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AAWWTV: Akwaeke Emezi & Elizabeth Acevedo Reading and Conversation with Sophia Hussain
“I believe in the sweat of love & the fire of truth.” – Assata Shakur
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is thrilled to celebrate the launch of Akwaeke Emezi’s new book THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI and the recent release of Elizabeth Acevedo’s CLAP WHEN YOU LAND and WRITE YOURSELF A LANTERN: A JOURNAL INSPIRED BY THE POET X. Join us for this conversation with award-winning writers and world-shifters Emezi and Acevedo, moderated by Sophia Hussain.
Already lauded as one of the best books of the year, THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI by Akwaeke Emezi is a unfolding mystery. “Emezi offers a richly textured depiction of a middle-class community in Nigeria” (Kirkus Review). Propulsively readable, THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI is a novel about family & friendships that challenge expectations. A dramatic story of loss, transcendence, and inter-connection, this latest from Emezi is, as Elle writes, “a testament to Emezi’s literary prowess.” (Elle)
Elizabeth Acevedo’s new CLAP WHEN YOU LAND is a novel-in-verse. Brimming with grief and love, Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Of CLAP WHEN YOU LAND. “Acevedo maintains her signature poetic style, capturing the raw emotions of both teens who … are in disbelief about their father Yano’s death.” (Remezcla) Acevedo has also just published WRITE YOURSELF A LANTERN: A JOURNAL INSPIRED BY THE POET X, a diary for dreamers, world builders, and poets meant to hold space for writing the words writers need most.
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AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans–in other words, we’re the preeminent organization dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told.
We’re building the Asian literary culture of tomorrow through our curatorial platform, which includes our New York events series and our online editorial initiatives. In a time when China and India are on the rise, when immigration is a vital electoral issue, when the detention of Muslim Americans is a matter of common practice, we believe Asian American literature is vital to interpret our post-multicultural but not post-racial age. Our curatorial take is intellectual and alternative, pop cultural and highbrow, warm and artistically innovative, and vested in New York City communities.
Our curatorial platform is premised on the idea of a big-tent Asian American cultural pluralism. We’re interested in both the New York publishing industry and ethnic studies, the South Asian diasporic novel and the Asian American story of assimilation, high culture and pop culture, Lisa Lowe and Amar Chitra Katha, avant-garde poetry and spoken word, journalism and critical race theory, Midnight’s Children and Dictee. We are against both an exclusive literary culture that believes that race does not exist and Asian American narratives that lead to self-stereotyping and limit the menu of our identity. We are for inventing the future of Asian American literary culture. Named one of the top five Asian American groups nationally, covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Poets & Writers, we are a safe community space and an anti-racist counterculture, incubating new ideas and interpretations of what it means to be both an American and a global citizen.
AAWWTV: Akwaeke Emezi & Elizabeth Acevedo Reading and Conversation with Sophia Hussain
“I believe in the sweat of love & the fire of truth.” – Assata Shakur
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is thrilled to celebrate the launch of Akwaeke Emezi’s new book THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI and the recent release of Elizabeth Acevedo’s CLAP WHEN YOU LAND and WRITE YOURSELF A LANTERN: A JOURNAL INSPIRED BY THE POET X. Join us for this conversation with award-winning writers and world-shifters Emezi and Acevedo, moderated by Sophia Hussain.
Already lauded as one of the best books of the year, THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI by Akwaeke Emezi is a unfolding mystery. “Emezi offers a richly textured depiction of a middle-class community in Nigeria” (Kirkus Review). Propulsively readable, THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI is a novel about family & friendships that challenge expectations. A dramatic story of loss, transcendence, and inter-connection, this latest from Emezi is, as Elle writes, “a testament to Emezi’s literary prowess.” (Elle)
Elizabeth Acevedo’s new CLAP WHEN YOU LAND is a novel-in-verse. Brimming with grief and love, Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Of CLAP WHEN YOU LAND. “Acevedo maintains her signature poetic style, capturing the raw emotions of both teens who … are in disbelief about their father Yano’s death.” (Remezcla) Acevedo has also just published WRITE YOURSELF A LANTERN: A JOURNAL INSPIRED BY THE POET X, a diary for dreamers, world builders, and poets meant to hold space for writing the words writers need most.
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aaww.org
facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop
twitter.com/aaww
AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans–in other words, we’re the preeminent organization dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told.
We’re building the Asian literary culture of tomorrow through our curatorial platform, which includes our New York events series and our online editorial initiatives. In a time when China and India are on the rise, when immigration is a vital electoral issue, when the detention of Muslim Americans is a matter of common practice, we believe Asian American literature is vital to interpret our post-multicultural but not post-racial age. Our curatorial take is intellectual and alternative, pop cultural and highbrow, warm and artistically innovative, and vested in New York City communities.
Our curatorial platform is premised on the idea of a big-tent Asian American cultural pluralism. We’re interested in both the New York publishing industry and ethnic studies, the South Asian diasporic novel and the Asian American story of assimilation, high culture and pop culture, Lisa Lowe and Amar Chitra Katha, avant-garde poetry and spoken word, journalism and critical race theory, Midnight’s Children and Dictee. We are against both an exclusive literary culture that believes that race does not exist and Asian American narratives that lead to self-stereotyping and limit the menu of our identity. We are for inventing the future of Asian American literary culture. Named one of the top five Asian American groups nationally, covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Poets & Writers, we are a safe community space and an anti-racist counterculture, incubating new ideas and interpretations of what it means to be both an American and a global citizen.
