Arts House Limited (AHL) proudly presents the 27th edition of the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF), which returns from 8 to 17 November 2024 this year.

SWF 2024 marks the first edition of the Festival helmed by new Festival Director, Yong Shu Hoong. This year, Festivalgoers can look forward to over 200 thought-provoking programmes that deeply engage with topical themes and concerns, as it invites us to reflect on what is truly in our nature – as humans, as writers and readers, as global citizens – navigating the world we live in today.

SWF 2024 Festival Theme: In Our Nature

Themed In Our Nature, SWF 2024 offers a multifaceted lens for audiences to consider what it means to be human as well as our relationship with the natural environment. Festivalgoers can find solace amidst the rapid change and complexities of life, and reflect on the theme through offerings by over 300 local and international presenters. These include SWF signature programmes such as the Literary Pioneer series, Youth Fringe, SWF Playground, SEA xChange (renamed from SEA Focus), Country Focus, SWF In Conjunction, as well as brand-new Festival Tracks like SWF Encounters.

Exploring creative intersections in the written and spoken word

In line with this year’s theme, Festivalgoers can expect programmes that respond to the current climate emergency through literature as we care for the natural world. Highlights include Eco-Poetry: Mapping Out Our Relationship with Nature, where local and international poets come together to their writing and to contemplate our harmony and disharmony with nature.

Additionally, in the realm of climate action, invited academics will offer new perspectives and practical solutions on how Singapore and the world at large can take meaningful steps to address pressing environmental challenges in Planet in Focus: Strategies for Environmental Sustainability.

Other programmes such as The Family Way, will invite us to look within and reflect on the resilience of humankind as three Singapore-based authors discuss writing their families into their books. Festivalgoers can also be entertained through a lively mix of stand-up comedy and poetry readings in Singaporean Shenanigans, a series of performances that unpack the universal quirks of human nature in a Singaporean context.

Keeping to tradition, SWF 2024 will end on a high with the fan-favourite Festival debate, Festival Closing Debate: This House believes that life in plastic is fantastic, wrapping up the topics explored across the two weekends in a spirited and humorous discussion on humanity’s overconsumption of plastic and the contradictions between fake and real.

Festival Passes and tickets to selected single ticketed programmes can be purchased here. All tickets and Festival Passes will now be issued digitally. Entry to all Festival Pass programmes remains on a first-come-first-served basis.

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