Online Writing Workshop with Jane Wong
Join Jane Wong, author of Meet Tonight in Atlantic City for a unique writing workshop.
How can writing about food open up evocative spaces of comfort, family, ancestral lineage, memory, and shared rituals? How can writing through and about food strengthen our communities and open up our creative craft? Our session will inspire you with sensory writing prompts and opportunities for feedback, connection, and breaking bread/sharing.
Winner of the 2024 Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is an incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.
Wong holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the UW and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at WWU. She is also the author of two collections of poetry: “How to Not Be Afraid of Everything’” and “Overpour.” She grew up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore and lives in Seattle.
The Washington State Book Awards are a project of the The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of The Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library).
This event is presented by the Washington Center for the Book (administered by Washington State Library), The Seattle Public Library, and Whatcom County Library System. The event is free and will be presented online via Zoom. Registration is required and spaces are limited. The event will be recorded and accessible on Washington State Library’s YouTube channel.