In response to anti-Asian hate crimes, Chua turned to poetry as a sanctuary to slow down time and heal collective wounds. Chua's writing journey was influenced by many Stanford offerings, such as the creative writing program and the Spoken Word Collective.
In celebration of the end of AAPI Heritage Month, The Daily highlights the award-winning works of Asian American/Pacific Islander students in the Creative Writing Program's annual competition. Works explored ideas ranging from speculative climate disasters to dictionary poems.
The Levinthal Tutorials, a creative writing program that gives undergraduates the chance to be mentored by Stegner Fellows, takes place every winter quarter. Both Stegners and Levinthals find the program enriching.
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Anthony Veasna So walked into the n+1 office one very cold day in February 2018. I mean that literally: he just walked in, straight off the bus from Syracuse, preceded by an email of recommendation from his professor. It was an old-school arrival like something out of Balzac, or Tolstoy, at odds with Anthony’s utter contemporaneity and present tense-ness, but also totally on brand for someone who was unable and unwilling to distinguish between literature and life. In any case, it was a great fucking entrance, and it made an impression. We published his story “Superking Son Scores Again” a couple months later, in Issue 31. His story “The Monks” and his review of