Write with me! This Sat or this Sun (or both?!!)

New WCC writing classes starting next week -- come write with me! Or send your elders! Memoir 3 Saturdays 10am-12pm, and Finding the Writer Within 10 Sundays 12-2pm on Zoom so anyone can join (and Washtenaw county folks over 65 are free) and bring your friends!

https://washtenaw.augusoft.net/connect/ClassListing/ClassListingDisplay?int_category_id=3&int_sub_category_id=49&int_catalog_id=1

Poetry Reading Cultura 2026! Saturday, September 26, 2026, 2-4pm

 I'll be reading poetry at Cultura 2026! in Howell in Livingston County

Saturday, September 26, 2026, 12:00 PM  8:00 PM (around 2-4)

CULTURA is back for our 4th year!  Save the date of Saturday, September 26, 2026 - 12:00 pm-8:00 pm in downtown Howell in and around the Howell Opera House. Join us as we celebrate culture through music, art and food!  This event is co-hosted by the Livingston Diversity Council and the Livingston Arts Council.

Again, this event will feature two distinct performance areas featuring sounds and movement from around the world, unique and culturally symbolic art and food trucks highlighting wide spice and flavor palettes.

Everyone is welcome to this all-ages event to celebrate and learn with us. Be ready to open your mind and heart to understanding and a deeper sense of global community!

https://www.culturacelebration.com/

Speaking on Secrets of Publishing!

Very excited to be part of Susan Shapiro's Secrets of Publishing Panel
Wed., Sept. 24, 2026, 6-8pm EDT, Schuler's Books, West Bloomfield
https://www.schulerbooks.com/events-west-bloomfield

Poetry Reading Unbounded: A Sustained Author Reading Event Sunday, September 20, 2026, 12:00 PM 3:00 PM CLUSTER

I'll be reading poetry at Unbounded: A Sustained Author Reading Event

Sunday, September 20, 2026, 12:00 PM  3:00 PM

CLUSTER Museum, 307 North Main StreetAnn Arbor, Michigan, 48104United States (map)

25+ Writers featuring poetry, prose and spoken word: As a tribute to all the beautiful wordsmiths in our region, join us for a day celebrating the power of language and its craft.

Unbounded: A Sustained Author Reading event honors the space where knowing one’s boundaries allow for the contemplation of unlimited sky and boundlessness, and the human capacity to understand both. As Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote, the capacity for good writing is to “allow one to have their feet on the ground and one’s head in the air simultaneously”.

This 3-hour author reading event brings together CLUSTER’s past writers alongside new ones as well as special guests.

Final author list and schedule coming soon!

Doors open at 11:45am: Event begins at 12pm/Noon.

Schedule of writers will be posted ahead of time.

Audience members do not need to stay the whole time.

Best for ages 10+ years.

https://clustermuseum.org/events/unbounded2026

Come write with me this fall at WCC!

Writing with style, Finding your voice3
Saturdays, August 15, 22, 29, 2026 EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

ABCs of Publishing
2 Sats., Sept 12, 19, 2026, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College

Write Here, Write Now
6 Tues, Sept 29 -Nov 3, 2026, 6:30pm-8:30pm EST, Washtenaw Community College

Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
10 Suns, Oct 4 - Dec 13, 2026, 12pm-2pm ET, Washtenaw Community College, online

Jumpstart your Memoir
3 Sats, Oct 3, 10, 17, 2026, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, online

Telling the Stories of your Life through Food
3 Sats, Nov 7, 14, 21, 2026, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, online

speaking on "Michigan Secrets of Publishing" panel Thursday Sept. 24, 2026, 6:30pm, Schuler Books West Bloomfield

 

I will be speaking on "Michigan Secrets of Publishing" panel Thursday Sept. 24, 2026, 6:30pm, Schuler Books West Bloomfield, organized by the great Susan Shapiro 

Poetry Reading at Cultura 2026! Saturday, September 26, 2026, 2:55-4:00 PM, Howell Opera House

I'll be reading poetry at Cultura 2026! in Howell in Livingston County

Saturday, September 26, 2026, 12:00 PM  8:00 PM (around 2-4)

CULTURA is back for our 4th year!  Save the date of Saturday, September 26, 2026 - 12:00 pm-8:00 pm in downtown Howell in and around the Howell Opera House. Join us as we celebrate culture through music, art and food!  This event is co-hosted by the Livingston Diversity Council and the Livingston Arts Council.

