Saturday, May 24, 2025

POSTPONED! Michigan Central Station: Celebrating Heritage: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED

Celebrating Heritage: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Part of the Neighbor x Folk Events at Michigan Central Station collection

A meet and greet with a book signing from local author, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang.

By Folk Detroit Events

Saturday, May 24 · 1 - 3pm EDT

Michigan Central, 2001 15th Street Detroit, MI 48216

Join us in our celebration of Asian, Indigenous Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage during the month of May!

Culture and heritage are deeply connected, but distinct. Culture is a broad term, encompassing the shared values, beliefs, practices, and ways of life of a group of people. Heritage refers to the specific aspects of that culture — particularly those inherited or passed down through generations. Our team strives to honor the deep, enduring cultures that have shaped and continue to shape our communities.

In celebration of Asian Heritage we're bringing local author Frances Kai-Hwa Wang to Neighbor X Folk at Michigan Central for an intimate author meet, greet and book signing. The lyric essays in You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids deftly navigate the space between cultures and reflect on lessons learned from both young multiracial children and their elders, punctuated by moments rich with cultural and linguistic nuance. Ticket price includes a copy of this wonderful title and the chance to have it signed in person with the author.

Your ticket purchase includes a copy of Frances Kai-Hwa Wang's You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids.

Frequently asked questions: Where is Neighbor x Folk located within The Station?

Enter The Station through the East door, where desk staff will guide you. Neighbor x Folk at Michigan Central is located in the arcade, facing the great hall and the atrium.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-heritage-frances-kai-hwa-wang-tickets-1338925936519

Friday, May 23, 2025

Write with me this summer and fall at WCC

Spring/Summer 2025

Write Here, Write Now
8 Tuesdays, May 6, 2025 - June 24, 7:30-8:45 pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, in person

Kylyn Writing Workshop: Writing for our lives -- Free!
Friday May 23, 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm EDT, Ann Arbor District Library downtown, in person, free

Writing to Change the World
3 Saturdays, July 12-26, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Continuing Writing Workshop: Finding the Writer Within -- Summer
5 Sundays, July 13 - Aug 10, 2025, 12pm-2pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Finding your voice, writing with style
3 Saturdays, August 9-23, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Fall 2025

Writing with Style
3 Mondays, Sept 15, 22, 29, 6-8pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

How to get published (books and magazines)
2 Saturdays, Sept 20-27, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (cultural class, not writing class)
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, 1pm-3pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Jumpstart your Memoir: Writing the Stories of your Life
3 Sats, Oct 4-18, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
10 Sundays, Oct 5 - Dec 14, 2025, 12pm-2pm ET, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Writing from the Heart
3 Mondays, Oct. 13, 20, 27, 2025, 6-8pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Exploring Creative Nonfiction
3 Sats, Nov 1-15, 2025, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Writing the stories of your life through food
3 Mondays, Nov 3, 10, 17, 2025, 6-8pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Writing Opinion Essays
2 Saturdays, Dec 6-13, 2025, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

How to get published in Magazines and Newspapers
2 Mondays, Dec 8, 15, 2025, 6-8pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Monday, May 19, 2025

Friday! KYLYN Festival | Writing for Our Lives, with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang


KYLYN Festival | Writing for Our Lives, with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Friday May 23, 2025: 5:30pm to 7:30pm 

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

https://aadl.org/node/639436

Join journalist, poet, essayist, and educator Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in an empowering writing workshop.

“We write to find our voices, to discover our meaning, and to fight for our message - to write for our lives! With short timed writing exercises, we will write and share our stories, discuss ways our stories and struggles may have been discounted by others, and lift up our stories and perspectives to make our mark on today, this moment.” - Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, essayist, speaker, activist, and poet focused on issues of diversity, race, culture, and the arts. The child of immigrants, she was born in Los Angeles, raised in Silicon Valley, and now divides her time between Michigan and the Big Island of Hawai‘i. Her writing has appeared at NBC News Asian America, PRI Global Nation, New America Media, Pacific Citizen, Angry Asian Man, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, Drunken Boat, and several anthologies, journals, and art exhibitions. She teaches courses on Asian/Pacific Islander American media and civil rights at University of Michigan, and she teaches creative writing at University of Hawaii Hilo and Washtenaw Community College. She co-created a multimedia artwork for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Indian American Heritage Project online and travelling art exhibition.

