^{Tell-All Boston is Boston’s only live-on-stage literary reading series dedicated to the craft of memoir and personal essay, brought to you by the alumni of the GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator and Essay Incubator co-sponsored by GrubStreet and Porter Square Books.}

Tell-All Boston: Life on the Margins

Date/Time: Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 7pm EST
Location: Porter Square Books
(25 White St. Cambridge, MA 02140)

Porter Square Books is excited to present Tell-All Boston for an evening celebrating essays on life on the margins. The evening’s program will feature work from five writers, including José Angel Araguz, the author of the lyric memoir Ruin & Want. The other four writers to be featured were selected from an open call for submissions: Jason Prokowiew, Maxine West, Leticia Priebe Rocha, & Thuy Phan.

^{WNBA Boston works to bring together women and men from all different segments of the book world – publishing professionals, writers, librarians, and anyone who loves books – by providing a range of events that aim to educate, entertain, and inspire.}

Women’s National Book Association Boston: Memoir Panel

Date/Time: Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 7pm EST
Location: Book Ends
(559 Main Street, Winchester, MA)

Join the Boston Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association for a panel discussion on the craft and publishing of memoir, featuring local authors Liz Kinchen, Tova Mirvis, and Thuy Phan, and moderated by Karen Kirsten. Come support your local literary community and connect with fellow readers and writers of memoir and creative nonfiction!

^{The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is dedicated to publishing and amplifying Asian American literary culture. In cultivating and curating the next generation of Asian American storytellers, AAWW works to mobilize the literary community toward a more just future.}

AAWW & Kundiman Present: Emerging Writers in Conversation

Date/Time: Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 7pm EST
Location: Asian American Writers Workshop
(112 West 27th Street, #600, New York, NY)

Join AAWW and Kundiman for a conversation between luminous emerging writers Hannah Bae, Jen Lue, Rajat Singh, and Gina Chung! Moderated by Kundiman Northeast Regional Group Co-Chair, Thuy Phan.

^{GrubStreet’s Center for Creative Writing is the nation’s largest creative writing center and Boston’s premiere literary destination bringing people from all backgrounds together over a shared love of writing and reading.}

GrubStreet Community Events (Readings & Panels)

Date/Time: 2022-present
Location: GrubStreet
(50 Liberty Drive, Suite 500, Boston, MA)

I love being part of the Grub community! I’ve been invited to share my writing and experiences as a nonfiction writer at these GrubStreet events/classes:

• 2024-25 Essay Incubator Class – Alumni Panel, June 3, 2025
• Jumpstart Your Memoir Class – Visiting Guest Panel, August 21, 2024.
• 2024-25 Essay Incubator Open House & Info Session – Alumni Panel, June 26, 2024.
• 2023-24 Essay Incubator Class – Alumni Panel, June 11, 2024
• Advanced Memoir Building Class – Visiting Guest Panel, June 11, 2024
• Memoir Incubator 2023-24 Class Graduation, May 9, 2024 (reading event)
• 2023-24 Essay Incubator Open House & Info Session – Alumni Panel, July 11, 2023.
• Essay Incubator 2022-2023 Class Graduation, July 6, 2023 (reading event)
• Summer 2023 Open House & Showcase, May 17, 2023 (reading event)
• Essay Incubator Homecoming, October 29, 2022 (reading event)

^{Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the formation of our writing group with readings by some of our members.}

Cambridge Asian American Writers: Community Reading

Date/Time: September 28, 2022 at 6:30PM EST
Location: Remnant Brewing
(2 Bow Market Way, Somerville, MA)

We are a small group of Asian American writers who live in/near the Cambridge area and meet monthly to workshop our writing. Join us for our inaugural reading event, where we will share our writing over food and drinks! Many thanks to our sponsor Kundiman for bringing us together in community and making this event possible.

^{The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) uplifts and fosters diasporic Vietnamese and Southeast Asian literary voices. DVAN promotes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry to empower artists in the diaspora and inspire understanding and dialogue within our community, and with others.} 

^{In 2020, DVAN developed and launched a virtual program platform titled ÁCCENTED: Dialogues in the Diaspora, accessible to a global audience, showcasing writers, poets, visual artists, actors, filmmakers, and other cultural producers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora, to present their work and discuss topics important to them. The series is hosted by Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, with quarterly co-host appearances by members of the She Who Has No Master(s) collective.}

^{Scroll through the gallery below for my cocktail creations & recipes! For more ACCENTED cocktail fun, click here to check out my IG stories 🙂}

Diasporic Vietnamese American Network: ÁCCENTED

Date/Time: 2021-2022
Location: Online

During the pandemic, I was invited to participate in DVAN‘s series of online literary events, ÁCCENTED: Dialogues in the Diaspora, as resident mixologist, designing custom cocktails for 13 episodes. My cocktail creations are featured at the start of each show – you can watch the replays below, where I introduce my recipes and what inspired them!

1. “For Your Consideration: Vietnamese American Filmmakers” with Bao Nguyen & Carol Nguyen. (January 2021) Watch replay here
2. “A Night of Poetry” with Bao Phi, Cathy Linh Che, Diana Khoi Nguyen, & Paul Tran. (February 2021). Watch replay here
3. “Tea & Tarot” with She Who Has No Master(s) featuring Dao Strom, Hoa Nguyen, & Thi Bui (March 2021) Watch replay here
4. “Tales from the Margins” with Paul Bonnell, H’Rina DeTroy, Kao Kalia Yang, & Souvankham Thammavongsa. (April 2021) Watch replay here
5. “Reflections on April 30, 1975” with Lan Cao, Duong Van Mai Elliott, Le Ly Hayslip, & Marcelino Truong. (Apr 2021) Watch replay here
6. “The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen” with Francois Chau, Kim Ly, Nguyen Phan Que Mai (May 2021) Watch replay here
7. “Writers in Diaspora” with Thi Bui, Vincent Lam, Eric Nguyen, Kim Thuy. (May 2021) Watch replay here
8. “DVAN x Kaya Press: Ink & Blood Launch Event” with Line Papin (June 2021) Watch replay here
9. “Not Your Lotus Blossom: Vietnamese Women in Cinema” with Kiều Chinh, Ysa Le, Jes Vũ. (October 2021) Watch replay here
10. “Dreaming in Verse: Poetry in Diaspora” with Hoa Nguyen, Joshua Nguyen, Susan Nguyen, Truong Tran. (December 2021) Watch replay here
11. “Directing the Narrative: AAPI Representation in Film and Media” with Thien A. Pham, Bao Tran, Hàm Trần. (February 2022) Watch replay here
12. “Advancing the Plot: Community Organizing and Activism in AAPI Communities” with Loan Thi Dao, Nghiep “Ke” Lam, Nkauj Iab Yang. (March 2022) Watch replay here
13. Tea and Tarot: A Reading for Jupiter-Neptune Conjunction in Pisces” with Hoa Nguyen, Cathy Linh Che, Paul Tran.