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SUMMARY:November Town Hall: Creative Writing
DESCRIPTION:This November\, Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) presents a Town Hall centered on creative writing by gathering creative writers of all genres to share their work and knowledge with each other and the wider AAPI community. \nFeatured presenters include Asha Thanki\, who will present on how narration can be a political tool\, as seen in her debut novel\, A Thousand Times Before\, winner of the 2025 Balcones Prize and named one of the best books of 2024 by NPR and The Boston Globe. \nWe’ll also hear from Wendy Lu\, an award-winning journalist\, who will present on her debut novel\, Casting April\, and the importance of disability representation in youth literature. Casting April was selected for the Indie Next List and Indies Introduce\, and was called “one of the best surprises of 2026.” \nAdditionally\, the evening will feature a line-up of brief pitches from the community. After the presentations\, we’ll host a potluck meal\, so please bring something to share; homemade or store bought items are welcome. \nThis event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required to attend and/or pitch\, but you do not have to pitch to attend. \nAbout the presenters \nAsha Thanki (she/they) is the author of the novel A Thousand Times Before\, winner of the 2025 Balcones Prize and named one of the best books of 2024 by NPR and The Boston Globe. A Kundiman fellow\, Asha received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. \nWendy Lu (she/her) is an award-winning journalist\, a children’s book author\, and a global speaker on disability representation in the media. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, HuffPost\, Teen Vogue\, and Refinery29. She was named on Forbes’s 30 Under 30 for her efforts to improve disability coverage nationwide. Wendy is the author of Casting April\, a middle-grade novel from Penguin Random House about a girl who is determined to land the starring role in her school’s play — except nobody believes she can do it because of her disability. Casting April was selected for the Indie Next List and the Indies Introduce List in 2026.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/november-town-hall-creative-writing/
LOCATION:Prime Produce\, 424 West 54th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10019\, United States
CATEGORIES: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-2/
LOCATION:New York
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Writing
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SUMMARY:Indo-American Arts Council Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:2 days. 20 sessions. The best of Indian literature\, in New York. Novelists\, poets\, historians\, chefs\, economists and thinkers come together for the IAAC Literary Festival 2026. ​ \nFree to attend. Register in link. \nTHE LINEUP \nScreenshot \nDr. Pratibha Ray (Padma Bhushan\, Jnanpith Award): My Life\, My Time\, in conversation with Bhavani Parameswar​\n@osanynj \nKenneth I. Chenault: Equal to the Task\, former Chairman and CEO of American Express\, in conversation with Ash Gupta​ \n@manilsuri: The Death of Vishnu and A Room in Bombay\, in conversation with @the_other_arun \nDevesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian: A Sixth of Humanity\, with panelists Chip Kaye and CS Venkatakrishnan\, moderated by Sonal Shah \n@rakeshkkaul: WaterFire Day Zero\, with Magsaysay Award winner @watermanofindia. \nKaran Mahajan: The Complex\, with @yoshita.singh \n@rachelgurjar\, chef and former Bon Appetit food editor: East to East\, with @tanyasic.​ \n@neerajkhemlani: The Coffee Can Investor\, with Mathew Veedon​ \n@makrandparanspe: Hindutva and Hind Swaraj ​ \n@radha_vatsal: No. 10 Doyers Street​ \nArno Klein: Ellora​ \n@brinda_charry2: Hocus Pocus ​ \n@priya.hajela: For Whose Dear Sake Our Fathers Died ​ \nSanjay R. Srivatsa: Four Minutes Past Midnight \n@advaitavadini: Kapila Jnanagarbha​ \n@sandip_ranjan_das\, @alkajena and @_pallavi.das: The Orissan​ \nPoetry Panel: @sudeepsen1889\, @poetpreeti and Subhashini Kaligotla\, moderated by @empurpler
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/indo-american-arts-council-literary-festival/
LOCATION:Bohemian National Hall\, 321 E 73rd St.\, New York\, New York\, 10021
CATEGORIES:Book,Writing
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SUMMARY:Reading America: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston: Acclaimed Authors on Great Writing That Resonates Today
