In 2004, Kundiman presented its inaugural Retreat at the University of Virginia. The Retreat has taken place annually since then, welcoming over 250 Fellows and 50 acclaimed faculty members, and serving both poets and fiction writers. We have offered programs such as food writing intensives, a mentorship lab, an Asian American feminist writing workshop, online classes, and more.

To commemorate 20 years of nurturing Asian American literature, Joyland Magazine is hosting a summer series of 20 prose publications from 20 Kundiman Fellows. The series will kick off in May for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and run through August. Each month, five new pieces will be published by Joyland Magazine.

This series was edited by Laura Chow Reeve, Joseph Han, Bushra Rehman, and Kyle Lucia Wu, and features:

Jordan Alam
Sayuri Ayers
Victoria Cho
Ariel Chu
Sheena Raza Faisal
Stephanie Isan
Adrian Khactu
Julie Kim
Christie Louie
Jennifer Lue
Yasmin Adele Majeed
Sally Wen Mao
Aarti Monteiro
Naomi Shuyama-Gomez
Nivedita Sekar
William Pei Shih
SM Sukardi
Chelsea Tokuno-Lynk
Ryan Lee Wong
Seema Yasmin

Joyland Magazine, a literary journal in multiple time zones, is based on the idea that fiction is an international movement supported by local communities. Head over to Joyland Magazine to learn more and read essays and stories from the Kundiman 20th Anniversary Summer Series.

For further reading, check out the Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio that The Offing is hosting in honor of our 20th anniversary.