Joshua Ip
Joshua Ip | |
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Born | Singapore |
Occupation | Writer and Editor |
Nationality | Singaporean |
Education | BA (English), University of Pennsylvania |
Notable awards | Singapore Literature Prize (co-winner; 2014), National Arts Council Golden Point Award (2015)(2013) (2011), National Arts Council Arts Creation Fund (2014), National Arts Council Young Artist Award (2017) |
Joshua Ip (born 1982, Singapore) is a Singaporean writer and editor.
Biography
Joshua Ip attended Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and Raffles Junior College before completing a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He was mentored by Lee Tzu Pheng and Heng Siok Tian.[1][2]
Works
He has published four volumes of poetry with Math Paper Press and edited seven anthologies. His first collection, "sonnets from the singlish" (Math Paper Press, 2013) co-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] He was the recipient of the Young Artist Award in 2017.[9]
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.[10][11] Recent editions reached an audience of 5,000 and included physical events such as MRT-based poetry readings [12][13] and performance-poetry-professional-wrestling hybrid performances.[14] 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.[15] [16][17]
Joshua has represented Singapore at international literary festivals and publishing conferences including the Griffith Review New Asia Now tour of Australia,[18] Asia-Pacific Writers Festival in Bangkok,[19] the Goa Literary Festival,[20] the London Book Fair,[21] and the New York Singapore Literature Festival.[22] 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) ISBN 978-981-09-7884-6
- footnotes on falling (Math Paper Press, 2018) ISBN 978-981-11-5283-2
Anthologies (edited)
- SingPoWriMo 2014: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2014) ISBN 978-981-09-2652-6
- A Luxury We Cannot Afford (Math Paper Press, 2014) ISBN 978-981-09-2653-3
- SingPoWriMo 2015: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2015) ISBN 978-981-09-7322-3
- A Luxury We Must Afford (Math Paper Press, 2016) ISBN 978-981-09-8661-2
- SingPoWriMo 2016: The Anthology (Math Paper Press, 2016) ISBN 978-981-11-1294-2
- UnFree Verse (Ethos Books, 2017) ISBN 978-981-11-3726-6
- Twin Cities: An anthology of twin cinema from Singapore and Hong Kong (Landmark Books, 2017) ISBN 978-981-4189-81-1
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
- Young Artist Award Singapore, 2017
- Singapore Literature Prize – Co-winner (English Poetry), 2014
- National Arts Council Creation Grant, 2014[23]
- 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
- ↑ http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/prized-verses
- ↑ http://www.nlb.gov.sg/readsingapore/home/collection/under-one-sky/chope/
- ↑ http://bookcouncil.sg/awards/detail/singapore-literature-prize
- ↑ http://www.todayonline.com/blogs/forartssake/spore-literature-prize-2014-winners-announced
- ↑ http://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/spore-writers-fest-golden-point-award-2013-winners-announced
- ↑ http://stcommunities.straitstimes.com/show/2013/11/07/young-writers-take-lions-share-prizes-golden-point-award
- ↑ https://www.nac.gov.sg/events/competitions/golden-point-award#2011 Archived 6 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ↑ http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/meet-this-years-cultural-medallion-and-young-artist-award-winners
- ↑ http://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/read-poets-society-singapores-poetry-scene-booming
- ↑ http://bluelyrareview.com/a-postscript-by-jee-leong-koh/
- ↑ http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/singapore-poetry-in-motion?link_time=1462078641#xtor=CS1-10
- ↑ http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/poetry-20
- ↑ http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/wrestling-with-poetry
- ↑ http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/singapores-literary-boom
- ↑ http://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/read-poets-society-singapores-poetry-scene-booming
- ↑ https://kitaab.org/2015/04/07/the-words-are-what-they-are-interview-with-joshua-ip/
- ↑ https://griffithreview.com/editions/new-asia-now/
- ↑ http://apwriters.org/bangkok-what-happened-and-whats-next/
- ↑ http://www.goaartlitfest.com/galf2014/participants2014.php#Joshua Ip
- ↑ http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/case-you-missed-it/story/local-lit-london-book-fair-20130415
- ↑ http://www.singaporeliteraturefestival.com/authors/
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 2016-06-11.