Japanese-American Author, Activist Helps Writers Of Color Find Their Voice.
Shizue Seigel is awarded a Jefferson Award by KPIX, Sept 15, 2021.
Oct 26, 2024 @ Gestalt - Lit Crawl 2024 Life Lines: Staying Sane in A Crazy World featuring James Cagney, Shizue Seigel and Christl Riikka Perkins
Thurs, Feb 20, 2025@ Green Apple on the Park
Courting A Man Who Doesn't Talk, reading/interview with Shizue Seigel and Kimi Sugioka, Green Apple on the Park, San Francisco
Oct 10: Writers of Santa Cruz County @ Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Featuring Adela Najarro, Madeline Aliah, Shirley Flores Muñoz, Bob Gómez. Ekua Omosupe, Elbina Batala Rafizadeh, Victoria Bañales, Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, Meilin Obinata, Chloe Gentile-Montgomery, Shizue Seigel, Shirley Ancheta, Sara Santistevan, Geneffa Jahan, Farnaz Fatemi.
Sept 8: LOCAL COLOR Book Party & Reading @ SF Main Library Latino Room, featuring BIPOC authors with recent books: Avotcja, James Cagney, Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Susan Kiyo Ito, Tureeda Mikell, Grace Loh Prasad, Shizue Seigel, Kim Shuck, Kimi Sugioka, Maw Shein Win, and artwork slideshow by Susana Aragon, Adrian Arias, Lorraine Bonner, Juan R. Fuentes, Shizue Seigel, Karen Seneferu, and Kim Shuck.
July 9, 2024: HIVE Collective podcast interview, KSQD.org (KSquid). Featuring Shizue Seigel interviewed by Geneffa Jahan.
Sept 10, 2023: LOCAL COLOR Book Party & Reading, SF Main Library, featuring Shizue Seigel and Andre Le Mont Wilson, Avotcja, Beverly Parayno, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong, C. Elyse (Dondi Dancy), Christl Rikka Perkins, Farzaneh Safavi, Karla Brundage, Kimi Sugioka, Sara Biel, Steve Fujimura, Tureeda Mikell – Synchronicity, and Young Whan Choi.
Oct 23, 2-4pm, UNCOMMON GROUND book launch, San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium, Readings and slide presentations by Adrian Arias, Avotcja, Salma Arastu, Lorraine Bonner, Karla Brundage, C. K. Itamura, Tehmina Khan, Tureeda Mikell, Josue Rojas, Kim Shuck, Shizue Seigel, Kimi Sugioka, Elizabeth Travelslight, and Andre Le Mont Wilson.
People of color share "Essential Truths," June 29,2021, San Francisco Examiner, Arts & Entertainment.Newsletter: https://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/people-of-color-share-essential-truths/
POWERFUL WORDS FROM WRITERS OF COLOR AND ALLIES
WHO BACK WORDS WITH ACTION
Congratulations to all the awesome writers that are part of the Write Now! community.
Look at what we've been up to.
• Francée Covington, San Francisco writer, in Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2020/07/07/uneasy-lies-the-head-of-the-black-mom/
• Sue Granzella, East Bay elementary school teacher, in McSweeney's Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/foolproof-safety-tips-for-teachers-returning-to-the-classroom
• Shawna Sherman, African American Center, San Francisco Public Library in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/06/03/coronavirus-contact-tracer-covid-19-california-column/5309779002/
• Sandra Bass, Associate Dean, Director of the UC Berkeley Public Center Center
in the Daily Cal: https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2020/06/05/we-need-to-move-from-ritualized-responses-to-reparations/
• Sriram Shamasunder, MD, UCSF teaching physician, co-founder HEAL Initiative
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/When-is-it-going-to-stop-UCSF-team-15263009.php
• Shizue Seigel: San Francisco Public Library, Poet Laureate Kim Shuck's Poem of the Day, May 14, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/sfpl.org/photos/a.89015335608/10157964692000609/?type=3&theater
• Raluca Ioanid & Shizue Seigel: pieces in the anthology (Her)orics: Women’s Lived Experience of the Pandemic: http://joanellserraauthor.com/heroic/