We were invited by Penang Art District to design a short course on art writing, which we ran over the course of three weekends in November/December 2019. We had a super group of participants, including writers, artists and art managers and together explored different approaches to writing on art, with a field trip to exhibitions in George Town and at Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah and a professional sharing session with editor Jason Tan, writer/online publisher and editor Usha Chandradas (of Art Plural), art historians Dr Sarena Abdullah and Dr Laura Fan, who also ran a session on analysing artworks.