Ng Yi-Sheng (Author of Lion City)

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Ng Yi-Sheng

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in Singapore

November 25, 1980

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Poetry, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Ng Yi-Sheng is a poet, fictionist, playwright, journalist and activist. He was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize for his debut poetry collection, last boy (2006). His other publications include a spiritual sequel to that work, called A Book of Hims (2017); a compilation of his best spoken-word pieces, Loud Poems for a Very Obliging Audience (2016); the bestselling non-fiction book, SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century (2006); and a novelisation of the Singapore gangster movie, Eating Air (2008). He also co-edited GASPP: A Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose (2010) and Eastern Heathens: An Anthology of Subverted Asian Folklore (2013). He recently completed his MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia and is ...more

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Goodbye, Flying Inkpot

(This article was written for , which is currently undergoing technical difficulties.)
As some of you will have recently heard,聽聽has closed down after 19 years of operation. It was Singapore's oldest (and at times, only) arts magazine, founded at the dawn of the nation's Internet history, in 1996.

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	Lion City 3.82 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century 4.20 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	GASPP: A Gay Anthology of Singaporean Poetry and Prose by Ng Yi-Sheng (Editor and Contributor), Dominic Chua (Editor and Contributor), Irene Oh (Editor) 3.62 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loud Poems For a Very Obliging Audience 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Boy 3.25 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Book of Hims 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Waters, Pink Sands 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eating Air 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exhale: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices by Ng Yi-Sheng, Stephanie Chan, Andy Ang 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forty-Four Winning Plays from the TheatreWorks 24-Hour Playwriting Competition, Vol. 1: 2008-2010 by Ng Yi-Sheng (Editor), Dan Koh (Editor) 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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TheatreWorks 24-Hour Playwriting Competition (2 books)
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Dan Koh (Editor)

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Quotes by Ng Yi-Sheng (?)

“One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.”
― Ng Yi-Sheng, LONTAR #5

tags: epigram-books, fiction, lontar, lontar-5, ng-yi-sheng, prose, short-stories, short-story, speculative-fiction

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