Persatuan Penulis Malaysia / Malaysian Writers Society

Session 1: 10.30am - 12pm Workshops: Food in Fiction by Sharmilla Ganesan, Beginnings & Endings by Shih-L Kow Panels: Malaysian as Cosmopolitan Literature ft. Brandon Liew & Daryl Lim Wei Jie; Young at Heart ft. Hanna Alkaf, Tutu Dutta, Raidah Shah Idil

Session 2, 1.30pm - 2.50pm Panels: Copywriting Conditions ft. Nana, May Chong Publishing Short Stories ft. Sharmilla Ganesan, Shih-Li Kow More than Pretty Pictures ft. Charis Loke, Amita Sevellaraja, Thar Chandran Self-Publishing Marketing & Mistakes ft. Anna Tan, Farah Liyana

Session 3, 3pm - 4.20pm Workshops: Zine, Zine, Zine by Ieda Mazlan; Agent Secrets by Raidah Shah Idil Panels: Our Cultures in Our Stories ft. Adriana Nordin Manan, Tutu Dutta; Etiquette with Booksellers ft. Andrew Chong (Gerakbudaya), Jen NT (Sunda Shelves), Roestam Alias (Riwayat); Editing & Your Editor ft. Fadli al-Akiti, Thatchaayanie, May Chong

Session 4, 4.30pm - 6pm Sesi Mengopi: Chat about Zines (following the zine workshop); Cht with Editors (following the editor panel) Talk: Printing Show 'n' Tell by Gina Yap Lai Yoong Film Showcase: From Paper to Screen ft. Junad M. Nor, Amir Muhammad

We have less than a week to go before Early Bird registration for MYWriters Fest-KL 2025 closes!

Go to tinyurl.com/RegisterMYWritersFest2025 for full schedule grid!

Session 1: 10.30am - 12pm Workshops: Food in Fiction by Sharmilla Ganesan, Beginnings & Endings by Shih-L Kow Panels: Malaysian as Cosmopolitan Literature ft. Brandon Liew & Daryl Lim Wei Jie; Young at Heart ft. Hanna Alkaf, Tutu Dutta, Raidah Shah Idil

Session 2, 1.30pm - 2.50pm Panels: Copywriting Conditions ft. Nana, May Chong Publishing Short Stories ft. Sharmilla Ganesan, Shih-Li Kow More than Pretty Pictures ft. Charis Loke, Amita Sevellaraja, Thar Chandran Self-Publishing Marketing & Mistakes ft. Anna Tan, Farah Liyana

Session 3, 3pm - 4.20pm Workshops: Zine, Zine, Zine by Ieda Mazlan; Agent Secrets by Raidah Shah Idil Panels: Our Cultures in Our Stories ft. Adriana Nordin Manan, Tutu Dutta; Etiquette with Booksellers ft. Andrew Chong (Gerakbudaya), Jen NT (Sunda Shelves), Roestam Alias (Riwayat); Editing & Your Editor ft. Fadli al-Akiti, Thatchaayanie, May Chong

Session 4, 4.30pm - 6pm Sesi Mengopi: Chat about Zines (following the zine workshop); Cht with Editors (following the editor panel) Talk: Printing Show 'n' Tell by Gina Yap Lai Yoong Film Showcase: From Paper to Screen ft. Junad M. Nor, Amir Muhammad

We have less than a week to go before Early Bird registration for MYWriters Fest-KL 2025 closes!

Go to tinyurl.com/RegisterMYWritersFest2025 for full schedule grid!

FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS!

We're hoping to gather early funding to support printing our Milestones anthology. Support us by preordering a copy, whether in ebook or in print (Malaysia only).

For a limited time, you can also grab a bundle of all our NutMag zines for the past ten years!

Every 5 years, MYWriters Penang publishes a special anthology edition of NutMag to mark the occasion. In 2020, that was Home Groan. This year, it's Milestones! Happy ten-year anniversary, NutMag!

Preorder here! tinyurl.com/PreorderMilestones

We have a schedule grid for #MYWriterFest!

To register, go here: tinyurl.com/RegisterMyWr...

Some confirmed folks for KL in-person MYWriters Fest, October 4 include...

... filmmakers Amir Muhammad and Junad M. Nor

... authors Raidah Shah Idil and Hanna Alkaf,

... award winners Shih-Li Kow and Sharmilla Ganesan

Ticket sales open soon! Watch this space.

Some confirmed folks for KL in-person MYWriters Fest, October 4 include...

... filmmakers Amir Muhammad and Junad M. Nor

... authors Raidah Shah Idil and Hanna Alkaf,

... award winners Shih-Li Kow and Sharmilla Ganesan

Ticket sales open soon! Watch this space.

Malaysian writers, ICYMI, we are taking submissions for our marine conservation anthology!

Waiting on speakers to confirm their timing so we can start filling our schedule grid... #MYWritersFest this year will have concurrent programming and very limited seats. Keep your Oct 4 clear for a full day of panels, workshops, and talks on craft and industry knowledge sharing!

Planning this year's #MYWritersFest! We have a date, a venue, and a lineup of nearly 30 speakers! Every time it's different, and this year's looking like a conference where we learn about different parts of the book industry... workshops, panels, talks, sesi mengopi: we got it all! Follow us? 👀

While we plan #MYWritersFest for 2025, we are also getting a headstart on our 2026 Anthology project. We are looking for creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, and flash fiction about marine conservation in Malaysia! You can check out the full submissions guidelines at tinyurl.com/MWSMarine

See you this weekend~~

We're back at Leaf's Mark Cafe in the Intermark Mall on June 7 & 21 to write again! From 11am to 3pm, come get your write ON! The Intermark is accessible via Kelana Jaya LRT and Putrajaya MRT lines, and has a RM5 flat rate for parking on weekends.

