2010 events

FEBRUARY
Feb 6 @​ 2 pm: CityU Asian Writing MFA Open Day - Presenter
Feb 12 @​ 6:30 pm: SCOPE FYP Group - Speaker

MARCH
Mar 9 - 10: CityU & APWP Writing Across Cultures Symposium - Organizer & Presenter

MAN Hong Kong Literary Festival
Mar 12 @​ 3pm: MAN Asian Literary Prize winners panel - Panelist
Mar 15 @​ 4 pm: In Conversation with Junot Diaz

Mar 18 - 21: The Writers Dialogue • New Delhi - Participant

APRIL
Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference • Denver
Apr 8 @​ 3pm: Smart Girls II The Ambition Game - Panelist
Apr 10 @​ 3 pm: Fiction in 4-D - Panelist

JUNE
Jun 16 - 20: 11th International Short Story Conference • Toronto
In A Land Far Far Away: Travel & the Short Story Writer - Panelist

OCTOBER
Book Launch: New novel HABIT OF A FOREIGN SKY • Hong Kong

recent events 2009


January to May at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Program

SEPTEMBER
Upstream @​ Chinese University of Hong Kong, ESF Professional Development - Workshop Leader
Fifty-Fifty: new edition book launch @​ Pacific Coffee, Central in Hong Kong.

JUNE
New Writing Worlds: The Creative Writer @​ the University of East Anglia and the City of Norwich, United Kingdom. Presenter at the International Literary Salon.

MAY
Reading at CALABASH Literary Festival, Jamaica
Featured Writer at Asian Heritage Month, Vancouver BC

APRIL
Reading at PRAIRIE LIGHTS BOOKSTORE, Iowa City

MARCH
Reading at the University of Illinois, Urbana Bookstore
Meachem Writers Workshop, Chattanooga, Tennessee: Featured Writer & Workshop Leader

FEBRUARY
AWP Conference in Chicago
Panelist "Bruce Jay Friedman & Friends on the Short Story"
Panelist "Viva Tony Soprano" on short story endings

Reading at the University of Iowa's "Word Painter" Reading Series.

Chateau de Lavigny International Writers Residency Summer 2005 Photo L to R top: Andrew Zawacki, Beate Rygiert, Daniel Bachmann bottom: Mila D Aguilar, Sindiwe Magona, Xu Xi