This event is part of the KYLYN APIA Arts and Culture Festival and is in partnership with the Washtenaw Community College Office of Student Access & Success.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Celebrating Heritage with Neighbor x Folk Events at Michigan Central Station collection with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

UPDATE: READING POSTPONED

Celebrating Heritage: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Part of the Neighbor x Folk Events at Michigan Central Station collection

A meet and greet with a book signing from local author, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang.

By Folk Detroit Events

Saturday, May 24 · 1 - 3pm EDT

Michigan Central, 2001 15th Street Detroit, MI 48216

Join us in our celebration of Asian, Indigenous Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage during the month of May!

Culture and heritage are deeply connected, but distinct. Culture is a broad term, encompassing the shared values, beliefs, practices, and ways of life of a group of people. Heritage refers to the specific aspects of that culture — particularly those inherited or passed down through generations. Our team strives to honor the deep, enduring cultures that have shaped and continue to shape our communities.

In celebration of Asian Heritage we're bringing local author Frances Kai-Hwa Wang to Neighbor X Folk at Michigan Central for an intimate author meet, greet and book signing. The lyric essays in You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids deftly navigate the space between cultures and reflect on lessons learned from both young multiracial children and their elders, punctuated by moments rich with cultural and linguistic nuance. Ticket price includes a copy of this wonderful title and the chance to have it signed in person with the author.

Your ticket purchase includes a copy of Frances Kai-Hwa Wang's You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids.

Frequently asked questions: Where is Neighbor x Folk located within The Station?

Enter The Station through the East door, where desk staff will guide you. Neighbor x Folk at Michigan Central is located in the arcade, facing the great hall and the atrium.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-heritage-frances-kai-hwa-wang-tickets-1338925936519

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Wayne State University Press spring publishing conference Sat May 10

MI Friends! I'll be speaking on two panels at the Wayne State University Press book publishing conference Sat May 10, 9am to 4:30pm, in Detroit. Join us for a day with local writers and editors designed to help writers understand and navigate the book publishing process. Register today! https://wsupress.wayne.edu/event/wayne-state-university-press-spring-book-publishing-conference

Also, the Made in Michigan Writers Series is taking submissions now through June 1  https://wsupress.wayne.edu/search-grid/?series=made-in-michigan-writers-series 

Monday, May 5, 2025

New WCC Writing class starts Tuesday

Write Here, Write Now at WCC -- register today! -- New!

8 Tuesdays, May 6, 2025 - June 24, 6:30-7:30 pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, in person

Friday, May 2, 2025

Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

I'm back! Upcoming May events:

I'll be speaking on two panels (and reading!) at Wayne State University Press Publishing Workshop
Sat., May 10, 2025, 9am-4:30pm EDT, Wayne State University, Detroit
Preregister, lunch included (free for students) https://wsupress.wayne.edu/event/wayne-state-university-press-spring-book-publishing-conference/

Exhibition Tour: Jared Lew's Strange You Never Knew with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang and Curator Jennifer Friess, University of Michigan Museum of Art, in person tour
Sun., May 18, 2025, 2-4pm EDT, UMMA
https://umma.umich.edu/events/exhibition-tour-strange-you-never-knew-with-frances-kai-hwa-wang-and-curator-jennifer-friess/

Kylyn Writing Workshop: Writing for our lives with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Friday May 23, 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30 pm EDT, Ann Arbor District Library downtown, multipurpose room, in person, aadl.org https://aadl.org/node/639436 
This event is part of the KYLYN APIA Arts and Culture Festival and is in partnership with the Washtenaw Community College Office of Student Access & Success.

