Home-grown bookstore and SingLit bastion Epigram Books will cease operations at its bookshop located at Singapore Art Museum (SAM) on Jan 26, 2025. Owner and publisher Edmund Wee said in a statement: “We tried everything to make this work.” The announcement on Sept 19...
Home-grown bookstore and SingLit bastion Epigram Books will cease operations at its bookshop located at Singapore Art Museum on Jan 26, 2025. Owner and publisher Edmund Wee said in a statement: “We tried everything to make this work.”
Epigram Coffee Bookshop, which has been at SAM in Tanjong Pagar Distripark since May 2022, cited low sales and foot traffic at the port container park, which has in recent years emerged as an art cluster. Epigram’s first bookstore in 2019 was at the more central location of Urban Redevelopment Authority Centre in Maxwell Road. During Covid-19, it operated a pop-up in Beach Road before moving into SAM’s spaces.
Epigram Books is one of the biggest players on Singapore’s independent book scene. Its publishing arm promotes home-grown fiction through the annual open-call Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and has published more than 400 titles in the last 11 years. The publisher also set up an arm in London from 2016 to 2021 with the ambition to get a Singapore book on the longlist of the prestigious Man Booker Prize.
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