Creative Conversations: Maisie Chan
Creative Conversations: Maisie Chan
Creative Conversations: Creative Writing
Date: Monday 05 December 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Glasgow University Memorial Chapel
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Maisie Chan
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-maisie-chan-tickets-405170805787?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Maisie Chan is children's author whose debut novel DANNY CHUNG DOES NOT DO MATHS won the Jhalak Prize and the Branford Boase Award in 2022. Her latest novel KEEP DANCING, LIZZIE CHU is out now with Piccadilly Press. She also writes the series TIGER WARRIOR under the name M. Chan. She has written early readers for Hachette and Big Cat Collins, and has a collection of myths and legends out with Scholastic. She runs the Bubble Tea Writers Network to support and encourage writers of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) descent in the U.K. She has a dog called Miko who has big eyes. She lives in Glasgow with her family.
Creative Conversations is funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health (1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of University life.