Literature and Publishing

<h1>Literature and Publishing</h1> <p>Singapore literature is the body of literary work by Singapore citizens and residents, written chiefly in the country's four official languages — English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil — under the <a href="/en/knowledge/article/sgkb.demographics-society.languages-and-bilingual-policy">bilingual language framework</a>. Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, graphic novels, plays, children's books, and literary translation all sit within a small but institutionally dense ecosystem: the National Arts Council (NAC) funds creation and capability building; the Singapore Book Council (SBC) runs major prizes and festivals; charities such as Sing Lit Station programme writers and readers; independent publishers bring books to market; and the National Library Board (NLB) preserves bibliographic and archival records across languages. Dated grant, prize, and bibliography anchors are collected in <a href="/en/knowledge/dataset/sgkb.data.literature-and-publishing-anchors">literature and publishing anchors</a>. The market is modest in population terms, but the institutional layer — grants, prizes, school outreach, and festival programming — is unusually developed for a city-state.</p> <h2>Singapore literature in four official languages</h2> <p>Singapore literature is not a single canon expressed in four translations. It is often described as four parallel literary traditions — English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil — each with its own newspapers, literary societies, publishers, prizes, and readerships, while sharing national themes of migration, housing, multiracial identity, and post-independence nation-building. The NAC states that literature across the four official languages promotes understanding of Singapore's diverse heritage and cultures (<a href="https://www.nac.gov.sg/singapore-arts-scene/art-forms/literary-arts">NAC Literary Arts, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <p>English-language writing has the widest international reach and the largest share of contemporary publishing and festival programming. Pioneering figures in the post-independence period include Edwin Thumboo and Catherine Lim; later generations span poets such as Cyril Wong and Yong Shu Hoong, novelists such as Amanda Lee Koe and Prasanthi Ram, and graphic artists such as Sonny Liew, whose <em>The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye</em> won international comics awards. Chinese-language literature (<em>Huawen wenxue</em>) has deep roots in Nanyang literary culture and remains vigorous through writers such as You Jin, Chia Joo Ming, and Wong Koi Tet. Malay literature (<em>sastera Melayu</em>) includes major authors such as Mohamed Latiff Mohamed, Suratman Markasan, and Isa Kamari. Tamil literature (<em>Singapore Tamil ilakkiyam</em>) is sustained by poets, novelists, and essayists including K. T. M. Iqbal, Kanagalatha K, and Azhagunila, with NLB maintaining dedicated Tamil bibliographies and research guides (<a href="https://reference.nlb.gov.sg/guides/arts/lit-arts/biblio-sg-tamil/novel/">NLB Tamil novels bibliography, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <p>Cross-linguistic exchange exists — translation programmes, multilingual festivals, and anthologies — but practitioners and institutions often treat the four streams as distinct communities with separate gatekeepers and prize categories. A reader asking for &quot;Singapore literature&quot; may need the language specified: the Singapore Literature Prize, for example, awards fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction separately in Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/images/awards/slp/2024/SLP2024_FAQ_English.pdf">SBC SLP FAQ 2024, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <h2>Public institutions and state support</h2> <p>The <strong>National Arts Council</strong> is a <a href="/en/knowledge/article/sgkb.government-politics.statutory-boards">statutory board</a> under the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) that champions the arts, including literary arts, through grants, partnerships, and sector facilitation (<a href="https://www.mccy.gov.sg/about-us/our-statutory-boards-and-committees-councils/">MCCY statutory boards, accessed Aug 2026</a>). Wider arts-plan and housing architecture sits in <a href="/en/knowledge/article/sgkb.arts-culture-media.arts-policy">arts policy</a>; this section covers literary-specific support. For writers, the NAC's <strong>Creation Grant</strong> supports fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, young-adult literature, graphic novels, and translation for up to 18 months, capped at <strong>S$50,000</strong> per applicant. Applicants must be Singapore citizens or permanent residents, with priority for those who reside in Singapore and contribute actively to the arts scene; editorial consultancy is strongly recommended for literary projects (<a href="https://www.nac.gov.sg/support/funding-and-schemes/creation-grant/overview">NAC Creation Grant, accessed Aug 2026</a>). Creation Grant guideline revisions announced on 14 February 2026 took effect from <strong>15 February 2026</strong>, including clarified sample-of-work submission requirements (<a href="https://www.nac.gov.sg/support/funding-and-schemes/creation-grant/overview">NAC Creation