Joshua Ip

Joshua Ip (Chinese: 小叶子(Small leaf) ; born 1982, Singapore) is a Singaporean writer and editor.

Biography

Joshua Ip attended ACS(I) and RJC before completing a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He was mentored by Dr Lee Tzu Pheng and Ms Heng Siok Tian.^[1][2]

Works

He has published three volumes of poetry and edited three anthologies from Math Paper Press. His first collection, "sonnets from the singlish"(Math Paper Press, 2013) won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2014.^[3][4] He won the Golden Point Award for Prose in 2013 for his short story, "The Man Who Turned Into a Photocopier",^[5][6] and was first runner-up for Poetry in 2011.^[7] He was selected as one of the National Arts Council's "New Voices of Singapore" in 2014.^[8]

Literary Activities

He founded the inaugural Singapore Poetry Writing Month in April 2014, a movement which gathered poets online to write a poem a day for 30 days.^[9][10] Recent editions reached an audience of 2,600 and included physical events such as MRT-based poetry readings.^[11][12] He runs Sing Lit Station, a literary non-profit that was awarded a National Arts Council seed grant to develop writing in Singapore through literary bootcamps and workshops.^{[13] [14][15]}

Joshua has represented Singapore at international literary festivals and publishing conferences including the Griffith Review New Asia Now tour of Australia,^[16] Asia-Pacific Writers Festival in Bangkok,^[17] the Goa Literary Festival,^[18] the London Book Fair,^[19] and the New York Singapore Literature Festival.^[20] He has been a featured writer at the Singapore Writers Festival since 2012.

Selected Bibliography

Poetry

• sonnets from the singlish (Math Paper Press, 2012) ISBN 978-981-07-1550-2
• making love with scrabble tiles (Math Paper Press, 2013) ISBN 978-981-07-4779-4
• sonnets from the singlish upsize edition (Math Paper Press, 2015) 978-981-09-7884-6

Anthologies (edited)

• A Luxury We Cannot Afford (Math Paper Press, 2014) ISBN 978-981-09-2653-3
• SingPoWriMo 2014: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2014) ISBN 978-981-09-2652-6
• SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2014) ISBN 978-981-09-7322-3

Prose

• Peace is a Foot Reflexology Parlour, Balik Kampung 2A, 2013
• ROBOTZ ATTACKZ THE CITEH, From the Belly of the Cat, 2013
• The Man Who Turned Into a Photocopier, Golden Point Award, 2011

Awards

• Singapore Literature Prize – Winner (English Poetry), 2014
• National Arts Council Creation Grant, 2014^[21]
• SPH-NAC Golden Point Award – Honorable Mention (Chinese Poetry), 2015
• SPH-NAC Golden Point Award – Winner (English Prose), 2013
• SPH-NAC Golden Point Award – First runner-up (English Poetry), 2011

References

External links

• poetry.sg profile