Kaya’s 2013-14 Welcome Back event featured mini-writing sessions (like the one about fate and the day of your birth inspired by Kaya’s forthcoming American Canyon by Amarnath Ravva) and a prompt where all participants sucked on a lime for five seconds, led by Fractal editors. There was also a mini-chapbook making workshop by Gold Line […]
New Yorkers: go participate in this amazing underground publishing event by our friends at WRIT LARGE PRESS, featuring Kaya writers Ed Lin and Thaddeus Rutkowski, among many others. Hosted by S2A (www.s2anyc.com), PUBLISH! questions the notion of writing as a private, solitary act and re-imagines the publishing process as an act of announcing. Over the […]
Literature lovers far & wide: Come visit the Kaya Press and USC Master of Professional Writing Program’s SMOKIN’ HOT LIT LOUNGE (Booth 380 in Founders Park) at the LA Times Festival of Books! Dedicated to books, writing, independent publishing, and FUN: our booth features interactive lit activities for all ages, LA’s finest small presses, and a […]
Asian American book critic extraordinaire Terry Hong did an in-depth interview with Kaya Press Publisher Sunyoung Lee, featured in the latest issue of Bookslut. Along with detailing Kaya’s past and Lee’s long-time involvement, the piece talks about Kaya’s present life at the University of Southern California and all the exciting new books we have coming […]
Kaya Press is honored to be part of the Indie Shelves Initiative at Downtown L.A.’s The Last Bookstore, which launches this Saturday Nov. 3rd at 3 p.m. The Initiative creates dedicated shelf space for L.A. authors and independent publishing houses. We were chosen by local literary connector Mike the Poet, and our shelf will feature […]
At Kaya’s Books + Bites Tasting Party, you’ll try foods from around the world paired with our books, to get a taste of the Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic literature that Kaya has been dedicated to publishing since 1994. Kaya will be releasing five books of fiction, poetry, and drama this Fall, and three in […]
