Frances Kai-Hwa Wang: December 2020

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Asian American Women Artists' Exhibition at SOMArts - Rafu Shimpo

just found this from 2013 re my first poetry reading in San Francisco as part of AAWAA underCurrents and the Quest for Space Art Exhibition

Asian American Women Artists' Exhibition at SOMArts - Rafu Shimpo

and here are some more articles, maybe

Monday, December 28, 2020

Lifting up all voices in metro Detroit, including Michigan’s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, for the 2018 midterm election | Detroit Journalism Cooperative

Just found my 2018 article re 2018 elections in Detroit Journalism Cooperative

Lifting up all voices in metro Detroit, including Michigan’s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, for the 2018 midterm election | Detroit Journalism Cooperative

Monday, December 21, 2020

Sowing Agency — AAWAA | Asian American Women Artists Association 2021 Art Exhibition

So excited to have my prose poem and art installation, "Sowing Aunties," accepted for the Asian American Women Artists Association and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center Sowing Agency Seeding the Future for Environmental Justice art exhibition in San Francisco, May 2021. Hope I will be able to fly out there for the opening by then!

Sowing Agency — AAWAA | Asian American Women Artists Association | SF

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

NYWW Writing to Save the World writing class

Friends! I'm offering a fun 6 week online generative writing class with social justice themes through New York Writers Workshop this January just in time for the inauguration called "Writing to Save the World." Great holiday gift for an elder you're trying to get to write her memoir or a young person starting to find her voice or a fun bonding activity for you and a friend who live in different time zones. Discounted Early bird registration until Jan 3 https://bpt.me/4846105

Writing to Save the World: How do we use our writing to create real world change? How do we find our voices and get our message out? How do we use writing to touch, inspire, persuade, and provoke readers to action? Learn simple but powerful methods to get the ideas out of our heads and onto the page. We will consider different forms including Op-Ed, persuasive essay, spoken word, social media, art. Part writing, part activism, a lot of heart, this class aspires to use the written word to create the change you want to see in the world. Bring a notebook and a pen.

Online (ZoomLive/synchronous sessions): Six Sundays, Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, 2021 3-5pm EST (12N PST, 2 PM CST)

Instructor
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, essayist, and poet focused on issues of race, culture, justice, and the arts. Her writing has appeared at NBC News Asian America, PRI Global Nation, Detroit Journalism Cooperative, Womens Media Center, Angry Asian Man, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, Drunken Boat, and several anthologies, journals, and art exhibitions. She has written three chapbooks. She teaches Asian/Pacific Islander American media and civil rights at University of Michigan, and creative writing at University of Hawaii Hilo and Washtenaw Community College. She co-created a multimedia artwork on the H-1B visa for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Indian American Heritage Project online and travelling art exhibition. She is a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit artist, Marguerite Casey Foundation Equal Voice Journalism Fellow on Poverty, and Keith Center for Civil Rights Detroit Equity Action Lab Race and Justice Reporting Fellow on Arts and Culture. franceskaihwawang.com @fkwang

NYWW Writing to Save the World

Monday, December 14, 2020

Creative Writing Classes - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & Community Development

WCC's winter term courses are up, lots of course offerings starting Feb. All online so anyone anywhere can join! Bring your friends and family in other time zones! (Emeritus Scholarship only for Washtenaw County residents)

Creative Writing Classes - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & Community Development

but if you can't wait that long, I have a fun short course with New York Writers Workshop, starting Jan 17, just in time for the inauguration! Discounted early bird registration until Jan 3

NYWW Writing to Save the World with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
New York Writers Workshop
Online, 6 Sundays, Jan 17-Feb 21, 2021, 3-5pm EST, Zoom
Registration: https://bpt.me/4846105

Monday, December 7, 2020

Purchase Meridian - the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing

Copies of Meridian - the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing are selling fast! Get your paperback or e-book copy today from the APWT website. 'The book they've made is fresh and new and thrilling.' Pulitzer Prize winner Vijay Seshadri #APWT2020

https://www.apwriters.org/store/

Saturday, December 5, 2020

Reading for Meridian APWT Drunken Boat anthology launch very early today

I'll be reading 'Talkin to Whypipo' from Meridian - the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing launching Saturday December 5th Australia 10pm (AEST) China 8pm (CST) New York 7am (NYEST) Click this link to join us and hear Frances read her poem live https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/81587544915 #APWT2020

Order book today! https://www.apwriters.org/store/Books-c64899056

Friday, December 4, 2020

Talkin' to Whypipo in Meridian from APWT and Drunken Boat

Excited for this first glimpse of my prose poem, "Talkin' to Whypipo," in Meridian--The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, edited by Sally Breen, Ravi Shankar, and Tim Tomlinson. Launching this Sat Dec 5, 2020, at 7:00 am EST. Come hear me read! This will be fun!

'He is so white that as he tries to dip a toe into my world and name drop prominent Asian Americans, all he hits are ones I have gotten into big public fights with.
And I know, I know #notallwhitepeople. And I know, I know, some of my best friends are white.
But still.
He is so white.
And somehow in spite of myself, he makes me smile.'
Extract from 'Talkin to Whypipo' from Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in Meridian - the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing launching tomorrow Saturday December 5th Australia 10pm (AEST) China 8pm (CST) New York 7am (NYEST) Click this link to join us and hear Frances read her poem live https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/81587544915 #APWT2020

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