Jasmin speaks at academic settings, workshops, conferences, festivals, book clubs, and other events on a variety of subjects including the politics of identity, the legacy of colonization and blood quantum, notions of belonging, mixed ethnicity, publishing, code-switching in writing, and more.

  • Saturday September 14 2024 | Mixed Asian day 12:30-5PM | Terasaki Budokan, Little tokyo LA | Panel @ 4:25PM

  • sunday september 8 | SF Write Now! LOCAL COLOR Book Festival | SF Main Library | 2-4PM

AWP Conference: Writing Your Way Through a Major World Event

In conversation with Sasha Vasilyuk, Katya Apekina, Cecilia Rabess, and Lena Zycinsky

The Oʻahu Writers Retreat

Camp Mokulēʻia, April 22nd-28th

The O‘ahu Writers Retreat has been held for 11 years at Camp Mokulē‘ia, on the island's North Shore. Each April we gather for a week of workshops, coaching, connection. Limited to 24 writers. Registration begins January 15, 2024.

Full 2024 Faculty List:

  • Constance Hale (retreat director and instructor in the craft of writing)

  • Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes (fiction)

  • Susan Ito (memoir)

  • Mark Schapiro (nonfiction)

  • Tamara Leiokanoe Moan (book art)

  • Zoe FitzGerald Carter (songwriting)

  • Herman Keko Ka‘oiwinani Mossman Tachera (leimaking)

  • Kaipo Asing (music)  

  • Malcolm Ryder (composition)

  • Stuart Coleman (creative nonfiction)

  • saturday august 19 2023 2:25PM - san diego union-tribune festival of books, san diego ca

  • sunday july 30 2023 4pm - kubo lb, hosted by bel canto books

  • tuesday july 18 2023 11am - kona bay books

  • Saturday July 15 2023 1PM in conversation with Sara Ackerman - Kona stories, kona hi

  • Friday July 14 2023 5PM - Basically Books, Hilo HI

  • wednesday june 21 2023 7pm in conversation with julie carrick dalton - porter square books, cambridge ma

  • friday june 16 2023 6pm - hygienic art, new london ct

  • Friday May 19 2023 6:30PM in conversation with shelley blanton stroud - capital books, sacramento ca

  • Wednesday May 17 2023 6PM with local music by award winning artist Faith Ako - Canyon Club Brewery, Moraga CA

  • Thursday May 11 2023 7PM In Conversation with Susan Ito - Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley CA

  • Tuesday May 2 2023 6:30PM - {pages}, Manhattan Beach CA