First Sunday Prose Reading & Open Mic

Sun May 03 2026 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm UTC-04:00

Juniper Art Gallery, 615 W Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington IN 47404 | Bloomington

Writers Guild at Bloomington
Publisher/HostWriters Guild at Bloomington
First Sunday Prose Reading & Open Mic
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The Writers Guild at Bloomington presents First Sunday Prose, featuring Lisa Kwong and Ellen Wu (host: Molly Gleeson). This reading is a celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Open mic to follow.

A native of Radford, Virginia, LISA KWONG is AppalAsian, an Affrilachian Poet, and author of Becoming AppalAsian (Glass Lyre Press, 2022), a Weatherford Award in Poetry nominee. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia (Second Edition); Untelling Magazine, Women Speak, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Still: The Journal, Best New Poets, Appalachian Heritage, Pluck!, and other publications. She is currently working on her second book of poems and a memoir.
More about Lisa Kwong:
https://aast.indiana.edu/about/affiliate-faculty/kwong-lisa.html

ELLEN WU is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, and Overrepresented: The Surprising History of Asian Americans and Racial Justice (Princeton University Press, 2014, 2020 ). Wu’s research and writing has featured in a variety of platforms, including Limestone Post, Slate, NPR, Goop, the comedy show Adam Ruins Everything, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and the PBS documentary series Asian Americans.
More about Ellen Wu:
https://history.indiana.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/wu_ellen.html

More about the Writers Guild at Bloomington:
https://writersguildbloomington.com/
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Juniper Art Gallery, 615 W Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington IN 47404, 615 W Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47404-5162, United States

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