Nicholas Wong may be in Hong Kong, but tonight at Stories Books & Cafe, Zoë Ruiz will be hosting a reading of Nic’s Crevasse! Join us as Los Angeles writers Siel Ju, Lisa Locascio, Douglas Manuel, and Brandon Som recite their favorite poems from Crevasse, as well as their own works. RSVP at the Facebook event page. See you there!

4–6 PM Kaprielian Hall 120 (Kaya Press office) Join Kaya Students for Independent Publishing (KSIP) and other literary organizations on the USC campus for an afternoon of literary creation! Get to know Kaya Press, The Healing Process, and Gold Line Press, and make your own book through workshops! You wouldn’t want to miss this opportunity for literature, crafts, awesome people, […]

This evening at LA MONOGATARI MATSURI, Gene Oishi will read from his debut novel Fox Drum Bebop, which focuses on how internment shaped one man’s entire life.  To get you excited for his Los Angeles appearance, we want to share two interviews  he did earlier in the year. The first is a must-hear interview with WYPR Radio and the second is […]

Wind down after a day at the Nisei Week Book Fair with a cocktail on the Plaza featuring a multigenerational celebration of Japanese American literary and storytelling culture with San Pedro native son Gene Oishi, reading from Fox Drum Bebop, his debut novel about how internment shaped one man’s entire life, translator Andrew Leong about his search for […]

Last week our Managing Editor Neela Banerjee volunteered at the Pitchess Detention Center for SEED LOVE, an arts and healing pop-up held by Dignity and Power Now at L.A. County Jails. Neela brought the Kaya typewriters and engaged visitors in book-making and letter-writing. Visitors typed letters to their families and decorated books and letters with quotes from Writers of […]