Fall 2009 Update
October 17 marks a year since Me as her again came out. If you’ve had a chance to read it, consider writing a review on Amazon. It’s fun and will make you a part of the Armenian literary scene.
So much has happened in the last year; I’ve done readings and given talks to large groups of people about Armenian culture, history and Armenian women’s lives. And this continues, as I prepare to give a reading at an Armenian Writer’s Conference at UCLA, November 6-8.
I’ve recently returned to working on my book on my year in Yerevan. My essay America/Armenia/Angelina, just published by Perigee, an online literary journal, gives a taste of the style and content I’m working with.
And on November 2, I’ll be reading with Our Side, the creative nonfiction workshop on cultural identity that I started last summer. We’re celebrating the launch of our new chapbook, details below.
“Our Side”, a Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop on Cultural Identity
presents a publication launch reading of their new chapbook
Monday, November 2, 7 pm
Little Theater
LaGuardia Community College Performing Arts Center
31-10 Thomson Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
Subway: 7 to 33rd/Rawson or EVGR to Queens Plaza
Free Admission
Chapbooks will be available for donations of $5 to $10
During the summer of 2009, thirteen writers of all levels and with roots all over the world came together in Our Side to write about the worlds they live in, past and present. In this ten-week workshop, they helped each other create memoirs, narratives and personal essays which address issues of emigration, dislocation from homeland, assimilation to a new land, maintenance of cultural identity, and transnationalism.
Spearheaded by Our Side member Beatriz Gil (editor/designer), they produced a publication of their work, which they will present for the first time to the public.