DESCRIPTION:An eight-part series of online classes with Annette Gordon-Reed\, Joshua Cohen\, Colm Tóibín\, Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and more\n\n\nStarting this June\, Library of America presents an eight-part series of online classes featuring leading contemporary authors on the LOA writers that resonate deeply with them and have something vital to tell us at this moment. \n\n\nYou can purchase access to the entire series and save on the per-session cost\, or pick and choose individual sessions to attend. See below for more information on registration. \n\n\n  \nREGISTRATON INFO \n\nNov. 17: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston\nBeginning with her stunning 1976 memoir The Woman Warrior\, Maxine Hong Kingston has forged a profound\, richly imagined\, and genre-defying narrative of the American experience from her vantage as the daughter of Chinese immigrants. In this session\, we explore Kingston’s most influential books\, The Woman Warrior and China Men\, as she intended—back-to-back\, as one longer epic about Chinese Americans. These hybrid books move between fiction and nonfiction\, imagination and history\, realism and fantasy\, as they weave Chinese immigrants and their descendants into the fabric of the United States\, where they have belonged since the middle of the nineteenth century.\n\nEight Sessions (scroll down for full descriptions) \n\nJune 1: Annette Gordon-Reed on the Declaration of Independence and Lemuel Haynes’s “Liberty Further Extended”\nJuly 9: Joanne B. Freeman on Alexander Hamilton and Alexis de Tocqueville\nJuly 28: Nell Painter on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Sojourner Truth\nAug. 18: Joshua Cohen on Isaac Bashevis Singer\nSept. 24: Parul Sehgal on Arthur Miller\nOct. 29: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop\nNov. 17: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston\nDec. 3: Namwali Serpell on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison\n\n\n\nSessions will take place on Zoom and last 75 minutes. Attendees are encouraged to share questions in advance and during the class. Each session will be recorded and shared with registrants to watch anytime. Space is limited and registration will be on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n  \nPRICING \nSeries pass: $350 (includes access to all sessions and 25% off all titles on the LOA Web Store) \nLOA Members get the special members’ rate of $300 ($50 off). Learn more about the perks of becoming an LOA Member. \nIndividual session: $50 ($40 for LOA Members) \n\n\n  \nSCHOLARSHIPS \nLOA is committed to making our programming accessible to as many people as possible. \nIf the cost to attend this series presents a hardship\, or you are a teacher interested in attending for professional development\, we are pleased to offer a number of scholarship places at a reduced rate. For more information and to request a tuition waiver\, please e-mail support@loa.org. \nIf you would like to support Library of America’s online programming and help sponsor a reduced-rate scholarship for a deserving student or teacher\, please consider making a $50 donation at checkout on Eventbrite or reach out to support@loa.org. \n\n\n  \nSESSION DESCRIPTIONS \nAll sessions meet at 2 pm ET. \nAnnette Gordon-Reed on the Declaration of Independence and Lemuel Haynes’s “Liberty Further Extended”\nMonday\, June 1\n“The American story\, from the very beginning\, has been multifaceted\, multicultured\, and multiracial\,” writes Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed. “People of color\, even in the most dire situations\, have always found ways to make their thoughts and feelings known.” Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833) was a Revolutionary War veteran\, the first ordained Black minister in the United States\, and the first African American to receive an advanced degree. In the opening session of Reading America\, we will discuss the Declaration of Independence and Haynes’s response to it\, a 1776 essay entitled “Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality of Slave-Keeping.” \nJoanne B. Freeman on Alexander Hamilton and Alexis de Tocqueville\nThursday\, July 9\nThroughout our nation’s history\, its citizens\, residents\, and foreign observers have wrestled with the meaning of American democracy. In this session\, we look at two writers with much to say on the topic: Alexander Hamilton and Alexis de Tocqueville. Hamilton had lifelong doubts about democracy\, even as he worked to create and uphold America’s new democratic republic. Tocqueville\, a French visitor to the United States in 1831–32\, was a witness par excellence\, describing and judging American democracy as only an outsider could. Putting these men