A event on Wednesday 21st May. The event starts at 19:00.
SJ Kim discusses her new memoir of the possibilities and impossibilities of language with Noreen Masud.
This event will take place at Gloucester Road Books, BS7 8NU. Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start on Wednesday 21st May.
ABOUT SJ KIM
SJ Kim was born in Korea and raised in the American South. She is the author of This Part Is Silent, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her writing on racial, gendered, institutional and political violence has appeared in Wasafiri, Oxford American, and The Hanok Review among other publications. She resides in the UK and teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick.
Author photograph copyright Rama Lee
ABOUT THIS PART IS SILENT
Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, scholar, and daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity and sensitivity, she writes letters to the institutions that simultaneously support and fail her, intimate accounts of immigration, and interrogations of rising anti-Black and anti-Asian racism. She considers the silences between generations―especially within the Asian diaspora in the West―as she finds her way back to her own family during the pandemic lockdown. Embracing the possibilities and impossibilities of language, Kim rejoices in the similes of Korean, her mother tongue, and draws inspiration from K-dramas and writers who sustain her, including Yusef Komunyakaa, Don Mee Choi, Toni Morrison, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
ABOUT NOREEN MASUD
Dr Noreen Masud is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of Bristol. Her monograph, Hard Language (2022) on the work of Stevie Smith, was the joint winner of the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize in 2023. Noreen is also an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker, making programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her memoir, A Flat Place, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Jhalak Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was also selected for numerous Books of the Year lists, including by the New Yorker, the Guardian, The News On Sunday (Pakistan) and the Sunday Times.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
This event will take place at Gloucester Road Books, BS7 8NU. Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start on Wednesday 21st May.
ABOUT SJ KIM
SJ Kim was born in Korea and raised in the American South. She is the author of This Part Is Silent, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her writing on racial, gendered, institutional and political violence has appeared in Wasafiri, Oxford American, and The Hanok Review among other publications. She resides in the UK and teaches creative writing at the University of Warwick.
Author photograph copyright Rama Lee
ABOUT THIS PART IS SILENT
Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Born in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, scholar, and daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity and sensitivity, she writes letters to the institutions that simultaneously support and fail her, intimate accounts of immigration, and interrogations of rising anti-Black and anti-Asian racism. She considers the silences between generations―especially within the Asian diaspora in the West―as she finds her way back to her own family during the pandemic lockdown. Embracing the possibilities and impossibilities of language, Kim rejoices in the similes of Korean, her mother tongue, and draws inspiration from K-dramas and writers who sustain her, including Yusef Komunyakaa, Don Mee Choi, Toni Morrison, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
ABOUT NOREEN MASUD
Dr Noreen Masud is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of Bristol. Her monograph, Hard Language (2022) on the work of Stevie Smith, was the joint winner of the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize in 2023. Noreen is also an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker, making programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her memoir, A Flat Place, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Jhalak Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was also selected for numerous Books of the Year lists, including by the New Yorker, the Guardian, The News On Sunday (Pakistan) and the Sunday Times.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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