Lion Boy and Drummer Girl

by Pauline Loh

  Thanks also to my talented critique partners Emily Lim and Catherine Carvell, and my Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) Retreat 2015 group.

  About the author

  Pauline Loh is an award-winning writer with 30 years of writing experience. She has published 12 adult non-fiction books, three youth books and seven children’s storybooks.

  She is a winner of the First Time Writers and Illustrators Publishing Initiative 2009 and first runner-up for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2012. Her books have been shortlisted for the Samsung KidsTime Author’s Award 2015 and the Singapore Book Awards 2016.

  She is also director of a non-profit organisation called Women Empowered for Work and Mothering (WEWAM), and a Singapore Memory Project (SMP) volunteer. She mentors book authors; conducts assembly talks and author visits in schools and is a Ministry of Education registered trainer.

  She graduated from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School, Raffles Junior College and the National University of Singapore, and has formerly worked in journalism, magazines and corporate communications. She is currently a full-time author and book editor. Pauline is happily married with three children.

  The annual Epigram Books Fiction Prize promotes contemporary creative writing and rewards excellence in Singaporean literature. The richest literary prize in Singapore is awarded to the Singaporean, permanent resident or Singapore-born author of the best manuscript of a full-length, original and unpublished novel written in the English language.

  For more information, please visit ebfp.epigrambooks.sg