Asian American Writers workshop to celebrate work of innovative writers

• Hybrid Possibilities: Asian Queer Writers Across Genre is an event.
• To celebrate the work of innovative writers.
• They will discuss how hybrid writing and existence can shift technique and cultural norms.

Hybrid Possibilities: Asian Queer Writers Across Genre

Asian American Writers workshop featuring Kirin M. Khan, Zeyn Joukhadar, Angela Peñaredondo, Lisa Factora-Borchers, and Kay Ulanday Barrett.

About this Event

What exactly does writing Asian and South/East Asian futures imply? Join this event to celebrates the work of innovative writers Kirin M. Khan, Zeyn Joukhadar, Angela Pearedondo, Lisa Factora-Borchers, and Kay Ulanday Barrett.

They will share new work and talk about the current stakes and patterns in craft, audience, editing, and themes centred on Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi writers in the United States.

Join there, as they will discuss how hybrid writing and existence can shift technique and cultural norms.

In what ways does APIA writing contribute to reimagining possibility, and what do we hope for the future of writers, workers, and communities? The Asian American Writers Workshop hosted the event, which was moderated by Kay Ulanday Barrett.

Kirin M. Khan is a writer living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, who grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Peshawar, Pakistan.

She is a VONA/Voices, Las Dos Brujas, and Tin House Writers Workshop alumna. She was a 2017 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2017 SF Writers Grotto Fellow, a 2018 AWP Writer to Writer Mentee, a 2018 Steinbeck Fellow, and a 2019 Vermont Studio Center Fellow.

Nat. Brut nominated her essay “Tight” for a Pushcart Prize in 2018. Her work has been published in The Margins, sPARKLE & bLINK, Your Impossible Voice, and 7×7.LA, among other places.

Kirin also edits the “Triple Threads” section of the lit mag Just Femme & Dandy and serves as Treasurer on the VONA/Voices Board of Directors.

Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Thirty Names of Night, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award, and The Map of Salt and Stars, which won the Middle East Book Award and was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

His work has appeared or will appear in Electric Literature, Salon, The Paris Review, [PANK], and other publications, as well as anthologies such as Kink, This Arab Is Queer, Letters to a Writer of Color, and others.

He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. Joukhadar serves on the board of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and mentors emerging writers of colour. She guest edited Mizna’s 2020 Queer + Trans Voices issue.

Angela Pearedondo (she/they) is the author of nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press, March 2023), All Things Lose Thousands of Times (winner of the 2016 Inlandia Institute’s Hillary Gravendyk Book Prize), and the chapbook Maroon (Jamii Publishing).

Their work has appeared in publications such as The Academy of American Poets, Pleiades, Apogee Journal, Southern Humanities Review, and others.

They have received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Macondo, TinHouse, the Community of Writers, and other organisations. They teach creative writing as an assistant professor at California State University, San Bernardino.

Lisa Factora-Borchers is a Filipinx American writer, activist, and the editor of Dear Sister: Letters from Sexual Violence Survivors.

Lisa has worked as an editorial director for Bitch Media, a senior features editor for The Rumpus, a contributing editor for Catapult, an editor for Guernica, and a nonfiction editor for make/shift and Literary Mama.

Her work has been widely published and anthologized in numerous collections. Lisa holds a master’s degree in counselling psychology and pastoral ministry from Boston College, as well as a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University.

Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and all-around excellent napper. They are the recipient of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, a Tin House Next Book residency in 2022, and a MacDowell James Baldwin Fellowship Award in 2020.

More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), their second book, received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.

The New York Times, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Magazine, Literary Hub, them, The Advocate, Al Jazeera, NYLON, Vogue, The Rumpus, The Lily, The Maine Review, The Massachusetts Review, and other publications have published their work.

The Date and Time will be Fri Mar 10 2023 at 04:00 am to 05:00 am

The session will be conducted online.

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