Thursday, June 17, 2010, 6:30pm
SAWCC presents a night of readings to celebrate the groundbreaking anthology Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry, the first collection of U.S. poets from South Asia. … Continue readingIndivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 7pm
An evening of readings featuring eclectic, left-of-center poetry and prose. Writers explore what it means to them to look left, whether it be traveling opposite of expectation or casting a glance out at the periphery. … Continue readingLook Left
Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 7pm
Join SAWCC for a reading and discussion with young adult novelists Neesha Meminger and Sheba Karim. Meminger and Karim deal with issues ranging from the Sikh experience post-9/11 and single parenthood to body image and Muslim American identity, while providing cohesive narratives of South Asian American adolescences and their growing pains. … Continue readingBeyond Gossip Girls: An Evening With Young Adult Authors
Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7, 2009
SAWCC’s sixth annual literary festival is a two-day series of readings, panel discussions, and writing workshops featuring South Asian writing that explores love between strangers and love that is strange. … Continue readingStranger Love
Thursday, May 15, 2008
This video program will feature short, experimental works by South Asian and Arab artists whose work reveals the tenuous nature of storytelling.
Friday, November 2 and Saturday, November 3, 2007
SAWCC’s fifth annual literary festival features women of South Asian descent who write personal, political, and popular literature. This festival explores the electricity of South Asians writing in a different time, in different ways through the lenses of music, food, the Internet, politics, criticism, poetry, and fiction. Electric Ladyland will provide an opportunity for these works to converge and spark new dialogue.
