About
If you can't find a community, make one! Members of the American Women's Association Writers’ Group share their personal writing journeys and provide a framework with practical tips on how to conduct a successful writers’ group both in-person and online.
Participants are encouraged to bring a piece of writing (500–600 words) and volunteer to have their writing workshopped.
Speakers
Amanda Jaffe co-chairs the American Women’s Association Singapore writers’ group. Her writing has appeared in print and online in PASSAGE (Friends of the Museums), AWA Magazine, The Finder, The American Interest, Wanderlust, Anak Sastra, The Smart Set, The Razor, presspausepress.org, and The Gravity of the Thing. She writes for Food Bank News and is working on an essay collection about her time in Singapore. Find her writing at www.amandajaffewrites.com.
Mandakini Arora co-chairs the American Women’s Association Singapore writers’ group. She reviews books for the AWA magazine, and on Instagram (@travelling_bookmark). She has a PhD in History from Duke University and is doing an MA in Creative Writing at Lasalle College of the Arts.
Mandakini edited Small Steps, Giant Leaps: A History of AWARE and the Women’s Movement in Singapore (AWARE, 2007) and Jean Marshall’s Pahang Letters, 1953–54: Sidelights on Malaya During the Emergency (Ethos, 2017).