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

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.

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