Upcoming Events
Art in Verse: An Aster Lit Workshop
Join the Aster events team on Sunday, February 16th at 1 pm EST as we explore the captivating connection between visual art and poetry. You’ll examine an array of classic and modern artworks, analyze masterfully-executed ekphrastic poems, and write an ekphrastic piece of your own!
Past Events
2022 in Summary: An Aster Lit Reading
This end-of-year event brings together our 2022 contributors and award winners for a reading, analysis, and Q&A session. Explore the unique creative processes of published writers, and learn what being a member of our international writing community is all about.
Going the Distance: Dissecting Persona & Who We Are on the Page
Writer Gyasi Hall leads Aster Lit members in an exploration of literary voice and embracing the whole self on the page.
2023 in Summary: An Aster Lit Reading
Aster Lit brings together our 2023 contributors and award-winners for our second annual end-of-year reading!
Lyrics and Poetics: Exploring Poetry Through Modern Music
Our first ever intern-led workshop guides participants in analyzing the lyrics of five different songs, and relating their literary devices and motifs to Aster Lit’s most notable poetry.
Historical Narratives & Cultural Assimilation: An Aster Lit Workshop
Our second intern-led workshop explores how writing has shaped the way history is remembered, whose stories get told, and how we can use literary tools to bring light to our own realities.
Ghazals and Reprise: An Aster Lit Workshop
In this workshop, we dive into the cross-cultural history of the ghazal form, and its fascinating connection to the theme of reprise.
2024 in Summary: An Aster Lit Reading
Aster Lit brings together our 2024 contributors and award-winners for our fourth annual end-of-year reading!
Going the Distance: Dissecting Persona and Who We Are on the Page
Gyasi Hall is a writer and critic from Columbus, Ohio. Their essays “Alas, Poor Fhoul” and “Eminem Drop-Kicked Me in This Dream I Had” were both nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and their debut poetry chapbook, Flight of the Mothman: An Autobiography, was published by The Operating System in Spring 2019. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in Guernica, Lit Hub, The Iowa Review, and The Black Warrior Review, among others. They received their MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and they are currently working on a book about Black people and comics.
2022 in Summary: An Aster Lit Reading
Join Aster Lit as we celebrate the incredible literary talents and pieces we published in 2022! 10 young writers across the world whose pieces were published in and received awards from Aster Lit will read their recognized pieces during this Zoom event. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask authors about their creative process and learn about Aster Lit's other initiatives.
Register at Eventbrite here.