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The Immortal Woman (@houseofanansi 2025), Novel#2 (@houseofanansi 2028), Suchangauthor.com. Rep: @transatlantic_agency @cforde_litagent.
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Over the moon and beyond grateful to receive this news: The Immortal Woman (House of Anansi @houseofanansi) has been shortlisted for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, awarded every two years by the Stanford University Libraries and William Saroyan Foundation. 🙏🙏 I've long admired the books by @karissaychen @brooklynstani @jaquiradiaz @faustcarson @justinhayneswriter @navidsinaki, so it's a little surreal to be in their (and others') company. I'll have to pretend to behave normally today 😂😊 https://library.stanford.edu/news/shortlist-announced-2026-william-saroyan-international-prize-writing by @suchangwrites
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5 months ago
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Thank you @cbcbooks for including my book on this incredible list. Thank you to @shirarosewilensky, @melba_tst, @brochumon, @emma_b_rhodes, and all the hardworking, beautiful people at @houseofanansi and @westwoodcreativeartists for taking a chance on me. Thank you to my super generous book friends for supporting me through this debut journey. I mean it - SO many outstanding books could have made this list and I'm one lucky gal 😭❤️🙏 Full list here: https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-fiction-of-2025-9.6996303 #canlit #theimmortalwoman #aapiliterature #ınstabooks #canadianbookstagram #cbcbooks by @suchangwrites
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a year ago
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Feels like waking up to a miracle. Heartfelt thank-yous to cbcbooks, and to @houseofanansi and @westwoodcreativeartists for making this immigrant girl's dream possible ❤️❤️❤️ Incredibly honored and thrilled to be on this @cbcbooks list with such accomplished writers @suther_rose @leecheedoodles @ohtruth @terivlass @rachelmphan @emma.knightwrites @softasbones @katygies @theliannz @sunshineiryn @gabrielle.drolet @sofiaajram @zeinasleimanwrites @matteolcerilli @sarahmughal769 @amalelmohtar @phillipdwightmorgan @meakoopa @chasejoynt @valdbah #canlit by @suchangwrites
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a year ago
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In this NBN episode, I speak with Su Chang, author of The Immortal Woman (House of Anansi, 2025). Head to my bio link to go to my NBN host page to listen in. A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind. Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at an American university on a mission to become a true Westerner. She tirelessly erases her birth identity, abandons her Chinese suitor, and pursues a white lover, all the while haunted by the scars of her upbringing. Following China’s meteoric rise, Lemei is slowly dragged into a nationalistic perspective that stuns Lin. Their final confrontation results in tragic consequences, but ultimately, offers hope for a better future. By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reminds us to hold tight to our humanity at any cost. SU CHANG is a Chinese Canadian writer. Born and raised in Shanghai, she is the daughter of a former (reluctant) Red Guard leader. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire’s Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors Association (Toronto) National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, and the Masters Review’s Novel Excerpt Contest, among others. ✨: @suchangwrites @houseofanansi @newbooksnetwork . . . #litfic #ireadcanadian #bookish #chinesecanadian #readmore taken in EARTH by @suchangwrites
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6 days ago
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Super excited and honored to have this conversation with the inimitable @marci.ien and @pattykrawec at Toronto International Festival of Authors @festofauthors on Saturday, Oct 31, 3pm (Emmanuel College Chapel, Room 319). A huge thank-you to @ddialogues for the invite. Even better: this is a FREE event, and NO festival pass/registration is required! Hope to see you before you head out to your Halloween celebrations! Btw, TIFA is hosting a Halloween party that evening too. Just saying. 👻 @ddialogues will host four panels at TIFA. Please consider checking out the other three panels featuring powerful authors @rachelmphan @bymainguyen @uzmajalaluddin @teamutonji @leche_flan__ @jane_igharo 🎉🎉 #tifa26 #FestivalOfAuthors #TorontoInternationalFestivalOfAuthors #canlit by @suchangwrites
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23 days ago
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I couldn’t possibly have asked for a better "first" literary festival. It was a true privilege to share the stage with icons like @dr.joanne.liu, @kim.echlin, @ashzgl. The audience was so incredibly kind and attentive that I briefly forgot to be nervous. A huge thank-you to @kaliannpearson and her team of indefatigable volunteers for creating this magical experience for writers and readers🙏🙏🙏 @emwritersfestival by @suchangwrites
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a month ago
