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SUMMARY:Mapping Queens: Building Artist-Run Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Mapping Queens: Building Artist-Run Spaces\, a conversation highlighting artist-led spaces across Queens and the people creating them. \nPresented through the Queens Cultural Mapping Initiative\, this panel will bring together artists and organizers behind artist-run spaces from across the borough to share how their spaces came to life\, the communities they serve\, and the role they play in creating opportunities for artists to gather\, create\, exhibit\, collaborate\, and build community. \nPanelists will discuss what inspired them to create their own spaces\, the realities sustaining artist-led initiatives\, and their visions for the future of artist-run spaces in Queens. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and mixer. \nDrinks and light refreshments will be available. \nJoin us for our next Mapping Queens: Building Artist-Run Spaces featuring: \n🖌️ Stephanie S. Lee — @garageartcenter\n🖼️ Meghana Karnik — @flux_factory\n🎭 Naomi Sturm — @losherederosnyc \nTogether\, they’ll share what inspired them to build spaces for fellow artists\, the realities behind sustaining artist-led work\, and how these creative spaces are helping shape the future of arts and culture in Queens. \n🎙️ Moderated by @nataliebedon_ \, Project Manager of the Queens Cultural Mapping Initiative\, and co-moderated by special guest @amara.idk\, Queens-based artist\, project collaborator\, and current Manager of Public Programs & Events at the Central Park Conservancy. \nHosted at FLUX IV\, located at 56-21 2nd St\, Long Island City\, NY 11101. \n🎟️ FREE to attend.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mapping-queens-building-artist-run-spaces/
LOCATION:Flux IV\, 56-21 2nd Street\, Long Island City\, NY\, 11101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Books in Conversation: Jiyoung Hand and Alice Evelyn Yang
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to an evening of books and humanitarian fundraising on October 21st. \nThroughout our publication season\, we noticed our titles in conversation with another: A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing and Honey in the Wound both share themes of anti-imperialism and magical realism as a means to explore intergenerational trauma and the legacy of Japanese colonialism. We wanted to use our books and platform to fundraise for the @rescueorg’s global humanitarian work\, for while our fictional characters remain in history\, the horrors of war they faced continue to affect many people today.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/books-in-conversation-jiyoung-hand-and-alice-evelyn-yang/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th St.\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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SUMMARY:Selected Shorts: The Best American Short Stories 2026
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2026\, Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer)\, hosts our annual collaboration with one of the premier anthologies of contemporary American fiction. Come along on this spectacular journey of literature in performance and celebrate the achievements of established and emerging writers. With stories by Nathan Blum\, Sigrid Nunez\, and Akhil Sharma to be performed by Sanjit De Silva (War Horse\, Inventing Anna)\, Jessica Hecht (Breaking Bad\, Eureka Day)\, and Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story\, Here We Are) \nTake great stories by well-known and emerging writers\, add captivating actors of stage and screen\, and you have Selected Shorts—unforgettable nights of literature in performance. \nDid you know that Selected Shorts is also recorded for national public radio? As an audience member\, you will be part of what makes Selected Shorts broadcasts and podcasts so special. And you can listen to your favorite stories again on your local public radio station or on the Selected Shorts podcast. To find out more\, visit SelectedShorts.org.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/selected-shorts-the-best-american-short-stories-2026/
LOCATION:Symphony Space\, 2537 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Writing
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SUMMARY:Na Zhong with Rachel Heng
