Illustration by Lillian Durand
On Wednesday and Thursday, the Foreword Literary Festival will host two events at UTA celebrating Vietnamese American literature and the arts.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Four Palaces Publishing, authors Truong Tran and Andrew Lam will be on campus both days.
UTA alumnus Frederick Tran, co-founder and executive director of Four Palaces Publishing, said the idea for the festival originated between him and creative writing professor Laura Kopchick.
From 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 101 of College Hall, Truong Tran and Lam will each give a 20- to 30-minute reading from their respective works, followed by a Q&A session moderated by Kopchick.
From 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday in Room 212 of Carlisle Hall, both authors will participate in an informal hangout.
“I don’t believe that you have to be Vietnamese to appreciate their writing, and I encourage that anyone who’s interested or just wants to hear a different perspective than one they might be used to or to come out and hear them read, hear them share their stories,” Frederick Tran said.
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