Upcoming Events

Hugo House Virtual Workshop
"How to Arrange and Publish Your Poetry Book"
Led by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
June 7 and 14, 2025

Adoptee-Only Virtual Generative Workshop
“Written on Our Skins: Exploring the Stories Inked into Our Lives"
Co-led by Alice Stephens and Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka
June 8, 2025 from 2-5 pm ET
(See @ajumama_workshop on IG for registration details)

KAAN 2025 in Atlanta, GA
"The Adoptee Consciousness Memoir Writing Workshop"
Co-led by Alice Stephens and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
June 20-22, 2025

Cherry Tree Young Writers Workshop
Featured Poetry Faculty: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
July 15-18, 2025

BIPOC Adoptee VOICES Conference in Portland, OR
"Autofiction Your Life!"
Led by Alice Stephens
July 25-27, 2025

Past Events

2025 AWP in Los Angeles

Fighting Tropes, Changing Narratives: BIPOC Adoptee Writers Break Out
Susan Ito, Shannon Gibney, Ansley Moon, Alice Stephens, Angela Tucker

Understories & Mycocosms: Tapping Hidden Networks
Sarah Audsley, Lesley Wheeler, Anna Maria Hong, Amarnath Ravva, Asali Solomon

Beyond Definitions of Diaspora: Korean Women Poets Breaking & Building Poetics
Sarah Audsley, Eugenia Leigh, Ae Hee Lee, Tiana Nobile, Rosanna Oh

2024 AWP in Kansas City

(Re)Vision: Creating a Sustainable Writing Community
Tiana Nobile, Sarah Audsley, Tamiko Beyer, Dharani Persaud

Crafting Unforgettable Characters—a Writer’s Guide to Storytelling
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Jen Fawkes, Raul Palma, Matthew Salesses, Caroline Kim

How Book Reviewing is Changing and Why it Matters
Martha Anne Toll, Ericka Taylor, Tope Folarin, Alice Stephens

Vision & Re-Vision: Teaching Revision in University & Community Workshops
Sarah Browning, Maya Marshall, Matthew Salesses, Allison Joseph, Sara Henning

Collaborating in Korean: The Value of Co-Translating
Jack Jung, Jeanine Walker, Jaekwan Shim, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Michael Joseph Walsh

2023 AWP in Seattle

Off-Site Reading: Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Authors Showcase
Organized by Joshua Nguyen & Susan Nguyen with Sarah Audsley

They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets
Christine Kitano, Alycia Pirmohamed, Paul Tran, Manahil Bandukwala, Sarah Audsley

"Memory that Pricks the Skin": Five Asian Women Poets Writing About History
Marianne Chan, Cynthia Dewi-Oka, Jessica Stark, Emily Jungmin Moon, Tiana Nobile

Beyond BTS & Squid Games: Korean Contemporary Poetry in Translation
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Jeanine Walker, Stine An, E. Bok Lee, Emily Jungmin Yoon

Adoptee Representation Is a Human Rights Issue
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Alice Stephens, Ansley Moon, Sarah Audsley, Tiana Nobile

Uprooted/Unrooted: Adopted & Donor-conceived Poets Rewriting Family
Stacey Balkun, Lori Desrosiers, Lee Herrick, Leah Silvieus

2022 AWP (virtual)

“Who Are Adoptees and Who Has the Right to Write about Them?”
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, Tiana Nobile, Leah Silvieus

2019 New Orleans Poetry Festival

“Adoptee Book Club: On Fostering Community and Kinship”
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, Tiana Nobile

2019 AWP in Portland

"Adopted Korean Women Writers: History Shapes Our Writing Journey"
Julayne Lee, Tiana Nobile, Leah Silvieus, SooJin Pate, Kim Sunee

2018 Association of Asian American Studies in San Francisco

"Reclaiming the Adoption Narrative in Asian American Poetry"
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Ansley Moon, Tiana Nobile, Leah Silvieus