Snippets of the Future (SWF2025)

What will Singapore’s future look like? Time travel, flying hawker centres, AI Kopitiam uncles – anything is possible! Write a short sci-fi story set in Singapore.

Your short story can be a two-sentence story, a dribble (exactly 50 words), a drabble (exactly 100 words) or microfiction (not more than 200 words) based on one of these themes:
• General
• Food
• Ageing Society
• Education
• Transport

Submit your works by 31 Aug 2025, 11.59pm!

Kindly review the information pack before submitting your entry.

𓂃✍︎ Why Participate?

  1. Selected entries will be featured at an installation at Singapore Writers Festival 2025

  2. The first 3 schools with a minimum of 50 submissions will receive:
    o 20 free SWF 2025 Youth Passes
    o A 20% discount on additional passes purchased*

  3. Suitable entries will be published on the SWF website

  4. Stand a chance to be part of SWF 2025, one of Asia’s premier literary events!

*Terms & Conditions apply

Submission Form

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