The Pain and Joy of Revision: In this talk we will explore how revision can make the story come alive. Identify the heartbeat in the story. Allow your characters to define expectations. When something recurs, it speaks louder and in a new way—reverberate. Finally, when do you stop revising? Whether you are writing your 2nd or 20th draft, you will come away with some tools that help you push through to the finish line. 

Sacramento Literacy Foundation’s 21st annual Authors on the Move will be held on Saturday, March 11, 2023 from 3:30 – 10 pm at the Kimpton Sawyer in downtown Sacramento. 24 authors will spend a delightful evening with over 200 guests as they enjoy a gourmet dinner and converse with distinguished authors.

Where does the short story collection fit in today’s literary landscape? What does this form offer—for writers and readers—not found in longer forms of fiction? How do writers evoke full lives on the page within such a confined space? In this panel, award-winning authors of short story collections discuss what draws them to writing short fiction, how the process of creating a short story collection differs from writing a novel, and the unique challenges and opportunities of the short story form. Panelists will also share lessons and insights about their own favorite short stories, and will take questions from the audience. Featuring Yang Huang, Judy Juanita, Peg Alford Pursell, Shruti Swamy, and Dallas Woodburn.

Writer’s Nook: How I Published My Book, with Sharon Darrow, M.L. Hamilton, and Jessica O’Dwyer.

Join us for an engrossing talk and question/answer session with Yang Huang, discussing her most recent, award winning novel MY GOOD SON. Huang previously spoke at the San Francisco Main Library about her award winning novels MY OLD FAITHFUL and LIVING TREASURES. Books will be available for purchase. The program is to be conducted in English and Chinese.

Watch Yang’s introduction of MY GOOD SON.

Yang Huang is an award-winning author, who has used her background to write books that reflect themes most literature lovers can identify with. Her current book, My Good Son, focuses on major life events between an Asian father and son post-Tiananmen China. Please join Ouida Charles, Program Coordinator, as she discusses with Yang Huang on zoom.

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During the AAPI Month, Yang Huang will talk with Prof. Jennifer Cho about the power and burdens of parental love in her new novel MY GOOD SON. Join them in an open and enlivening discussion on familial love, social betterment, and how notions of "good" parenting transmits across time, space and language.

Watch Yang’s conversation with Prof. Jennifer Cho.

Twenty Bay Area authors will be in attendance, and a local bookseller will be on hand with their books on sale. Hope to see you there!

Join us for a reading and book talk with local author Yang Huang as she reads from and discusses her new book, My Good Son, a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist and winner of the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize.

In person author talk at the Oakland Library! Books will be available for purchase.

Hercules welcomes local author Yang Huang for an Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration! Join us for a book talk about My Good Son, a story that exposes readers to the parallels and differences of American and Chinese cultures, father-son relationships, familial expectations, sexuality, social mobility, and privilege.

Watch Yang’s talk with Alison Peters and Robyn Brown.

In-person panel! With Sharon Harrigan, Kelly Fordon, Yang Huang, and Dennis Lloyd. This diverse panel features one university press director and three acclaimed writers of multiple genres, published by a range of university presses. They guide you through the publishing process, from submission to distribution.

Join Babylon Salon on Saturday, March 12 for our Spring performance featuring Lee Kravetz (Strange Contagion; The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.); Jenny Qi (Focal Point); Yang Huang (My Old Faithful; My Good Son); Georgina Beaty (The Party is Here); and with music from Scott Bird (Songs of the Lowland Sun; The Maybird Project)!!

Author Yang Huang, a Boston College alumna, will read from her prize-winning novel, My Good Son in this virtual event to be followed by a Q&A. Please register: https://bit.ly/3ogAojv

In person event! Five novelists: Carol Edgarian, Rebecca Handler, Yang Huang, and Ashley Nelson Levy will join moderator Nayomi Munaweera to discuss their art and craft.

Virtual launch for MY GOOD SON: in conversation with Kaitlin Solimine. All are welcome!

This event is free and all ages, but RSVP is required. The link will be sent to everyone who registers.

Order **signed copies** of My Good Son.

Hear Ethel Rohan read from her new short collection, IN EVENT OF CONTACT, Yang Huang from her new novel MY GOOD SON, and Adrian Ernesto Cepeda from LA BELLE AJAR, his collection of cento poems inspired by the work of Sylvia Plath.

Buy copies of all three books from Folio Books of Noe Valley.

Get the Zoom link by emailing oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com or visit Facebook event.

Speaking Up and Sharing Our Stories

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Fourth Thursday SWC Reading Series: Fiction from Yang Huang (My Good Son), Liv Stratman (Cheat Day), Brenda Peynado (The Rock Eaters), and Stacey Swann (Olympus, Texas).

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"This Is a Work of Fiction”: The Gifts & Perils of Mining Global Family Stories. With Suzanne Matson, Yang Huang, and Elizabeth Graver. The authors discuss the ethical, interpersonal, formal, and research-based challenges of using family stories as springboards for both contemporary and historical fiction set in the US and across the globe.

FREEDOM WITH DAVID HALLOCK SANDERS + Luiza Flynn-Goodlett + Emily Dezurick-Badran + Leticia Del Toro + Christine No + Amanda Muniz + YANG HUANG

Presented by: The Distinguished Writers Series

Creative Writing Program • English Department • Cal State East Bay

Talk with the book club readers about My Old Faithful. All are welcome!

An evening of poetry, music, and conversations with local writers, musicians, and activists for Artographies: Voices, Sounds & Poetry from the Bay Area on Refugees & Borders. With Veronica Aguilar, Rachel Qúy Collier, Yang Huang, Laleh Khadavi, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, Oliver Mok, Nwe Oo, Sakhone, Audrey T. Williams, Maw Shein Win, Kenneth Wong, and Julie Zhu.

Vanessa Hua, Yang Huang, and Kaitlin Solimine tell Chinese diaspora stories from their recent work at Odd Mondays at Folio Books in Noe Valley.

Twists, Turns and Revelations: Secrets and Surprises in Story. A spirted discussion with Venita Blackburn, Lydia Kiesling, Ellen Sussman, and Elizabeth Stark.

My IT Journey took me from China to Florida, Boston, Seattle, Tucson (the four corners of the States), and then the Bay Area and beyond. Throughout the years I have worked as an engineer while writting fiction from the heart.

Join short fiction writers as they talk about their craft. Featuring moderator Rita Bullwinkel, Kim Addonizio, Ethel Rohan, Kate Folk, and Yang Huang.

Angela Mi Young Hur, Kaitlin Solimine, Lydia Kiesling, Rachel Richardson, and Yang Huang discuss the challenges they face as writers pursuing their careers while raising a family.