Historic Joy Kogawa House to host QueerAsian workshops
Historic Joy Kogawa House will be hosting QueerAsian, a series of writing and creation workshops for LGBTQI+ Asians, focused on anti-Asian racism during the pandemic. Led by queer Asian/Filipinx author C.E. Gatchalian, these workshops offer a safe space for people of...
Unlocking the Page with Lenore Rowntree
About the Workshop This workshop will use prompts to help you generate new writing that can be expanded on later. Please have paper and pen handy, as well as 1–2 pages of something you have already written (need not be polished and can be any form). You can bring...
Are you interested in writing picture books?
September 15 – Meet the Author Zoom Social Join us online on Tuesday, September 15, 7pm – 8pm PDT, for a Zoom social with children’s author Anita Miettunen, who is the September Writer-in-Residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House. Anita will chat about how she...
One Last Summer Reading
As summer draws to a close, join us for music and prosecco in the garden as we celebrate local writers whose new novels have launched or will launch during pandemic times.
August 22: Silk Road Music + Two Poets
On August 22, Historic Joy Kogawa House brings you Silk Road Music + two poets: Helen Gowans and Junie Désil, as a socially distanced way to support poets and musicians who have not been able to perform for a while. This music and poetry event will be hosted live with an audience of fewer than 10 people as well as on Zoom.