Teaching today at UHH: CreativeNonfiction

Creative Nonfiction is one of the most popular genres of writing right now and encompasses many forms, including essay, journal article, research paper, memoir, poem, prose. The key to creative nonfiction is the use of literary techniques to tell nonfiction stories in a way that is dramatic and compelling. We will try several different techniques and styles in order to find the best way to tell our stories, to make them personal and to make them memorable. Bring a notebook and pen.

University of Hawaii Hilo, Tues 7/11 and 7/18, 5-7:30 pm

CreativeNonfiction

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Secret Crush

What do you do when you have a secret crush? Write and publish it in an international journal, doesn't everyone? (Oh no, what have I done?!) thanks Cha: An Asian Literary Journal for publishing my "secret crush," written in those days of anxiety following the election http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2647/606/So excited to see "Secret Crush" (Creative Nonfiction) just out at Cha!

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Secret Crush

Talking to Prof. May-Lee Chai's MFA students at UNCW

Great to talk to Prof. May-Lee Chai's creative nonfiction class at UNCW on Tuesday (and to remember that I write creative nonfiction, too!). Thanks for the opportunity and for the great convo!

and always great to be able to talk about "Dreams of the Diaspora," too!

Jumpstart your Memoir today at WCC

Jumpstart your Memoir w me today at WCC! Next week it's creative nonfiction! (Register for next week's class today while there is still room!)

Creative Writing Classes - Washtenaw Community College

Next Saturday, June 20, 2015, at WCC, 10am-4pm

Beginning Writers Workshop  ENG 4290  Start 06/20/15  Mandatory Fees: $0.00  Room :  LA 157

1 session  Days of the Week : Weekly - Sat .  Tuition: $69.00  Location : Liberal Arts & Sciences Bldg Location :   Liberal Arts & Sciences Bldg.  Instructor : Frances Wang    Please read: No lunch provided

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

Write Award Winning Creative Non-Fiction

Teaching at Chelsea District Library this Monday for MLK Day--Register today!

Write Award Winning Creative Non-Fiction

Write an Award Winning Creative Non-Fiction | Monday, Jan. 19 | 1:00am-3:00pm | McKune | Registration | Grades 6 - 12

Creative nonfiction is another way to say true stories, well told. Learn to write great true stories with the help of Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, a creative writing instructor at Washtenaw Community College. Participants should come prepared to write, and will be working on submissions for several creative nonfiction contests. Please bring a notebook and pen.

Write Award Winning Creative Non-Fiction

Creative Writing Class: Dare to Dream this Saturday at Washtenaw Community College

I'm teaching an all-day writer's workshop this Saturday that I jokingly call my mid-life crisis writing workshop: Dare to Dream this Saturday, November 21, 9:30-3:25, at Washtenaw Community College.

Sign up at wccedu.net under Lifelong Learning (I can't find the link for some reason, but everyone else tells me that it is there).

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

This weekend! Jumpstart your Memoir 10-1 and Finding your Voice 1:30-4:30

Writers Workshop -Jumpstart Your Memoir  ENG 4006  Start 11/01/14  Mandatory Fees: $0.00  Rm. LA 158

2 sessions  Sat  Tuition: $69.00  Location: Liberal Arts & Sciences Bldg   Instructor: Wang    Please read: Students will need to bring a notebook and ...More Writing With Style- Finding Your Voice  ENG 4004  Start 11/01/14  Mandatory Fees: $0.00  Rm. LA 150 2 sessions  Sat  Tuition: $59.00  Location: Liberal Arts & Sciences Bldg   Instructor: Wang    Please read: Students should bring to class a notebook ...More

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

Video: "Aunties at the Temple" for Obon season

Heading to the Obon Dance tonight! Check out this video of my prose poem/ creative non-fiction piece, "Aunties at the Temple," at the 41:29 mark.

Hawai'i: Deep Beauty and Volcanic Power | Ann Arbor District Library

Creative Nonfiction Math

Calculating the mathematical possibilities and functions in my Creative Nonfiction class at WCC last night. (Math Asian. Ha!)

