The Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the Asian American Book Club are teaming up with the Brooklyn Book Festival to host the first annual Asian American BookCon! An official bookend event of the Brooklyn Book Festival, the BookCon will feature  a marketplace of publishers, artists, booksellers, and vendors celebrating the diversity of Asian American literature. In addition, the BookCon will feature literary programming composed of three panels that explore a wide range of ideas.

Framing Palestinian Representation in the Media
The first talk will center Palestine and the ethics of representing Palestinian suffering, history, and art in media. How do we talk about Palestine without romanticizing the pain of Palestinians?

Cultural Preservation and Innovation in Food Writing
In recent years, food writing has become both a tool for laying claim to one’s cultural heritage and an important part of diasporic cultural preservation. What can food writing – in the form of cookbooks, blogs, and fiction – tell us about the present state of diasporic Asian communities?

Global Phenomena: K-pop and Bollywood 
K-pop and Bollywood are two of Asia’s most far reaching, influential, and lucrative cultural phenomena. This talk will focus on the evolution of global Asian culture and what it means for Asian American artists who constantly straddle the hyphen between their various cultural backgrounds.

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COMMUNITY CARE & ACCESSIBILITY

The safety and comfort of our communities is our top priority. We invite you to practice intentionality and care in your behavior and language when engaging with our programs and with each other. Violence of any kind, including but not limited to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, class or casteism, bigotry or bias toward religion or faith, or any action or assault against marginalized identities, is not tolerated. Those who bring harm to our community in person or online are not welcome, and will be asked to exit the space.

The event will be live streamed on Zoom with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in person. Masks are required for all in person audience members. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for additional accessibility requests, including ASL interpretation, ADA accessible bathrooms, chairs with added back support, and beyond.

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