Join us for this online short course with Shze-Hui Tjoa and Candice Chung about writing your memoir!
Part of our Developing Your Craft programme – learn more here.
All SBWN events will adhere to our Safer Spaces Policy. You can learn more about our policy here.
Please be mindful when booking. This is a session for Black writers & writers of colour* based in Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
This short course takes place over the weekend of 21st-22nd February, from 10am-3pm on each day. Join facilitators Shze-Hui Tjoa and Candice Chung as they take you through craft discussion and writing strategies that will help you develop your memoir. Each day will include a variety of sessions each with a different focus, such as theoretical approaches, experimentation with structure, generative writing and more. We suggest coming to both days of the short course, as the sessions are a collaboration between our facilitators and it’s the best way to get the most out of the short course format. We’ll begin with a welcome session on Saturday and close with a sharing session on Sunday. Suggested £20 or more per day (£10 concession).
Before You Book:
- The Developing Your Craft programme is for writers of colour based in the UK (Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, and Wales)
- All sessions, except the keynote, will be held over Zoom with a maximum of 30 participants.
- Sessions longer than an hour will include a comfort break.
- Each session has a suggested donation amount, but please register for free or for a smaller amount if that suits your needs. No questions asked.
- We have a number of data and child/carer bursaries available for BPOC writers – request a bursary by completing our form.
- Registering for this course means you agree to our safer spaces policy.
- Live captions provided by Otter.
Cancellations
If you have registered for this event but are unable to attend, please let us know ASAP so we can offer it to another person on the waitlist. Thank you!
Questions? Email scottishbpocwriters@gmail.com.
Facilitators
Shze-Hui Tjoa is a Singaporean writer who lives in Edinburgh. Her debut, The Story Game: A Memoir (Tin House Books, 2024 / Faction Press, 2025), is a genre-bending work about storytelling, sisterhood, c-PTSD, having been a child musician, and finding the self. It was recognised as a notable book of its release season by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Book Riot, and Between the Covers podcast; listed as a “Literary MagNet” feature in Poets & Writers; and named one of Electric Literature’s and Paste Magazine‘s best nonfiction books of 2024.
Shze-Hui is the Nonfiction Editor of Guernica and an editor at Adi Magazine, where she works to spotlight writers from different parts of the world and bring them into conversation.She has received support from arts organisations including the Tin House Summer Workshop (USA), the National Arts Council (Singapore), Disquiet International (Portugal), and Green Olive Arts (Morocco).
@shzehui on Instagram
Candice Chung is a Glasgow-based author and editor. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Gutter, The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Food, The Australian Gourmet Traveller and more. She is a founding member of Diversity in Food Media Australia, which supports and promotes underrepresented voices in the food industry. Her debut memoir, CHINESE PARENTS DON’T SAY I LOVE YOU, is named a LoveReading Best Books of the Year 2025 and a Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2025.
Instagram: @candice_chung