Reading and Book Signing with Wayne State Univ Press at Michigan Central Station
Sat., May 24, 2025, 1-3pm, Detroit

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

KYLYN Festival | Writing for Our Lives, with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

KYLYN Festival | Writing for Our Lives, with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Friday May 23, 2025: 5:30pm to 7:30pm 

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

https://aadl.org/node/639436

Join journalist, poet, essayist, and educator Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in an empowering writing workshop.

“We write to find our voices, to discover our meaning, and to fight for our message - to write for our lives! With short timed writing exercises, we will write and share our stories, discuss ways our stories and struggles may have been discounted by others, and lift up our stories and perspectives to make our mark on today, this moment.” - Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, essayist, speaker, activist, and poet focused on issues of diversity, race, culture, and the arts. The child of immigrants, she was born in Los Angeles, raised in Silicon Valley, and now divides her time between Michigan and the Big Island of Hawai‘i.

Her writing has appeared at NBC News Asian America, PRI Global Nation, New America Media, Pacific Citizen, Angry Asian Man, Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, Drunken Boat, and several anthologies, journals, and art exhibitions. She teaches courses on Asian/Pacific Islander American media and civil rights at University of Michigan, and she teaches creative writing at University of Hawaii Hilo and Washtenaw Community College. She co-created a multimedia artwork for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Indian American Heritage Project online and travelling art exhibition.

Wang is a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit winner, 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.

This event is part of the KYLYN APIA Arts and Culture Festival and is in partnership with the Washtenaw Community College Office of Student Access & Success.

The Library was not given permission to provide a stream for this event.

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Upcoming writing classes at WCC Spring/Summer and Fall 2025

Write with me this year!

Spring/Summer 2025

Continuing Writing Workshop: Finding the Writer Within -- Spring
5 Sundays, May 4-June 8, 2025, 12pm-2pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Communication for Work and Life
8 Tuesdays, May 6, 2025 - June 24, 6:00-7:15 pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, in person

Write Here, Write Now
8 Tuesdays, May 6, 2025 - June 24, 7:30-8:45 pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, in person

Kylyn Writing Workshop: Writing for our lives -- Free!
Friday May 23, 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm EDT, Ann Arbor District Library downtown, in person, free

Writing to Change the World
3 Saturdays, July 12-26, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Continuing Writing Workshop: Finding the Writer Within -- Summer
5 Sundays, July 13 - Aug 10, 2025, 12pm-2pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Finding your voice, writing with style
3 Saturdays, August 9-23, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Fall 2025

How to get published (books and magazines)
2 Saturdays, Sept 20-27, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (cultural class, not writing class)
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, 1pm-3pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Jumpstart your Memoir: Writing the Stories of your Life
3 Sats, Oct 4-18, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
10 Sundays, Oct 5 - Dec 14, 2025, 12pm-2pm ET, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Exploring Creative Nonfiction
3 Sats, Nov 1-15, 2025, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Writing Opinion Essays
2 Saturdays, Dec 6-13, 2025, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, hybrid

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Wayne State University Press book publishing conference Sat May 10

MI Friends! I'll be speaking on two panels at the Wayne State University Press book publishing conference Sat May 10, 9am to 4:30pm, in Detroit. Join us for a day with local writers and editors designed to help writers understand and navigate the book publishing process. Register today! https://wsupress.wayne.edu/event/wayne-state-university-press-spring-book-publishing-conference

Also, the Made in Michigan Writers Series is taking submissions now through June 1  https://wsupress.wayne.edu/search-grid/?series=made-in-michigan-writers-series 


Saturday, March 8, 2025

Friday, February 28, 2025

2 Articles re MI maternal and infant health and Ypsi farmers and gardeners oral history project

My two articles published today at PBS News Hour

Michigan advocates are working to make pregnancy and childbirth safer and more equitable for communities of color.
A Michigan oral history project is collecting the stories of farmers and gardeners from working class communities and communities of color.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame to Induct 11 Members

Congratulations to these incredible journalists!

