A writerly voice is a gift. Once that is in place, writing has a ‘framework’. I have written so many proto drafts of my initial conceptualisations of my book since 2013 and discarded them. Despite the lived experiences and conversations, I simply did not have the wherewithal to write succinct sentences which captured the depth of the story.

Thankfully I write for numerous outlets edited by previous souls over the years especially since December 2019.

Cities are delicious repositories of stories, and the Gulf has plenty of them. I have a few and these are histories with a small ‘h’ of the migrant with a small ‘m’.

The everyday is visceral, isn’t it? A new language is needed to express the Gulf.

Singaporean Writer and Poet Dr Alvin Pang in conversation with Kenyan Literary Star Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor this Friday evening with global literature enthusiasts. The world of ideas has shrunk this pandemic.