Central Public Library – Programme Room 2
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Free Admission
About the Programme
Join us for an atmospheric evening as Jason Erik Lundberg brings his novel A Fickle & Restless Weapon to life through a dramatised reading set to the music of rock band Nine Inch Nails!
In the proceeding conversation with fellow fantasy writer Meihan Boey, Jason will reveal unexpected elements that shape his storytelling – from casting actors for a TV series spin-off to drawing inspiration from the intricate worlds of 16th-century painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
About the speakers:
Jason Erik Lundberg (speaker) was born in New York, grew up in North Carolina, and has lived in Singapore since 2007. He is the award-winning author and anthologist of twenty-nine books, including A Fickle and Restless Weapon, Fish Eats Lion Redux, Most Excellent and Lamentable, Diary of One Who Disappeared, the Bo Bo and Cha Cha picture book series, and the biennial Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series.
He served as Fiction Editor at Epigram Books for nearly twelve years (where the books he edited won multiple awards, and made various year’s best lists), and Founding Editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. His writing has been anthologised widely, honourably mentioned twice in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and translated into half a dozen languages. He currently lectures at Nanyang Technological University in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing programme.
Meihan Boey (moderator) is the author of the Miss Cassidy series, including The Formidable Miss Cassidy (Epigram Books Fiction Prize co-winner 2021, Singapore Book Awards Best Literary Work 2022), The Enigmatic Madam Ingram (shortlisted for EBFP and SBA Best Literary Work in 2023, longlisted Dublin Literary Award 2025), and The Mystical Mister Kay (winner of EBFP 2025).
The Formidable Miss Cassidy was published in the UK by Pushkin Press ONE, and will be followed by The Enigmatic Madam Ingram in early 2026. The Formidable Miss Cassidy has also been released in Italian by Bompiani, and will be published by HarperCollins US in September 2025.
Meihan's short stories have appeared in various anthologies such as Fish Eats Lion Redux and Best New Singapore Short Stories V6. (All the above were edited by Jason Erik Lundberg.)