We over here at the Kaya Press HQ are super excited for this upcoming reading on Sunday, Aug. 21st that will feature Amarnath Ravva, Neelanjana Banerjee, Yago S. Cura, & Kenji Liu. We also especially can’t wait to collaborate with Peter Woods, who is hosting event in the Air 11 space. There will be words, there will be […]
Close followers of Kaya Press and our positively vibrant social media accounts will know that we love to place the spotlight on writers of color with our #LitInColor campaign. Well starting now we’re adding a new branch to that campaign and it shall henceforth be known as the #LitInColor Mixtape! At this year’s 2016 AWP […]
AWP is an annual literary conference that brings together over 12,000 writers and publishers from all over the country. Come visit us at Booth 1310! Kaya Press and Tia Chucha Press are sharing a space (which will also feature work by Tiny Splendor, and Dum Dum Zine). And here is a roundup of Kaya’s smoking hot literary […]
The New Writing Series at the University of California, San Diego will be featuring Amarnath Ravva this week! Amar will be reading and talking about his debut book American Canyon, which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Awards. The event will be on Wednesday, December 2 at UCSD’s Visual Arts Presentation Lab (SME 149) at 4:30 pm, and […]
Sejal Shah of the Kenyon Review Online provides a personal look into Amarnath Ravva’s memoir. She discusses the prominence of rituals in the book as well as its illustration of the passage of time. If you haven’t gotten a chance yet to read AMERICAN CANYON (or if you have and would like to recall its profound […]
Friday, September 18, 2015 7:00 PM Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238 Poets Yesenia Montilla and Angel Nafis join nonfiction writer Amarnath Ravva and fiction writer Gina Apostol to celebrate writers of color. The authors will read from New York-based writers of color that have influenced them, and from their own work. This reading is […]
