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SUMMARY:Writing the Non-Place: On Transcultural Memory and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Writing the Non-Place: On Transcultural Memory and Migration✍️ \nAccent welcomes Terry Nguyen @nguyenterry to teach students how to bring setting into their writing and to contend with the changing role of place in our lives as globalization unsettles the landscapes that we grow attached to. This class has both a critical and creative component\, drawing on the writings of Édouard Glissant\, Trinh T. Minh-ha\, Hoa Nguyen\, and others to build a framework that helps students generate writing in real time. \nTerry Nguyen’s writing in insightful\, moving\, and charismatic\, tracing patterns in media to reveal broader currents in art and culture. Her close engagement with contemporary critical conversations deepens her work\, enabling her to grapple with complex modern phenomena with clarity and grounded insight. \nThis workshop will investigate how notions of place and belonging surface in students’ writing\, and how our relationships to place and displacement shape how we write. Setting is essential to every kind of writing\, and we tend to assume that the stories\, poems\, or essays we write occupy fixed ground. But as migration and rapid industrialization remake the world\, fewer of us (including our fictive or poetic counterparts) exist in stable places. We write from temporary sublets\, hotel rooms\, coffee shops\, and towns that no longer exist in the form we once knew. \nThe anthropologist Marc Augé coined the term “non-place” to describe the transient places we pass through without fully inhabiting\, spaces like supermarkets\, malls\, and transportation hubs\, that carry little historical or relational significance. This class borrows Augé’s term and expands upon it: How is our understanding of place—and belonging—impacted by migration\, globalization\, and the passage of time? Where is our writing located\, and how are these sites inhabited\, remembered\, or imagined? How can the non-place be a generative force?
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/writing-the-non-place-on-transcultural-memory-and-migration/
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CATEGORIES:Workshop,Writing
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SUMMARY:What America Means to Me\, a Writing Workshop With Ed Lin
DESCRIPTION:What does “America” sound like in your own words? In this workshop with novelist Ed Lin\, you’ll explore that question on the page\, drawing from your lived experience\, family stories\, and everyday language. \nThis workshop session is free of charge\, and funded by a grant from the NEA. \nAddress provided upon registration. \nHosted by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop 📝🇺🇸\, this session offers a focused\, supportive space for Asian and diasporic writers and readers to draft\, share\, and revise. Come ready to write\, listen closely\, and leave with new pages and new connections.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/what-america-means-to-me-a-writing-workshop-with-ed-lin/
LOCATION:New York
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Writing
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SUMMARY:Reimagining the Asian American Immigrant Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Join novelist Sarah Wang\, author of the novel New Skin\, for a free one-day writing workshop on “Reimagining the Asian American Immigrant Narrative” on Saturday\, October 24th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET at the Chatham Square branch of the New York Public Library. \nComplimentary copies of Wang’s novel New Skin (Little\, Brown 2026) will be given to participants (1 per person) until books run out. \nHow can we develop narrative strategies when writing immigrant stories and characters\, particularly in regard to Asian Americans? This generative workshop will discuss approaches to crafting immigrant stories across fiction and nonfiction\, as well as how we can move past limiting tropes such as the model minority stereotype and achieving the American dream. \nWang’s novel New Skin\, which Maggie Nelson describes as “mirthfully and mercilessly abject\,” explores such approaches through writing characters who dare to dream beyond meritocracy and belonging\, offering a different perspective on the immigrant story. \nAttendees will participate in dialogue about their own histories\, experiences\, and identities during the workshop to foster collaboration and exchange ideas. \nNo writing experience necessary; all levels of participation are welcome. Bring a pen and paper or laptop to write with. \nThis workshop is open to all Asian American writers and is supported by White Rabbit Trust\, Kundiman\, Welcome to Chinatown\, and Yu & Me Books. Free beverages from Sanzo will be provided. Registration is limited to 60 participants. \nRegister here (RSVP required): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-writing-workshop-with-novelist-sarah-wang-author-of-new-skin-tickets-2002951210990
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/reimagining-the-asian-american-immigrant-narrative/
LOCATION:Chatham Square Library – NYPL\, 33 East Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10002
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Writing
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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:Writing Workshop: "What America Means to Me"
DESCRIPTION:“What America Means to Me\,” an informal writing workshop with author Ed Lin. Bring something to write with\, either a pad of paper or a phone or laptop. We’ll explore using our words for creative nonfiction\, poetry\, and fiction. Sharing is encouraged\, but not necessary. \nEd Lin is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards\, and is currently interim executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. His latest book\, the mystery “The Dead Can’t Make a Living\,” was published in April by Soho Crime. \nRSVP to Ed Lin at elin@aaww.org \nManhattan location shared after registration.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/writing-workshop-what-america-means-to-me/
LOCATION:New York
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Writing
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