This fall, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop is celebrating the art of the essay. Featuring longtime poets and fiction writers with debut essay collections out this year, this conversation will take an intersectional look at Asian American identity, genre, gender, race, publishing, and the way the essay form allows writers to dance, dodge, spar, and move through time and nature to tell important stories. Featuring Cathy Park Hong, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Sejal Shah, and moderated by Piyali Bhattacharya. RSVP here.

Ithaca College hosts Aimee Nezhukumatathil for their Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. More details here.

Portland Book Festival hosts a writing workshop taught by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Lony Haley-Nelson notes: “Wonder is valuable…because it leads us to learn and remember.” Using the language and vocabulary of myth, folklore, science, and natural history as inspiration for poems, this generative workshop will help you jump-start the blank page in front of you. Limited to 40 students; register here.

Portland Book Festival hosts a cross-genre discussion of environmental justice and the inseparableness of the climate crisis and economic inequality, featuring John Freeman, editor of Tales of Two Planets and author of The Park. John will be in conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, acclaimed poet (Oceanic) and author of the illustrated essay collection about the natural world and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us, World of Wonders; and Kawai Strong Washburn, whose debut novel is Sharks in the Time of Saviors, in which supernatural events force a family to reckon with the meaning of heritage and the cost of survival. RSVP here.

The Kirkus Prize awards ceremony will be held on November 5th, from 5 to 7pm (awards announced at 6), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders is a finalist in the Nonfiction category! The ceremony will be livestreamed to YouTube.

Tune in for the final Dear America Virtual Town Hall, sponsored by Terrain.org and Trinity University Press, featuring readings and discussion by Sherwin Bitsui, Fenton Johnson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Debra Marquart, and facilitated by Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin. Learn more here.

Woodland Pattern Book Center hosts a reading with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders, Ross Gay, and Kelsey Marie Harris. Register here.

Ahead of their Saturday reading, authors and gardeners Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ross Gay, and Kelsey Marie Harris will join Venice Williams, the founder of Alice’s Garden in Milwaukee, to discuss the intersections between creative collaboration, gardening, poetry, social justice, and well-being. Woodland Pattern executive director Jenny Gropp will moderate, and the conversation will open to a Q & A toward the program’s end. Register here.

This year’s Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture at Iowa State University will be given by J. Drew Lanham, author of The Home Place. Free and open to the public: details here.