{"id":3041,"date":"2022-02-03T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2022-02-03T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:54:44","slug":"weike-wang-to-be-next-speaker-in-ha-jin-visiting-lecturer-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2022\/02\/03\/weike-wang-to-be-next-speaker-in-ha-jin-visiting-lecturer-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Weike Wang to be Next Speaker in Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2022\/02\/03\/weike-wang-to-be-next-speaker-in-ha-jin-visiting-lecturer-series\/weikeposter-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2022\/02\/WeikePoster-1-225x300.png\" alt=\"WeikePoster (1)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2022\/02\/WeikePoster-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2022\/02\/WeikePoster-1-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2022\/02\/WeikePoster-1.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Boston University Creative Writing department is so excited to welcome Weike Wang (Fiction &#8217;15) as the next speaker in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/calendar\/the-ha-jin-visiting-lecturer-series\/\">The Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Weike will join us via Zoom at 7:00PM on Thursday, 03 March. She will read from her new novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/585788\/joan-is-okay-by-weike-wang\/\"><em>Joan is Okay<\/em><\/a>, which was released by Random House in January, and participate in a Q&amp;A Session with the audience. This event is free and open to the public, and those who are interested in attending can register <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonu.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_gZvlcQUbR1iAHXIIgZg-Dg\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Weike&#8217;s work has recently been published in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pshares.org\/authors\/weike-wang\">Ploughshares<\/a><\/em> and she was awarded the 2018 PEN\/Hemingway Award for her first novel,\u00a0<em>Chemistry\u00a0<\/em>(Knopf, 2017)<em><\/em>. This event will be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Weike and her craft; be sure to join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston University Creative Writing department is so excited to welcome Weike Wang (Fiction &#8217;15) as the next speaker in The Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series. Weike will join us via Zoom at 7:00PM on Thursday, 03 March. She will read from her new novel\u00a0Joan is Okay, which was released by Random House in January, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}