Colin Goh

Colin Goh is an award-winning filmmaker, illustrator, writer, and multimedia producer. He is also an attorney with qualifications in New York, England and Singapore. He is the writer and illustrator behind DIM SUM WARRIORS, a Mandarin/English bilingual iPad app and graphic novel series about kung fu-fighting dumplings that Fast Company named one of the Top 10 Coolest Original Digital Comics and which won an Honorable Mention in Publishers Weekly’s Critics’ Poll of the Best Graphic Novels of 2012. In August 2017, he adapted Dim Sum Warriors into a stage musical that played to full houses in Shanghai’s prestigious Theatre Above.

Colin is also a screenwriter and movie director whose multiple award-winning feature film, SINGAPORE DREAMING, has been screened at numerous festivals worldwide. In Singapore, he is perhaps best known for founding the satirical website TalkingCock.com and authoring the bestselling Coxford Singlish Dictionary.

Ken Kwek

Ken Kwek is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and author with over twenty film, theatre and book credits to his name. His middle school books include “Timothy and the Phubbers” and “Kelly and the Krumps”, which won the 2020 Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award.

Eliza Teoh (Moderator)

Eliza Teoh, a former journalist and news editor, is the author of the national bestselling Ellie Belly series. She is also the founder of Bubbly Books, a children’s book publishing company dedicated to creating books that children love to read. She is passionate about inculcating a love for reading and writing in children and has been a facilitator for the GEP’s Creative Writing Programme over the last 10 years. She is also an animal rights advocate and aerial sports enthusiast.