Sarah Ang, with her manuscript-in-progress, Whale Song, is a 2025 New Voices writer.

About Whale Song: After the collapse of a semi-toxic relationship, Mei En, a high-achieving strategy consultant from Singapore, finds herself on a whale research expedition in New Zealand. While working against the clock to find out the reason for mysterious whale strandings and prevent them from occurring, she begins to confront the quiet ache beneath her perfectionism. 

Alternating between the present-day expedition and fragments of her past, the novel explores how deeply we inherit our ideas of love, and how healing can begin in the wild spaces where control slips away. 

About Sarah: Sarah Ang is a writer from Singapore. She has won multiple international and national awards for her writing, such as first place in the iYeats Poetry Competition, first place in the National University of Singapore Creative Writing Competition, second place in the Walter Swan Poetry Prize, second place in the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize, and third place in the Wells Festival of Literature Young Poets Prize, among others. Her work has also been featured in publications including Mithila Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Best Asian Short Stories, and Idle Ink. She graduated from University College London, where she studied English Literature. Outside of writing, she enjoys long walks in nature, travelling and all things chocolate. Find her at www.sarahangwrites.com. 

Fun fact: Sarah previously won the Wilbur Smith Author of Tomorrow Award in 2020!