Teaching Creative Nonfiction

Teaching Creative Nonfiction tonight at WCC, 6-8:30 pm, LA138. Hope you can join us! (Also, I did not write that course description)

https://washtenaw.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=4607&int_category_id=3&int_sub_category_id=49&int_catalog_id=1

Thoughts from Lee Gutkind: What is Creative Nonfiction? | Creative Nonfiction

"Skipping Hopscotch Atop Hyphens" published in Ricepaper Magazine Spring 2014

Look what came in the mail from Ricepaper! Check out the "Genuine Canadian Magazine" mark! Love the "Asian/Canadian/Curious." And there is just something about paper... love everything about the cover (by Kalsang Dawa), including the texture and weight.

Purchase yours here!
http://ricepapermagazine.ca/2014/03/spring-2014-18-4-issue/

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Texting Nostalgic for Kathmandu

What this weekend needs. My love letter to the virtual worlds we live in (not really) and Jyoti Omi Chowdhury's beautiful photographs (always). So pleased to have "Texting Nostalgic for Kathmandu," published today in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Hong Kong, edited by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming.

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Texting Nostalgic for Kathmandu

From the editors:

The belated Sixth Anniversary Issue of Cha (March 2014) is here. We would like to thank guest editors Arthur Leung (poetry) and Royston Tester (prose) for reading the submissions with us and helping us put together a great edition. We would also like to thank Eddie Tay for another fine selection of book reviews and Daryl Yam for reading the contest poems and writing a commentary on why we choose the poems. The issue includes an editorial by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming titled "Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women".

The following writers/artists have generously allowed us to showcase their work:
Poetry: Reid Mitchell, B.B.P. Hosmillo, Renée M. Schell, Edward Ragg, Bryan Thao Worra, Mingjuan Tan, Reihana Robinson, Amy Uyematsu, Deborah Guzzi, Jenna Le, Ranu Uniyal, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Eileen Chong
"Void" poetry contest winners: Catherine Edmunds, Richard L. Provencher, Arlene Yandug, Maj Ikle, Hao Guang, Leonadrea Tan, Amit Shankar Saha
Fiction: Mark Crimmins, Sreedhevi Iyer, Peter Phillips, Peabody Winston
Creative non-fiction: Mary J. Breen, Amanda Faye Lacson, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Jyoti Omi Chowdhury
Excerpts: Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Christopher Taylor
Interviews: Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang, Shaily Sahay
Lost tea: Fehmida Zakeer
Photography & art: Hu Jiamin (cover artist), Johanna Audiffred, Eddie Tay, Jyoti Omi Chowdhury
Reviews & essays: John Wall Barger, William Noseworthy, Shaily Sahay, Emma Zhang, Bhanumati Mishra, Cecilia Chan, Elen Turner, Vaughan Rapatahana

Spring 2014 (18.4) issue | Ricepaper Magazine

So excited to have my creative non-fiction piece, "Skipping Hopscotch Atop Hyphens," be a part of the Spring 2014 issue of Vancouver's very cool Ricepaper Magazine, the "Hyphen Nation" issue. I love this beautiful cover!

A teaser:

One Christmas Eve, I stay up until midnight with Little Brother on Norad Tracks Santa, following Santa’s progress across the globe. After Little Brother goes to sleep, I linger a little bit longer to see if Santa has reached you yet where you are in Quebec. Then I watch Santa course from Montreal through Toronto for a late night jook before heading my way. (Surely there is someone somewhere who can replace you.)

Spring 2014 (18.4) issue | Ricepaper Magazine

Purchase here! http://ricepaper.bigcartel.com/product/18-4-spring-2014

2012 - 2013 Kartika Review Anthology

So pleased to be a part of the 2012 - 2013 Kartika Review Anthology featuring the works of Adalena Kavanagh, Aditya Desai, An Tran, Anu Kandikuppa, April Naoko Heck, Aruni Kashyap, Bridget Crenshaw Mabunga, Chris Santiago, Danny Robles, David Mura, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd, Hai-Dang Phan, Henry W. Leung, Ira Sukrungruang, Jackson Bliss, Jen Palmares Meadows, Jenna Kilic, Jimin Han, Kaitlin Solimine, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Karen An-hwei Lee, Khaty Xiong, Kiki Whang, Lee Herrick, Mai Nardone, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Michelle Chan Brown, Minh Pham, Naomi J. Williams, Neil Aitken, Purvi Shah, R.A. Santos, R.A. Villanueva, Rachelle Cruz, Ramola D., Sean Labrador y Manzano, Sharon Hashimoto, Shubha Venugopal, Simi Kang, Sonia Hathi, Susan Ito, Tony D’Souza, V. Jo Hsu, W. Todd Kaneko, and Wah-Ming Chang

