This year’s Singapore Writers Festival featured an impressive lineup of both local and international talents. As well as the more publicised talks and performances by high profile literary figures, it also ran a great workshop and masterclass program with accomplished writers, poets, comedians, bloggers, and publishers.

With the ambition of one day publishing my own poetry collection, I jumped at the chance to attend the Singapore Writers Festival 2018 masterclass, The Art of Rewriting in Poetry with award-winning Asian-American poet Cathy Song.