Audrey Chin
The words are back!
From the winning entry for the Asian Women Writers Festival Short StoryCompetition... It takes 38,000 mgs of ibuprofen to kill yourself.
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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
- Jan 14, 2016
- 1 min
Nine Cuts – Book of the Year?
Nine Cuts, my short story collection, has just been nominated for “The Asian Books Blog Book of the Lunar Year.”
Audrey Chin
- Dec 9, 2014
- 2 min
So Grateful – This Reviewer Really Got It!
As the Heart Bones Break: So grateful this reviewer got it!
Audrey Chin
- Apr 12, 2014
- 1 min
Immensely grateful to be a daughter of Singapore
It may be unfashionable but I’m shouting it out anyway – It’s good being a daughter of Singapore. It’s something to be immensely...
Audrey Chin
- Feb 23, 2014
- 1 min
Reading in Myanmar: They were five
No pictures, just some words describing a scene while waiting for a flight in the domestic terminal at Yangon Airport. They were five ...
Audrey Chin
- Jan 18, 2014
- 1 min
Stepping out of the box
I’m stepping out of the box. The last three nights I’ve had nightmares. They were all related to one of my two WIPS’s – the one about a...
Audrey Chin
- Dec 17, 2013
- 1 min
Talking about Heart Bones on National Critics Choice
Here’s National Critics Choice’s video of the book chat about As the Heart Bones Break at Select Books https://oddznns.wordpress.com/2013...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 4, 2013
- 3 min
Writers I Read: On The Dirt Road to Dystopia with Nadeem Aslam and Kim Young Ha
What is Dystopia? Does the Road to Dystopia need to be made of dirt? Are our modern and comfortable societies already on the road to...
Audrey Chin
- Oct 5, 2013
- 5 min
Writers I read: H.S. Kim and Waxing Moon
Photo Credit: Amazon H.S. Kim is the author of Waxing Moon http://www.amazon.com/Waxing-Moon-H-S-Kim/dp/1937178382/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1/185...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 28, 2013
- 1 min
When the intangible becomes real
First there’s a whisper, next the words on paper and then the object begins to take shape … It becomes a physical book! I couldn’t have...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 21, 2013
- 4 min
Does your writing transcend culture?
I thought I was a global person but it turns out I’m not … My novel As the Heart Bones Break is making its debut globally at Singapore...
Audrey Chin
- Jun 12, 2013
- 3 min
Dieting or writing – we still need to outwit our reptilian brains
Our writing-dieting selves like to think we’re all frontal lobe, all about visioning, reasoning, planning and problem solving. But hidden...
Audrey Chin
- Jun 2, 2013
- 1 min
Critiquing Can Make You a Better Writer… and Person
If you critique other writers work, your own writing improves. Everyone knows that. But can critiquing make you a better person? In my...
Audrey Chin
- May 13, 2013
- 3 min
Where has your muse taken you?
No dear reader … it wasn’t me, it was my muse. First the spoiler – this coming of age tale of a Chinatown girl’s affair with her...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 20, 2012
- 3 min
A Singapore Thanksgiving – Should we be content with small blessings?
Some say this with disdain. But what’s not to love about buses and train systems that more or less work, even if they’re stuffed to the...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 30, 2012
- 4 min
Mid-Autumn: Why on this night?
Moonlight over Clementi Rail Bridge Finally, 15th day of the 8th moon – Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon a beautiful yellow orb. The moon...
Audrey Chin
- Aug 25, 2012
- 2 min
Money and Your Writing Life
Should you quit your job to write full time? Photo Credit: Xzactlycorp.com Writer’s Digest has just published agreat article by Jeff...
Audrey Chin
- Aug 22, 2012
- 2 min
Writing – A mirror to our selves
We all need mirrors to see ourselves. Without reflection, we are just unconsidered action and reaction. It’s only when we sit and stare,...
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