UPCOMING EVENTS

• 3/21 & 3/22/25, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL

• 5/2/25, Ottawa Writers Festival

• 9/24/25, Brockport Writers Forum, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY

PAST EVENTS

• 2/21/25, Parthenon Books, Syracuse, NY

• 2/11/25, New York City Book Launch, Yu & Me Books, New York, NY

• 2/9/25, Ithaca Book Launch, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY

• 1/29/25, Toronto Book Launch, Flying Books, Toronto, ON

• 5/6-7/23 LITERAsian, Vancouver

• 2/10/23 Visiting Author Reading Series, Downtown Writers Center, YMCA of Central New York, Syracuse

• 2/5/23 “Let’s Begin: Strategies for Opening a Story,” The Writer’s Studio, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

• 10/21/22 “Holding Attention in Fiction,” Surrey International Writers Festival, Surrey, BC

• 10/12/22 Yu & Me Books, New York City, with Melissa Fu

• 9/20/22 Canadian Writers in Person, York University, Toronto

• 8/13/22 Chinatown Storytelling Centre, Vancouver

• 7/12/22 “Holding Attention in Fiction,” Historic Joy Kogawa House, Vancouver

• 5/18/22 “Construction of a Story Arc,” The Writers’ Union of Canada Webinars, with Frances Boyle, Sidura Ludwig, and Natasha Deen

• 5/4/22 Kingston Frontenac Public Library / Queens University Library, Kingston, ON

• 5/2/22 “Keeping It Short,” Festival of Literary Diversity, Brampton, with Kim Fu and Norma Dunning

• 3/16/22 “A Century of Chinese Migrant Stories,” Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, with Doretta Lau

• 2/28/22 Literary Forum, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY

• 2/12/22 “Holding Attention in the Short Story,“ Festival of Literary Diversity Academy Webinars

• 11/7/21 ”The Publication Process: Writer, Editor, and Agent Connect,” Wild Writers Literary Festival, Waterloo, ON, with Jackie Kaiser, Janie Yoon, and Pamela Mulloy

• 10/21/21 Visiting Writers Series, Wells College, Aurora, NY

• 9/28/21 Red Dragon Reading Series, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY

• 8/14/21 Ithaca Is Books, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY

• 6/15/21 Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, with Nana Nkweti and Emilio Fraia

• 6/8/21 US Book Launch, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY

• 5/18/21 “The Science of Fiction,” Ottawa Independent Writers, Ottawa

• 5/7/21 Spring Writes! Literary Festival, Ithaca, NY, with G’Ra Asim

• 5/7/21 “Collected Work: On Writing Short Forms, and Gathering Them into Book Form,” Spring Writes! Literary Festival, Ithaca, NY, with Leslie Daniels, Emily Fridlund, and Gina Nutt

• 3/4/21 How to Pronounce Knife Book Talk with Souvankham Thammavongsa, Innis College, University of Toronto, Toronto

• 11/18/20 ”The Short Story: Getting In Between Spaces,” Wild Writers Literary Festival, Waterloo, ON, with Vinh Nguyen and Souvankham Thammavongsa

• 11/4/20 “On Holding Attention,” Wild Writers Literary Festival, Waterloo, ON

• 10/27/20 ”The Immigrant Experience,” Toronto International Festival of Authors, Toronto, with Marc Herman Lync

• 10/25/20 “The Afternoon Tea,” The Vancouver Writers Festival, Vancouver, with Caroline Adderson, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Will Ferguson, Michelle Good, and Kevin Spenst

• 9/30/20 Victoria Festival of Authors, Victoria, BC, with Amanda Leduc, Catherine Hernandez, and Zsuzsi Gartner.

• 9/25/20 “Time Travel,” Word Vancouver, Vancouver, with Kawika Guillermo and Leslie Shimotakahara

• 9/21/20 Canadian Book Launch, Innis College, University of Toronto, Toronto

• 9/10/20 “At the Crossroads,” Words Across Canada / The Word on the Street, Toronto, with Kaie Kellough

• 8/28/20 “Late Bloom: Publishing Later in Life,” Chautauqua Writers' Center Brown Bag Conversation, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY