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Poet | Author | Performer | Mentor
You may be an aspiring writer, speaker, actor or artist. My aim is not to ‘teach’ but to help you recognize your original voice and to share it with the world.
Who is Chris Mooney Singh?
My name is Chris Mooney-Singh. I am Australian-born but have lived in Asia on and off since 1989. For the past twenty years I have been a full-time arts facilitator leading a team of mentors in over 100 schools in Singapore. More recently, I have been a creative writing lecturer in Singapore's only post-graduate creative writing programme. Three of my past mentees were awarded the National Young Artist of the Year Award and some of my students have won international writing prizes. I hold a doctorate in Creative Writing from Monash University (Australia). In 2015 my verse novel was commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (unpublished fiction category).
More About Me
A writer of poetry, fiction, plays, director of spoken word events and ensembles, I have also written librettos for opera produced in Australia. In addition, I have been a guest at literary festivals in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, South Korea and the Philippines.
Fun facts about me
- I adopted Sikhism in 1989, one of the few Australians to do so.
- I have a deep interest in musical instrument revival and am the first person to play the Indian rabab in the Golden Temple (Punjab) in over a hundred years.
- Along with my wife I co-founded poetry slam in Singapore and Malaysia in 2003. It's still going strong.
- I have worked as a freelance writer and presenter for ABC Radio National.
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Books
The Bearded Chameleon
India poems: an insider’s look from the villages and cities with a human focus on life, history and philosophy.
The Laughing Buddha Cab Company
Poems describing taxi and train journeys in Australia, Singapore and India.
House of Winter
Chris Mooney-Singh’s first book of exploring the ‘sonnet of the East’ in English.
The Infinity Track
As a parrot flies from its branch and back again, Chris Mooney-Singh pivots between the country of his birth, Singapore and India.