Here's a roundup of all Ethos Books and Pagesetters Services authors featured in this year's SWF.
See you there! 

Fri, 13 Nov 2026

Embodying Multiple Worlds: Poetry and Belonging
8:30pm - 9:30pm
Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Shivram Gopinath, Momtaza Mehri, Melizarani T. Selva 
Moderated by Mok Zining 

Sat, 14 Nov 2026

Beneath the Canopy: A Literary Trail through Singapore Botanic Gardens with Esther Vincent
9am - 11am
Singapore Botanic Gardens
Featuring Esther Vincent

Authenticity or Erazure: Translating with Nazry Bahrawi
10:30am - 12pm
Blue Room, The Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Nazry Bahrawi

Talking to Twilight
3pm - 4:30pm
Recital Studio, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
Featuring Chan Wai Han, City Book Room, Tung Ka Wai, Bennett Bay, Liu Su, Amanda Ruiqing Flynn

Writing as Witness: The Third Ear and the Stories We Carry
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Discovery Room, Asian Civilisations Museum
Fearing Tricia Tan Hui Ling, Desmond Francis Xavier Kon Zhicheng-Mingde, Janelle Chan, Ong Eng Koon

Writing Crime from Different Angles
8:45pm - 9:45pm
Chamber, The Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring O Thiam Chin, Ram V, Jared Poon, Ning Cai

Sun, 15 Nov 2026

Cinema Paradiso Literary Walk
10am - 12pm
Exit C, Bugis MRT Station
Featuring Yeo Min Hui, Wong Han Min

Crossing the Line: Between Confession and Observation
11am - 12pm
River Room, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Myle Yan Tay, Lynette Teo, Cleo Cheng, Jonathan Chan

Cover Up!: Where the Story Begins Before the First Page
11:30am - 12:30pm
Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Asher Yeo (Tororo.aoi), Vera Brosgol, Vanessa Wong, Benjamin Chee

Now Showing: the Parallel Lives of Singapore Cinema and Literature
1pm - 2:30pm
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, National Gallery Singapore
Featuring Theophilus Kwek, Yeow Kai Chai, Ten Su Ching, Izzy Osman, Natalie Khoo 

Numb Is In: Crime Fiction’s Stoic Heroines
1pm - 2pm
River Room, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Grace Chia, Faridah Abike-Iyimide, Nidhi Upadhyay, Tracey Morton

Don’t Leave Me Hanging!
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Neil Humphreys, Ram V, Shamini Flint, Wayne Ree

Writing the Lives at Home
7:30pm - 9pm
Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Teo You Yenn, Liang Hong, Clarissa Oon

Love Against All Odds
8pm - 9pm
Victoria Theatre
Featuring Anittha Thanabalan, June Hur, Uzma Jalaluddin, Lauren Ho

Tue, 17 Nov 2026

The Private Library: From Renaissance Studies to AI Bookshelves
7:30pm - 8:30pm
The Pod, Central Library
Featuring Clarissa Oon, Andrew Hui, Phan Ming Yen, Gene Tan

Wed, 18 Nov 2026

Where Languages Mix and Mingle
8pm - 9:30pm
Play Den, The Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Gwee Li Sui, Aswani Aswath, Zulfadli Rashid, Daryl Lim Wei Jie

Fri, 20 Nov 2026

Something Borrowed, Something New: How Music Shapes Verse
7pm - 8pm
Chamber, The Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Cyril Wong, Qamar Firdaus Saini, Jennifer Champion, Aaron Lee

Mics and Manuscripts: How Stories Shift between Sound and Print
8pm - 9:30pm
Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Myle Yan Tay, Jasmine Ng, Kelly Leow, Lio Mangubat, Scott Lee Chua 

Sat, 21 Nov 2026

The Last Mansion Standing: Uncovering the House of Tan Yeok Nee
Session 1: 10am - 12pm, Session 2: 1pm - 3pm
House of Tan Yeok Nee
Featuring Yeo Kang Shua

Inner Landscapes: Mental Health in Singapore’s Literature
11am - 12pm
River Room, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Danielle Lim, Mak, Malcolm Seah, Graham Matthews

What If?: Reimagining a More Just World
11:30am - 12:30pm
Victoria Theatre
Featuring Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Ruha Benjamin, Mysara Aljaru, Pamela Ho

What My Mother Knew: Family Memory, Silence and the Poetic Archive
1pm - 2pm
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, National Gallery Singapore
Featuring Heng Siok Tian, Sarah Howe, Yashmita D/O Ananthan, Eneida P. Alcalde

Shuffle & Draw: the Mystery Writing Game
1:30pm  - 3:30pm
Discovery room, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Neil Humphreys

Based on Real life: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Biography
4pm - 6pm
Music studio, Victoria theatre and Victoria Concert Hall
Featuring Felix Cheong 

What Did I Really Say?
4:30pm - 6pm
Play Den, the Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Hai Fan, Isa Kamari, Jayanthi Sankar, Ann Ang 

Feeding the Soul: Food, Family and the Writing Life
5pm - 6:30pm
Chamber, the Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Josephine Chia, Janet Tay, Candice Chung, Anitha Devi Pillai, Sofia Mariah Ma

At Home Elsewhere: Writing Migration, Travel and Belonging
7pm - 8:30pm
River Room, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Tessa Hulls, Sayanthan, Richard Angus Whitehead

Sun, 22 Nov 2026

The City I See: Walking with Migrant and Local Writers
10am - 11:30am
Entrance, The Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Myle Yan Tay, Stephanie Dogfoot, Julie Ann Tabigne, Tasrif

Against Derangement: Reading and Writing in the Climate Crisis
1pm - 2:30pm
Play Den, the Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Diana Rahim, Pam Ng, Omar Musa, Jonathan Chan, Jonathan Chan, Leonard Yip, Choo Yi Feng, Theophilus Kwek 

Every Book is Born Twice: Writer and Reader in the Making of Meaning
1pm - 2pm
Chamber, the Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Balli Kaur Jaswal, Morris Gleitzman, Andrea Valentine Tan

Book Launches - Seeing the Unseen: Discovering the Poetry in Modern Art by Anne Lee Tzu Pheng and White Transcendence by Lin Gao (Pagesetters Services)
1:30pm - 3pm
River Room, Asian Civilisation Museum
Featuring Anne Lee Tzu Pheng, Lin Gao, Sun Pingyu, Ng Kah Gay

Visible Yet Unwritten: Marginality in Singapore Chinese Literature
3pm - 4:30pm
Chamber, the Arts House at the Old Parliament
Featuring Hai Fan, Lin Yijun, Sui Ting, Tan Yu Xin

The Wandering Library: From Journaling Game to Story
4:30pm - 6pm
Discovery room, Asian Civilisations Museum
Featuring Dave Chua 

Festival Closing Debate: This House Believes that the Better Strategy is Hide but Not Seek
6:30pm - 8pm
Victoria Theatre
Featuring Shivram Gopinath, Tysha Khan, Daryl Qilin Yam, Cheng Him, Stephanie Dogfoot, Krish Natarajan, nor, Arianna Pozzuoli, Joses Ho