initiated by the National Arts Council) and a deputy editor with Mediacorp Publishing. She has also worked in radio and TV news, as a senior producer for Channel NewsAsia and a senior producer-presenter with 938LIVE (now CNA938). In 2012, she co-wrote a travel memoir published by Marshall Cavendish, and was a judge for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2017. Pam is currently pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing.

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