About this project
Support PAGE TURNER: Asian American Literary Festival on October 29, 2011 and choose from a selection of rewards that highlight the breadth and depth of Asian American talent. You can curl up with a signed! book, experiment with a new chocolate chunk cookie recipe, grab coffee with Silicone Valley VCs, complete a custom-made Sudoku puzzle, enjoy lunch at Facebook's Palo Alto offices, watch a five-star view of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, have your manuscript reviewed by one of Poets & Writers Magazine's Game Changing literary agents, nosh on dinner with friends at a swanky Asian art gallery, or workshop a play by an Obie-award winning playwright!
You'll be celebrating both the twentieth anniversary of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and our landmark literary festival. The only event of its kind, PAGE TURNER celebrates the stories and ideas of the Asian American literary community. We invite readers and writers of all backgrounds to come hear the brightest voices of American writing, politics and comedy: Junot Diaz, Amitav Ghosh, Teju Cole, Aasif Mandvi, Siddhartha Deb, Hari Kunzru, and Jessica Hagedorn, who we are honoring with a lifetime achievement award. We’re like the TED of Asian American literature, but with more booze and better battle rhymes!
Your investment will determine how big and ambitious we can make the celebration, how many underrepresented writers we can bring to the center of American letters this year. By creating an Asian American intellectual space that does not currently exist, PAGE TURNER shows that Asian American literature is alive. By committing to PAGE TURNER, you will send a message that says that you believe in the Pulitzer Prize winners of the future--and that you believe in nurturing the writers who will tell our childrens’ story and that of their children. Help inspire future generations and ensure that they too will know that their stories matter and deserve to be told. Visit http://www.pageturnerfest.org and http://www.aaww.org for more information.
New rewards are added all the time!
FAQ
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Your name will appear on our website in recognition and thanks!
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You will get a pass to PAGE TURNER's Afterword party at Verso Press in Brooklyn plus $3 drinks, and a free book. PLUS get your name on our website as thanks
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Your name will appear on our website as thanks and you will receive one single-event pass for PAGE TURNER (which you can retrieve at the event).
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You will receive a gift certificate good for one scoop of delicious ice cream courtesy of Chinatown Ice Cream Factory in NYC PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will get a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER, which will take place at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn PLUS get your name on our website as thanks.
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You will receive a DVD of THE CHINATOWN FILM PROJECT (http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/chinatown_film_project), a collection of 10 short films about Chinatown by filmmakers such as Wayne Wang (the Joy Luck Club), Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl), Amir Nadiro (The Runner) and Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre) PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass to PAGE TURNER.
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Rare, back-issue copy of the Asian Pacific American Journal. PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will get a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn plus a pass for our Afterword party at Verso Press PLUS your name on the website as thanks.
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You will receive a $15 gift certificate to New York City's Xian Famous Foods, usable at all locations PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed copy of "My Mom is a FOB: Earnest Advice in Broken English from Your Asian-American Mom," released in January 2011, based on the always-awesome mymomisafob.com website. PLUS your name on our website and a single-event pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a rare back-issue copy of the Asian Pacific American Journal. PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a signed a signed copy of celebrated Boston baker Joanna Chang's recipe book "Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe." Highly rated on Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/9axJ21). PLUS your name will appear on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a copy of Columbia Law professor Tim Wu's book, "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires", from Knopf. Wu coined the term "Net Neutrality." "Master Switch" is highly rated on Amazon (http://amzn.to/cMqnEM). PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a weekend group walking tour of New York City Chinatown street food with Jennifer 8. Lee, author of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," with a choice of at least three dates in Fall or Spring 2012, depending on demand and skeds. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a pair of tickets to attend a rehearsal/workshop for Obie-award winning avant-garde playwright Young Jean Lee's upcoming production UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, described as "a hilariously disorienting approach to ... the subject of feminism...UFS will seduce with contradictory images of women, intensifying and proliferating a sense of female beauty and power that goes beyond the limited options we’ve all been trained to desire." The prize will include a signed script of either THE SHIPMENT or SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN. New York Magazine calls Young Jean Lee "the clearest indication that the avant-garde isn't dead, and has never been funnier," and The New Yorker says that her plays "offer the pleasure of brazen theatrical inventiveness." PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a one hour one-on-one poetry workshop with Monica Youn, 2010 National Book Award nominee. Monica Youn is the author of BARTER (Graywolf Press, 2003) and IGNATZ (Four Way Books, 2010). She has taught poetry at Columbia University and Pratt Institute and has been awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship and the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship, among other awards. The prize will include signed copies of both of Youn's books, as well as a signed broadside PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a Sudoku puzzle - custom-designed with your name - from Wei-Hua Huang, national Sudoku Champion. