CreativeConversations
Date: Monday 25 September 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Sean Wai Keung, Katie Goh, Candice Chung, Tae Song, Jing Ye, Pim Wangtechawat

How can ESEA writers use their craft to empower, educate, and embrace communities of the ESEA diaspora?‘Routes/Roots: Writing Across and Towards the East and Southeast Asian Diaspora’ is a collaboration with BESEA.N to honour and celebrate the connections that shape our identities, while also acknowledging the diverse paths that have brought us where we are today.

Chair:

Sean Wai Keung (he/him) is a Glasgow-based poet and performance maker whose work often explores concepts of mixed-ness, identity and migration. His first full length poetry collection, ‘sikfan glaschu’, was published by Verve Poetry Press in April 2021 and was subsequently shortlisted for the 2022 Kavya Prize. For more information, please visit seanwaikeung.carrd.co

Panelists:

Katie Goh (they/she) is a writer and editor living in Edinburgh. Katie's writing has been published in the Guardian, VICE, Dazed and Prospect and she is the non-fiction editor for Extra Teeth literary magazine. Katie's essay-length book The End: Exploring the World Through Imagined Disasters was published by 404 Ink in 2021 and was shortlisted for the inaugural Kavya Prize. Katie’s debut non-fiction book Foreign Fruit will be published by Canongate in 2023.

Candice Chung (she/her) is a Glasgow-based journalist and editor. She was a food reviewer for The Sun Herald and her work has appeared on The Sydney Morning Herald, Time Out, New York Times Style magazine, Hetty McKinnon's Peddler Journal and more. Candice is a founding member of Diversity in Food Media Australia, which supports and promotes underrepresented voices in food. She is working on her first non-fiction book, Why Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You, to be published by Allen & Unwin.

Tae Song (she/her) is a Korean novelist, playwright, and performer based in Glasgow. She has just started her second year of the DFA Creative Writing at University of Glasgow. She also holds an MLitt Theatre Studies and MLitt Creative Writing from University of Glasgow. Tae’s work in the magical realism genre explores the themes of colonialism, cultural identity, contemporary politics, intergenerational trauma, and the Korean diaspora. Her research has recently been featured at the 2023 ‘Korean Youth: Spaces, Ecologies, and Technologies’ conference. www.taesong.co.kr / Instagram & Twitter: @taesongstories

As a Shanghainese writer, Jing Ye (she/her) takes pride in crafting her work in her second language. She is currently pursuing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She studied as a visiting graduate student at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and her recent work has been shortlisted for the John Byrne Award and featured on BBC Radio.

Pim Wangtechawat (she/her) is a Thai-Chinese writer from Bangkok, Thailand. Pim’s short stories, poems, and articles have been published in various websites, literary magazines and journals. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from King’s College London, and graduated with Distinction from Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland with a Masters in Creative Writing. Her debut novel, The Moon Represents My Heart, was published by OneWorld Publications in the UK in June 2023. Pim is passionate about using writing to empower Thai youths. Through her work, she aims to tell stories that reflect our shared humanity, and bring more Asian narratives to the forefront of literature.

Organising Committee/Contributors:

Nini Huang (she/her) is a writer, curator and facilitator working in visual arts. She is the Assistant Producer of Journey to the East Productions (JTTE) - the only ESEA-led performance art production company based in Scotland. She is currently developing her writing in creative art criticism with particular focus on socially engaged art and critical practices as well as new media art and live art. She is a University of Glasgow alumnus with a joint honours in History of Art and Digital Media. She completed her Master’s degree in Media Studies at Malmö University where she published a thesis on Sinophobia and media satire in Sweden.

Eddie Kim studied at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and owns/operates Gomo Kimchi in Govanhill where he handmakes homemade, small-batch kimchi. He is a Kundiman fellow from Seattle. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Margins, The Collagist, Pinwheel, Lantern Review, South Dakota Review, and others. His work also won a 2022 “Best of the Net” award and has been featured on the poetry podcast, The Slowdown.

This event will be also available on zoom. A link will be sent to those who book tickets on the day of the event.

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