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Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 31/03/2025

REGISTRATION for Penang Writers Workshop 2025 closes this Sunday! Here's a little about the people behind the scenes More info here: nutmagzine.weebly.com/workshops.html

Instructor: Anna Tan
Anna Tan writes fantasy stories and fairy tales, and has short stories included in various anthologies. She helps people publish books at Teaspoon Publishing, which includes yelling at HTML for epub reasons.

She has an MA in Creative Writing: The Novel from Brunel University London and is interested in Malay/Nusantara and Chinese legends and folklore in exploring the intersection of language, culture, and faith. She can be found tweeting as @natzers and forgetting to update annatsp.com.

Instructor: Wan Phing Lim
Wan Phing Lim was born to Malaysian parents in 1986 in Butterworth, Penang. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.
She lives in Penang and has two collections of short stories: Two Figures in a Car (2021) and Adorable (2025) by Penguin SEA.
Wan Phing is the current fiction editor at NutMag.

Instructor: JY Tan
JY Tan was born in Penang to parents who encouraged a reading habit, but did not expect her to devote her life to studying and writing stories. She mostly writes short stories for NutMag and novels for an audience she has yet to find, but also dabbles in poetry and playwriting.

Currently, JY splits her time between her family on Penang Island and her extended family on the mainland. When she isn’t working her day job to feed her oyen son, she is reminding herself that outlining detailed plots for cool ideas is not the same thing as writing.
JY is the current Treasurer of the Malaysian Writers Society

Project Manager: Swarna Rajagopal
Swarna Rajagopal was born and raised in Penang. She had hoped to be a public policy researcher when she forayed into the arts. She spent seven editions as the Festival Manager of the award-winning George Town Literary Festival, shaping conversations and curating literary experiences.

Today, she is an arts manager passionate about storytelling, cultural exchange, and the written word. She is now exploring new creative directions beyond festival management, to explore writing, research, and projects that connect literature, and culture. She reads and occasionally writes but her writings are mostly kept secret.

Anna Tan @annatsp.com · 31/03/2025

PWW25 is organised by @mywriters.bsky.social and supported by MABECS!

As Malaysia’s leading education agencies, MABECS Malaysia and MABECS Global counsel students through every step of their journey—from their initial search, applications, to successful placement—absolutely free of charge. Through our student-led and holistic counselling approach, we have helped over 50,000 Malaysian students successfully enrol into top institutions in countries such as the UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.

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