EVENTS

15 November, 2022 – Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL, 12 pm EST. In conversation with Tsering Yangzom Lama (We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies) and Shruti Swamy (The Archer).  VIRTUAL EVENT, on demand recording available here.

12 Nov, 2022 —  Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, 5.15-6.30 pm, GMT. In conversation with poet and translator Jenny Wong (回家 Letters Home and Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl) about Peach Blossom Spring.

12 Oct, 2022 – YU & ME Books, Chinatown, NYC, 5.30-7.00 pm, EST. In Conversation with Jack Wang (We Two Alone),

24 September, 2022 – Museum of the Home, London, 13.30-15.30, Writing Our Ways Home. With Elaine Chiew (The Homesick Diaspora) and ESEA Archives in celebration of  ESEA Heritage Month. A conversation about themes of home and displacement in writing followed by a mini-workshop exploring the creative tensions between making a home, leaving a home, and carrying a sense of home within. No writing experience necessary!

Tickets are Free / Pay What You Can (suggested donation £5)
with all proceeds going to Hackney Chinese Community Services

10/17 September, 2022 — WRITING WORKSHOPS, National Centre for Writing,  Norwich, UK, 14.00-17.00 BST. Talk Stories: Exploring East & South East Asian Experiences Through Writing. A 3-hour workshop led by Melissa Fu and Yin F Lim as part of the ESEA Heritage Month 2022 Celebrations.  Open to writers of all levels (ages 18+), limited spaces. £38/£25. CLICK HERE for registration and more details. 

13 September, 2022 — Book Passage, Corte Maderia, CA, 5.30 PM PST/12.30 AM BST. In conversation with May-lee Chai, author of Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories. VIRTUAL EVENT, details and link TBC.

7 July, 2022 — Australasian Taiwan Studies Association, Online book launch. VIRTUAL EVENT.  10.30 am – 12.00 pm UK time, 7.30 – 9.00 pm, AUSTRALIA time. Link to recorded event to come.

10 September, 2022 — WRITING WORKSHOP, Cambridge Central Library, Cambridge, UK, 13.00-16.00 BST. Talk Stories: Exploring East & South East Asian Experiences Through Writing. A 3-hour workshop led by Melissa Fu and Yin F Lim as part of the ESEA Heritage Month 2022 Celebrations.  Open to writers of all levels (ages 18+), limited spaces. £38/£25. (Note: this workshop is also on offer in Norwich on 17 Sept, see below.)

24 June, 2022 — BBC Norfolk, the Friday Night Show,  Live on the radio, 9-10 PM, in conversation with the team at BBC Voices. With music tracks selected by me! Tune in here.

5 June, 2022 — Hay on Wye Festival, 10.00 am with Helena Lee, editor of  East Side Voices and features director of Harper’s Bazaar. Photos from the event here and more photos from the event here.

31 May, 2022 — Reading with Robin Book Club, 7 pm ET/ midnight UK, VIRTUAL EVENT, Zoom book club discussion to close out #AAPI month. Free.

28 May, 2022 — Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Ancestral Ties event with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (When We Were Birds) at  the National Centre for Writing’s Dragon Hall, 4 pm. Photos from the event here.

25 May, 2022 — Waterstones, Cambridge, 6 pm, Historical Fiction Debuts Event with Sophie Haydock (The Flames), Lianne Dillsworth (Theatre of Marvels), and Julie Owen Moylan (That Green-Eyed Girl). Photo from the event here.

22 May, 2022 —Author Chat with Laura Beth, 6 PM ET / 11 PM UK, VIRTUAL EVENT, (IG @lbtheloverofbooks), watch recorded event here.

17 May, 2022 —Cambridge Writers for Ukraine, 6-9.30 pm, Hot Numbers, Gwydir St, with Olenka Pevney, Hollie McNish, Francis Spufford, Guin Glasfurd, Caroline Shenton, and John Greening. All proceeds to UNHCR Ukrainian Appeal. Photos from the event here.

7 May, 2022 — Stratford Lit Fest, Headline Debuts event with Moses McKenzie (An Olive Grove in Ends) and Sabrina Mahfouz (These Bodies of Water),11.30-12.30 BST, details and tickets here.

1 May, 2002 — Tunbridge Wells Lit Fest, 10.30 am. A conversation with Chrissie Reidy of BBC Southeast about the power of storytelling as a means of sharing our histories and the impact that the past so often has on the present, Photos from the event here.

24 April, 2022 — Chip Lit Fest, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Place and Belonging – Writers’ Workshop co-facilitated with Tanya Shadrick, 10.30-12.00, Photos from the event here.

31 March, 2022 – Hub City Books, Spartanburg, SC. 6.00 PM EDT/11 PM BST. In conversation with Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones, VIRTUAL EVENT, watch the recording here.

24 March, 2022 — Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI. 5.30 PM EDT/9.30 PM GMT. Conversation with Lillian Li (Number One Chinese Restaurant) about Peach Blossom Spring, VIRTUAL EVENT, watch the recording here.

22 March, 2022 — Center of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, 6.00-7.30 pm.London Launch of Peach Blossom Spring. All welcome. Photos and blogpost about the event here.

16 March, 2022 — Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA. 7 PM EDT/11 PM GMT. Conversation with Helen Zia (Last Boat Out Of Shanghai) about Peach Blossom Spring, VIRTUAL EVENT. Click here to watch recording.

15 March, 2022 — Reading with Robin – Chat with Robin Kall, VIRTUAL EVENT, IG Live – Click here to watch IGTV recording, 3 pm EST/7 pm GMT.

9 March, 2022  — Word Factory – The Inspirers, 7.30-8.30 pm, GMT, an online conversation with Sophie Haydock and Zoe Gilbert and me about short story writers Shirley Jackson, Beryl Bainbridge, and Grace Paley and how their work has inspired ours.

5 March, 2022 — Books Bual Bual – Chat with Elaine Chiew, IG Live – Click here to watch the archived recording.

Bird and Blend Tea Company December Book Club – A virtual bookclub hosted by Krisi, co-founder and chief mixologist at Bird and Blend.

9 December 2021, 7-8 pm, GMT.

Click here for tickets and more details.