Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 4
with Hoa Nguyen and Carriane Leung
Hello friends,
Welcome to the fourth issue of Send My Love to Anyone.
I hope this newsletter brings some much needed brightness.
This month’s micro interview features poet Hoa Nguyen who shares her first memory of writing creatively and tells us about her new collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books), which has its Canadian launch on April 21, 2021. Visit knife | fork | book on April 21, 2021 for the Zoom link.
In this month’s guest post, fiction writer Carrianne Leung reflects on writing and creating during the pandemic and shares her watercolours and embroidery, which has helped sustain her during this difficult year.
And check out the April Recommendations which includes calls, events, recommendations and links. There’s a terrific Lynda Barry YouTube drawing workshop too!
Next month, I’ll be writing about rejection. so send me your rejection stories and strategies. They may appear in an issue of Send My Love to Anyone!
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Micro Interview with Hoa Nguyen
Hoa Nguyen on her new book A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure.
Kathryn Mockler: Tell me about your latest collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure and the story that inspired this book.
Hoa Nguyen: The book is inspired by many things; primarily, a desire to center Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic experiences. I wrote to contest degrading images and roles and other monoliths of identity assigned to women of Asian descent in North America. I was inspired to write a complexity that could bear witness to historical violence, tremendous events of loss and displacement, alongside other complexity of emotions including those of triumph and joy. I was also inspired to evoke my mother’s life as a celebrated stunt motorcycle rider who leaves Vietnam with her mixed-race child (me) to never return “home”. Her story has all the features of hero: a person of an extra-human qualities living through exceptional times.
Guest Post
Carrianne Leung reflects on writing and creating in her piece “What Story?”
What Story?
In the beginning, I tried to write. Every day, I woke up with these intentions. I told myself, I’m a writer. This is what I do. Put language to experience. Make meaning. Arrange events and characters into some relatable form to show us we are human. But I will tell you, last March when we closed our doors and stayed inside, I had no words to offer.
I was working on a new novel. It was about a catastrophe that forced radical change in our lives. And suddenly the real world trotted into my story, and everything stood still. My characters stopped what they were doing and looked at me from the screen. What the fuck, Carrianne? What are we supposed to be doing now? I don’t know, I told them. We will just have to wait and see.
Issue #4 of Send My Love to Anyone
Micro Interview with Hoa Nguyen
What Story? by Carrianne Leung
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