WRITER • TEACHER • SPEAKER

KAVITA DAS

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September 2025: Kavita was a featured reader at the Must Love Memoir Reading Series

StoryWorks Roundtable Event
(Parts 1 & 2)

Jan 19, 2023: Book launch event, hosted by CityLights Books and Asian American Writer’s Workshop

Nov, 2022: New articles at Electric Lit and Lit Hub

June, 2021: Kavita Selected as a Sewanee Writers’ Conference (SWC) Fellow and Participates in SWC Reading Series

Events

March 19th: I’ll be offering a Member Exclusive Webinar for PEN America entitled Finding the Issues in Our Stories and the Stories in Our Issues. If you’re not a PEN America member, you can use this link to register.

Past Events

Winter/Spring 2026 Class:
New Year, New Class! One of my goals has been to make my Writing with Conscience class more accessible so I’m excited to be donating a 4 Week Writing with Conscience Workshop through a partnership with Kundiman. The class is open to writers of color and is pay what you can and includes a few full scholarship spots. Details & Registration

 

Kavita Das in Conversation with Anthony C. Ocampo about Craft and Conscience
Co-Presented by Los Angeles Review of Books & Stories Books and Cafe, Feb 2, 2023

Co-Presented by Asian American Writers’ Workshop & City Lights bookstore, January 19, 2023

 

The PEN 10 Interview with Kavita Das
PEN America, December 2022

The Risks, Realities, and Rewards of Writing About Social Issues, Catapult Roundtable Discussion, November 2022

Generation Women storytelling event, Nov 9, 2022

WATCH – Launch of Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues, conversation with contributor Jaquira Díaz, (Ordinary Girls), moderated by Denne Michele Norris, writer and Editor-in-Chief of Electric Literature. Oct 11, 2022

Dec 10, 2020: “Kavita Das in Conversation with Jafreen Uddin about Poignant Song,” Co-Sponsored Event by South Asia Institute and Asian American Writers’ Workshop

March 8, 2020: “Lakshmi Shankar: A Musical Evolution in One Night,” with Women’s Raga Massive, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY,

Sept 22, 2019: “Lakshmi Shankar: A Musical Evolution in One Night,” Brooklyn, NY

Oct 1, 2019: “Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar – A Reading and Conversation” DAG Gallery, NYC