The Challenges in the Singaporean Publishing and Literary Environment

While there has been an explosion of local writers and manuscripts emerging in the Singapore literary environment, there are not enough local publishers to support bringing all of the books to market. Marc Nair, poet and partner at The Creative Voice, believes that lack of funding is a root cause of this issue. There are publishing grants available from the Singaporean government, but there also are strings attached to these grants, limiting writers and publishers. Nair is seeing a trend of publishers...