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

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

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

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/

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

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

(3) Asia Pacific Writers & Translators - Posts | Facebook

Asian Americans and the food justice movement in Metro Detroit | The Arab American News

Just found this article from The Arab American News 2018 but with many more photographs!

Asian Americans and the food justice movement in Metro Detroit—adding complexity, making connections

Chinese Food and Ethical Wills classes at WCC

Teaching Chinese Food: Customs and Culture at Washtenaw Community College starting tonight Dec 2, and Ethical Wills starting Sat Dec 5, 2020

Come join us! https://www.wccnet.edu/learn/our-offerings/personal-enrichment.php

NYWW Writing to Save the World

Write with me and New York Writers Workshop Writing to Save the World (Just in time for the inauguration) 6 Sundays Jan 17-Feb 21, 3-5pm EST, ONLINE. 

Discounted early bird registration until Jan 3
https://bpt.me/4846105

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

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

Reading: Meridian - the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing Launch

I'll be reading

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2020 AT 7 AM EST – 8:30 AM EST
Meridian - the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing Launch

Hosted by Asia Pacific Writers & Translators and Drunken Boat

Join us online to celebrate the launch of Meridian - the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing - our first book length publication edited by Sally Breen, Ravi Shankar and Tim Tomlinson - featuring 37 voices from 17 countries. The launch event hosted by APWT Chair Ravi Shankar will showcase readings from feature authors Jane Frank, Sahib Nazari, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Indyana Horobin, Joshua Zelesnick and George Szirtes. 'What the Meridian anthology aspires to is nothing less than making an area of the globe a unity by establishing it another republic of letters ... the book they've made is new and fresh and thrilling, suffused with the sense of a beginning but also with the sense of the perennial and the permanent,' Pulitzer Prize winner Vijay Seshadri. The link to the live event will be posted one week out. Meridian will be available for sale from the launch date on the APWT website, Amazon and SPD. 

Meridian - the APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing Launch | Facebook

Thanks 2020 CultureSource for Artist Relief Grant

Thanks CultureSource and Upper Midwest Emergency Relief Fund Coalition for a 2020 Artist Relief Grant.

Speaking at Wayne State Law School tonight

 Speaking at Wayne State Law School via Zoom about Hawaiian history and sovereignty tonight!

Two tentative courses coming through New York Writers Workshop

I have two upcoming classes tentatively confirmed through New York Writers Workshop. These will be taught on Zoom so anyone anywhere can attend! Hope the time zones work for you. Details soon.

Writing to Save the World (Just in time for inauguration day!)

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

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 6 weeks, Sundays, Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, 2021 3-5pm EST TENTATIVE

(Makeup date in case of emergency Feb 28)



Jumpstart your Memoir 
(Great gift for your elders to make them write down the life stories you’ve been begging them for!)

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Everyone has interesting stories to tell, but not everyone knows where to begin. Whether you want to write a memoir for your loved ones or you want to make sense of your life, why not start here, one word, one story at time? Learn simple but powerful methods to get the ideas out of your head and onto the page. Short writing and reading exercises, overcoming barriers to writing, taking chances with emotion, different memoir forms, remembering the past, making sense of the present. If you can talk story, you can write your story! Bring a notebook and pen.

Online 6 weeks, Sundays, March 7-Apr 18 (no Easter 4/4), 2021, 3-5pm EST TENTATIVE MAY CHANGE

Thanks Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation via CultureSource for Individual Artist grant

Thank you to Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation via CultureSource for an Individual Artist Grant for Racial Equity to support creation of an anthology, digital arts archive, book, and literary arts performance for 40th anniversary of the Vincent Chin slaying

Two new WCC writing classes starting this weekend

Starting two three-week writing classes at Washtenaw Community College this weekend

"Writing From the Heart" 3 Saturdays Nov 7-12 9:30am-12:30pm EST and

"Telling the Stories of Your Life Finding Your Voice" 3 Mondays Nov 9-23 6:00-8:30pm EST

Register today here

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

Postcards from the pandemic | University of Michigan Library

So much fun to be a part of this pandemic art project this summer with Ann Arbor District Library and Univ of Michigan Library and to share it with my writing students! More coming next semester

"Sometimes we gently tease our immigrant and refugee elders, “Do you really need these three thousand plastic take-out containers and green onion rubber bands?” But with national shortages of toilet paper, flour, masks, gloves, elastic, canning lids, and even coins, who is laughing now?"

https://www.lib.umich.edu/about-us/news/postcards-pandemic

Chinese Americans in Michigan under Trump administration and COVID-19 – Mi Asian

Just found this article in MIAsian from Nov 3, 2020. It's also supposed to be in New Michigan Media and Detroit Journalism Cooperative, but I haven't found those yet.  

Chinese Americans in Michigan under Trump administration and COVID-19 – Mi Asian

Art Exhibition: Poem "Learning to Drive Defensively" at UM 2020 DEI Summit Creative Gallery

An early version of my prose poem, "Learning to Drive Defensively," exhibited at the University of Michigan Diversity Equity and Inclusion 2020 DEI Summit Creative Gallery 

https://deisummit.umich.edu/creative-gallery/frances-kai-hwa-wang/

New York Writers Workshop Board

Thanks very much to New York Writers Workshop for inviting me to join their board. Can't wait for all the fun we're going to have!

WCC Continuing Writers Workshop Fall 2020

Washtenaw Community College Continuing Writers Workshop Finding the Writer Within begins 

Oct 4-Dec 13, 10 weeks, Sundays 12-2 EDT 

Come write with us!

WCCnet.edu