Join Q.M. Zhang and friends, family, and fellow writers and artists in celebrating the founding of MemoryWorks. Listen to Kim read from her award-winning book, Accomplice to Memory, and converse with Neela Banerjee, Managing Editor of Kaya Press, and Jim Hicks, Executive Editor of The Massachusetts Review, about the origins and offerings of MemoryWorks.

More conversations on hybrid form…

Kaya Press Interview

“The hybrid form of the book emerged out of necessity.”

Asian American Writers Workshop Podcast

“What happens to me when I write and I get close to the truth of an experience—my nose gets all stuffy.”

Heritage Future Public Podcast: “The How and the Why”

“I began to take seriously other kinds of sources that we might think of as unreliable—my father’s hallucinations in the hospital, my own dreams—as guiding my research, as pointing me toward the past. Rather than dismiss those, they were clues and I followed them.”

USC Visions & Voices: Four Writers on Hybrid Storytelling

“Fiction alone couldn’t deal with the problem of truth telling. I needed to move between forms to engage the reader with this problem.”

Hampshire College Interview

“How can we use hybrid forms of writing to explore the gaps between what we think we know, what has been forgotten or erased, and what we have to imagine in order to get closer to truth?”