Join Mixing Innovative Arts (MIA), the Kundiman Hawaiʻi Regional Group, and the Hub Coworking Space for "Build Me a Bangka: Departures from the Philippines - New Diasporic Writing,” hosted by Kristiana Kahakauwila and Sujatha Raman.

Join Kundiman South and Kundiman Northeast for Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Author Showcase. Hosted by Joshua Nguyen and Susan Nguyen, and sponsored by Kundiman South and Kundiman Northeast, this reading will feature Mina Khan, Lisa Low, Aparna Paul, Andy Sia, Samyak Shertok, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Mandy Tu, and Kathy Wu.

We're partnering with fellow organizations to host an offsite dance party called Hard Times Require Furious Dancing. This free event invites writers and readers to step out of conference mode and onto the dance floor.

The annual AAPI Caucus is a town hall-style hangout and community space. Come meet other AAPI writers and discuss opportunities and resources available to support you.

Join Kundiman and writers Sarah Aziza and Fargo Nissim Tbakhi at AWP 2026for a reading and conversation about how literature can disrupt narratives of empire and colonialism, moderated by leena aboutaleb.

Apply by March 1st, 2026, for a Kundiman scholarship to a summer workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center.

Kundiman and NYU present New Books Readings with Kimberly Alidio, Joseph Lee, and Megha Majumdar.

Join Shruti Swamy’s one-day workshop on pleasure in practice.

The deadline for Kundiman’s 2026 Retreat applications is January 15th, 2026.

Join Kavita Das’s four-week workshop on writing about social issues with conscience.

Support Kundiman by donating to our end of year fundraising campaign. Your help will sustain our Readings and Panels, Online Classes, Regional Groups, and Retreat.

Join Kundiman for a Holiday Salon featuring Asha Thanki at Liz’s Book Bar in Brooklyn, NY.

Join Kundiman Southwest for a conversation on Zoom with author and journalist Omar El Akkad, on Monday, December 15th.

Kundiman and Penguin Random House are hosting a free virtual publishing panel for all Asian American writers.

Kundiman South presents a free virtual workshop with Jennifer Chang on December 7th.

Join Bushra Rehman’s multi-genre class on Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction, presented in partnership with the Fine Arts Work Center Online.

Join Ariel Chu’s class on writing the speculative, surreal, and strange.

In this workshop, we will craft mirrors out of the uncanny genre of the zuihitsu—not quite essay, not quite poem, partaking of the strengths of both. Students will leave class with a basic understanding of the genre and its history, as well as a rough draft of a zuihitsu of their own.

Join Ayesha Raees’s four-week workshop on the Asian poetic form.

Join Kiran Bath’s class on Asian avant-garde poetry.

Join Kundiman Hawai'i for a reading of poetry and creative nonfiction featuring Hawai'i-based writers Anjoli Roy, D. Keali'i MacKenzie, Misty Sanico, and Amanda Huynh to celebrate the return of the Mixing Innovative Arts (MIA) Literary Series, one of the longest-running arts series in Honolulu.

Come celebrate the release of Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press), winner of the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

Join Matt Ortile’s one-day craft class on the first-person travel essay.

Join Annesha Mitha’s four-week workshop on literary horror and scary tropes in fiction.

Join Kundiman and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for a birthday reading fundraiser and raffle, hosted by Jenevieve Ting.

Join Kundiman Southwest for the book launch of Brooke Sahni's In This Distance and a poetry reading featuring Brooke Sahni and Jessica Abughattas.

Join us for this 2025 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Event held in partnership with Kaya Press and the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Kundiman and the CityLit Project present “Writing Our Ghosts,” featuring Cathy Linh Che and Kat Chow, at the Baltimore Book Festival.