Grant, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <p>Book production funding is a separate track. The <strong>Presentation and Participation (P&amp;P) Grant</strong> lists <strong>Publishing</strong> among supported project types alongside music recording, exhibition/performance, and festivals/conferences; from <strong>16 April 2026</strong> the General track quantum cap is <strong>S$100,000</strong> per applicant per financial year after absorbing former Production and Extended Play tracks (<a href="https://www.nac.gov.sg/support/funding-and-schemes/presentation-and-participation-grant/overview">NAC P&amp;P Grant, accessed Aug 2026</a>). NAC also commissions programmes such as <strong>Beyond Words</strong> (children's literature in Chinese, Malay, and Tamil) and the <strong>Asia Creative Writing Programme</strong>, and runs school-facing outreach including <strong>Words Go Round</strong> alongside Ministry of Education curriculum engagement (<a href="https://www.nac.gov.sg/singapore-arts-scene/art-forms/literary-arts">NAC Literary Arts, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <p>The <strong>Singapore Book Council</strong> is the sector's main programming and awards body, though it is not itself a statutory board. NAC identifies the SBC, <strong>The Arts House</strong>, and <strong>Sing Lit Station</strong> as key literary organisations it supports (<a href="https://www.nac.gov.sg/singapore-arts-scene/art-forms/literary-arts">NAC Literary Arts, accessed Aug 2026</a>). The SBC's <strong>Writers Lab</strong> runs mentorships, residencies, and workshops with particular emphasis on Chinese, Malay, and Tamil writers (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/writers-lab">SBC Writers Lab, accessed Aug 2026</a>). <strong>Sing Lit Station</strong>, a registered charity and Institution of Public Character co-founded in 2016, operates as a writers' centre at 22 Dickson Road with programmes including <strong>Book A Writer</strong> (school workshops), <strong>SingPoWriMo</strong> (a community poetry-writing challenge), an annual <strong>Manuscript Bootcamp</strong>, the online archive <strong>poetry.sg</strong>, and a publishing imprint <strong>AFTERIMAGE</strong>; it received NAC Major Company Scheme support for April 2022–March 2025 (<a href="https://www.singlitstation.com/about">Sing Lit Station, accessed Aug 2026</a>). NAC also partners the <strong>National Library Board</strong> on reader-facing programmes that complement grants and festivals (<a href="https://www.nac.gov.sg/singapore-arts-scene/art-forms/literary-arts">NAC Literary Arts, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <h2>National Library bibliographic infrastructure</h2> <p>The <strong>National Library Board</strong> is the public research backbone for Singapore literature. The National Library has compiled Singapore Literature bibliographies covering works in English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, updated from earlier print editions onto NLB Resource Guides so readers can browse novels, poetry, short stories, drama, anthologies, criticism, and periodicals by language stream (<a href="https://reference.nlb.gov.sg/guides/arts/lit-arts/biblio-sg-english/misc/">NLB English bibliographies, accessed Aug 2026</a>; <a href="https://reference.nlb.gov.sg/guides/arts/lit-arts/biblio-sg-chinese/novels/">NLB Chinese novels bibliography, accessed Aug 2026</a>). English guides commonly frame coverage as <strong>1950–2015</strong>, while Chinese, Malay, and Tamil baseline overviews emphasise <strong>1965–2015</strong>; the Tamil bibliography has an explicit further update for titles published <strong>2015–2021</strong> (<a href="https://reference.nlb.gov.sg/guides/arts/lit-arts/biblio-sg-english/misc/">NLB English bibliographies, accessed Aug 2026</a>; <a href="https://reference.nlb.gov.sg/guides/arts/lit-arts/biblio-sg-tamil/novel/">NLB Tamil novels bibliography, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <p>These guides are not a live catalogue of every Singapore-authored title through the access year. They are curated bibliographic windows with stated end dates, intended for scholars and readers locating holdings rather than as a complete current national bibliography. Physical materials for the featured guides are concentrated at the <strong>Lee Kong Chian Reference Library</strong>, searchable through the NLB catalogue with branch limits, and NLB eResources are free for registered members (<a href="https://reference.nlb.gov.sg/guides/arts/lit-arts/biblio-sg-english/misc/">NLB English bibliographies, accessed Aug 2026</a>). For dated coverage rows by language, see <a href="/en/knowledge/dataset/sgkb.data.literature-and-publishing-anchors">literature and publishing anchors</a>.</p> <h2>Prizes, festivals, and writer development</h2> <p>Singapore's literary prize landscape separates <strong>unpublished</strong> and <strong>published</strong> work. The <strong>Golden Point Award</strong>, established by the NAC in 1993, is the premier competition for unpublished short stories and poetry in English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, plus an English short-story translation category; it is open to Singapore citizens and permanent residents who have not yet published a solo work in the genre entered, with no age limit (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/awards/golden-point-award">SBC Golden Point Award, accessed Aug 2026</a>). The 2025 edition was organised by Arts House Limited in partnership with the SBC and supported by the NAC, with results announced in December 2025.