{"product_id":"session-with-author-diana-rahim","title":"Session with Author Diana Rahim","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Session\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin Diana Rahim in an author session presenting her book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWe Saw Mountains.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Many of the stories in We Saw Mountains were born from a seed of reality, and at times went into the strange realm of fiction, speculative and fantastical. Writing the stories were for me at times a practice of imaginative hope and world-making for the community I want to live in. Yet as time passed, I found that what I once placed in fiction eventually manifested in reality, and what I once thought impossible inched into reality. What you hoped for, or what you feared—suddenly it is here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor this session I want to share the seeds of my stories, and what has come to be. I also hope to hear from those present how they have tried, in little or big ways, to bring the future and community they want into life. If what we write, speak and do can appear one day, then what shall we bring to life?” – Diana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIn-Store Event\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 10 September 2026, Thursday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTime:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e8.00pm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVenue:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWardah Books, 58 Bussorah Street, Level 2 (Stairs only)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eTickets for this event are $5 each. The $5 value may be used as credit against book purchases, but only on the day of the event.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes on the book credits:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eValid only on the day of the event\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCan only be used once\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCan be used to purchase any book at Wardah Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNot transferable, refundable nor redeemable for cash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiana is a writer and visual artist whose work circles around the themes of gender justice, the experience of the environment and the politics of public space. Her visual work has been exhibited in National Gallery Singapore and Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Japan and her recent essays and stories anthologised in Here was once the sea: An anthology of Southeast Asian ecowriting, Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore and The Best of World SF amongst others. \u003cem\u003eWe Saw Mountains \u003c\/em\u003eis her first book and the culmination of almost a decade of stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Saw Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e gathers nine stories of human and non-human daring, where quotidian life is cracked open to possibilities of autonomy and re-imagination. A teen’s part-time job tests his integrity, a grieving elephant finds a new home by way of a contested river, and on an island a mountain appears, fully formed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these visionary tales, Diana Rahim—whose stories have been featured in Best New Singaporean Short Stories and The Best of World SF—asks, can we do things differently? Can we imagine a different kind of life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStep into this spellbinding collection and witness transformations both cosmic and everyday. 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