Su Chang discusses how to get debut novel published,her writing process word count target, and how writing helped her out of post-partum.

Su Chang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, born and raisedin Shanghai and the daughter of a reluctant Red Guard leader. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire’s Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors Association National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, and the Masters Review’s Novel Excerpt Contest, among others. More of her essays and fiction are forthcomingin LitHub, Ex-Puritan, Open-Book, ElectricLiterature, 49th Shelf, etc. Publishers’ Weekly called her debut novel, The Immortal Woman, “unflinching…powered by raw emotion…a cathartic account of a family buffeted by the winds of modern Chinese history.”

At time 18:36 she reads from The Immortal Woman.

Book info: https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-woman

Author website: https://www.suchangauthor.com/

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