</p> <p>The <strong>Singapore Literature Prize (SLP)</strong>, established in 1992 and organised by the SBC, is the country's top prize for <strong>published</strong> work. As of the 2024 edition it covered 18 categories: fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in each of the four official languages, plus best-debut, comics/graphic novel, and translation categories, each carrying a top prize of S$3,000 (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/images/awards/slp/2024/SLP2024_FAQ_English.pdf">SBC SLP FAQ 2024, accessed Aug 2026</a>). The 2024 ceremony on 10 September 2024 named 17 winners; English fiction went to Prasanthi Ram's <em>Nine Yard Sarees</em>, English poetry to Yong Shu Hoong's <em>Anatomy of a Wave</em>, and English creative nonfiction to Shubigi Rao's <em>Pulp III</em> (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/slp/page/about.html">SBC SLP about, accessed Aug 2026</a>). Children's and young-adult books are judged separately under the biennial <strong>Hedwig Anuar Children's Book Award (HABA)</strong>, named for the first Singaporean Director of the National Library (1960–1988), with picture-book and middle-grade categories and S$3,000 prizes (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/awards/other-children-s-book-awards/hedwig-anuar-children-s-book-award-haba">SBC HABA, accessed Aug 2026</a>). The SBC also administers regional honours including the <strong>S.E.A. Write Award</strong> and the Malay-language <strong>Anugerah Persuratan</strong> (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/awards">SBC awards, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <p>The <strong>Singapore Writers Festival (SWF)</strong> is the flagship public literary event. SWF 2025 ran from 8 to 17 November with more than 200 programmes across English, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, presenting international authors alongside Singapore and Southeast Asian writers (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/programmes/sg-writers-festival-swf-sbc-2025">SBC SWF 2025, accessed Aug 2026</a>). The SBC also curates the <strong>Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC)</strong> and the <strong>Singapore Translation Symposium</strong>. Private prizes complement the state-supported system: Epigram Books' <strong>Epigram Books Fiction Prize</strong> offers S$25,000 and a publishing contract for an unpublished English-language novel, expanded since 2020 to include Southeast Asian entrants (<a href="https://www.epigram.sg/">Epigram Books, accessed Aug 2026</a>).</p> <h2>Publishing and the books market</h2> <p>Singapore's trade publishing sector is small, independent, and commercially fragile. <strong>Epigram Books</strong>, the literary imprint of design firm Epigram founded in 1999 and incorporated separately in 2011, has published more than 350 fiction and nonfiction titles and distributes Southeast Asian literature internationally (<a href="https://www.epigram.sg/">Epigram Books, accessed Aug 2026</a>). <strong>Ethos Books</strong>, an imprint of Pagesetters Services established in 1997, focuses on literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by emerging Singapore and regional writers (<a href="https://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/pages/about">Ethos Books, accessed Aug 2026</a>). <strong>Math Paper Press</strong>, associated with the bookstore BooksActually, and other independents such as <strong>Monsoon Books</strong> and <strong>Bubbly Books</strong> fill genre niches from literary fiction to young-adult and detective fiction. Many literary publishers cross-subsidise titles through design, typesetting, or retail operations because fiction and poetry alone rarely cover costs in a market of roughly four million residents.</p> <p>Distribution channels include bookshops (including <strong>BooksActually</strong>, <strong>Kinokuniya</strong>, and <strong>Popular</strong>), publisher websites, and <strong>LocalBooks.sg</strong>, the SBC's online bookstore dedicated to Singapore-authored and Singapore-published titles across all four languages (<a href="https://www.bookcouncil.sg/slp/page/about.html">SBC SLP about, accessed Aug 2026</a>). Imported books and local publications are regulated separately from films or broadcasts: print and audio materials fall under the Undesirable Publications Act, permit conditions, and IMDA publication guidelines, including a Restricted Publications Scheme for stronger material (<a href="https://iris.imda.gov.sg/guide/publications-and-audio-materials-guide">IMDA publications guide, accessed Aug 2026</a>; see <a href="/en/knowledge/article/sgkb.arts-culture-media.censorship-and-imda">censorship and imda</a>). Literary readings and staged adaptations may additionally require arts entertainment licensing. The NAC and publishers also support <strong>Buy SingLit</strong>, a campaign to promote local books. Vernacular newspapers under <a href="/en/knowledge/article/sgkb.arts-culture-media.media-landscape">SPH Media</a> and <a href="/en/knowledge/article/sgkb.arts-culture-media.media-landscape">Mediacorp</a> provide parallel literary columns and serial fiction in Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, linking the book trade to the wider news ecosystem.</p>

