New York Writers Workshop in Kathmandu / Himalayan Literature Festival

NYWW in Kathmandu: Himalayan Literature Festival--an international literary conference hosted by New York Writers Workshop in partnership with White Lotus Bookstore, Kathmandu, featuring Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Ravi Shankar, Yuyutsu Sharma, Tony Barnstone, Rochelle Potkar, Jami Proctor-Xu, Julie Williams-Krishnan, and Tim Tomlinson. Panels, workshops, readings, cultural excursions, flowing into the two-day Himalayan Literary Festival, followed by five nights in the rural areas of the Pokhara Valley on Lake Fewa, and Chitwan National Park, home to tigers, the one-horned rhinoceros, and gharial crocodiles. In the city, visits to temples, yoga & meditation centers, interactions with shamans, and with local poets and writers. In the countryside, encounters with the landscapes of the Annapurna mountains, and with the wildlife of Chitwan.