More at https://www.michiganmedia.com/2025/02/28/the-michigan-journalism-hall-of-fame-names-11-new-inductees 

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/02/27/michigan-journalism-hall-of-fame-class-of-2025-freep-inductees/80525752007/

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/media-marketing/cindy-goodaker-named-michigan-journalism-hall-fame


February 26, 2025

Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame to Induct 11 Members

EAST LANSING, Michigan —11 outstanding journalists will be inducted into the 2025 class of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

This year’s inductees have made significant, sustained contributions to journalism in Michigan.

They are:

Cynthia Canty, Michigan radio storyteller Alex Cruden, elevated readers and editing

Kirt Dozier, sports photographer and mentor

John Flesher, environmental journalist

Cindy Goodaker, dedicated to the news of business

Daymon J. Hartley, social issues photojournalist

Dorothy Jurney, took women's news mainstream

Keith Owens, politics and music journalist

Pat Rencher, advocate for older readers’ health

Jam Sardar, launchpad for TV stories and careers

David Zeman, editor of high-impact journalism

The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame was established to recognize those who have advanced the legacy of a free and responsible press and who have elevated Michigan journalism. Induction memorializes extraordinary and clearly outstanding careers.

The 2025 Hall of Fame class will be honored at a banquet on April 13, 2025, at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing. Details about registrations and opportunities for tax-deductible sponsorships and ads are available on the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame website: https://mijournalismhalloffame.org . Questions may be directed to Betsy DeSantis at 517-353-6431 or email at desant39@msu.edu .

Co-sponsors of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame are the Michigan chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association; the Detroit chapter of the Association for Women in Communications; Central Michigan University’s Department of Journalism; the Detroit chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists; the Detroit and Mid-Michigan chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists; the Detroit Press Club; Wayne State University’s Journalism Program; the Michigan Association of Broadcasters; and the School of Journalism, Michigan State University.

MSU’s School of Journalism has been the home of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame since 1985, reprising the Michigan Newspaper Hall of Fame, which became dormant in 1968. The Michigan Press Association and the MSU School of Journalism established the original Michigan Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1952.

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Guest Speaker on journalism at Tufts University today

Guest Speaker on journalism at Tufts University w Ravi Shankar's class today 

Wed., Feb 26, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm EDT (Private class)

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Speaking today at Writeability Guild on writing with humor

Guest Presenter on writing with humor at a Literary Picnic with Katey Schultz's Monthly Mentorship and WRITEABILITY Guild writing students. Tuesday, February 18, 7-830pm, Zoom (Private class)

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Talk: Celebrating Lunar New Year in A2 at U-M Museum of Natural History Planetarium today

Celebrating Lunar New Year with University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

February 8, 12:00 pm, U-M Museum of Natural History Planetarium and Dome Theater, 1105 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, Tickets $8 and available on the day of the show at the Museum Store.
https://ii.umich.edu/.../events.../116977-21866364.html

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Poetry Reading Next Chapter Books, Detroit, January 30

Thanks to Next Chapter Books in Detroit for hosting us for an evening of poetry to celebrate the lunar new year on Thursday, January 30, 2025, 6:30pm. Come join us! with the great Kyunghee Kim, Bryan Thao Worra, Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef and of course the amazing food of Gajiza Dumplins

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame selection committee

Very excited to be joining The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame selection committee as the Asian American Journalists Association representative! (helping two nonprofits at the same time, so efficient:) 

Looking forward to learning more about the great journalists around our state and this organization that has been honoring journalists since 1952 when it was the Michigan Newspaper Hall of Fame.

https://mijournalismhalloffame.org/

Monday, January 6, 2025

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Write with me this winter at Washtenaw Community College

Come write with me this winter at Washtenaw Community College. On Zoom so bring your friends!

Chinese New Year's Traditions, Stories and Food
1 Saturday, January 25, 2025, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Continuing Writing Workshop: Finding the Writer Within
10 Sundays, February 2 – April 6, 2025, 12pm-2pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

The ABCs of Getting Published RESCHEDULED
2 Saturdays, February 22 - March 1, 2025,10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Telling the Stories of Your Life through Food
3 Saturdays, March 8, March 22, 2025- 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom