The UK’s award-winning East and South East Asian literary festival returns to Foyles Charing Cross Road on Saturday 21 September 2024! Join us for a day full to the brim with conversation, readings and workshops, hosted in partnership with the ESEA Publishing Network.
This year’s thought-provoking and celebratory programme includes panel discussions, in-conversation events, creative writing and translation workshops featuring some of the most exciting voices in literature from ESEA writers in the UK and across the world.
The ESEA Publishing Network was founded in 2022 to amplify the voices of East and South East Asian writers and promote ESEA talent working across the UK publishing industry. The UK's first East and South East Asian literary festival was hosted at Foyles in September 2023. We're delighted to present this year's festival programme, with the support of the Bagri Foundation, Paper Literary agency and Hachette UK and their employee network THRIVE.
ESEA Festival Day Ticket
Saturday 21st September 2024
Foyles Charing Cross Road
Tickets are available for individual events or a Festival Day Ticket allows you entry to all four of the day’s panel discussions. Please note that a Day Ticket does not include entry to the two workshops (for which you can buy separate tickets available via the links below). Student/Low Income Tickets are reserved for students with a valid ID or those in receipt of Universal Credit or on low income.
Tickets for individual events available below:
Women’s Prize Discoveries Creative Writing Workshop
Women’s Prize Discoveries Creative Writing Workshop
With Claire Kohda and Stephanie Scott
10 - 11am 5th Floor, Foyles Charing Cross Road
Not included as part of a Festival Day Ticket purchase
Alternate Universes:
Alternate Universes:
On healing and imagination with Romalyn Ante and Yeji Y Ham in conversation with Tash Aw
11am - 12pm 6th Floor Foyles Charing Cross Road
Included in the Festival Day Ticket or available as an individual event
Things We Never Knew:
Things We Never Knew:
On silence and generational trauma with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Hanako Footman in conversation with Nicole Ocran
12.15 - 1:15pm 6th Floor Foyles Charing Cross Road
Included in the Festival Day Ticket or available as an individual event
'Chew on this': Creative Translation Workshop
'Chew on this': Creative Translation Workshop
With Tilted Axis Press, Thuận and Trà My Hickin
1.30 - 2.30pm 5th Floor Foyles Charing Cross Road
Not included as part of a Festival Day Ticket purchase
‘Have you eaten?’
‘Have you eaten?’
A charity buffet lunch with The Adobros & friends: raising funds for Migrateful
1.30 - 3pm 6th Floor Foyles Charing Cross Road
No ticket required; donations in person
Far from Home:
Far from Home:
On duty and displacement with Thuận & Yan Ge in conversation with Ian Russell-Hsieh
3:15 - 4:15pm 6th Floor Foyles Charing Cross Road
Included in the Festival Day Ticket or available as an individual event
Red Tape:
Red Tape:
On institutions and Britishness with Xiaolu Guo and Kaliane Bradley in conversation with Rebecca Liu
4.30 - 5.30pm 6th Floor Foyles Charing Cross Road
Included in the Festival Day Ticket or available as an individual event