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Are you (or is someone you know) applying to law school? Extensive personalized feedback on your law school application essay by David Lat, founder of AboveTheLaw.com, former former federal prosecutor and Harvard and Yale Law School graduate. Lat's writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, New YorkObserver, and Wonkette PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have Bao lunch with Eddie Huang of BaoHaus fame PLUS your name on the website PLUS a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will have lunch at the Google offices in Mountain View, CA PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a one-week pass to the Reebok Sports Club on the Upper West Side where you can work your body and your mind PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will crunch numbers during a session with NYC-based accountant Ray Sek PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive an hour-long coaching lesson from Lori Zeglarski, who played Christine in various European productions of The Phantom of the Opera PLUS your name on our website PLUS a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive an hour-long piano lesson with accomplished pianist Celine J. Yim, who has written a text on Rachmaninoff PLUS your name on our website PLUS a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a one hour phone consultation with Kirby Kim of William Morris Endeavors, and one of Poets & Writers Magazine's Game Changing literary agents PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will breathe a little easier come April 15th because of the tax-consultation you'll have with Ron Ostermann of Ron Ostermann & Co, LLC. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a phone consultation with renowned literary Jin Auh of The Wylie Agency who represents luminaries like Salman Rushdie, Justin Torres, Alexander Chee, Martin Amis and Karan Mahajan PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have lunch in the Bay Area with 2010 MacArthur Fellow Yiyun Li, one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" and much lauded author of "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" (Random House, 2005), "The Vagrants" (Random House, 2009), and the recently released short-story collection "Gold Boy, Emerald Girl" (Random House, 2011) PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will have lunch -- and a tour -- at Facebook's offices in Palo Alto PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive an hour long guitar lesson from Damon Marks, who has collaborated with the likes of Bret Michaels and Tommy Aldridge, and toured with the amazing Alicia Keys PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a reading done for you by astrologer Ashok Motiani PLUS your name on your website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Enjoy a five-star view of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the most celebrated Thanksgiving event in NYC. You and a friend can take in the sights on a ninth floor wrap-around balcony at 6th Avenue near Bryant Park, and enjoy a New York brunch with lox and bagels. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will receive a ticket to the Kick-Off Dinner honoring Jessica Hagedorn. The dinner will take place on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:00 PM at Maharlika Filipino Moderno in NYC PLUS get your name on the website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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You will have an in-person consultation with renowned literary agent Jin Auh, who represents luminaries like Salman Rushdie, Justin Torres, Alexander Chee, Martin Amis and Karan Mahajan PLUS your name on our website PLUS a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have coffee with Alexis Ohanian, the Brooklyn-based cofounder of Reddit, founder of Breadpig, and angel investor at Das Kapital Capital, LLC. PLUS get your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee in Palo Alto, California with David Lee, a partner in SV Angel, an angel fund started by Ron Conway, whose investments included Paypal and Google. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee with Wesley Chan in Silicon Valley. He is a partner at Google Ventures, who founded and launched, among others, Google Voice and Google Analytics. PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee or design consultation with Garry Tan in Silicon Valley. He is a venture partner at YCombinator, co-founder of Posterous, and an early at Palantir PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour long coffee with Patrick Chung J.D. in Silicon Valley. He is a partner at New Enterprise Associates and co-founder of eeGeo Limited PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee with James Cham, principal of Trinity Ventures, in Silicon Valley. He focuses on consumer services, social media and digital media. PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have an hour-long coffee with Harj Taggar, a partner at Y Combinator PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a sublime four-course dinner for eight of Philippine cuisine and wine, served at the elegant TAMA Studios of interior design in Chelsea at a date of your choice. Entertain your friends in luxurious surroundings. PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have a consultation with Hussein Kanji in San Francisco OR New York City, OR over the phone from London. He is an angel investor and advisor to several early-stage start-ups including Exclusively.in, Jaycut, Signpost, AND Eros International Plc, the largest Bollywood company in the world PLUS get your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You will have coffee with Carey Lai, who is an Investoment Director at Intel Capital. His interests include Internet and digital media. PLUS your name on our website and a full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
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You and up to four of your friends will have a personal tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fifteen (15!) new galleries of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and later, South Asia on a Monday when the museum is closed to the public PLUS a compilation CD PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass.
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You and four friends will receive tickets to our PAGE TURNER Kickoff Dinner honoring Jessica Hagedorn. The dinner will take place on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:00 PM at Maharlika Filipino Moderno in NYC PLUS get your name on the website and a full-day pass to PAGE TURNER.
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Have an hour-long coffee with Paul Graham in Silicon Valley. He is an essayist, programmer, venture capitalist and cofounder of YCombinator and ViaWeb (which later became Yahoo! Store) PLUS your name on our website and one full-day pass for PAGE TURNER.
Project By
The Asian American Writers' Workshop
Founded in 1991, The Asian American Writers' Workshop is the preeminent national nonprofit arts organization devoted to great writing by Asian Americans--many of whom are cut off from the arts. We want to nurture all Asian American writers, whether they're Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, whose first book party we hosted, or a struggling young writer just graduating from school. We are one of the most active Asian American groups and literary groups in New York--and we're growing.