EVENTS
GLOBAL TALE BOOKFEST
- 10th October 2026 (Saturday)
- 10.00am – 11.30am
- St Peter’s Church, Ashley Cross, Poole
ESEA AUTHORS LITERARY FESTIVAL
Let’s talk about diaspora and all the places we call home.
- 13th September 2025 (Saturday)
- All day
- SOAS, London
WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING PICTURE BOOKS
Find out what picture book creation entails and shed light on the process from start to finish.
- 28th May 2025 (Wednesday)
- 7:00pm – 9:00pm
- An online event
WOKINGHAM CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL
Writing the Nested Narrative Story with Eva Wong Nava
- 20th Oct 2024 (Sunday)
- Wokingham Library, Wokingham, RG40 2AF
- Discover more here
AIM LITERARY FESTIVAL
Join us at the Museum where we will be hosting the children’s event of the 5th annual Author In Me Literary Festival
- 19th Oct 2024 (Saturday)
- 11am – 3pm
- 81-83 High Street, Great Missenden,
Buckinghamshire, HP16 0AL
DOING WRITE BY THEM
Sensitivity Readers on Inclusive Storytelling
- 10th Oct 2024 (Thursday)
- 7.30-8.30pm
- Zoom
MYTH & MYSTERY
Mythical Creatures & Mysterious Places
Dragons are cool but the ESEA bestiary is packed with plenty of other cool mythic creatures: headless horses, white snakes, zodiac animals, ghosts and demons. And what about hydrogen punk cities, mysterious landscapes and bewildering islands? Come for a big explore with an exciting selection of authors for all ages.
Chaired by Anne Chen
With Eva Wong Nava, Mina Ikemoto Ghosh, Maisie Chan and Eliza Chan
- 21st Sept 2023 (Thursday)
- 15:00 – 20:00 BST
- Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS London
REGISTRATION IS A MUST.
TICKETS ARE FREE, DONATIONS ARE WELCOME.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
ESEA Authors Discuss Diaspora
On East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month, let’s talk about diaspora, and all the people and places we call home. Come join our celebration of new, exciting ESEA novels in the UK, from children’s and YA fiction, to adult fiction — literary, fantasy, speculative, and crime. Meet some wonderful ESEA Authors. Panel chats, book signings, refreshments, prizes and party!
Panel One: Curating Culture:
Whose authenticity? Whose gaze? (3:20 pm)
Living in the diaspora, we reconstruct our homelands for a global audience. Are we authentic enough to write stories drawn from our culture? Do we count movement and exchange as culture? How are we seen? How do we see ourselves? And what about the impact of the white gaze and internal biases on both readers and writers?
Lucy Tandon Coop (forthcoming picture book), Natelle Quek (Wild Wild Woods, The Little Mermaid), Anne Elicaño Shields (Tales from the City), Ella King (Bad Fruit). Chaired by Eva Wong Nava (The House of Little Sisters)
Panel Four: Telling Our Colonial Story (6:50 pm)
Authors of fiction and non fiction for all ages and genres discuss the oftentimes painful task of excavating the ESEA story from colonial histories written by invaders and colonisers, trying to see humanity in those that have been dehumanised, and crafting a story that is fair as well as true.
Zen Cho (Black Water Sister), Cat Aquino (Champion of the Rose), Eva Wong Nava, (House of Little Sisters), L. Kiew (More Than Weeds). Chaired by Candy Gourlay (Wild Song)
ESEAHM x MCR Festival
Are you ready to celebrate ESEA Heritage Month, Manchester?!
If so, SAVE THE DATE: SUNDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER, 12-8PM.
- 3rd Sept 2023 (Sunday)
- 12:00pm – 8:00pm
- Grub – 50 Red Bank, Manchester, M4 MHF