BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32370@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240316T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240316T200000 DTSTAMP:20240304T135741Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/offsite-readings-for-palestinian-ai d-2/ SUMMARY:Offsite: Readings for Palestinian Aid DESCRIPTION:[caption id="attachment_245758" align="alignnone" width="300"] Reading for Palestine's promotional poster[/caption]\n\nBROOKLYN\, NEW YOR K\n\nThis event is presented in collaboration with the Asian American Writ ers' Workshop. The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) is devoted to creating\, publishing\, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans\, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at t he intersection of migration\, race\, and social justice. Since their foun ding in 1991\, they have been dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. At a time when migrants\, women\, people of co lor\, Muslims\, and LGBTQ people are specifically targeted\, we offer a ne w countercultural public space in which to imagine a more just future. For more information about the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, visit the ir website at aaww.org.\n\nJoin Books Are Magic and Brooklyn Poets for a n ight of reading\, listening\, supporting\, and fundraising!\n\nThis event' s lineup features poets\, novelists\, screenwriters\, and children's book authors of various ethnic and religious backgrounds\, all coming together to highlight each other's voices and stories\, to raise money for the fami lies and children that have been affected by the war in Gaza\, and to coll ectively uplift the ongoing demand for a permanent ceasefire.\n\nZaina Ara fat is a LGBTQ Palestinian–American writer based in Brooklyn. Her debut novel\, You Exist Too Much\, was selected as an Indie Next Pick for June\, and has been praised by O Oprah Magazine\, Vogue\, Elle\, Harper's Bazaar \, NPR\, LitHub and Good Morning America. Her stories and essays have appe ared in publications including Granta\, The New York Times\, The Believer\ , Virginia Quarterly Review\, VICE\, BuzzFeed\, Guernica and The Atlantic. She holds an MFA from Iowa and an MA from Columbia\, and was awarded the 2018 Arab Women/Migrants from the Middle East fellowship from Jack Jones L iterary Arts. She teaches writing at Long Island University and the School of the New York Times\, and is currently working on an essay collection.\ n\nKen Chen is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of Creati ve Writing at Barnard College. His poetry collection Juvenilia was selecte d for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award by Louise Glück\, who wrote “Like only the best poets\, Ken Chen makes with his voice a new category .” His forthcoming book\, tentatively titled Death Star\, follows his jo urney to the underworld to rescue his father and his encounters there with those destroyed by colonialism. Chen has received fellowships from the Cu llman Center at the New York Public Library\, the National Endowment for t he Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and the Bread Loaf Writer s Conference. His nonfiction work has been published in Best American Essa ys\, N+1\, The New Republic\, Frieze\, The New Inquiry\, Poetry\, and NPR ’s All Things Considered. Chen served as the Executive Director of the A sian American Writers’ Workshop from 2008 to 2019. He also co-founded th e cultural website Arts &\; Letters Daily and CultureStrike\, a nationa l arts organization dedicated to migrant justice.\n\nTemim Fruchter is a q ueer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn\, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland\, and is the recip ient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities\, Ve rmont Studio Center\, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her debut novel\, City of Laughter\, is out now on Grove Atlantic.\n\nAya Ghanameh is a Palestin ian illustrator\, writer\, and designer from Amman\, Jordan. Her work move s away from state-centric ways of thinking to center the voices of ordinar y people in historical and political narratives. Her debut picture book\, These Olive Trees\, is inspired by the experiences of her family who culti vated her love of the land throughout her upbringing in exile. Having grad uating from the Rhode Island School of Design\, she is currently based in New York City where she overspends on food from Arab restaurants.\n\nHanna h Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author\, editor\, and marketer who was raised in a family of booksellers and publishers in Western Massachusetts and England. Born in Brooklyn into Interlink Publish ing\, a family-run independent publishing house\, she learned the power of literature at a young age. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is her first picture book. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.\n\nEmma Seligman is a Canadian direct or of the films Shiva Baby and Bottoms. 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