简介

文学与出版

新加坡文学是新加坡公民和居民创作的文学作品总称，主要使用该国四种官方语言——英语、华语、马来语和泰米尔语——并遵循双语政策框架。小说、诗歌、创意非虚构作品、图像小说、戏剧、儿童读物和文学翻译，都属于一个规模不大但机构密集的生态体系：国家艺术理事会（NAC）资助创作和能力建设；新加坡图书理事会（SBC）举办重要奖项和节庆；Sing Lit Station 等慈善机构为作家和读者策划活动；独立出版商将书籍推向市场；国家图书馆管理局（NLB）则保存各种语言的书目和档案记录。带有日期的资助、奖项和书目节点汇集于文学与出版节点。从人口规模来看，市场不大，但其机构层面——资助、奖项、学校推广和节庆活动——对于一个城市国家而言发展得格外完善。

四种官方语言的新加坡文学

新加坡文学并非一个以四种译本呈现的单一经典。它常被描述为四种并行的文学传统——英语、华语、马来语和泰米尔语——各自拥有报纸、文学社团、出版商、奖项和读者群，同时也共同书写迁移、住房、多族群身份和独立后国家建设等主题。NAC指出，四种官方语言的文学有助于促进人们对新加坡多元遗产和文化的了解（NAC文学艺术，查阅于八月 2026）。

英语写作的国际影响力最广，在当代出版和节庆活动中所占份额也最大。独立后时期的先驱包括埃德温·桑布和林秋雅；后来的作家包括诗人黄惠忠和杨树煌、小说家许安琪和普拉桑蒂·拉姆，以及图像艺术家刘敬业。他的《查理·陈·豪奇案》曾获得国际漫画奖项。华语文学（Huawen wenxue）根植于南洋文学文化，至今仍蓬勃发展，代表作家包括游锦、谢裕民和黄桂德。马来文学（sastera Melayu）拥有穆罕默德·拉蒂夫·穆罕默德、苏拉特曼·马卡桑和伊萨·卡马里等重要作家。泰米尔文学（Singapore Tamil ilakkiyam）由诗人、小说家和散文家持续创作，其中包括 K. T. M. Iqbal、Kanagalatha K 和 Azhagunila；NLB还维护专门的泰米尔语书目和研究指南（NLB泰米尔小说书目，查阅于八月 2026）。

