The news is out - ESEA Lit Fest is back + bigger this September! We're celebrating East & South East Asian literature with our good pals @Foyles again and excited to be expanding with an 800-seater finale at @southbankcentre (21-22 Sept)

Huge congratulations to @VChangPoet for winning the Forward Prize for Best Collection, with her fantastic, formally inventive and stunning 'With My Back to the World' ���🖌️ @forwardprizes #poetry #discoverpoetry #forwardprizes

The winners of The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2024!

@RomalynAnte @nguyen_p_quemai @FootmanHanako @nicoleocran @theadobros @BagriFoundation @becbecliuliu @WomensPrize And the second with @TiltedAxisPress on Creative Translation with Thuận and Trà My Hickin. Thank you everyone who came along to the workshops!

@RomalynAnte @nguyen_p_quemai @FootmanHanako @nicoleocran @theadobros @BagriFoundation @becbecliuliu We also held two sold out workshops! One on Creative Writing with @WomensPrize Discoveries with Claire Khoda and Stephanie Scott 📝

@RomalynAnte @nguyen_p_quemai @FootmanHanako @nicoleocran @theadobros @BagriFoundation And rounding the day off with Kaliane Bradley, Xiaolu Guo in conversation with @becbecliuliu, discussing institutions and Britishness

@RomalynAnte @nguyen_p_quemai @FootmanHanako @nicoleocran @theadobros @BagriFoundation And the afternoon panels have begun with Yan Ge and Thuân, in conversation with Ian Russell Hsieh talking about duty and displacement

Sooo nice to be in a room full of book-loving POCs at @eseapn #ESEALitFest

@RomalynAnte @nguyen_p_quemai @FootmanHanako @nicoleocran Incredible charity lunch buffet with @theadobros, Spill By Erica, Polly Chan Bakehouse, Eat with Fish and Chope Chope! 😋

@RomalynAnte Packed room for our next panel, On Silence and Generational Trauma with @nguyen_p_quemai and @FootmanHanako, in conversation with @nicoleocran

Kicking off the panels with Joanne Lee in conversation with @RomalynAnte and Yeji Y. Ham discussing healing and imagination in their books AGIMAT & The Invisible Hotel

Today is the day!! 🥳 ESEA Lit Fest has begun. We’re so excited to gather so many ESEA authors for a day at @Foyles, full of panel events, workshops and readings!

We've also got tickets left for the ESEA Lit Fest Finale on 22nd Sept at @southbankcentre! @PhilNWang will talking to @misszing about using comedy and storytelling as a way of skewering the cultural narratives and tropes around diasporic identity. 🎟️ https://t.co/BRJEUq3OdZ

Join Yan Ge and Thuận on a voyage away from home with @ianrussellhsieh, discussing the commitments we make to ourselves and those closest to us, and how far these journeys can take us. 🎟️ https://t.co/Bcacn9TPkQ

Join @RomalynAnte, Yeji Y Ham and Tash Aw as they discuss the power of imagining as a way to consider history, trauma and how to exist in the present. 🎟️ https://t.co/6XHm3jg0HS

ONE WEEK TO GO UNTIL ESEA LIT FEST 🥳 We've got a *handful* of tickets left, snap them up before they all go!

'A hilarious breath of fresh air' @amyschumer 'A razor-sharp dissection of cultural differences' @amateuradam We can't wait for our ESEA Lit Fest Finale with @PhilNWang at the @southbankcentre. Come hear him talk to @misszing about his memoir! 🎟️ https://t.co/BRJEUq3OdZ

🎟️Tickets are still available for our finale evening at @southbankcentre! We're so excited to welcome comedian, writer and actor @PhilNWang as he talks to @misszing about his memoir, Sidesplitter, and what it means to be torn between two continents. 🔗 https://t.co/BRJEUq3OdZ

📢ESEA LIT FEST TICKET UPDATE📢 Day tickets are now SOLD OUT!🥳 Tickets for the Women's Prize Creative Writing Workshop are all SOLD OUT! 🙌 Individual events tickets are available here: https://t.co/oNK6i3NhJ1

A big thank you to our friends at @eseapn @Foyles @southbankcentre, who are donating the funds from their #ESEALitFest charity buffet lunch with the @theadobros to support our work! 💜👏 Check out the #ESEALitFest programme: