Oct: 29, Nov 5 & 26 are conducted on zoom.
NAC-NICA Training Support and UTAP
National Silver Academy (NSA) subsidy
$600.00
Note: Course fee not inclusive of application fee and GST.
$354.00
(after National Silver Academy (NSA) subsidy)
Note: NSA fee is inclusive of GST.
Course details
Fans of children's literature—learn how to transpose your love of the imaginative world of little ones' books into actual writing. Children’s literature opens up and taps into a variety of key skills in creative writing, such as visual literacy, characterisation, storytelling, poetry and voice.
Note: Course trainers are, on occasion, subject to change with short notice.
About the trainer
Ng Swee San
Ng Swee San has scripted for critically-acclaimed local television shows such as Code of Law, The Pupil, Titoudao (2020) and Tanglin. She has also written for popular children’s shows such as Leo the Wildlife Ranger (2022), Ollie (2021) and Totally Toto (2018).
For more than eight years as President of Screenwriters Association, she forged alliances with statutory boards and professional associations. Her expertise as a media professional was recognised with a SkillsFuture Fellowship.
Apart from teaching scriptwriting at the Puttnam School of Film & Animation at LASALLE College of the Arts for 10 years, Swee San designs the course material and facilitates the dramatic writing course for the MA Creative Writing programme at LASALLE. She also served as a consultant to the LASALLE-IMDA WritersLab programme in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
Application information
Notepad and writing materials.
Art enthusiasts, art and language students, teachers and/or anyone keen on screenwriting.
For clarity on the application process, payment matters, available subsidies, certification, and our cancellation and refund policy, please refer to our FAQs page.
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