This weekend, come hang out in our indie lit oasis inside the LA Times Festival of Books: The Smokin’ Hot Indie Lit Lounge (Booth 380, near the Poetry Stage) — brought to you by Kaya Press and the University of Southern California Creative Writing Department. Write, edit, and publish your own book! Talk one-on-one with authors! […]

  MISSION The invisibility of writers of color is in fact a willed blindness. But we exist. We’re already at the pulsing center of what’s vital in culture, the arts, and history. We’re already circulating through literature, and the greater imagination. Insistent and steady. Inevitable. Let’s celebrate the world made brighter by Lit In Color. […]

Join Kaya Press for our AWP offsite reading, Sexy Motherf***er! As our promo images and the title suggest, this celebration of the creative spirit will be Prince-themed. The writers that our reading will feature include, but are not limited to, the following: Kazim Ali Chiwan Choi Quincy Scott Jones Van Khanna Lo Kwa Mei-en Rachel Mortiz Monica Ong Lilliam […]

Join Kaya Press and four Asian diasporic artists for Self/Split next Wednesday! Sam Chanse, Nicholas Wong, and D’Lo are authors of three forthcoming Kaya books, and Chiwan Choi will also be reading his poetry. The event will be at USC’s Ground Zero Performance Café on Wednesday, April 1 at 7 PM. Below is the event description on USC’s website: “Self/Split” […]

Join us on Wednesday, March 11 for a screening of Performing Girl, a documentary about Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American performance artist D’Lo! The screening will be followed by a Q&A with D’Lo himself. Kaya Press will be publishing D’Lo’s D’FunQT in the near future. This event is brought to you by USC APASS, USC LGBT Resource Center, the DESI Project, and ourselves! […]