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TMR PRESENTS | EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FEATURE 🎉 THE RANDY BOYAGODA INTERVIEW @themiramichireader 📘 Lords of Serendipity by Randy Boyagoda is published by HarperCollins @harpercollinsca and @marinerbooks Both sharply satirical and deeply humane, Lords of Serendipity examines what education promises, what it actually delivers, and what people are willing to risk in pursuit of opportunity. In this conversation, Boyagoda reflects on the campus novel as both literary form and institutional X-ray, discussing satire, civil discourse, compromised moral choices, and the fragile ideals that still draw people to universities. He also considers his own position as novelist, professor, and administrator, and why fiction can hold competing truths about higher education without resolving them too neatly. Read the full interview here: https://miramichireader.ca/2026/09/lords-of-serendipity-an-interview-with-randy-boyagoda/ #canlit #interview #fiction #literaryfiction #interviewexclusive #feature #canadianliterature #authorinterview #septemberreads #litmag #exclusive by @suchangwrites
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2 months ago
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There’s something magical about a whole village turning itself over to books for a day, year after year, until it becomes a beloved tradition. I’m so thrilled and honored to be part of this year's Eden Mills Writers’ Festival @emwritersfestival ❤️ Or, as my friend @loo_sea_pea put it perfectly, “the Sundance of CanLit.” Come out to the literary idyll on September 20 and join the conversation with a long list of star authors, including @kim.echlin @ashzgl @dr.joanne.liu @lizrenzetti @gilldeacon @khardcase @amandapetersauthor @linwoodbarclay @rachelmphan @bymainguyen @sannawani @nickcutter2026 @bokchoygurl @csutherwrites @zoe_whittall @emily.weedon.creates @ay.jay.gee @missstaceymay @gregrhyno @kaichengthom @_ghostpine and more! See the festival schedule here: https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/festival-sunday-schedule/ And more workshops and celebrations on Friday and Saturday too: https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/festival-sunday/festival-schedule/ by @suchangwrites
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2 months ago
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Join us at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival on September 20th for a fascinating conversation about censorship and finding the bravery to write the stories that need to be told. The panel discussion, featuring Su Chang, Joanne Liu and Ashraf Zaghal, will be moderated by Giller-nominated author and PEN Canada board member Kim Echlin. Su Chang is the author of The Immortal Woman, Dr. Joanne Liu is the author of Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants and former president of Doctors Without Borders. Ashraf Zaghal joins us with his debut novel, Seven Heavens Away. Kim Echlin, author of The Disappeared, Tell Others and Speak, Silence, will guide the conversation as these four authors explore stories of humanity, resilience and the world around us. Tickets are available via the link in bio 🔗 #EdenMillsWritersFestival #GuelphEvents #CanadianAuthors #CanadianLiterature #BookLovers taken in Guelph, Ontario by @suchangwrites
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2 months ago
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Deal News - Su Chang’s THE FAR SIDE OF MERCY Shirarose Wilensky of House of Anansi has acquired World rights to THE FAR SIDE OF MERCY by Su Chang, author of the critically acclaimed THE IMMORTAL WOMAN.  This novel-in-constellation is a psychological study of forbidden love, crime, grief, spirituality, and the temptations of celebrity culture, following three Chinese women as they make drastically different choices in their search for peace. Publication is planned for Spring 2028, and the deal was arranged by Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic Agency.  Su Chang is represented by Carolyn Forde. Congratulations, Su! by @suchangwrites
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2 months ago
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Our August Short Story Month begins with a remarkable voice whose work we have admired since the publication of Su Chang’s outstanding debut novel 'The Immortal Woman'. We’re delighted to publish her powerful short story 'The Bottle Man'. Set in Toronto, this moving tale explores migration, memory, dignity, family, and the quiet loneliness of lives lived between languages and cultures. It is a deeply humane portrait of an immigrant whose bottles, bicycles, and songs conceal a lifetime of hope, disappointment, and resilience. A fitting opening to a month in which Literatur.Review brings together previously untranslated and unpublished short fiction from the Global North and South. (Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish) LINK IN BIO #shortstory #suchang #chinesecanadian #diaspora #migration #literature by @suchangwrites
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3 months ago
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Over many months, the wonderful Sheelagh Caygill @on_creative_writing and I had hours of conversations and multiple recording sessions before this episode was sent into the world. I couldn't have asked for a better interlocutor than Sheelagh, who is intelligent, thorough, and kind. We covered A LOT of ground in our initial recordings. In this distilled final version, we discussed freedom of reading and writing, freedom of writing in a second language, and the tension between remembering and forgetting the past. Hope you will have a listen! https://www.oncreativewriting.com/podcast-1/episode/5288fd2c/language-memories-and-revolution-su-chang-on-writing-the-immortal-woman I also want to give a shoutout to Sharissa Bradley @projectseedmoney, who interviewed me for her generous platform supporting women writers and industry experts! https://projectseedmoney.com/2026/07/03/a-candid-interview-with-author-su-chang/ by @suchangwrites
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3 months ago
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