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We Are A Writing Workshop
Join us for a creative writing workshop to un-gender the notion of "home", in the lead up to International Women's Day 2018. WAAW co-editor will facilitate a free session, in which writers explore what home means, in the context of the unpaid labour of caregivers and home-makers and other issues.

When: January 13, 2018. 3pm - 6pm
Where: , 3A Jalan Kubor
Singapore 199201

All are welcome, writing experience not required as long as you have a story to tell. But there's a limit to how many people the venue can hold, so registration is required. Register by sending us an e-mail at



Open Call: "Election" issue -=CLOSED=-
We are looking for creative responses to the theme of "Election". Send us, say, your poems about voting for the first time, speculative fiction about future candidates, architectural plans for new elections departments, drawings of alternative polling booths/redesigns for polling cards, or come up with a bunch of campaign slogans that may or may not be grammatical. Deadline: Sept 20, 2017. DO NOT send us boring political rants. E-mail poetry, prose (under 2,500 words), art and other assorted gee-gaws to

Announcement (Aug 10, 2017)
We are pleased to announce Euginia Tan as the winner of the WAAW Short Story Contest. Read her winning entry, "My Mother's Menagerie" here, or click the link above to peruse the special contest shortlist issue #6.5. We thank everyone who took part in the contest.

Update
We are reading and deliberating over the submissions for the short-story contest. Watch this space or our Facebook/Twitter page for the announcement of winners. Thank you, all writers who sent in entries!

Short Story Contest -=CLOSED=-
We are running a contest. Send us stories up to 5,000 words. Double-spaced, 12-point font. The one we like the most gets $100. Shortlisted entries get published in WeAreAWebsite.com. Guest judge: Kum Suning, editor at Ethos Books. Deadline: April 1, 2017. E-mail , with “Short Story Contest” in the subject line.

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