The SMU Campus Green – the main venue of the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) – embodied Utopia, while the writer's whine and portent represented Dystopia. "Utopia/Dystopia" was the theme for this year's festival. Running for 10 days and with some 180 writers featured, the festival is perhaps the most extensive writers’ gathering of its kind in this part of the world. As a boost to Singaporean writing and regional writing at large, SWF features writers with works in the four major languages of Singapore – Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil.