Do you ponder the "what-ifs"? Have you read stories that you wished you could write your own alternative endings to?
If you're nodding along unwittingly, Noise Singapore invites you to join Press Play, a continue-the-story adventure that unfolds in three different stages. Beginning with Stage Zero by Singaporean novelist Wena Poon, Press Play challenges you to write your own short continuation to any (or all) of the stories from the preceding stage. This story can spin off in any direction and as far as your imagination takes you!
Click on the box to expand the paragraph that you wish to continue reading. Simply press the "PLAY" button here to send us your stories by the deadline for each stage! These 3 different stages are only open during their respective stated periods.
* Stage 1: 1 June - 3 Jul 2011
* Stage 2: 25 Jul - 7 Aug 2011
* Stage 3: 29 Aug - 11 Sep 2011
You can submit as many alternative continuations as you like for the different stages. Each of our little boxes can only take up to maximum of 2,500 characters.
Noise Singapore and writers Wena Poon and O Thiam Chin will be picking the most imaginative and best written paragraphs at each stage.
Winners of each stage will win $150 worth of BooksActually or Kinokuniya vouchers (you actually get to choose).
Judges:
Wena Poon
When growing up in Singapore, Wena Poon was addicted to Star Wars and Batman. She began writing action adventure novels when she was in Secondary One. She went to Nanyang Girls, Raffles Girls, and Raffles Junior College. She is the author of the short story collections Lions In Winter and The Proper Care of Foxes, the science fiction series The Biophilia Omnibus, and the Spanish bullfighting adventure novel Alex y Robert, which was serialized and broadcast worldwide by the BBC as a Book At Bedtime. Her fiction and poetry have won or been nominated for numerous literary prizes in the UK, Singapore, and Malaysia. Her website is www.wenapoon.com.
Thiam Chin
O Thiam Chin's short stories have appeared in many literary anthologies and journals, including Asia Literary Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Kyoto Journal, Asiatic and Asia Writes. He is the author of three collections of short stories, Free-Falling Man (2006), Never Been Better (2009), longlisted for the Frank O' Connor Short Story Award and nominated as one of the best 10 fiction books in the Popular-The Star Readers' Choice Awards in 2010, and Under The Sun (2010). He was an honorary fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program in 2010. Having just completed his fourth story collection, The Rest Of Your Life And Everything That Comes With It, he is currently working on his first novel.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: click here
For submissions: submit here
Website: http://www.noisesingapore.com/sideprojects/pressplay
If you're nodding along unwittingly, Noise Singapore invites you to join Press Play, a continue-the-story adventure that unfolds in three different stages. Beginning with Stage Zero by Singaporean novelist Wena Poon, Press Play challenges you to write your own short continuation to any (or all) of the stories from the preceding stage. This story can spin off in any direction and as far as your imagination takes you!
Click on the box to expand the paragraph that you wish to continue reading. Simply press the "PLAY" button here to send us your stories by the deadline for each stage! These 3 different stages are only open during their respective stated periods.
* Stage 1: 1 June - 3 Jul 2011
* Stage 2: 25 Jul - 7 Aug 2011
* Stage 3: 29 Aug - 11 Sep 2011
You can submit as many alternative continuations as you like for the different stages. Each of our little boxes can only take up to maximum of 2,500 characters.
Noise Singapore and writers Wena Poon and O Thiam Chin will be picking the most imaginative and best written paragraphs at each stage.
Winners of each stage will win $150 worth of BooksActually or Kinokuniya vouchers (you actually get to choose).
Judges:
Wena Poon
When growing up in Singapore, Wena Poon was addicted to Star Wars and Batman. She began writing action adventure novels when she was in Secondary One. She went to Nanyang Girls, Raffles Girls, and Raffles Junior College. She is the author of the short story collections Lions In Winter and The Proper Care of Foxes, the science fiction series The Biophilia Omnibus, and the Spanish bullfighting adventure novel Alex y Robert, which was serialized and broadcast worldwide by the BBC as a Book At Bedtime. Her fiction and poetry have won or been nominated for numerous literary prizes in the UK, Singapore, and Malaysia. Her website is www.wenapoon.com.
Thiam Chin
O Thiam Chin's short stories have appeared in many literary anthologies and journals, including Asia Literary Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Kyoto Journal, Asiatic and Asia Writes. He is the author of three collections of short stories, Free-Falling Man (2006), Never Been Better (2009), longlisted for the Frank O' Connor Short Story Award and nominated as one of the best 10 fiction books in the Popular-The Star Readers' Choice Awards in 2010, and Under The Sun (2010). He was an honorary fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program in 2010. Having just completed his fourth story collection, The Rest Of Your Life And Everything That Comes With It, he is currently working on his first novel.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: click here
For submissions: submit here
Website: http://www.noisesingapore.com/sideprojects/pressplay
