Graffiti (Aunt Lute Books) Anthology Reading
Join us as writers read excerpts from their work included in the anthology.
The Racket #34 : Celebrity w/ Leland Cheuk
#34: We're not going to sugar coat it: we're a little obsessed with the idea of CELEBRITY. Not like we're sneaking around the perimeter of Brad Pitt's house, trying to get a glance of him in a towel or anything (those days are past us). We mean, the idea of our national obsession with those who are famous. The magazines and the websites and the television programs that we all zombie-like consume, hands outstretched, reaching for more famous people stuffffff. Why? Seriously, someone tell us, when did our collective brains fuse into sawdust bricks who's only ability is to want to be someone more 'famous' than us?
The Racket is a (mostly) monthly reading series that seeks to save the world through the cultivation of ground up unicorn horn powder. Also, writing.
PEN Presents: Re-writing the Family - LAMBDA LITFEST
A night of curated readings exploring the idea of family: How we break down the notions placed upon us as LGBTQ+ POC folx, and how we build and place ourselves within the context of family today.
Featuring: Alumni of the Emerging Voices Fellowship (which is its own kind of extended family) who are also members of the LGBTQ+ community will read short pieces of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction curated to the theme.
Neighborhood Heroes at Quiet Lightning's Poetry in the Parks
A free, family-friendly arts festival presented by Quiet Lightning, California State Parks, and Kearny Street Workshop
InsideStorytime - "Inspiression"
Readings from Adam Smyer (Knucklehead), Laurie Ann Doyle (World Gone Missing), Rohan DaCosta (The Edge of Fruitvale), Kirin Khan, and Lauren Parker. inspiression n. (in(t)-sp?-re-sh?n) Creative inspiration drawn from objectively depressing circumstances. Origin: shmorigin. More details at www.insidestorytime.com
Foglifter Volume 3, Issue 2 Release
Foglifter and Strut are teaming up again to bring you a stellar night of queer literary goodness with queer poets reading from their next anthology!
Literary Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place
We’ve asked artists to explore ‘place,’ including but not limited to: displacement, reclaiming space, relationship or orientation to place, movement and migration, the loss or lack of place, or the various dimensions of place (spatial-emotional, past-present, individual-communal, etc.). How does ‘place’ resonate with you?
Kinda True Stories: Stage 3 at Litcrawl!
Six writers deliver the emotional depth of life with a fictional edge. Or as Emily Dickinson said "Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
Reading & Signing of A Dream Called Home
Reading & Signing of A Dream Called Home. Come hear award-winning author Reyna Grande read & discuss her new book. She will be in conversation with Kirin Khan.
The Green Arcade Bookstore Presents An Afternoon of Readings
Please join us for a special afternoon of readings by poet Faisal Mohyuddin, visiting from Chicago, and Bay Area writers Athena Kashyap and Kirin Khan.
KSW Presents “I’m Here To Do Everything But Fall In Love” with SF Arts Commission.
On May 18, KSW Presents “I’m Here To Do Everything But Fall In Love” with SF Arts Commission. Writers Lisa D. Gray, Kirin Khan, Ploi Pirapokin & Jasmine H. Wade explore love for their communities & themselves in relationship to racism, colorism, alienation. Presale Tix: kswpresents07.eventbrite.com
Literaoke at AAAS 2018
One minute of the best KARAOKE bangers + three minutes of reading = LITERAOKE! Don't miss this incredibly fun mash-up.
Hazel Reading Series - March 2018 Edition
Celebrate Women's History Month at Hazel Reading with our fantastic line-up of women writers. Don't miss it!
The Racket #17 : Ghosts
We're seven months from Halloween, but what the hell, let's talk about GHOSTS. The ones that haunt mansions, the ones that haunt our pasts, the ones that linger just behind our shadows.
AWP 2018 Panel: Breaking Fast with Words
Breaking Fast with Words: Five Years of Poetry-a-Day for Ramadan
Moderator and Founder of Poetry-a-Day for Ramadan Taz Ahmed discusses building writing communities that function as sites of resistance, along with regular group contributors Kirin Khan, Serena Lin, Ramy Eletraby, and Faisal Mohyuddin.
AWP 2018 Panel: Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From
Join me as a moderate a conversation between Mohja Kahf, Taz Ahmed, Zahra Noorbaksh, and Sarah Harvard!
"In response to the current political climate, writers from Muslim backgrounds, especially women, are often called on to discuss who they are rather than what they do. This panel will talk less about hijab and regimes and more about the courage to write freely and the transformative power of art. Discussion will focus on the telling of daring, beautiful, and impactful stories about Muslims, ask the question: Can stories about people from marginalized communities ever be viewed as universal?"
So Say We All's The Foundry Reading Series
The Foundry is our literary reading series, featuring writers near and far, both established and emerging, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, anything.
Our next reading is Saturday, February 24th at The Rose in South Park. Join us for readings by Amy Wallen, Bernard Cox, Brooke King, Kirin Khan, and Michael Konik.