ESEA Archives presents: Writing our ways home
A writing workshop hosted by ESEA Archives around home and displacement. Two ESEA authors will be there to talk about their experience and will then invite participants to engage through writing.
To celebrate ESEA Heritage Month this September, ESEA Archives presents their first in-person event at the Museum of the Home, Writing our ways home.
Join authors Elaine Chiew (The Heartsick Diaspora) and Melissa Fu (Peach Blossom Spring) in a conversation around the themes of home and displacement in writing. Participants will then be invited to put pen to paper in a mini-workshop exploring the creative tensions between making a home, leaving a home, and carrying a sense of home within.
Elaine and Melissa’s books will be available for purchase on site.
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About the authors
Melissa Fu
Melissa Fu grew up in Northern New Mexico and lives in Cambridge UK. With backgrounds in physics and English, she worked in education before focusing on writing. In 2018/2019 Melissa was the David TK Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia and was the recipient of an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant. Her first novel, Peach Blossom Spring(Wildfire), was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick in the UK and a 2022 Indies Introduce title for the American Booksellers Association. It is available now in English, Dutch and Italian. Hungarian, Romanian and German editions are forthcoming.
Elaine Chiew
Elaine Chiew is the author of a short story collection, The Heartsick Diaspora (Myriad Editions, Penguin SEA), recommended in The Guardian, BookRiot, The Straits Times SG & Esquire SG, and editor/compiler of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World (New Internationalist). She is a two-time winner of the Bridport International Short Story Competition, and her stories have been anthologised in the U.S., UK and Asia, and aired on BBC Radio 4. IG: @epchiew Website: www.epchiew.com
ESEA Archives is a monthly virtual book club which celebrates the work of authors of East and South East Asian backgrounds. Open to all. In partnership with Hackney Chinese Community Services. IG: @esea.archives