in conversation reveals democracy in all its complexity\, and exposes the beating heart of America. \nNell Painter on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Sojourner Truth\nTuesday\, July 28\nRalph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)\, giant of American letters\, and Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883)\, feminist abolitionist stalwart\, were near contemporaries\, living ninety-five miles apart in Massachusetts in the 1840s. Emerson’s classic books\, Essays and Self-Reliance\, were published in the 1840s\, while Truth’s self-published Narrative of Sojourner Truth appeared in 1850. Both promoted and sold their books in person on the lecture circuit\, but they never met. In this session\, we stage a meeting of Emerson and Truth’s minds through a closer look at their lives and works. \nJoshua Cohen on Isaac Bashevis Singer\nTuesday\, August 18\nWhat makes a writer an American writer? Is it the accident of his birth\, or perhaps the circumstances of his exile? His language? His themes? His audience? The works of Isaac Bashevis Singer\, the seventh American citizen to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature\, raise these questions in fascinating ways. This session discusses three short classics by America’s great Yiddish writer: “Gimpel the Fool\,” “The Destruction of Kreshev\,” and “The Cafeteria.” Together\, they bring the reader from Galician Poland to Manhattan’s East Side\, and illuminate starkly different jewels—sweet\, bitter\, humorous\, sexual—in the crown of this impish giant. \nParul Sehgal on Arthur Miller\nThursday\, September 24\nArthur Miller’s plays of the 1940s and 1950s—All My Sons\, Death of a Salesman\, The Crucible\, A View from the Bridge—electrified theatergoers and established him as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era in America. With a particular focus on All My Sons\, this session explores some of the characteristic conflicts of Miller’s work—between fathers and sons\, desire and obligation\, self and community—while paying close attention to the effect his mastery of dramatic devices such as motive\, psychology\, and resolution has on readers and audience members. \nColm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop\nThursday\, October 28\nThe poems of Elizabeth Bishop are “more wryly radiant\, more touching\, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime\,” wrote James Merrill. She is “our greatest national treasure.” Bishop’s work is notable for its use of narrative\, its precision and reliance on exact detail\, its reticence and power. This session will explore\, via poems and letters\, her ideas of loss and exile\, plus the tone she takes: melancholy\, precise\, hushed\, attentive\, and careful to say nothing more than what each occasion demands. \nViet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston\nTuesday\, November 17\nBeginning with her stunning 1976 memoir The Woman Warrior\, Maxine Hong Kingston has forged a profound\, richly imagined\, and genre-defying narrative of the American experience from her vantage as the daughter of Chinese immigrants. In this session\, we explore Kingston’s most influential books\, The Woman Warrior and China Men\, as she intended—back-to-back\, as one longer epic about Chinese Americans. These hybrid books move between fiction and nonfiction\, imagination and history\, realism and fantasy\, as they weave Chinese immigrants and their descendants into the fabric of the United States\, where they have belonged since the middle of the nineteenth century. \nNamwali Serpell on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison\nThursday\, December 3\nWhile delivering the keynote address at a 1985 Faulkner conference in Oxford\, Mississippi\, Toni Morrison remarked that “in a very personal way\, as a reader\, he had an enormous effect” on her. Morrison’s engagement with Faulkner was a lifelong project\, from her examination of The Sound and the Fury in her master’s thesis to ongoing reflections on his work in university lectures. This session delves into novels by Faulkner and Morrison—Absalom\, Absalom! and A Mercy\, respectively—to explore their treatment of Native Americans\, their interest in co-created stories and invented language\, Sutpen’s Hundred in relation to Jacob Vaark’s unfinished house\, and the overlapping themes of possessive love and stopped time. \n\n\nCourse curator: Bernard Schwartz \n\n\nLibrary of America\, a nonprofit organization\, champions our nation’s cultural heritage by publishing America’s greatest writing in authoritative new editions and providing resources for readers to explore this rich\, living legacy.
