"A phenomenon that probably helped expedite the democratisation of the literary arts [in Singapore] was the advent of the Internet in the mid-1990s...
"By then, Writers’ Week had become independent, and the digital platform empowered a generation of non-academic writers who made their mark on their own without having to leverage any ties with academia. While we’ve always had non-academic authors like Catherine Lim, Goh Sin Tub, Isa Kamari and Gopal Baratham, the Internet gave rise to a breed of writers – among them, early adopters like Alvin Pang, Paul Tan, Aaron Lee, Yong Shu Hoong and Gwee Li Sui – who initiated and publicised their own events." Read the entire article at A-List
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