Mooncakes
Video Readings
by Helen Gu
At our recent Narrative Salon in San Francisco, we gathered with friends and fellow Narrativos. Along the way, we celebrated a landmark year—one shaped by our literary community that includes more than two thousand authors in our free Library. We marked the debut of A. T. Steel, our latest Narrative Prize winner, and the growth of the Narrative for Schools program that serves as an educational oasis for teachers and students in more than 880 under-resourced schools across the US and in fifty-five countries.
The evening began with one of our youngest authors, Helen Gu, winner of the Tenth Annual High School Writing Contest, reading her poem “Mooncakes.” In her introduction, Narrative editor Carol Edgarian remarked, “This poem showcases a young writer's ambition, clarity, and wide talent. Helen took a formidable Chinese myth and reimagined it through the lens of her family’s sorrow and a young girl’s longing to create a transcendent work that is the author’s gift to you.”