Available now on lulu! Thanks to editor Jennifer Derilo

New Link Here:  http://bit.ly/1oDDY2c

http://www.lulu.com/shop/jennifer-derilo-and-eugenia-leigh-and-christine-hyung-oak-lee/the-2012-2013-kartika-review-anthology/paperback/product-21445106.html;jsessionid=46551A664DC4A7D877A6D9E58BFDC96A

"Grandfather Walking," Kartika Review, found again

So excited to find my creative nonfiction piece, "Grandfather Walking," again after Kartika Review had some hacker problems a few months back. (Why would anyone target a literary journal?) Check it out on page 109. With a photograph by Jyoti Omi Chowdhury at the beginning and something special at the end. Click here: ISSUU - kartika_issue16 by Kartika Review



ISSUU - kartika_issue16 by Kartika Review

And here is the link to purchase a hard copy: Kartika Review: Issue 16, Fall 2013. by Christine Lee Zilka (Paperback) - Lulu

18.3 - Winter 2013 | Ricepaper Magazine

Excited to be invited to be a part of Ricepaper Magazine's next issue on Hyphens. Until then, here's their most recent edition, just out. 18.3 - Winter 2013 | Ricepaper Magazine

Kartika Review and "Grandfather Walking,"

So pleased to receive my Kartika Review in the mail today, so beautifully wrapped, with "Grandfather Walking," photograph by Jyoti Omi Chowdhury. Thanks to editor Jennifer Derilo!

Poetry Excerpts from Kartika Review, Fall 2013, Issue #16

So pleased to be a part of Kartika Review, Fall 2013, Issue #16! Go to page 109 to read my creative nonfiction piece, "Grandfather Walking," featuring the photography of Jyoti Omi Chowdhury.

http://kartikareview.com/?portfolio=issue-16-fall-2013-2

You can purchase a hard copy of the journal at http://www.lulu.com/shop/christine-lee-zilka-and-sunny-woan-and-jennifer-derilo-and-paul-lai/kartika-review-issue-16-fall-2013/paperback/product-21212922.html

Some poetry excerpts via editor Eugenia Leigh:

"grunted for blood, chanted // allegiances to the hunt—and I, lead / and chief, was first to howl" — R.A. Villanueva

"we tiptoed over bones of neighbors, umbrella spines, scorched radish-gardens, we flashed our scars" — April Naoko Heck

"He picked up a baby / Snake and apologized / Before tossing it / Onto a land mine." — Minh Pham

"even in passing, the sight of God / will finish us for good. // Later the newborn smell will fade // into something less clean" — Chris ChrisandYuri Santiago

"Or the boy // crouched over her, shadows moving like cuts / across his skin." — Mia Ayumi Malhotra

"The convent burns, / each nun convinced in what she's owed. / And marriage merely acquisition: / prettier empty bowls." — Michelle Chan Brown

Kartika Review, Fall 2013, Issue 16, " Grandfather Walking"

So excited to be included in the latest issue of Kartika Review, Fall 2013, Issue 16. Go to page 109 to read my creative nonfiction piece, "Grandfather Walking," featuring the photography of Jyoti Omi Chowdhury.

http://kartikareview.com/?portfolio=issue-16-fall-2013-2

Great articles and interviews with Li-Young Li and David Mura, too.

You can purchase a hard copy of the journal at http://www.lulu.com/shop/christine-lee-zilka-and-sunny-woan-and-jennifer-derilo-and-paul-lai/kartika-review-issue-16-fall-2013/paperback/product-21212922.html

Thanks to Lac Su for introducing me and thanks to editor Jennifer Derilo for everything!