All right, stop whatcha doin’, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that ya used to.<\/p>\n\n
New York City-area Mutineers (and all those green-tinged brown people who, like me, wish that they were): cancel your weekend plans. These are better, I PROMISE.<\/p>\n\n
The South Asian Woman’s Creative Collective<\/a> is sponsoring some temporary nirvana this Friday through Sunday, as they present M I X E D M E S S A G E S<\/a>, a sepia-colored festivus for the literary-minded rest of us at Marymount Manhattan College<\/a>. It’s their fourth conference, so you know it’s going to be as smoove as I am when slightly tipsy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Not one, but TWO Mutineers will be there: Amardeep<\/a> is moderating Friday night’s reception and I’m speaking on a panel on Sunday afternoon. Details for both of those chunks o’ heaven are below, the entire schedule (which I demand you peruse, because it’s THAT hot) is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n For you bargain-minded desis<\/a> who noticed the wee $15 cost for Amardeep’s sure-to-be fantastic event– just know that breakfast on both Saturday and Sunday are free, as are most of the other activities during the day. Que bueno el deal-o, as the President would not say.<\/p>\n\n I just feel sorry for our rock star of a guest<\/a> blogger Neha<\/a>; the poet whom she profiled here<\/a>, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha<\/a>, is part of Sunday night’s showcase of brown female writers, so I’m sure she wishes she could attend. I could go on and on and tell you more tantalizing tidbits, like how long-time mutineer Pooja Makhijani<\/a> helped put this phenomenal weekend together AND is a part of the first panel on Saturday (South Asian Youth Lit), but I don’t want to rub it in for those of you who can’t go. We’ll take plenty of pictures for you, how’s that? Not good enough? Um…well, this is awkward. May I suggest an eleventh hour road trip? Even with painful gas prices, it would be totally worth it and really, how many things can you say THAT about these days? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All right, stop whatcha doin’, ’cause I’m about to ruin the image and the style that ya used to. New York City-area Mutineers (and all those green-tinged brown people who, like me, wish that they were): cancel your weekend plans. … Continue reading A three-day series of readings, panels and workshops, “Mixed Messages” will explore non-mainstream genres, highlight writers who use new media, and focus on writing communities. [SAWCC<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n
Friday, May 19: Kick-Off Reading and Reception\n7PM, $15<\/u>
\nAmitav Ghosh (Incendiary Circumstances, Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
\nVijay Seshadri (The Long Meadow: Poems, Graywolf Press, 2005)
\nSara Suleri Goodyear (Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter’s Elegy, University of Chicago Press, 2003)
\nModerated by Amardeep Singh<\/strong> (Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University)<\/blockquote>\n\nSunday, May 21: 3PM-5PM, FREE \nPanel Discussion: Mixed Messages: South Asian Literature and New Media<\/u>
\nAnna John (SepiaMutiny)<\/strong>
\nRavi Shankar (editor of DrunkenBoat.com)
\nYesha Naik (podcaster and performer)
\nRam Devineni (filmmaker and publisher of Rattapallax Press)
\nAmitava Kumar (Husband of a Fanatic, New Press, 2005) (moderator)<\/blockquote>\n\n