Again, this event will feature two distinct performance areas featuring sounds and movement from around the world, unique and culturally symbolic art and food trucks highlighting wide spice and flavor palettes.

Everyone is welcome to this all-ages event to celebrate and learn with us. Be ready to open your mind and heart to understanding and a deeper sense of global community!

https://www.culturacelebration.com/

Poetry Reading: Unbounded: A Sustained Author Reading Event, Sunday, September 20, 2026, 12:00 PM

I'll be reading poetry at Unbounded: A Sustained Author Reading Event

Sunday, September 20, 2026, 12:00 PM  3:00 PM

CLUSTER Museum, 307 North Main StreetAnn Arbor, Michigan, 48104United States (map)

25+ Writers featuring poetry, prose and spoken word: As a tribute to all the beautiful wordsmiths in our region, join us for a day celebrating the power of language and its craft.

Unbounded: A Sustained Author Reading event honors the space where knowing one’s boundaries allow for the contemplation of unlimited sky and boundlessness, and the human capacity to understand both. As Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote, the capacity for good writing is to “allow one to have their feet on the ground and one’s head in the air simultaneously”.

This 3-hour author reading event brings together CLUSTER’s past writers alongside new ones as well as special guests.

Final author list and schedule coming soon!

Doors open at 11:45am: Event begins at 12pm/Noon.

Schedule of writers will be posted ahead of time.

Audience members do not need to stay the whole time.

Best for ages 10+ years.

https://clustermuseum.org/events/unbounded2026

Register for fall WCC courses today

Writing with style, Finding your voice
3 Saturdays, August 15, 22, 29, 2026 EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

ABCs of Publishing

2 Sats., Sept 12, 19, 2026, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College

Write Here, Write Now

6 Tues, Sept 29 -Nov 3, 2026, 6:30pm-8:30pm EST, Washtenaw Community College

Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
10 Suns, Oct 4 - Dec 13, 2026, 12pm-2pm ET, Washtenaw Community College, online

Jumpstart your Memoir

3 Sats, Oct 3, 10, 17, 2026, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, online

Telling the Stories of your Life through Food

3 Sats, Nov 7, 14, 21, 2026, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, online

Writing Opinion Essays

2 Sats, Dec 5, 12, 2026, 10am-12pm EST,  Washtenaw Community College, online

ALSO (free)

Susan Shapiro Secrets of Publishing Panel
Wed., Sept. 24, 2026, 6-8pm EDT, Schuler's Books, West Bloomfield 

https://www.schulerbooks.com/events-west-bloomfield

Speaking at OCA National Convention with Curtis Chin re film

  

I'll be in conversation with Curtis Chin re his latest film and AAJA-MI will be cosponsoring this event:

Friday, July 24, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, OCA National Convention FREE Community Night Market, plus FREE screening of Curtis Chin’s latest film, “Warren King: King of Cardboard,” with fireside chat 6:00 pm with film’s director Curtis Chin and AAJA-MI president Frances Kai-Hwa Wang (that’s me), at Chinese Community Center, 32585 Concord Drive, Madison Heights, MI 48071. Parking available behind the building and across street at AMC John R 15, 32289 John R Rd, Madison Heights, MI 48071. The film screening and discussion is sponsored by AAJA-Michigan (that’s us!). Free but Preregistration is required https://www.ocanationalconvention.org/registration

Saturday, July 25, 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm, U of M Detroit Center, 3663 Woodward Ave #150, Detroit, MI 48201, Asian American Media Panel re uplifting the community’s stories through broadcast media, documentaries, journalism, and freelance writing, with One Detroit Sr. Producer and Michigan Journalism Hall of Famer @BillKubota, author of “Phoenix Girl” @MichelleYang, Dragon Eagle TV Lisa Gray, and moderated by Semafor congressional reporter Nicholas Wu. Free but Preregistration is required https://www.ocanationalconvention.org/registration