An Evening of Short Readings
April 20, 2007 … Continue readingAn Evening of Short Readings
Category: Literature
Mixed Messages
May 19Â – 21, 2006
SAWCC’s three-day annual literary festival celebrates South Asian writing crossing boundaries, between cultures, genres, and media with readings, panels and workshops. … Continue readingMixed Messages
Chiasmata
Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 2005
SAWCC’s three-day literary festival revolves around the idea of chiasmata and the spontaneous connections that birth the motley spaces South Asian writers inhabit — between the old and the new, the established and the subversive, the familiar and the novel that serve as bridges toward a new self. … Continue readingChiasmata
Desis in the Diaspora
Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8, 2002
A two-day artists’ exchange focusing on fiction and poetry about and by women of South Asian descent raised in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Co-sponsored with Asian American Writers’ Workshop with cooperation from the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association. … Continue readingDesis in the Diaspora
Cracking “Earth”: Bapsi Sidhwa Speaks
Friday, April 21, 2000, 7pm
South Asian American author Bapsi Sidwa speaks about her novel Cracking India that was turned into the film Earth, directed by Deepa Mehta. … Continue readingCracking “Earth”: Bapsi Sidhwa Speaks