UPCOMING Events 2022 - 23
2022
March to August: 2022 Singapore Literature Prize Fiction judge with authors Balli Kaur Jaswal and Shirley Geok-lin Lim.
April 9 @11 am: Annapolis Book Festival at Key School (Library), Annapolis, Maryland: A Different Narrative: The Art and Craft of Asian Stories. Featured author with Robin Hemley, moderated by Matthew Davis.
April 13 @ 1pm: New York University Environmental Humanities class. Speaker
April 18 @ 6 pm: New York University Global Perspectives on Narrative. Panelist with authors Robin Hemley and Ravi Shankar.
May 22 to 28: Authors at Large International Writing Retreat in Thessaloniki, Greece. Program director.
September 16 to 18: 5th International Creative Writing Conference of the University of Western Macedonia in Palermo, Italy. Keynote speaker & Scientific Committee.
October 13: Penn State University Rolling Reading Series, MFA program at the Department of English. Visiting Writer.
2023
Jun 6 to 10: Nobel Symposium in Literature: Literary Judgment and the Fora of Criticism, Stockholm, Sweden. Speaker.
Jun 20 to 24: 16th ICCSE Internationational Conference on the Short Story in English, Nanyang Technological Univeersity, Singapore. Workshop leader ”Writing the Transnational Short Story”
Recent Events 2021 to 2022
2022
Mar 23 to 26: Annual AWP Conference. Panelist on "The Empire Writes Back from the Program Era: CW in Asia and Beyond" led by Darryl Whetter, with Dai Fan, Sam Meekings, Marshall Moore.
Mar 24: College of the Holy Cross Working Writer Series presents novelist Katie Kitamura. Presenter.
Mar 12: Singapore Unbound, New York. Reading and book discussion for The Art and Craft of Asian Stories with co-author Robin Hemley.
2021 (from September)
Dec 5: NonfictioNow 2021 Aotearoa, New Zealand. Co-leader of a roundtable HUI on Transnational Writing with Sybil Baker.
Nov 11: Featured author at JakTent Literary Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia with Filipino authors Charlson Ong in discussion about "Lese Majeste." Moderated by Nancy Amelia Collins.
Nov 7: Hong Kong International Literary Festival event "Ghosts, Beasts and Family Histories" featuring debut novelists K-Ming Chang and Pik-Shuen Fung. Moderator for reading and conversation.
Oct: Driftwood Press 2021 Adrift Short Story Contest. Judge
Oct 28: Working Writers Series at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Moderator for reading and conversation with Sybil Baker and Brian Leung.
Oct 16 to 23: Authors at Large hosted Brenda Miller who led a week-long intensive CNF writing retreat.
Oct 6: Looking Back at Hong Kong: Reading and panel discussion. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Review and Cart Noodle Press. Reader and panelist.
Sep 23: Working Writers Series at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Faculty reader.
PUBLIC EYE: In the Media
Summer 2005 Photo L to R
top: Andrew Zawacki, Beate Rygiert, Daniel Bachmann
bottom: Mila D Aguilar, Sindiwe Magona, Xu Xi