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Singapore Writers Festival

Singapore Writers Festival 2024, celebrating its 27th edition, will be held from 8 – 17 November 2024 at various locations across Singapore. This renowned literary festival features over 200 ticketed and free events, with more than 250 local and international authors, poets and speakers. Spanning ten days, the festival offers a diverse lineup of activities, including meet-the-author sessions, talks, panel discussions, workshops, performances, and exhibitions.
SWF is a much anticipated event on the cultural calendar, presenting the world’s major literary talents to Singaporeans while shining a spotlight on home grown and Southeast Asian creative talents. Over the years, the Festival has become an exciting meeting point of writers, academics and thinkers in a choice spread of panel discussions, workshops, lectures and performances over 10 days. It has hosted literati the likes of two-time Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood, Whitbread First Novel Award winner Zadie Smith, British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Nebula winner Neil Gaiman and Lambda Literary Award winner Roxane Gay.
Singapore Writers Festival 2022 (SWF 2022), Singapore's premier literary festival, is back from 4 - 20 November 2022! More than 200 programmes have been scheduled over the 17-day event, spanning from immersive experiences, exhibitions, performances, film screenings, meet-the-author sessions to conversations. 
Singapore Writers Festival 2023, the 26th edition of the annual literary festival in Singapore, will be held from 17 - 26 November 2023. An eclectic lineup of over 200 programmes featuring more than 250 local and international presenters in a series of events from meet-the-authors sessions, talks, panel discussions, workshops, performances to exhibitions have been scheduled throughout the 10-day festival. 

5 Nov 2024 - 6 Nov 2024

SGD 138

6 Nov 2024 - 7 Nov 2024

SGD 50

6 Nov 2024 - 8 Nov 2024

SGD 350

6 Nov 2024 - 7 Nov 2024

SGD 88

7 Nov 2024 - 10 Nov 2024

SGD 15

7 Nov 2024 - 10 Nov 2024

SGD 17

8 Nov 2024 - 17 Nov 2024

9 Nov 2024 - 10 Nov 2024

Free