Saturday, March 29, 8-10PM Groundfloor Club | 160 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026 Join Kaya Press, AAWW, and Slant’d for a night of karaoke and literature at this year’s Literaoke for AWP25! Performance line-up coming soon. RSVP at our Eventbrite to reserve your spot and stay updated!
Please join us at a celebratory Happy Hour for Kulhar Books, launching this year from Kaya Press — hoping to publish, innovative, overlooked, and WEIRD books coming out of the South Asian Diaspora. This is also a Happy Hour meet-up event for South Asians at AWP, and a special invite out to LA South Asian […]
A Conversation with James Yeh: 3/10 @ 12PM PT / 3PM ET Join Kaya Press for a conversation with James Yeh—writer and editor at Columbia University—as we discuss the work of an editor and take a close look at the editorial process behind Francisco González’s “Serranos”! Register at bit.ly/firstpass3. James Yeh is a writer, editor, […]
A Conversation with Vivian Lee: 2/20 @ 1PM PT / 4PM ET Join Kaya Press for a conversation with Vivian Lee—senior editor at Little, Brown—as we discuss the work of an editor and take a close look at the editorial process behind Curtis Chin’s memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant! Register […]
Join us to celebrate the publication of the groundbreaking new anthology I Will Not Go: Translations, Transformations, and Chutney Fractals (Kaya Press, October 2024). Edited by Rajiv Mohabir, I Will Not Go features 17 Indo-Caribbean poets who experiment with their own personal interpretations of two famous Chutney songs. RSVP Here. The book launch will feature […]
Every Spring, Kaya Press Managing Editor Neelanjana Banerjee teaches an exciting UCLA course in the UCLA Asian American Studies Department: Asian American Publishing with Kaya Press. Throughout the quarter, students learned the intricacies of the publishing industry and how an independent, Asian-diasporic press like Kaya navigates the industry. As their final, students produced and edited their […]
Kaya Press congratulates our very own Sunyoung Lee and Duncan Williams for receiving an Award of Excellence from the Japanese American National Museum for their work on the Ireicho. Lee and Williams served as the creative director and director of the project and were honored by the museum at its annual Benefit and Online Auction […]
