Posts Tagged ‘immigrant experience’
Thank you, Mary Jung of Pacific & Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition (PAAWBAC) and Cynthia Tom of A PLACE OF HER OWN, for inviting us to this event:
Saturday, September 15th, 2018, 5:30pm – 9:30 pm
Asian Women’s Shelter – 30th Anniversary Gala
Asian Women’s Shelter (AWS) has been improving lives, communities and policies for 30 years!
Asian Women’s Shelter (AWS) presents PERSIST a night of celebration, hope and community to support safety, empowerment and renewal for marginalized survivors of violence. http://www.sfaws.org/news–events.aspx
Since 1988, AWS has supported thousands of survivors ranging from infants to elders, both in shelter and in neighborhoods and communities. Together with our supporters, we have built life-saving and life changing connections.
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Apply now for the Fall 2018 AWS Volunteer and Language Advocate Training!
Apply here! https://goo.gl/forms/1HWacMp4EEBs9yjh1
I wish everyone safety, excellent health and abundant joy.
Sincerely,
Teresa Jade LeYung
Teresa Jade LeYung – founder of Love Made of Heart (aka Teresa LeYung-Ryan) speaks openly through her writing and advocacy, her immigrant experience, and her knowing beauty. As an author, a story consultant, and a found-object artist, she empowers women to transform their own stories and is often quoted as saying: “I think beauty. I am beauty.” Please visit http://lovemadeofheart.com/blog/
- Click here for Short, Short Story Writing Contest sponsored by California Writers Club-Sacramento Branch up to 750 words; entries must be postmarked by March 31, 2014 (no online submissions). $10 fee per entry. Cheers to Branch President Margie Yee Webb, sponsors, judges, and all contestants!
- Click here for Writing Contests through Literary Arts Division of the San Mateo County Fair – many genres (including novels, memoirs, short stories, fantasy, science fiction, essays, poetry, children’s, immigrant experience) – open worldwide – $10 per entry - online entries due April 1, 2014 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time. Cheers to Literary Arts Director Bardi Rosman Koodrin, sponsors, judges, all contestants!
- Click here for WriterAdvice Flash Prose Contest entries must be submitted by April 18, 2014 Fiction and creative nonfiction! $15 fee per entry. Cheers to to B. Lynn Goodwin, sponsors, judges, and all contestants!
Check out my blog post “Coach Teresa says: Who or What is the Antagonist in Your Story?“ before you send your manuscripts to agents, acquisition editors, or writing contests.
Remember that a story, even a short one, has a beginning, middle, and end. A “snapshot” of an event is not a story. A story must have a main character, even if that character is the only character.
Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan cheers for Writing Contest Creators, Sponsors, Judges, and Contestants!
Teresa LeYung-Ryan aka 22-Day Coach Teresa helps clients identify their themes and archetypes; she is the author of:
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (workbook for all genres)
Love Made of Heart: a Mother’s Mental Illness Forges Forgiveness in Daughter Ruby (novel used in college courses)
“Talking to My Dead Mom” monologues
Creator of The Immigrant Experience Writing Contest
Coach Teresa’s website http://writingcoachTeresa.com
To subscribe to Coach Teresa’s Blog , please click here.
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Look at the many writing contests offered through the Literary Arts Division of the San Mateo County Fair! Go to https://sanmateocountyfair.com/pdf/2014/literary_arts_14.pdf and review rules and guidelines carefully. All entries due April 1, 2014 by 5pm Pacific Standard Time
Entry Fees: $10.00 per entry NO MAXIMUM ENTRY FEE
Writing Contests through the Literary Arts Division of the San Mateo County Fair include “Immigrant Experience Writing Contest” !
For a list of all writing contests, please go to: https://sanmateocountyfair.com/pdf/2014/literary_arts_14.pdf
Teresa LeYung-Ryan aka 22-Day Coach Teresa helps clients identify their themes and archetypes; she is the author of:
Love Made of Heart: a Mother’s Mental Illness Forges Forgiveness in Daughter Ruby (novel used in college courses)
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (workbook for all genres),
“Talking to My Dead Mom” monologues
Coach Teresa’s website http://writingcoachTeresa.com
To subscribe to Coach Teresa’s Blog , please click here.
Writing Contest, Immigrant Experience, Asian Heritage Street Celebration 2011, Wisdom Has a Voice Anthology, Mothers and Daughters, Mental Health
Writing Career Coach Teresa LeYung Ryan here, looking forward to four related events/projects.
