Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $25 USD).

Step 2: Register for “A Benefit Reading for Gaza” here.

Join Workshops for Gaza for our first IN-PERSON reading at Yu and Me Books in New York City featuring writers Megan Fernandes, Jenny Xie and Kyle Lucia Wu! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project’s Refaat Alareer Camp, which provides medical and educational support to children and adults in Gaza.

Megan Fernandes is the author of I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House, 2023). Her work has been published in The New Yorker, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is an Associate Professor and Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College.

Jenny Xie is the author of Holding Pattern, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her short fiction has appeared in journals like Sewanee Review, AGNI, Ninth Letter, and Joyland, and she’s received support from organizations like MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf.

Kyle Lucia Wu is the author of Win Me Something (Tin House Books, 2021). She is also the co-author with Cathy Linh Che of An Asian American A to Z: A Children's Guide to our History (Haymarket Books, 2023). Kyle is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and a lecturer at the New School.