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book,Virtual,Writing
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SUMMARY:LITERARY ECHOES: China and the World in Creative Writing
DESCRIPTION:LITERARY ECHOES: China and the World in Creative Writing | A China-U.S. Dialogue \n\n\n\n\nJoin us at China Institute for a special literary gathering bringing together acclaimed Chinese writers Yu Hua and Xi Chuan\, alongside writers\, translators\, and scholars\, to explore contemporary Chinese literature and its dialogue with the world. \nThe symposium opens with a unique literary conversation with Yu Hua and Xi Chuan\, reflecting and sharing their creative journeys with New York audiences. Their conversation will be followed by two panel discussions with distinguished speakers exploring how literature captures individual lives and changing societies\, and how writing travels across languages and cultures through translation. \nFeaturing conversations in both Chinese and English\, Literary Echoes invites audiences to discover the power of storytelling\, the richness of contemporary Chinese literature\, and the connections that literature creates across cultural boundaries. \nThis program is in collaboration with Beijing Normal University\, China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Co.\, LTD(CNPIEC) \nProgram at a Glance \n\n\n\nTime | Session\n10:00 – 10: 10 | Opening Remarks\n10:10 – 10:40 | Featured Literary Conversation: Writing Across Worlds – Yu Hua and XiChuan in New York (in Chinese)\n10:40 – 11:25 | Panel I: Writing Our Times – Individual Lives and the Contemporary Chinese Literary Imagination (in Chinese)\n11:25 – 11:40 | Intermission\n11:40 – 12:25 | Panel II: Beyond Translation – How Literature Travels Across Cultures (in English)\n12:25 – 12:30 | Closing Remarks\n(subject to change)
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/literary-echoes-china-and-the-world-in-creative-writing/
LOCATION:China Institute of America\, 100 Washington Street\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Writing
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SUMMARY:Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung
DESCRIPTION:Work on your memoir or collection of essays with bestselling author Nicole Chung!\nThis intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir\, memoir-in-essays\, or essay collection. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft discussions\, reflection/writing exercises\, and in-depth workshops designed to help you identify and hone your strengths as a writer. If you have an idea for a book project and are looking to jumpstart it—or are already underway\, but struggling to maintain your momentum—this class will help you take concrete next steps and deepen your craft in a supportive and generative community. \n\nAttend the Virtual Info Session\nTuesday\, December 15th\, 2026\nZOOM\, 7pm ET \nMeet Nicole Chung\, instructor for our Memoir Year workshop\, and have all your questions about the program answered! \n\nFormat\nThrough in-class readings\, craft talks\, and guided writing exercises\, we’ll explore book openings\, writing the self\, characterization\, setting\, structure\, chronology\, and more. We’ll spend time reflecting and brainstorming\, learning how to identify and pursue the stories that matter most to you. You will have the opportunity to have two to three memoir excerpts (10 to 20 pages each\, double-spaced) workshopped in class with your instructor and peers. \nWe’ll discuss the importance of your choices as a writer\, and how to engage deeply and intentionally with the questions that drive your work. We’ll talk about how to address existing gaps in knowledge or memory\, the role speculation and imagination can play in memoir\, and whether and how to bring research and reportage into your personal narrative. We’ll consider the ethics of writing about real people\, places\, and events\, and what guiding principles or boundaries feel necessary for you. We’ll read excerpts from recent works of nonfiction\, examining the storytelling choices other writers have made and how we can learn from them. We’ll address your questions about book proposals\, pitching\, and the publishing industry\, and hear from visiting authors and literary agents who will share tips and talk about the writing and publication processes. \nThis course will allow you to focus on expanding your craft in community with your fellow writers\, helping you build the sustainable writing practice you want—one that will allow you to continue showing up for your work\, and telling the stories you need to tell\, long after our workshop ends. \n\nSchedule\nThis class will typically meet twice per month from February 9\, 2027 – November 16\, 2027\, 7–9pm ET\, although there may be one or two longer breaks over the summer for students to focus on writing.
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