UPCOMING EVENTS

ENGLAND

Oct. 27, 2016 – Senate House:  As part of the Imagining the Guyanas conference, hosted by the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, I’ll be reading on a panel of writers all born on or near the Rose Hall Plantation. The panel will be followed by a reading by Fred D’Aguiar. Free and open to the public.

HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST EVENTS

ENGLAND

Oct. 27, 2013 – Gateshead, “Whose Strife Is It Anyway?”:  As part of BBC3’s Free Thinking Festival, novelist Amit Chaudhuri, author of Calcutta, journalist Aamer Ahmed Khan and I discuss who has the right to tell the stories of the dispossessed at BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Festival this past October.

UNITED STATES

Oct. 5, 2013 – New York City: At Page Turner, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop annual literary festival (WBAI broadcast of session) 

Oct. 10, 2013 – Madison, New Jersey: The Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey staged a reading of “Into Dark Waters,” the fourth chapter of “Coolie Woman.” It was part of the theatre’s showcase of the work of writers who won the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in 2013. Here’s an archival recording of the reading by actress Meera Mohan. 

Nov. 16, 2013 – New York City: Official US launch party presented by SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Creative Collective) at The Asian American Writers Workshop.

WEST INDIES

May 13, 2014 – Georgetown, Guyana: reading with Rahul Bhattacharya at Moray House Trust

INDIA

Jan. 17-21. 2014 – Jaipur, India: Jaipur Literature Festival