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Seema Punwani

Seema Punwani

MA Creative Writing
2018 — 2020

Born in Spain and raised in Mumbai, Seema Punwani is a single mother, now living in Singapore. Her debut novel Cross Connection was launched at the Pune International Literary Festival in India in 2018. Her short fiction was anthologized in The Best Asian Short Stories 2019 (ed. Hisham Bustani) and again in The Best Asian Short Stories 2020 (ed. Zafar Anjum), her poetry has been a finalist at the Poetry Festival Singapore 2019 and Falling, a play of hers, will be staged at the Dastak Theatre Festival in Singapore in 2021. Seema has a Masters in Management Studies and a MA in Creative Writing from LASALLE College of the Arts.

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Thesis work

Colour is a collection of interlinked short stories of various marginalised communities in Singapore.

Published work and readings

Published work
Punwani, S. (2021). Stage play Falling at Dastak Theatre Festival, Singapore.
Punwani, S. (2020). Short story anthology- The Best Asian Short Stories 2020 (ed. Zafar Anjum).
Punwani, S. (2019). Short story anthology- The Best Asian Short Stories 2020 (ed. Hisham Bustani).
Punwani, S. (2019). Finalist, Poetry Festival Singapore.
Punwani, S. (2019). Published novel Cross Connection. 

Readings, conferences and events
2020, 27 September. CLS Conversations. Reading from her novel Cross Connection at Chandigarh Literary Society, India. 
2020, April. International Voices Writing about India. Panel discussion at The Book Bakers Online Literary Festival.
2020, 16 May. LaSaturday: Art School Stories. Reading from her novel Cross Connection for Singapore Book Council and LASALLE as part of #BuySinglit.
2019, July. Catharsis. Reading her poem, The Divorcee as finalist in Poetry Festival Singapore.
March 2019. Three Writers, Numerous Countries. Reading with Artist in Residence at LASALLE Dr. Angie Abdou and local author Grace Chia in Singapore.
March 2019. Reading from her novel Cross Connection at Arts House, Singapore. 
November 2018: Presented “Finding Home From the Outside In: 1 Reading by 5 Singapore Postgraduate Students from 12 Countries” at the Australasian Association of Writing Programs 23rd Annual Conference, Perth, Australia.
November 2018. Georgetown Literary Festival LASALLE Panel. Reading from her novel Cross Connection in Georgetown, Malaysia.
November 2018. SWF LASALLE Panel. Reading from her novel Cross Connection at Singapore Writer’s Festival. 
September 2018. Launch of her novel Cross Connection at Pune International Literary Festival, India. 
October 2018: Presented “Poeming the Paint, Painting the Poem: Ekphrastic Poetry” at Fourth Graduate Student Conference on Visual Culture, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 
February 2018. Spoken word poet. Poetry recitation at Spoke and Bird Open Mic.