Joshua Ip

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

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

External links

• poetry.sg profile