Creative Writing from AAE446 / AAE43P: Special Topics in Language and Education

Creative Work (Student Writing) from August 2017 semester

These are the six short-listed stories from the August 2017 semester of AAE 43P Creative Writing in the Classroom. The best story, as deemed by the panel of judges, was Choo Mei Fang’s Forty Years, while Estella Khin’s Love Is Not A Square was a close second. The other finalists were (not in any particular order) Shehnam Khan’s Selamat Hari Raya, Nicholas Tan’s Boy & His Cat, Lisa Chi’s Missing, and V Praveenkumar’s Perceptions.

As part of the course, students work on a final portfolio of 3 stories each, drafts of each to be worked and reworked until they pass muster—becoming stories that are a credit to the respective writer.
Mei Fang receives a $50 book voucher, Estella a $30 voucher, and the others all get a $20 voucher. The writers all take English Language as a specialisation.

The four judges were Dr Anitha Pillai, Dr Sally Jones, Dr Donna Lim and Dr Angelia Poon.

Click here to view all the six stories.

Creative Work (Student Writing) from January 2015 semester

These are adjudged the best stories from the creative writing course, AAE 446, offered to 3rd- and 4th-year English Language majors in January 2015. The final project for the course was a portfolio of 3 short stories from each student—what is presented below is the result of writing and re-writing, process being a key consideration. These six stories are from Nur Diyana Bte Johah, Alexandra Goh, Shanice Lim, Renaa Bhai d/o V. Visvanathan, Nur Shilah Bte. J. Faisal, and Hilda Yeoh.

The 3 judges, Drs Sally Ann Jones, Marlar Lwin and Angelia Poon, have named Hilda Yeoh's "The Man Who Can't be Moved" as the best story. The winner and the other 5 writers here all received book vouchers.

Click here to view all the six stories.