One hundred and twenty six writers. Yes, you can check out SWF 2011’s to-be-updated-real-soon list of authors here. There’s a lot happening. 177 events to be precise – from meet-the-author sessions to dinners with writers to panel discussions to book launches. I’ve been looking at the press release since yesterday and I seriously don’t know where to start, which is a nice problem to have, I guess. You, however, can start here. There’s everything from travel to humour to sports to e-publishing, et cetera. Here are others that caught my eye. *** Are Singapore playwrights playing their cards right? Huzir Sulaiman, Chong Tze Chien and Damon Chua talk shop (with “shop owner” Eleanor Wong) about the state of playwrighting today. After all the hoohah over Fear Of Writing and Cooling Off Day, here’s a must for theatre lovers. Which, in a way, can be connected to the next panel discussion. *** Politics and Society: Is the Pen Always Mightier? Andrey Kurkov, Yang Lian, Catherine Lim talk about “what responsibilities authors have in their craft” and the “limitations of words and language” when it comes to politics. *** You Can Write Too! Mainly because I spotted the names Edmund Chen and Jeanette Aw. The other two first-time writers are a “Swedish crime novelist and a reformed gangster”. Interesting right? *** Loti Gone Case in Wonderland Because I have a soft-spot for comic books. A panel featuring Troy Chin, Sonny Liew and Dave Chua. *** The Man Asian Literary Prize Like having Booker Prize judges and winners letting you in on the secret. But Asian. Includes Bi Feiyu, Manu Joseph, Tabish Khair and Vikas Swarup. *** The Chain X The Independent Kinokuniya’s Kenny Chan and BooksActually’s Kenny Leck face off. Oooh… *** And more. Lots and lots of meet-the-author and authors-in-coversation-with-each-other stuff as well. (I’m moderating the MTA sessions of Filipino fictionist Jose Dalisay, Jr. and Singapore’s very own Robert Yeo – interesting story how I met him when I first arrived here some years back. But I’ll save that for another time.) There are also screenwriting sessions with the writers behind Na Hong-Jin’s The Chaser,  Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life In The Universe and Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys (that would be Michael Chabon, who also has another own session, I think. Sadly it doesn’t have anything to do with comics. I’d love to hear his views that though, after the awesomeness of the Kavalier and Clay novel). Oh, and there's also some sort of event celebrating online literary mag Quarterly Literary Review Singapore's tenth anniversary. At this point I shall stop and direct you to the website. I’m slowly spacing out, which as any festival freak knows, is what usually happens when you’re looking at a festival programme with as many events as SWF 2011’s. Enjoy!