Candice Chung & Katie Goh: A literary celebration of food and home with friends

Join authors Candice Chung and Katie Goh as they celebrate the release of their two new memoirs: Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You and Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange.

Candice and Katie will be in conversation, discussing their memoirs and writing about food, belonging and identity.

The evening will also feature readings from other authors on the themes of food and home.

Candice Chung is a writer, editor and a former restaurant reviewer for The Sun-Herald. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Food, The Australian Gourmet Traveller, SBS Food, Griffith Review and more. She is a founding member of Diversity in Food Media Australia, which supports and promotes underrepresented voices in food media.

Katie Goh is a writer and editor. Her award-nominated essays, journalism and criticism have appeared in publications including Port, the Guardian, Wasafiri, i-D, Dazed and gal-dem, and she is an editor for Extra Teeth and Gutter literary magazines. Her book of essays The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters was shortlisted for the inaugural Kavya Prize in 2022. She grew up in the north of Ireland and lives in Edinburgh. Foreign Fruit is her first full-length memoir.

Guest Speakers:

Alice Mah is a Chinese Canadian-British writer and Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow. Originally from a small town in northern British Columbia, she has a long-standing interest in ecology and place. Her award-winning research focuses on toxic pollution and environmental justice, the subjects of her most recent books: Petrochemical Planet and Plastic Unlimited.

Eddie Kim is the founder of Gomo Kimchi in Govanhill. Originally from Seattle, his poetry and prose have appeared in a variety of journals. In 2022, Eddie won a “Best of the Net” award for his poem “Gimjang” and he has been featured on the poetry podcast, The Slowdown.

Deborah Chu is a Taiwanese-Canadian writer living in Edinburgh. She was a recipient of the Scottish Book Trust's New Writer's Award in 2021, and has been published in Gutter. She is currently working on her first novel.