Upcoming and Past Events
Join Kundiman Southwest for a conversation on Zoom with author and journalist Omar El Akkad, on Monday, December 15th.
Join Kundiman for a Holiday Salon featuring Asha Thanki at Liz’s Book Bar in Brooklyn, NY.
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 Kavita Das’s four-week workshop on writing about social issues with conscience.
Join Shruti Swamy’s one-day workshop on pleasure in practice.
Join Hazem Fahmy’s four-week workshop on engaging with one’s craft in a time of compounding crisis.
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.
Announcing our 2025 Postcard Poem Exchange with the Poetry Coalition.
Kundiman and the CityLit Project present “Writing Our Ghosts,” featuring Cathy Linh Che and Kat Chow, at the Baltimore Book Festival.
Join Kundiman Southwest for a reading and talk about the writing life with author Siddhartha Deb.
Kundiman and NYU present New Books Readings with Sarah Aziza, Megan Pinto, and Katie Yee.
Join Kundiman Midwest for "A Night in Brooklyn," a fiction and poetry reading in Chicago featuring three Brooklyn-based writers: Jeremy Gordon, R.A. Villanueva, and Tyriek White.
Join Kundiman Mountain West and Claire Jia, author of Wanting (Tin House), for an intimate workshop, offering those interested a chance to present their work.
Claire Jia is a writer from the suburbs of Chicago. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, The Rumpus, Reductress, and more. She writes for television and video games, including the 2024 Peabody Award-winning We Are OFK. Her family is from Beijing, and nothing puts her at peace like haggling in a chaotic Beijing marketplace. She lives in Los Angeles with her friends. Wanting (Tin House) is her debut novel.
Join Kundiman Mountain West for a conversation with author Claire Jia, emceed by Willa Zhang, on Jia’s novel, craft, and the life and business of being a writer.
Join Kundiman Southwest for a virtual workshop featuring author Cecily Wong on Wednesday, July 30th.
Kundiman, a founding member of the Poetry Coalition, is accepting applications for a paid Poetry Coalition Fellowship position.
Join Kundiman Northeast for a book launch event featuring debut authors Allison King and Thomas Dai on Sunday, June 22nd.
Join Kundiman Mountain West for an in-person hiking and writing event this June.
On May 29th, join Kundiman Midwest for a virtual reading celebrating Chicago’s Asian American literary community.
Join Kundiman Hawaiʻi for the paperback launch of Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’sEvery Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare on Saturday, April 12th.
Join a Kundiman Mountain West Regional Group event on Friday, March 28th!
Attend the annual Asian American Caucus at AWP 2025.
Attend Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Showcase, an AWP 2025 offsite event.
