Literary News: Words Without Walls- An English Literacy Project By Edipresse Media Singapore

Through its Words Without Walls literacy project, Edipresse Media Singapore aims to help children from underprivileged families. In 2021, the project takes the form of a children’s storybook. The book compiles original stories written by women serving their sentences in prison into an illustrated book that will be sold to raise funds to support New Life Stories. New Life Stories is a non-profit organisation that aims to prevent intergenerational incarcenation. It helps families to break out of the poverty cycle through early childhood learning and parent engagement.

Corinne Ng, managing director of Edipresse Media Singapore, which publishes Singapore Tatler, says, “I liked the clarity of its objectives. Here was a small set-up with little public awareness, but its objectives were focused. It links each child to a volunteer who reads to them weekly, while encouraging the mothers in prison to improve their language skills through coaching them to write stories.” (Source)

Edipresse Media Singapore will give a 100 per cent from the sale of this book (priced at $75) to New Life Stories to continue providing educational support to preschool children of incarcerated women. E-mail desmond.lee@edipressemedia.com for more information.

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Namrata is a published author who enjoys writing stories and think pieces on travel, relationships, and gender. She is a UEA alumnus and has studied travel writing at the University of Sydney.

She is also an independent editor and a book reviewer. Her writings can be found on various sites and magazines like the Asian Review of Books, Contemporary South Asia Journal of King’s College-London, Mad in Asia, The Friday Times, Daily Star, The Scroll, Feminism in India, The Brown Orient Journal, Inkspire Journal, Moonlight Journal, The Same, Chronic Pain India and Cafe Dissensus.

Her short stories have been a part of various anthologies . She has also published two short story collections of her own along with two solo titles as well. She is currently working on her debut novel. She loves travelling the length and breadth of the world and enjoys capturing the magic of life in her words. She is always in pursuit of a new country and a new story.

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