Sunday Salon Reading Series Bread Loaf ‘From The Dark Tower’ Reading in NYC! March 21st, 2010 7 pm Jimmy’s Small Stage 43 on 7th St. between 2nd/3rd Ave. (Subway: 6 to Astor Place. Walk east to 2nd Avenue then south to E. 7th Street, east to the theatre) I will be reading . . .
Read MoreMonday, April 5th, 2010 7pm Founders Room in Mead Hall Creative Writing Program & Womens’ Studies Reading Series Drew University 36 Madison Avenue Madison, New Jersey 07940, 973-408-3000 Contact: Wendy Kolmar – wkolmar@drew.edu Details: TBA
Read MoreAssociation of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) April 7th – 10th, 2010 Friday, April 9th, 2010 Room 106 @ the Colorado Convention Center Noon – 1.15pm 700 14th Street, Denver, CO, 80202 Phone: (303) 228-8000 Panel: Writing South Asia—Issues of Representation and Identity. Samrat Upadhyay, Rishi Reddi, Anis Shivani, Gemini Wahhaj, Oindrila . . .
Read MoreFriday April 16th and Saturday, April 17th, 2009 International Book Festival University of Central Florida Orlando, FL You can find the program here.
Read MoreSaturday, April 24th, 2010 10 – 11. 30 am Asian American Literary Review Symposium University of Maryland Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Hall, University of Maryland College Park Readings by me and Peter Bacho Discussion to follow. 8_a-symposium1 The day-long events include readings bySonya Chung, April Naoko Heck, and fellow advisory editors, Kyoko . . .
Read MoreMay 16th – 24th University of Iowa International Writing Program/Life of Discovery I will be participating in a cross-cultural exchange in creative writing between American and Chinese writers in a program lead by Christopher Merill, along with Matt Hart, Kiki Petrosino, Kyle Dargan and Vu Tran.
Read MoreMay 21st, 2010 6-8pm Reading & Discussion Center for Fiction 17 East 47th Street, between Fifth and Madison. Admission is free and open to the public. Through the Girls Write Now program, curated by Maud Newton.
Read MoreJune 24-July 9 University of Iowa International Writing Program/Life of Discovery This is the second leg of the program in cross-cultural exchange in creative writing between American and Chinese writers lead by Christopher Merill, along with Matt Hart, Kiki Petrosino, Kyle Dargan and Vu Tran.
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Read MoreReading with Ann Hood (The Red Thread, The Knitting Circle and others) August 24th, 2010 7 p.m. Porter Square Porter Square Books Porter Square Shopping Center 25 White Street Cambridge, MA 02140 We are located in the Porter Square Shopping Center on Massachusetts Ave., about two miles north of Harvard Square and . . .
Read MoreReading with Jessica Jiji, (Sweet Dates in Basra, Harper Collins, 2010) September 13th, 2010 Time: 7 pm The Housing Works 126 Crosby St (between Prince St & Jersey St) New York, NY 10012 Neighborhood: SoHo (212) 334-3324 www.housingworks.org/bookstore
Read MoreSaturday, May 7th, 2011 Keynote Speaker Manavi Annual Community Dinner/Fundraiser 6.30pm Akbar Restaurant 21 Cortland Street Edison, NJ 08837 Manavi is a New Jersey-based women’s rights organization committed to end all forms of violence and exploitation against South Asian women living in the U.S. Established in 1985, Manavi (“woman” in Sanskrit) was . . .
Read MoreSeptember 21st 4.30 p.m. Reading Location: Main Tent
Read MoreOctober 2nd, 2010 Book signing and discussion Time & Location: TBA Collingswood Book Festival Collingswood Public Library 771 Haddon Avenue
Read MoreSunday, September 26th, 2010 5.30 pm Festival Stage Reading and discussion followed by a book signing Baltimore Book Festival Mount Vernon Place 600 Block North Charles Street Baltimore, MD Contact: Heather St. Clair 410-752-8632 hstclair@promotionandarts.com
Read MoreThursday, April 28th, 2011 Good Thunder Reading Series Minnesota State University, Mankato 230 Armstrong Hall Mankato, MN 56001 Contact: Richard Robbins, Director of Creative Writing 507.389.1354 Talk, interview with local NPR and reading in the evening.
Read MoreSaturday, November 5th, 2011 Writers’ Conference Montgomery Community College 4-5pm Workshop: Ready to Be Cyber-bullied? You Are Ready to Blog! Writing for an online forum–on people, poetry, politics and everything in between–takes guts and a thick hide. Your work is immediately visible and, for better or worse, immediately quotable, cut/paste-able and shareable. . . .
Read MoreThursday, September 27, 2012 6:00 – 10:00 PM Sri Lanka Diaspora Benefit Reading I will be participating in a reading and discussion as part of reading series organized by Sri Lankans Without Borders, with a view to contributing to inter-communal dialogue within the Sri Lankan diaspora, as well as the process of . . .
Read MoreNovember 5 – 7th Keynote & Discussion Virginia Tech 507A McBryde Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061Contact: Katrina M. Powell, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English Director, Women’s and Gender Studies 540-231-5932 kmpowell@vt.edu/wgs@vt.edu
Read MoreThursday, April 12th 5:30-8:00pm Speaker for the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, annual gala Baker & McKenzie 300 E. Randolph, Suite 5000 Chicago 60601 Contact: 773 702-9560 or info@TheYoungCenter.org view-invitation
Read MoreWednesday, February 2nd – Saturday, February 5th, 2011 2011 Annual Conference & Bookfair February 2-5, 2011 Washington, DC Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham Hotels Along with listening, gabbing, dancing and and equal measure of eating and drinking, I will also be doing serious things like these: I Am Not a Terrorist: . . .
Read MoreFebruary 29th – March 3rd, 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) I will be rocking the book launch party for Eugene Cross’ fantastic debut fiction collection, Fires of Our Choosing, getting my daily laps at the book fair and keeping the lobby bar in business while also making dozens of . . .
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