Events upcoming
December 7, 2021 , 7:00 PM
TELL ME HOW TO BE
Neel Patel, Abdi Nazemian
RSVP HERE! Join us as we celebrate the launch of Neel Patel's debut novel, Tell Me How to Be, with a reading and 1:1 author conversation with Neel. This "daring, hilarious, poignant" (Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) story of the bond between an Indian-American mother...
December 11, 2021 , 2:00 PM
WORKSHOP: UNTANGLING MEMORY
Tiana Nobile
REGISTER HERE! ONLINE: 12/11, 2 PM ET - 5 PM ET / 1 PM CT - 4 PM CT SLIDING SCALE $50 - $100 ***Limited scholarship seats are available by lottery. To put your name in the hat, please complete this form. Applicants will be contacted 1 week prior to...
December 14, 2021 , 7:00 PM
AAWW AT 30: ACTIVATING THE ARCHIVE
Amitava Kumar, Monica Youn, Alexander Chee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Hua Hsu
REGISTER HERE In December, we'll celebrate the final event of our AAWW at 30 retrospective series with Amitava Kumar, Monica Youn, Alexander Chee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Hua Hsu. These writers from our community have all played a unique role in the Workshop's history – from hosting their first book...
Must Watch events videos
Michelle Zauner on H Mart
With Hrishikesh Hirway
Shruti Swamy on Kathak Dance
With Rajiv Mohabir
Ta-wei Chi and Ariel Chu on Queer Time
With Hsin-Hui Lin, Ye Odelia Lu, Petit, Yahia Zhengtang Ma, Leah Yang, Jenna Tang, and more
Pik-Shuen Fung on Ghosts
With K-Ming Chang
Utsav Lal in Concert
In Collaboration with the Irish Arts Center of NY
Events upcoming
December 7, 2021 , 7:00 PM
TELL ME HOW TO BE
Neel Patel, Abdi Nazemian
RSVP HERE! Join us as we celebrate the launch of Neel Patel's debut novel, Tell Me How to Be, with a reading and 1:1 author conversation with Neel. This "daring, hilarious, poignant" (Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) story of the bond between an Indian-American mother...
December 11, 2021 , 2:00 PM
WORKSHOP: UNTANGLING MEMORY
Tiana Nobile
REGISTER HERE! ONLINE: 12/11, 2 PM ET - 5 PM ET / 1 PM CT - 4 PM CT SLIDING SCALE $50 - $100 ***Limited scholarship seats are available by lottery. To put your name in the hat, please complete this form. Applicants will be contacted 1 week prior to...
December 14, 2021 , 7:00 PM
AAWW AT 30: ACTIVATING THE ARCHIVE
Amitava Kumar, Monica Youn, Alexander Chee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Hua Hsu
REGISTER HERE In December, we'll celebrate the final event of our AAWW at 30 retrospective series with Amitava Kumar, Monica Youn, Alexander Chee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Hua Hsu. These writers from our community have all played a unique role in the Workshop's history – from hosting their first book...
Must Read
El árbol, de pie / expulsa fantasmas. The tree, on its feet / ejects ghosts.
Without rice, there is nothing. And without the pot, there is no rice.
The stories in this folio piece together alternate, speculative histories that reflect distinctly queer modes of life: often without a clear resolution, a "moral," or a sense of "straight" logic
A scene report takes a look at one burgeoning but endangered arts community in Queens
It’s no wonder / that so very few / survive / the experience of being / cast out / into the blinding light.
Writers share the books they have turned to when imagining a world without without cages
“One day, very soon, this silence is going to be so deadly and people will not be able to carry its weight anymore.”
I write this to fill you with love, so that one day children of war will no longer have to make sense of life through death.
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