About This Event

Join debut novelists Divya Maniar and Stacey Yu to discuss the pressures of young womanhood that shape us, chaired by Rahel Stephanie. Divya Maniar is a writer and dancer from Singapore who currently lives in London. She studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Brown, and holds an M.Phil in English Literature from Cambridge. Her writing has appeared in Joyland, The Rumpus and elsewhere. After Care is her debut novel. Stacey Yu is a Chinese American writer. She grew up between Texas, Arkansas and California, and currently lives in London. Kitten is her debut novel. Rahel Stephanie is a chef, writer and founder of Spoons, an Indonesian supper club and cultural platform spanning pop-ups, essays and radio. Her writing has appeared in Vittles, Foodism and SLOP and she is the author of two publications, Pedas and Cantik Manis, exploring food, femininity and diaspora memory without flattening them into easy narratives. Named a Chef to Watch by British Vogue, she was raised between Jakarta and Singapore and now lives in London. Venue: Level 6 Auditorium, Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DT* *Please note the Level 6 auditorium is fully accessible via the lifts.

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