May 29, 2025
AAPI Heritage Month Author Reading and Community Celebration with APANO, Portland, Oregon
Presented with Ching-In Chen, Kalehua Kim, Amy Lam, and Ami Patel. Literary Arts and APANO are so excited to invite four incredible writers to read from their work and celebrate community during AAPI Heritage Month.

May 23, 2025
Little Obsessions - Open Studios Workshop at APANO, Portland, Oregon
If you can't stop talking about a food you love, a song on repeat, or a new fact you just learned—let's make a zine about it! Dive into one of your current obsessions and make a mini-zine with prompts for poetry, sketches, and more.

November 16, 2024
The Poetics of Translation - Workshop with Amy Lam at the Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri
This workshop explores the art and challenge of translation as form, focusing on how language, culture, and meaning transform in the process. Drawing on Édouard Glissant's concept of Relation, participants will engage with experimental forms of poetic generation, emphasizing the idea that translation is not merely about fidelity but a process of creating connections across cultural and linguistic boundaries.

November 12, 2022
Literary Arts: Pitching, Submitting, & Proposing: How to Make Money as a Writer, Portland, Oregon
Literary Arts, Ooligan Press, and Portland State University’s English Department partner to present the Oregon BIPOC Writers Publishing Event featuring Kelly Zatlin, Amy Lam, Karina Agbisit, and Jennifer Perrine. Join us for a panel discussion featuring local editors and grantors, as they discuss what makes for a successful pitch, submission, and grant proposal.

November 6, 2022
Lit-Mondo, Portland, Oregon
Literary improv show presented by Kickstand Comedy and the Portland Book Festival with writers Sadia Hassan and Amy Lam.

November 17, 2019
Siren Nation Festival, Portland, Oregon
The Power of Podcasting
Podcasting has emerged as a creative medium all its own, with diverse topics and approaches. Panelists will share their experiences podcasting for different purposes and audiences; talk about how to get started, build an audience, and sustain a podcast show; and answer questions.

November 8, 2019
Lit Crawl, Portland, Oregon
Collaborative Reading & Performance by She Who Has No Master(s) with Counterpoint Press & Catapult
Counterpoint Press celebrates the reissue of multidisciplinary writer Dao Strom’s The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys, a collection of novellas centering the experiences of Vietnamese women in the contemporary landscape, with a lineup of three women writers of the Vietnamese diaspora—Strom, Amy Lam, and Jenny Chu—performing readings accompanied by visuals and multimedia.

March 30, 2019
Literaoke, Portland, Oregon
Kaya Press, Kundiman, AAWW, AALR, and the Smithsonian APA Center are bringing together an amazing, diverse line-up of performers who will sing one minute of their favorite karaoke banger and then read from their own work

March 30, 2019
AWP Conference, Portland, Oregon
Writing Our Way Home: Third Culture Kids
Panel with Lillian Howan, Amy Lam, Michelle Chikaonda, Anne Liu Kellor. The literature of immigration tends to focus on the contrast between the country of origin and the destination country. But what about Americans shaped by two or more other cultures, whose multilayered identities defy easy categorization? Taking inspiration from writers like Pico Iyer, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Jhumpa Lahiri, these readers explore what it means to be a Third Culture Kid—the invaluable lessons and inevitable losses that create a more nuanced and complex definition of “home.”

March 28, 2019
Tender Table, Portland, Oregon
Presented with Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ashley Toliver, Amy Lam.
Tender Table is a storytelling platform for women, trans men and nonbinary folks who are black, indigenous, or people of color presenting narratives about the sweet, savory, sour, and bitter relationships to food and its connections to identity, memory, and community. Expect to be immersed in stories and sample delicious food prepared by the speakers.

March 28, 2019
AWP Conference, Portland, Oregon
Decolonize This: The New Global Travel Writing Canon
Panel with Faith Adiele, Amy Gigi Alexander, Amy Lam, Laurie McMillin, Anu Taranath. Travel writing is exploding in popular culture, literature, and classrooms—bringing the world to the page. But travel publishing continues to be segregated, reinforcing colonial attitudes and Western privilege. This panel provides practical tips from editors and teachers actively decolonizing the canon. We share our efforts to update the genre, teach responsible travel practices, and find, mentor, edit, publish, and broadcast voices from marginalized communities and tourist destinations.

March 18, 2018
Become StrongHer Conference 2018, University of Florida
Keynote speaker Amy Lam, presented by APIA Affairs and Kappa Phi Lambda at UF. 

February 2, 2018
Violet Valley Bookstore Opening, Water Valley, Mississippi
Celebrating the grand opening of queer feminist bookshop with Sarah Sgro, Amy Lam, Julian Randall, and Lara Avery. 

August 9, 2017
Whitenoise // De-Canon: A Visibility Project, Portland, Oregon
The Whitenoise project is a reading and discussion series aiming to center voices from underrepesented communities, featured at the UNA Gallery. Readers: Amy Lam, Alyssa Ogi, Consuelo Wise, Rachel Springer

February 11, 2017
AWP Conference, Washington D.C.
When Safe Spaces Aren’t: (Re)Imagining for a Multicultural Creative Space 
Panel with Alyss Dixson, Jennifer Baker, Amy Lam, Metta Sama. The term safe space has become the new buzzword for nurturing or supporting. This panel will describe how structural bias and inequity can mask the architecture of Whiteness by unpacking the term and decoding the cultural ideologies underpinning these spaces. It will seek to help writers of color and allies (re-)imagine multicultural creative spaces. 

December 6, 2016
Broken English IV, Oxford, Mississippi
Poetry by Jennifer Franny Key & prose by Amy Lam

November 4, 2016
LitCrawl, Portland, Oregon
PCoC presents: In/Visible
Hosted by Jenna Marie Fletcher, with appearances & space-taking & melanin & visibility by: Amy Lam, Anna Vo, Jamondria Marnice Harris, Julian Smuggles, and Kalimah Abioto

May 29, 2016
À Reading, Portland, Oregon
Performances by Amy Lam, Jamondria Marnice Harris, A.M. O'Malley, Elizabeth Hall, and Robert Torres.

February 19, 2015
Margin Shift, Seattle, Washington
Jane Wong and Josh Fomon hosts writers Feliz Lucia Molina, Amy Lam, and Casandra Lopez.

October 22, 2015
Lit Crawl, Seattle, Washington
A Kundiman Reading
Michelle Peñaloza hosts this event featuring Amy Lam, Neil Aitken, and Rick Barot, all fellows from the annual Kundiman Asian-American literature retreat.

September 6-7, 2014
Mortified, Portland, Oregon
Mortified celebrates stories revealed through the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. This reading was adapted into a podcast episode.