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Thanks to Bardi Rosman Koodrin’s encouragement, I’m sponsoring a writing contest through the San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts Dept.
DIVISION 342 – THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE: NOVEL, MEMOIR, OR SHORT STORY Writing Contest
Sponsored by Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart (the story that inspires daughters and mothers to speak from their hearts)
Contest entries must be received by 7:00 pm, Friday, April 29, 2011 or postmarked by April 25th, 2011
http://www.sanmateocountyfair.com/competitive-exhibits/departments/literary-arts
After you go to above link, look at left side of the webpage and click on [ Entry Book Pages ] for general rules.
http://www.sanmateocountyfair.com/pdf/guide_book/creative_arts.pdf
Scroll down to page 66 for details of THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE: NOVEL, MEMOIR, OR SHORT STORY writing contest.
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Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother
This groundbreaking anthology, to be released October 2011, will include 25 true and compelling stories about mothers (or mother figures) that express the wisdom shared or learned from a particular experience with each woman. http://wisdomhasavoice.com
Editor-in-Chief Kate Farrell has asked me, Teresa LeYung Ryan, to write advance praise; the other two members of the editorial team are JC Miller and Ana Manwaring; they are only weeks away from completing final edits. I so look forward to reading stories written by women representing each continent. Kate, I’m honored.
I’m a fan of Kate Farrell’s literary works. Take a look at her young-adult novel Girl In the Mirror
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Saturday, May 21, 2011 Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC), organized by the AsianWeek Foundation
Two years ago author Margie Yee Webb helped me reconnect with the Asian-American community by inviting me to exhibit my book Love Made of Heart at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration (AHSC). Thank you, Margie!
This year, Margie Yee Webb (author of Cat Mulan’s Mindful Musings), Lloyd Lofthouse (author of My Splendid Concubine), Patricia Tsang, M.D. (author of Optimal Healing: A Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine) and yours truly Teresa LeYung Ryan (author of Love Made of Heart and Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days) will share a booth. Please stop by the California Writers Club booth and say hello if you’re going to the Asian Heritage Street Celebration
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May is National Mental Health Month in the United States of America.
Thank you to mental health professionals and advocates and organizations including National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI, Stamp Out Stigma (founded by Carmen Lee), and BringChange2Mind (created by Glenn Close, the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation CABF, Fountain House, and Garen and Shari Staglin of International Mental Health Research Organization IMHRO.
BringChange2Mind Walks with NAMI BringChange2Mind is forming NAMIWalks teams across the country, and a portion of the funds they raise will benefit their mission to combat the stigma associated with mental illness via a national communications campaign.
Twelve million children and adolescents suffer from diagnosable mental health disorders.
1 in 6 adults and almost 1 in 10 children suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. Yet, for many, the stigma associated with the illness, can be as great a challenge as the disease itself. This is where the misconceptions stop. This is where bias comes to an end. This is where we change lives. Because this is where we Bring Change 2 Mind. The video BC2M Nami Walks 2010 is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it2S0ja2GlU
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“My beautiful mom suffered mental illness and its stigmas all her life. I celebrate National Mental Health Month, Mother’s Day, and all mental health advocates. Mom, I celebrate you!”
Sincerely,
Teresa LeYung Ryan
Talk about writers collaborating and having fun… Barbara Whittaker, GM of The Axe & Palm Café, Stanford University, created a literary series and invited yours truly Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart, to kick-off the new program on November 12, 2009. Dear friend Elisa Southard, author of Break Through the Noise: 9 Tools to Propel Your Marketing Message, showed up to take photos and video. What a delightful evening. My hubby was there to record and cheer.
Stanford students Natalia Birgisson, Chana Rose Rabinovitz and Zach O’Keeffe read scenes with me. These young people made a deep impression on me.
David, thank you for setting up P/A system; Anthony, thank you for tranforming space; Scott (Barbara’s hubby), thank you for helping with sound-check. Friends who couldn’t attend, thank you for sweet emails and voicemails.
Stanford students & The Axe & Palm Cafe staff are memorable characters.
Everyone at Stanford who contributed their time and energy also deserve praise.
QUESTIONS that I answered:
- Is Love Made of Heart autobiographical?
- Where do you get your ideas for stories?
- What other genres do you write?
- What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
- You write about sobering subject matters; what do you do for fun?
A portion of the proceeds from book sales was donated to Save-the-Libraries.
Thank you, Barbara Whittaker, for further promoting literacy and sharing your brainchild with us!