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Inaugural ESEA Lit Fest at Foyles
September 2023
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Josie Tang (@presentedbyjo)
Josie Tang (@presentedbyjo)
Featured in the Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle, ESEA Lit Fest was launched in 2023 to sell-out success by Maria Garbutt-Lucero and Joanna Lee, co-founders of the ESEA Publishing Network, in partnership with Foyles and supported by Hachette UK and their employee network THRIVE, Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh. It showcased seventeen ESEA writers across literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as an Asian Dessert Exchange fundraiser hosted by Jenny Lau for Hackney Chinese Community Services and the ESEA Reads Tree, an interactive artwork designed by Kenn Lam. The festival won a PPC Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards PR Campaign of the Year 2024.
Mandy Yin (Sambal Shiok) and Jeremy Chan (Ikoyi) in conversation with Helena Lee about authenticity, identity and diasporan food writing
Mandy Yin (Sambal Shiok) and Jeremy Chan (Ikoyi) in conversation with Helena Lee about authenticity, identity and diasporan food writing
Poster designed by Jenny Shayler
Poster designed by Jenny Shayler
Tash Aw (Strangers on a Pier) and Xiaolu Guo (A Lover's Discourse) in conversation with Zing Tsjeng (Forgotten Women) about the ESEA community and the politics of representation
Tash Aw (Strangers on a Pier) and Xiaolu Guo (A Lover's Discourse) in conversation with Zing Tsjeng (Forgotten Women) about the ESEA community and the politics of representation
'Not Too Sweet': An Asian Dessert Exchange hosted by Jenny Lau, fundraising for HCCS, featuring desserts from The Adobros, Ana da Costa, Celestial Peach, Get Your Chiffon, and Spill By Erica
'Not Too Sweet': An Asian Dessert Exchange hosted by Jenny Lau, fundraising for HCCS, featuring desserts from The Adobros, Ana da Costa, Celestial Peach, Get Your Chiffon, and Spill By Erica
Jeremy Atherton Lin (Gay Bar) and Nicole Dinan (Bellies) in conversation with Sharlene Teo (Ponti) about love, desire and sexuality
Jeremy Atherton Lin (Gay Bar) and Nicole Dinan (Bellies) in conversation with Sharlene Teo (Ponti) about love, desire and sexuality
Will Harris (RENDANG) reading at Towards Other Realities poetry panel with Jane Yeh (Discipline) and Troy Cabida (War Dove) in conversation with Joanna Lee (ESEA Lit Fest co-founder)
Will Harris (RENDANG) reading at Towards Other Realities poetry panel with Jane Yeh (Discipline) and Troy Cabida (War Dove) in conversation with Joanna Lee (ESEA Lit Fest co-founder)
André Dao (Anam) and Tania Branigan (Red Memory) in conversation with Catherine Cho (Inferno) about literary inheritance, history and memory
André Dao (Anam) and Tania Branigan (Red Memory) in conversation with Catherine Cho (Inferno) about literary inheritance, history and memory
Summer party with THRIVE Hachette
June 2023
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Photos: 
Ray Roberts (@rayroberts)
Ray Roberts (@rayroberts)
Our first summer party in June 2023 was a fundraiser for ESEA Lit Fest, featuring readings by R. F. Kuang (Yellowface), Vanessa Chan (The Storm We Made) and the world premiere reading of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. The party was sponsored by THRIVE Hachette on the Carmelite House rooftop, with cocktails sponsored by Don Papa Rum.
R. F. Kuang reading from her transatlantic #1 bestseller Yellowface
R. F. Kuang reading from her transatlantic #1 bestseller Yellowface
Vanessa Chan, author of The Storm We Made, a WWII novel set in Malaysia, publishing in twenty countries
Vanessa Chan, author of The Storm We Made, a WWII novel set in Malaysia, publishing in twenty countries
Summer party group shot!
Summer party group shot!
Kaliane Bradley, Vanessa Chan, ESEA Publishing Network, THRIVE Hachette and the Foyles team
Kaliane Bradley, Vanessa Chan, ESEA Publishing Network, THRIVE Hachette and the Foyles team
Kaliane Bradley’s first public reading of of her debut novel The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley’s first public reading of of her debut novel The Ministry of Time
R. F. Kuang, Kaliane Bradley and Vanessa Chan
R. F. Kuang, Kaliane Bradley and Vanessa Chan
The rooftop at Carmelite House, Hachette UK’s headquarters in London Blackfriars
The rooftop at Carmelite House, Hachette UK’s headquarters in London Blackfriars
ESEA Debuts Night in partnership with 4th Estate and East Side Voices
February 2023
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Cecile Pin (Wandering Souls), Nicola Dinan (Bellies) and Wiz Wharton (Ghost Girl, Banana) in conversation with Helena Lee (founder and editor of East Side Voices)
Tilted Axis x TANK Lunar New Year party
January 2023
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Yan Ge & Pear Nuallak in conversation (©Jinhao Xie)
Yan Ge & Pear Nuallak in conversation (©Jinhao Xie)
Phương Anh and Kristen Alfaro (Publisher, Tilted Axis Press)
Phương Anh and Kristen Alfaro (Publisher, Tilted Axis Press)
The party was sponsored by Don Papa rum / Ghost Girl Banana proofs giveaway
The party was sponsored by Don Papa rum / Ghost Girl Banana proofs giveaway
ESEA Publishing Network launch party at Hachette UK
September 2022
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Photos: 
Ray Roberts (@rayroberts)
Ray Roberts (@rayroberts)
Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose and Nobel Prize-winner Maria Ressa's How To Stand Up to a Dictator were amongst the books given away to attendees
Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose and Nobel Prize-winner Maria Ressa's How To Stand Up to a Dictator were amongst the books given away to attendees
Jinhao Xie (Southbank Centre New Poets) with vegan Filipino snacks by The Adobros
Jinhao Xie (Southbank Centre New Poets) with vegan Filipino snacks by The Adobros
Monica McSwan (Aitken Alexander), Sharlene Teo (author of Ponti), Cecile Pin (author of Wandering Souls), Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (author of Starling Days), Claire Kohda (author of Woman, Eating), Helena Lee (founder and editor of East Side Voices), Catherine Cho (author of Inferno), and MiMi Aye (author of Mandalay)
Monica McSwan (Aitken Alexander), Sharlene Teo (author of Ponti), Cecile Pin (author of Wandering Souls), Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (author of Starling Days), Claire Kohda (author of Woman, Eating), Helena Lee (founder and editor of East Side Voices), Catherine Cho (author of Inferno), and MiMi Aye (author of Mandalay)
Ru Merritt (Ebury), Wiz Wharton (author of Ghost Girl, Banana), Kaiya Shang (Chatto & Windus), Claire Kohda (Woman, Eating) and Jinhao Xie (Southbank Centre New Poets)
Ru Merritt (Ebury), Wiz Wharton (author of Ghost Girl, Banana), Kaiya Shang (Chatto & Windus), Claire Kohda (Woman, Eating) and Jinhao Xie (Southbank Centre New Poets)
Christy Ku (BESEA Poets), Christopher K Liew (PRHUK), and Jinhao Xie (Southbank Centre New Poets)
Christy Ku (BESEA Poets), Christopher K Liew (PRHUK), and Jinhao Xie (Southbank Centre New Poets)
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