June 6-7, 2026 | 10AM – 5PM | SCI-Arc (960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013) Come find us at LITLIT, a two-day book fair celebrating independent publishing hosted by the Los Angeles Review of Books! We’ll be there all weekend, so stop by at our table any time throughout the festival to chat […]
June 17, 2026 | 5:30-7:30PM | Glendale Central Library Auditorium (222 E. Harvard St, Glendale, CA) Celebrate the launch of First Contact, Warren Liu’s debut collection of speculative poetry, at the Glendale Central Library with us! Joining Liu for a wonderful, jam-packed night of poetry will be Diana Arterian, author of Agrippina the Younger (Northwestern […]
May 17, 2026 | Sunday @ 3:30PM | Purgatory (675 Central Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207) Shake off the winter with Kaya Press as Literaoke returns to NYC! Come see performers sing their hearts out to their favorite karaoke bangers and then read from their work. Featuring: Helyn Chen-Zheng IG: @helynchenzheng.pdf Helyn Chen-Zheng is a writer […]
May 2, 2026 | 12PM – 6PM | Washington Square South (between Thompson St & Sullivan St) Catch Kaya Press and so many other incredible independent presses at the 10th annual Indie Lit Fair! This free book fair will also include a reading from our very own Ed Lin, who will be at the Festival […]
April 30, 2026 | Friday, @ 8:30PM | Directors Guild of America (7920 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046) Join us for the LA premiere of BEFORE THE MOON FALLS, an “intimate portrait of acclaimed Samoan writer Sia Figiel … [that] illuminat[es] the complexities of inconsistently treated mental illness and the devastating toll it […]
At Kaya, publishing is people. We recognize that traditional industry models can’t protect or propel the stories we champion, so we are re-envisioning our architecture to build a resilient, independent foundation for the future. As part of our commitment to collective possibility, we are launching our first-ever online workshop series, Creative Contagion. Featuring Kaya writers, […]
