2024 Asian American Literature Festival
September 14–22, 2024
Join us for the 2024 Asian American Literature Festival (AALF), a historic multi-city gathering designed to support and nurture Asian American literature and the literary community. The AALF is a space of stewardship, kinship, and care, where we celebrate the role of Asian diasporic literature in creating community.
Free and open to the public
Cosmic Kinship:
literature across space and time
Curated and produced by a collective of artists, librarians, educators, scholars, and publishers, this is the only festival of its kind. The AALF will convene writers and readers through immersive in-person and hybrid events, including interactive installations, readings, salons, and workshops.
For the first time in its history, the AALF will take place both across the country and globally, with an international presence in Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Australia. Cities hosting events include Athens and Atlanta, GA; Champaign-Urbana, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Honolulu, HI; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA.
Using outer space as a unifying visual metaphor for practicing solidarity across distance and time, the festival explores how the Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Asian diasporic literary communities can align themselves with their most marginalized members.
2024 Asian American Literature Festival Sponsors
Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
Poets & Writers
Project Voice Fund
Who we are
The Asian American Literature Festival Collective is a cooperative devoted to stewarding the futures of Asian American literature as art form and social ecosystem. Organizing partners within the collective include the Asian American Literary Archive, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Bamboo Ridge, The Georgia Review, Kaya Press, Kearny Street Workshop, KidLit with Sarah Park Dahlen, Reorienting Reads, Slow Currents (Liminal x Satellites), and The Starlings Collective.
After the Smithsonian’s cancellation of the 2023 Festival, the AALFC is proud to convene an independently organized and collectively funded iteration of the Festival for 2024.
what we do
We believe the AALF is not only a celebration of Asian American literature but also a dream enacted of what persistent, just, and caring stewardship could look like for Asian American literature. We work to include all attendees by remixing what literary programming can be.
We celebrate the Festival, and Asian American literature, as a social space: a place where friendships are born, mentorships are exchanged, and secret histories are passed down, so they no longer have to linger in the shadows.
CONTACT Us
Questions? Let us know, and we will respond. We are eager to connect with you!