Words-Worth!

Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: bing! coffee company

Words-Worth! is a spoken word event, organised to showcase the creative talent of wordsmiths in and from Kuching. Our feature performers are a mixed group - poets and writers, both published and getting there. Those who will be reading a selection of their work at bing! this Sunday afternoon include Robert Raymer, Azreen Zahira, Victor Lim, Georgette Tan and Peter De Run.

There will be open mike later for anyone who has poetry or stories to contribute to the event.

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About our Performers

Robert Raymer, who has lived in Malaysia since 1985, teaches creative writing at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. His short stories and articles have appeared in The Literary Review, Thema, London Magazine, Frank, Going Places, Silver Kris, Far East Traveler, The Expat, The Writer, Reader’s Digest and 25 Malaysian Short Stories, Best of Silverfish New Writing 2001-2005. His short stories have been taught at several Malaysian universities, in SPM literature, and used for Cambridge International Examinations. He was the editor for Silverfish New Writings 4 (Silverfish 2004), has a collection of short stories set in Malaysia, Lovers and Strangers (Heinemann Asia, 1993), Lovers and Strangers Revisited (Silverfish, 2005) and MPH (2008). Also forthcoming from MPH is his book: Twenty Years in Malaysia: Movie Magic, Mysterious Musings, and Melodramatic Moments. His blog on writing can be found at borneoexpatwriter.blogspot.com and on his website www.BorneoExpatWriter.com

Azreen Zahira has been trying to write a "proper piece of fiction" since she was 20. She will not disclose her current age, but it's safe to assume that she's been at it for quite a while and is nowhere near finished. The main reason she hasn't finished anything is her method of taking breaks: she'll tell herself that she'll go watch TV for a bit, only to realise 12 hours later that she had just finished watching her Blackadder collection... again. When not writing or procrastinating she can usually be found bitching and drinking copious amounts of coffee with her unfortunate partner.

Victor Lim is a 3D animator, digital effects & compositing artist, videographer, video editor, web designer, and a teacher in digital content creation with a taste for 'cucur pisang' & weird 'pantun'. Visit his website at www.motionportion.com for more of his world.

Peter de Run is presently an English teacher at an international school here in Kuching. Formerly a pastor, he then ventured into professional speaking and is a consultant trainer/speaker for several training providers here in Kuching. He loves reading and has self-published 6 books so far (all but one in English). His greatest source of joy are the ladies in his life - his lovely wife Suze and his precious daughter Karen.

Georgette Tan write other people's stories for a living and barely have time for her own ghosts. One of her stories made it into a Malaysian anthology called "Dark City 2", which should be available with sufficient customer nagging at local book stores. She won a trip to a writer's festival in Bali with a 16-word story, but has yet to produce a similar feat this year. Everything else she wants you to know can be found at georgettetan.com.