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Maisie Chan

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Other contact method: Website: maisiechan.com/contact/
Local authority: Glasgow City
Languages: English
Author type: Storyteller, Writer
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Maisie Chan is children's author whose debut novel Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths won the Jhalak Children’s and Y.A. Prize and the Branford Boase Award in 2022. It was also shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards and listed for multiple school library awards. It was part of ‘Read Woke South Ayrshire’ and the North Lanarkshire ‘Read to Succeed’ tour and is on an ‘Empathy Lab: Reading for Empathy’ list.

Her second novel Keep Dancing, Lizzy Chu is set in Glasgow and Blackpool and features a young carer. Her latest novel Nate Yu’s Blast From the Past was one of the ‘Best Children’s Chapter Books of the Summer’ in The Observer (2025) and The Week Junior ‘Book of the Week’.

Maisie writes the Tiger Warrior series and has a collection of myths and legends out with Scholastic. Her debut picture book will be published in 2026.

She started the Bubble Tea Writers Network to support and encourage writers of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) descent in the U.K. and she mentors new writers.

She was the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow at Moat Brae in 2020-21.

She has run creative workshops and given talks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Southbank Imagine Festival, Northern Children’s Book Festival, Birmingham Literature Festival, the Hong Kong Book Fair, the London Book Fair, Islay Book Festival, Paisley Book Festival and Barnes Children’s Book Festival to name a few.

Websites featuring the author

Local authorities will visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Mentoring; Panel event; Reading; Residency; Talk; Workshop

Audience will work with

Adult learners; English as an additional language (EAL); Intergenerational learning; Adults with additional support needs; People living with dementia; Reluctant readers; Vulnerable young people (under 18); Vulnerable adults; Young people in the community (e.g. Youth clubs, Guides, Scouts); Young people with additional support needs (under 18) (ASN/SEN)

Topics of work

Activism & protest; Adolescence; Adventure; Biography & memoir; Care experience; Characters of colour & BAME characters; Childhood; Class & society; Comedy, humour & funny books; Contemporary fiction; Discrimination & prejudice; Editing & editing your own work; Fairy tales, folklore & mythology; Family; Food; Friendship; Human rights; Loneliness & isolation; Poverty; Publishing & getting published

Age groups published for

Children; Teens; Adults

Age groups will work with

6-8; 9-11; 12-14; 15-18; 18+

Audience size

11-30; 31-100