不同语言之间存在交流，例如翻译计划、多语节庆和选集，但从业者和机构往往将四种文学视为不同社群，各自拥有独立的评审人和奖项类别。读者若要寻找“新加坡文学”，可能需要说明语言：例如，新加坡文学奖分别以华语、英语、马来语和泰米尔语颁发小说、诗歌和创意非虚构作品奖（SBC新加坡文学奖常见问题 2024，查阅于八月 2026）。

公共机构与政府支持

国家艺术理事会是隶属文化、社区及青年部（MCCY）的法定机构，通过资助、合作和行业支持推动包括文学艺术在内的艺术发展（MCCY法定机构，查阅于八月 2026）。更广泛的艺术计划和住房架构见艺术政策；本节聚焦文学专项支持。NAC（2026 年）的创作资助支持小说、诗歌、创意非虚构作品、青少年文学、图像小说和翻译，资助期最长为 18 个月，每位申请者上限为 S$50,000。申请者须为新加坡公民或永久居民，并优先考虑居住在新加坡且积极参与艺术活动者；文学项目强烈建议接受编辑咨询（NAC创作资助，查阅于八月 2026）。2026 年二月 14 日公布的创作资助指南修订自 2026 年二月 15 日起生效，其中包括明确作品样本的提交要求（NAC创作资助，查阅于八月 2026）。

书籍制作资助属于另一条资助渠道。展示与参与（P&P）资助将出版列为受支持的项目类型之一，其他类型包括音乐录制、展览／演出和节庆／会议；自 2026 年四月 16 日起，综合原有制作和加长播放资助类别后，一般类别每位申请者每个财政年度的资助上限为 S$100,000（NAC P&P资助，查阅于八月 2026）。NAC还委托策划文字之外（华语、马来语和泰米尔语儿童文学）和亚洲创意写作计划等项目，并与教育部课程合作开展面向学校的推广活动，包括文字巡游（Words Go Round）（NAC文学艺术，查阅于八月 2026）。

新加坡图书理事会是该行业主要的项目策划和奖项机构，但本身并非法定机构。NAC将SBC、艺术之家和Sing Lit Station列为其支持的重要文学组织（NAC文学艺术，查阅于八月 2026）。SBC的作家实验室为作家提供导师指导、驻留和工作坊，尤其关注华语、马来语和泰米尔语作家（SBC作家实验室，查阅于八月 2026）。Sing Lit Station是一家于 2016 年共同创立的注册慈善机构和公益机构，在迪克森路 22 号设有作家中心，开展的项目包括学校工作坊邀作家进校园（Book A Writer）、社区诗歌创作挑战SingPoWriMo、年度手稿训练营、线上档案库poetry.sg以及出版品牌AFTERIMAGE；该机构获得NAC大型公司计划支持，资助期为 2022 年四月至 2025 年三月（Sing Lit Station，查阅于八月 2026）。NAC还与国家图书馆管理局合作推出面向读者的项目，为资助和节庆活动提供补充（NAC文学艺术，查阅于八月 2026）。

国家图书馆书目基础设施

国家图书馆管理局是新加坡文学的公共研究基础。国家图书馆编制了涵盖英语、华语、马来语和泰米尔语作品的新加坡文学书目，并将早期纸本版本更新至NLB资源指南，方便读者按不同语言类别查阅小说、诗歌、短篇小说、戏剧、选集、评论和期刊（NLB英语书目，查阅于八月 2026；NLB华语小说书目，查阅于八月 2026）。英语指南通常将收录范围列为 1950–2015，而华语、马来语和泰米尔语的基础概览强调 1965–2015；泰米尔语书目还明确补充更新了 2015–2021年出版的书名（NLB英语书目，查阅于八月 2026；NLB泰米尔小说书目，查阅于八月 2026）。

这些指南并非截至查阅年份、涵盖每一部新加坡作者作品的实时目录，而是标明截止日期的精选书目窗口，供学者和读者查找馆藏，并非完整的最新国家书目。指南所列实物资料主要集中在李光前参考图书馆，可通过NLB目录查询并按分馆范围筛选；注册会员可免费使用NLB电子资源（NLB英语书目，查阅于八月 2026）。按语言分类的带日期收录范围行，请参阅文学与出版节点。

