Welcome
Finding the Writer's Voice
a four-week workshop for writers seeking clear intention​
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What is the story within you that keeps running into roadblocks, whenever you try to bring it into fuller expression? Is there a deeper truth beneath it that is asking to be seen?
This four-week workshop aims to help you get in touch with, recognise, and develop your unique writing voice. Whether you are a beginner writer, or an experienced writer looking for a fresh approach towards your craft, this workshop aims to help you achieve greater clarity and purpose in your work.
This workshop is open to writers of poetry, prose and creative nonfiction.
This is a generative workshop, rather than a critique-based workshop. Every week, we will be writing, reading, and analysing literature, as well as sharing rough drafts of our work with each other. While there will not be a group critique session, participants have the option to submit up to six pages of creative work for detailed individual feedback.
Please note that there will be two separate runs of this workshop, in Jul and Dec 2025 respectively. The syllabus will be the same for both runs unless otherwise stated.​​​
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Registration Details
Dates (1st Run): 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th Jul 2025
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Dates (2nd Run): 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th Dec 2025
Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm* on Saturdays ​
Location: Online on Zoom.
*Do note that those who are more than 30 minutes late will be turned away.
Workshops are capped at 6 pax per session, and are recommended for ages 18 and above.
Participants not based in Singapore are welcome to attend.
Schedule and Syllabus (Jul/Dec 2025)
This is a general overview of the workshop. Each weekly session includes readings, discussion questions, and writing exercises. While the sessions are organised by theme, exercises relating to more technical elements of craft will be woven into the sessions in a way that supports the overarching theme.
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Session #1 | The Writer's Voice
What does it mean for a writer to have a “voice”?
Session #2 | The Politics of Voice
Whose voices are heard most often, and most loudly, in the systems we inhabit? Whose voices hold weight?
Session #3 | The Responsibility of Voice
How do we use our voices responsibly? Who and what are we responsible to?
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Session #4 | The Freedom of Voice
What is your voice at its best and strongest?
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Workshop readings will draw on the work of W. Todd Kaneko, Ursula K Le Guin, Patsy Rodenburg, Diane Lockward, Walt Whitman, Jamaica Kincaid, Lucille Clifton, Heng Siok Tian, Felix Cheong, Samuel Lee, Fairoz Ahmad, Cheryl Julia Lee, Gwee Li Sui, Madeleine Lee, and others.
Learning Outcomes
This course is designed to be beginner-friendly. No prior experience in writing is required, but a good command of English would be beneficial. We aim to help you:
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Identify, and develop, your unique writing voice
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Sharpen your sense of clarity and purpose in your work, and
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Feel inspired and encouraged in moving forward with your writing
Cost
SGD 240 for all four sessions​
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Reduced fees are available for students, as well as for those in need of financial assistance. Do email rainbowfictioneers@gmail.com to find out more.
About the Facilitator
Stacy Ooi is editor of Voyage: A Literary Journal, and founder of the Rainbow Fictioneers, a literary platform based in Singapore. Her poetry has been published in Blue Heron Review, and the tide rises, the tide falls. Her fiction is published in Blue Daisies Journal, and forthcoming in CALYX Journal. She dreams of a world where we are gentle with each other.