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Events

Words Without Borders holds events throughout the year. Contact us if you are interested in sponsoring an event.

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Recently Past Events

Celebrate 15 Years of WWB at the 2018 Gala and Globe Trot!

October 30, 2018 6:00 pm

Three Sixty° Tribeca – 10 Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013

Rally Reading Series + Words Without Borders: International Queer Writing

June 18, 2020 7:00 pm

A virtual event

Return to the Enchanted Island Book Launch with Johary Ravaloson and Allison M. Charette

November 12, 2019 7:00 pm

powerHouse Arena, 28 Adams St., Brooklyn, New York 11201

2019 Words Without Borders Gala and Globe Trot

October 29, 2019 6:00 pm

Tribeca Three Sixty° – 10 Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013

A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse at Lit Crawl 2019

October 12, 2019 6:00 pm

Warby Parker, 55 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY 11201

World in Verse: A Multilingual Poetry Reading

September 17, 2019 7:00 pm

Word Up Community Bookshop—Librería Comunitaria | 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St, New York, NY

A Screening of “The Miracle of the Little Prince” and Q&A with writer/director Marjoleine Boonstra

August 28, 2019 8:10 pm

Film Forum, 209 W Houston St, New York, NY 10014

The Queer Issue X: A Reading and Party

July 02, 2019 6:30 pm

Unnameable Books | 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Voices of the Silenced: A Conversation with Scholastique Mukasonga, Idra Novey, and Marcia Tiburi

May 11, 2019 4:00 pm

Albertine Books | 972 5th Ave, New York, NY 10075

WWB’s Fifth Annual Globe Trot

October 30, 2018 9:00 pm

Three Sixty° Tribeca – 10 Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013

A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse at Lit Crawl Brooklyn

October 06, 2018 6:00 pm

The Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, 11238

A River of Images: An Evening of Punjabi Poetry with Ajmer Rode and Rafia Zakaria

September 12, 2018 7:00 pm

Astoria Bookshop | 31-29 31st St, Astoria, NY 11106

Beyond Borges: Argentina’s Unsung Literary Greats

April 18, 2018 7:00 pm

Book Culture | 26-09 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101

Writing and Resistance Today: Abdellah Taïa and Chiké Frankie Edozien

April 09, 2018 6:30 pm

The Center for the Humanities | The Graduate Center, CUNY | 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 | Rms. 9206 & 9207

The Accusation: Dissident Fiction from North Korea

January 16, 2018 6:30 pm

Celeste Auditorium, The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016
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