DESCRIPTION:Na Zhong presents Three\nIn conversation with Rachel Heng\nWine reception to follow \nNa Zhong\, writer\, translator\, and co-founder of Accent Accent\, presents her debut novella Three\, an expansive yet personal story of a prideful teacher\, her husband\, their quietly rebellious daughter\, and a town changed by the breakneck pressures of modernization. “A story of recent China but also a universal tale of young women’s emancipation\, Three is a taut and nuanced excavation of maternal love\, family bond\, and the cost of ambition and change\,” (Yiyun Li\, author of The Book of Goose)—for fans of Annie Ernaux’s The Years. Zhong reads and discusses the book with award-winning novelist Rachel Heng (The Great Reclamation)\, before an audience Q&A and signing.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-three-by-na-zhong/
LOCATION:Greenlight Bookstore\, 686 Fulton Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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SUMMARY:ASIAN FEMINIST HORROR Panel: Featuring NEEDLEMOUTH
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening as we celebrate Asian Feminism in Horror! \n\nWe’re celebrating K-Ming Chang‘s new novel\, NEEDLEMOUTH\, with a special panel at The Twisted Spine! Join K-Ming Chang\, Catherine Dang (WHAT HUNGER)\, Cassandra Khaw (FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS)\, and Jade Song (CHLORINE) as they discuss modern Asian Feminist perspectives in Horror. Chandra Claypool (@wherethehorrorsgrow) serves as moderator for this special event. \nCan’t make the event? Preorder your signed copy of NEEDLEMOUTH here! \nAbout NEEDLEMOUTH: \nCousins Cindy\, Yangyang\, and Mandy’s hot\, tedious summer unfolds in their grandmother’s hauntingly familiar house. Mandy\, the eldest\, seeks connection online and exchanges emails with a stranger. Yangyang\, the youngest\, retreats into her own imagination in search of meaning. But every morning Cindy wakes with strange objects in her mouth: a button\, a berry\, a coin. \nOne night\, a starved figure with a mouth the size of a needle-tip appears at Cindy’s bedside. She is hunger-afflicted\, a demon with no descendants to feed from: she is Needlemouth. Part vampire\, part hungry ghost\, Needlemouth forces the girls into a grim task to end a man’s life. \nCindy\, Yangyang\, and Mindy are plunged in and out of the demon realm\, where they are called to break out of the indifference and numbness of their claustrophobic worlds\, and where they are met with the most rageful and resistant parts of themselves. In a quest to satisfy the demon’s hunger\, they unravel their shared grief and reckon with the cyclical violence that shaped their family. For readers of Akwaeke Emezi and Carmen Maria Machado\, K-Ming Chang has crafted a reimagined coming of age novel that asks: what does it mean to become the monster instead of slaying it \n  \n\nK-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner\, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree\, and an O. Henry Prize winner. She is the author of Bestiary\, Gods of Want\, Organ Meats\, and a novella titled Cecilia. She has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\, and the Otherwise Award. \nCatherine Dang is the author of the novels Nice Girls and What Hunger. A graduate of the University of Minnesota\, she currently resides in Brooklyn. \nCassandra Khaw is the USA Today bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Library at Hellebore\, Nothing But Blackened Teeth\, The Salt Grows Heavy\, Breakable Things\, and coauthor of The Dead Take the A Train with Richard Kadrey. They are an award-winning game writer. \nJade Song is an artist and the author of novels I Love You Don’t Die and Chlorine\, which was lauded as “visionary and disturbing\,” won the Alex Award and the Writer’s Center First Novel Prize\, and translated into five languages. Her third book\, Ox Ghost Snake Demon\, is a short story collection structured around the Chinese zodiac animals forthcoming January 2027. They pole dance and live with too many books in Brooklyn. \nChandra Claypool is a Queens based reader whose favorite genres are horror and psychological thrillers. Chandra has been consuming horror since the age of eight\, and now proudly reviewing for Cemetery Dance Online and Scream Horror Magazine. You can find her on Instagram and TikTok under @wherethehorrorsgrow\, talking about horror and thriller books and movies. \nEvent guidelines: \nAuthors will be avialble for signing after the panel. \nIf you have any questions about the guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact info@twistedspinebooks.com.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/asian-feminist-horror-panel-featuring-needlemouth/
LOCATION:The Twisted Spine\, 306 Grand Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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