(ask us about our fanfic 👀)

Looking for a writing workshop in the heart of KL? Check out The Art of Slow Stories, a heartfelt creative writing workshop led by Lobsang Chenrezig!

Location: KLoé Hotel, Jln Bukit Bintang
Date: Sunday, 18 May 2025
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Participation Fee: RM180

Sign up here: forms.gle/zXs5qPDmLxA3...

Discussion & book signing of SLAVE with Mahat China @ Akiya, author of HAMBA Jason S. Ganesan, translator of SLAVE KLIBF, June 1, 2025, 12pm Pentas Utama, Dewan Tun Abdul Razak 3, WTCKL hosted by Gerakbudaya and COAC

Meet the authors @ KLIBF: Tapau, the Best of Malaysian Food Writing 2000–2022 Contributors: Jaymee Goh & Wilson Khor W. H. Co-editor: Jason S. Ganesan 25.5.2025 10am–11am Gerakbudaya, Booth 6-32 Dewan Tun Razak 3 Level 3, WTCKL hosted by Gerakbudaya and the Malaysian Writers Society

MWS won't have a table at the Kuala Lumpur International Book Festival but we'll have a presence!

Poster with the Malaysian Writers Society logo on top with the text: Come write with us! Leaf's Mark May 10 & 24, 2025 G-7, Intermark Mall 11am - 3pm (members, check your emails! 20% off the whole menu for you!)

Let's get to writing together! Come to Leaf's Mark at the Intermark Mall on May 10 & 24 for chill writing sessions, with a special discount for MWS members!

The Intermark Mall is opposite the Ampang Park MRT station and has RM5 flat rate parking on weekends. See you there!

Congrats to Committee Member @witchywonderer.bsky.social, EIC of this excellent magazine team!!

A background image of a person writing with a pen in their hand with a purple overlay. At the top of the image is the Augur logo. In the middle of the image is a purple banner that reads: "canlit & sff mags, open now" in white text. In the corner of the banner is a pink circle that reads: "April 2025" in white text. At the bottom of the image is a dark purple bar that reads: "Psst... Augur submissions open this fall," in white text. Beside that is a white exclamation mark with a purple circle behind it.

CANLIT & SPECFIC OPEN CALLS ‼️

April showers bring May...submission calls? 👀

The image has a purple background. At the top of the image reads: "open to subs: #canlit" in white text with a white line underneath. In the middle of the image are Canadian literature magazine submissions listed by magazine, genre, and submission due date in white text. The magazines are inside a purple text bubble. The submissions read: "The Ex-Puritan has ongoing submissions for fiction, articles, poetry, reviews,etc.. Contemporary Verse 2 has submissions for poetry, essays, articles, reviews, etc. due by May 31st. Room Magazine has ongoing submissions for art, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Arc Poetry Magazine submissions for poetry are due by May 15th. The Malahat Review submissions for fiction, poetry, art, reviews, etc are due by June 2nd. Grain Magazine has ongoing submissions for nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. At the bottom of the image is a dark purple bar with the Augur logo in the middle.

We've got a list of awesome open and ongoing submissions calls—poetry, fiction, art, and more! 📚

Looking for a writing workshop in the heart of KL? Check out The Art of Slow Stories, a heartfelt creative writing workshop led by Lobsang Chenrezig!

Location: KLoé Hotel, Jln Bukit Bintang
Date: Sunday, 18 May 2025
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Participation Fee: RM180

Sign up here: forms.gle/zXs5qPDmLxA3...

The Penang Writer's Workshop Workshops: 19th April - 24th May Writer's Retreat: 30th May - 2nd June Showcases: June/July Applications close 6th April 2025! QR Code leading to: https://nutmagzine.weebly.com/workshops.html

Writers from Penang and surrounding states! Are you looking to improve your writing? Check out this workshop series, with @annatsp.com @jytan.bsky.social and Wan Phing Lim as your instructors!
nutmagzine.weebly.com/workshops.html

Thanks to everyone who made it to last night's Annual General Meeting! We have a wonderful mix of returning and new ExCo and Ordinary Committee members. We are now plotting to take on the world! Watch this space for news about this year's activities!

Readings@Seksan Feb 2025, Saturday 22nd February, 3.30pm. 67, Jalan Tempinis 1, Bangsar, 50100 Kuala Lumpur. No RSVP needed! All are welcome. Featuring MS Sharijah, Yeow Jun Heng, Amir Ridzuan Bahari, Banu Piriya, Roxanne Kubiak, Tina Ishak-Dagoe

If you're in Petaling Jaya on the 22nd, head on over to Bangsar for Readings@Seksan, our longest-running live readings series!

Love what we do and want to be part of it? khōréō is looking for First Readers! First Readers must be available for a few hours a week, three times a year. Deadline for applications is February 17! More details on duties and how to apply are on our website: www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

We must have 18 members in attendance at our Annual General Meeting to have quorum! If you haven't RSVP'd, please check your email. Thank you!

Tintabudi TTDI will be hosting the KL book launch of TAPAU: The Best of Malaysian Food Writing 2000-2022 on Jan 18, 3pm! Editor @maychong.bsky.social will be there, as well as contributors @sekhanfoo.bsky.social, @jhameia.bsky.social, Siti Nuraishah, and Jack Malik!

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