Our students aspire to be writers. When they enter SOTA, they take a step towards realising this dream. What does it mean to be a writer? Our students start with learning to put words to paper. They learn to articulate their emotions and views. They learn to write, to be read. Every story, poem and script written reflects a vulnerability, a truth of who they are as writers. Our students learn to trust their writing will touch their reader, and it is with this hope that Lallang is created as a platform for them to be read and heard. As we celebrate nurturing first voice to our students’ writings, we welcome you into this space as we acknowledge their works as writers, poets and dramatists. We hope you enjoy reading them.
Literary Arts Faculty, School of the Arts, Singapore
LALLANG’S WORKS:
One-Act play scripts from Year 1 students where they write monologues and dialogues to tell a story on a theatre stage.
Short stories where Year 2 students create myriad characters and worlds.
Short Film Screenplays where Year 3 students contemplate contemporary local issues.
Young Adult Novel opening chapters from Year 3 students where teenage protagonists tell their universal stories set in diverse worlds.
Fiction Podcast Scripts where Year 4 students layer storytelling with dialogue and sound design.
Personal Essays from Year 4 students who share stories from their lives.
Poetry where students speak their truths and experiment with form, sounds and language.
ABOUT LALLANG
Lallang is one of the most common native grasses in Singapore and Southeast Asia. It is a versatile, practical and hardy plant that spreads quickly, has many uses and endures in challenging conditions. To us, this name is a metaphor with a local flavour and emphasises the faculty’s aim for our students to use their culture and heritage in their writing, to craft meaningful local, Asian experiences and narratives.
The word “lallang” comprises LA (Literary Arts) and lang (language). We like the word play which links our artform to language, our foundation and toolbox.
ABOUT FACULTY OF LITERARY ARTS
SOTA’s Faculty of Literary Arts is a six-year Specialised Arts programme where students learn to critically appreciate a range of literary works from the point of view of a writer, and create their own original works. Our students explore literary forms such as prose, poetry and drama, and different writing forms which include short stories, novels, play scripts, comics, story podcast scriptwriting, screenplays and creative non-fiction.
FACULTY
| Faculty Head | Janet Liew |
| Teachers | Aswani Aswath Marcus Ong Adeline Yeo Crispin Rodrigues Mohamed Shaker |
| Lallang Editors | Adeline Yeo Mohamed Shaker |
2023 STUDENT EDITORS
Elizabeth Lee En
Leonny Margaret Ong
Quek Chie
Wong Jun Yi
Naomi Chio
Surabhi Deshpande
Renee Kong
Alessia Occhipinti
Pandora Pang
Laura Tan
Durva Gautam Kamdar
Victoria Khine
Julian Kan