奖项、节庆与作家培养

新加坡文学奖项分为未出版和已出版作品两类。金点奖由NAC于 1993 年创立，是面向未出版短篇小说和诗歌的顶级竞赛，涵盖英语、华语、马来语和泰米尔语，另设英语短篇小说翻译类别；参赛者须为尚未出版所参加类别个人作品的新加坡公民或永久居民，且无年龄限制（SBC金点奖，查阅于八月 2026）。2025 届由艺术之家有限公司与SBC合作主办，并获NAC支持，结果于 2025 年十二月公布。

新加坡文学奖（SLP）创立于 1992 年，由SBC主办，是该国已出版作品的最高奖项。截至 2024 届，该奖涵盖 18 个类别：四种官方语言各设小说、诗歌和创意非虚构作品奖，另设最佳新人、漫画／图像小说和翻译类别，每个类别的最高奖金均为 S$3,000（SBC新加坡文学奖常见问题 2024，查阅于八月 2026）。2024 年九月 10 日举行的颁奖典礼（2024 年）公布了 17 位获奖者；英语小说奖授予普拉桑蒂·拉姆的《九重纱丽》，英语诗歌奖授予杨树煌的《波浪解剖》，英语创意非虚构作品奖授予舒比吉·拉奥的《纸浆 III》（SBC新加坡文学奖介绍，查阅于八月 2026）。儿童和青少年读物另由两年一度的赫德威·安努阿儿童图书奖（HABA）评审；该奖以首位新加坡籍国家图书馆馆长命名（1960–1988），设绘本和中年级类别，奖金为 S$3,000（SBC HABA，查阅于八月 2026）。SBC还负责颁发区域性荣誉，包括东南亚文学奖和马来语的文学奖（SBC奖项，查阅于八月 2026）。

新加坡作家节（SWF）是旗舰级公共文学活动。2025 年新加坡作家节于十一月 8 日至 17 日举行，推出 200 多场英语、华语、马来语和泰米尔语活动，邀请国际作家与新加坡及东南亚作家同台（SBC新加坡作家节 2025）。SBC还策划亚洲儿童内容节（AFCC）和新加坡翻译研讨会。私人奖项为政府支持的体系提供补充：Epigram Books的Epigram Books小说奖为未出版的英语小说提供 S$25,000 奖金和出版合约；自 2020 年起，参赛范围扩大至东南亚参赛者（Epigram Books，查阅于八月 2026）。

出版业与图书市场

新加坡的商业出版业规模小，以独立出版为主，商业状况脆弱。Epigram Books是设计公司Epigram的文学品牌，创立于 1999 年，并于 2011 年独立注册；该品牌已出版 350 多部小说和非虚构作品，并在国际上发行东南亚文学（Epigram Books，查阅于八月 2026）。Ethos Books是Pagesetters Services旗下品牌，创立于 1997 年，专注于新加坡及区域新兴作家的文学小说、非虚构作品和诗歌（Ethos Books，查阅于八月 2026）。与BooksActually书店相关的Math Paper Press，以及Monsoon Books和Bubbly Books等其他独立出版商，填补了从文学小说到青少年和侦探小说等类型领域。许多文学出版商通过设计、排版或零售业务交叉补贴图书，因为在约四百万居民的市场中，单靠小说和诗歌很少能收回成本。

发行渠道包括书店（如BooksActually、Kinokuniya和Popular）、出版商网站，以及SBC经营的线上书店LocalBooks.sg，专门销售以四种语言创作或出版的新加坡书籍（SBC新加坡文学奖介绍，查阅于八月 2026）。进口书籍和本地出版物的监管方式有别于电影或广播：印刷品和音像资料受《不良出版物法》、许可证条件和IMDA出版物指南管辖，其中包括针对较强烈内容的限制出版物计划（IMDA出版物指南，查阅于八月 2026；另见审查制度与IMDA）。文学朗读和舞台改编活动还可能需要艺术娱乐许可证。NAC和出版商也支持推广本地图书的活动Buy SingLit。隶属SPH Media和Mediacorp的方言报纸则以华语、马来语和泰米尔语刊载文学专栏和连载小说，将图书贸易与更广泛的新闻生态联系起来。