Third Place Books in Seattle welcomes celebrated writers Jenny Liou, Q.M. Zhang, and Jane Wong to our Ravenna store! This gathering will feature readings from Jenny Liou's debut poetry collection Muscle Memory; Q.M. Zhang's mixed-genre work Accomplice to Memory; and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, Jane Wong's collection of poems that speak across generations of survival. This event is free and open to the public.

Q.M. Zhang will be in conversation with author, Uzma Aslam Khan, about her fifth novel, a stunning example of memory work about a time, place, and people who have been erased from collective memory: the cohabitants of the Andaman Islands during the rise and fall of empires of the second world war. A master study in how to write into the silences of history.

Watch the video recording of the event HERE!

Join Mass Review for a reading and panel discussion with Nicolette Wong, Xu Xi, Sharon Yam, Yeung Chak Yan, and Q.M. Zhang!

Amidst the reshaping of Hong Kong’s social, cultural, political and ideological landscapes, how do we re-envisage a city that exists in our memories? For those who have left their hometown—or the place they once called home—the question, “What does it mean to be a Hongkonger?” marks a constant shift between conflicting realities, identities, and perceptions. Beyond the act of remembering, how do we re-imagine our relationship with Hong Kong in the present and the future?

To mark the launch of the forthcoming book, Looking Back at Hong Kong: An Anthology of Writing and Art (Cart Noodles Press, 2021), writers who have called Hong Kong home will come together to read from their work and reflect on the profound changes and subtle transitions that have transpired in Hong Kong, both in recent times and over the past decades.

Hosted by The Massachusetts Review and Cart Noodles Press

View recorded event here:

https://massreview.org/node/9952

Read Q.M. Zhang’s new story, “Proximate Things” here:

https://www.massreview.org/sites/default/files/05_62.3Zhang_0.pdf

Join Kim and friends, family, and fellow writers and artists to celebrate the founding of MemoryWorks. Kim will read from her award-winning book, Accomplice to Memory, and converse with Neela Banerjee, Managing Editor of Kaya Press, about MemoryWorks: its origins and offerings, hybrid methods, and upcoming workshops. This event will be co-hosted by Kaya Press and The Massachusetts Review.

Kim will be a guest artist in fellow writer Holly Wren Spaulding’s pop-up workshop series for challenging and uncertain times: Poetry as Consolation. She will read from Accomplice to Memory and share a memory work guided writing exercise.

Speakers will discuss literary and cinematic representations of the Holocaust; traumatic events of the Pacific War, including the Nanjing Massacre; and Mao's China. Speakers will consider films by Zhang Yimou and others; poetry by Wing Tek Lum; speculative fiction by Ken Liu; Q. M. Zhang's memoir, Accomplice to Memory; and theories of trauma and testimony.

Speakers include: 

Glen Timmermans and Alex Lam Chi, University of Macau

See Kam Tan, University of Macau

Richard C. Sha, American University

Patricia Chu, George Washington University

Q.M. Zhang, Hampshire College

Event Date and Time: Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Event Location: Gelman Library, Room 101

Event Type: Public

Event Format: Conference

RSVP Required: RSVP is required for this event

Sponsors: GW Department of English

Kaya Press authors Anelise Chan and QM Zhang come together to discuss trauma, memory and the writing.  Both authors push the boundaries of genres with their hybrid and experimental text that refuse to be placed in simple categories such as memoir, novels, self-help and more.  

The Editors and Board of the Massachusetts Review invite you to our fifth annual Winter Party celebrating our achievements this year, and an exciting 2018!

Readings by Martín Espada, Lauren Marie Schmidt, and Q. M. Zhang.

A live recording of our educational podcast The How, The Why with Neelanjana Banerjee, Anelise Chen and Q.M. Zhang.

The How, The Why is a half-hour podcast documenting the creative process and the creative purpose hosted by Jon-Barrett Ingels. This free weekly series is an educational resource provided to discuss the evolution of literary arts with industry innovators—authors, journalists, and publishers.

Listen to the podcast here:

https://publicpodcasting.org/listen/189-neelanjana-banerjee-anelise-chen-and-q-m-zhang?rq=q.m.%20zhang

I Love Dick, Chris Kraus’s auto-fiction about the obsessions of a writer named Chris Kraus, has influenced a generation of writers to experiment with blurring fact and fiction as a way to claim radical subjectivity. The book has now been adapted into an Amazon Prime series produced by Jill Soloway (Transparent). In a conversation about how genre-crossing writing makes visible issues of feminism, race, queerness, and culture, Kraus will talk with other writers who have experimented with hybrid forms: Tisa Bryant (Unexplained Presence), whose hybridized writings explore the presumed absence of Black bodies in film and literature; Anelise Chen (So Many Olympic Exertions), whose dissections of sports and personal history interrogate ideas about success; and Q.M. Zhang (Accomplice to Memory), whose hybrid memoir utilizes tools of fiction and non-fiction to uncover her father’s secret past.

http://kaya.com/2017/08/event-visions-voices-presents-love-dick-five-women-writers-hybrid-storytelling/

Hong Kong International Literary Festival

presents

Q.M. Zhang

in conversation with Bidisha Banerjee

Panel Moderator: Elizabeth Taylor

https://www.facebook.com/events/1858900271025411/

Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge Pre-Reading & Party
Other Books
2006 E Cesar Chavez Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90033
7:30 – 9:30 pm

Come party with us as we gear up for the LA Times Festival of Books, where Kaya and the USC PhD in Creative Writing and Literature will be hosting the Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge! The Festival starts on Saturday, so make sure to join us at Other Books on FRIDAY for a series of readings to pump you up for a weekend of literary fun. There’ll be food and drinks–don’t miss it!

Featuring:
Q.M. Zhang
Chris Santiago
Douglas Manuel
Siel Ju
Andrew Wessels
Amarnath Ravva

http://www.odysseybks.com/event/qm-zhang-accomplice-memory

Migrant Father Fragment

If you grew up in an immigrant family, you may have felt that you could only know your family’s past through fragments and glimpses. Q. M. Zhang reads from her new Dictee-like novel about her father’s mysterious migration from China. She'll be joined by Guggenheim Fellow lê thị diễm thúy, author of the refugee classic, The Gangster We Are All Looking For. They talk with The New Yorker’s Hua Hsu.

 http://aaww.org/curation/migrant-father-fragment/

Listen to the podcast here:

https://aawwradio.libsyn.com/migrant-father-fragment-ft-qm-zhang-l-th-dim-thy-hua-hsu

Fracturing Memory, Crossing Borders: Transnational Memoir Writers Discuss Hybrid Necessities

For transnational writers who spend their lives constantly negotiating borders—geographic and personal—hybridity no longer becomes a choice. This panel features diverse writers whose experimental memoirs include nonlinearity, multiple genres, photographs, and other multimedia. We will discuss how these hybrid strategies succeed or fail when trying to reconstruct family histories or address personal trauma, and how this can be especially challenging when moving between nations and identities.

https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/10384