Events upcoming
October 16, 2025 , 7:00 PM
IN CELEBRATION OF WHERE EVERY GHOST HAS A NAME
Join AAWW for a celebration of Where Every Ghost Has A Name by Kim Liao, featuring Anru Lee and Jimin Han!
October 16, 2025 , 7:00 PM
NIKKITHA BAKSHANI PRESENTS GHOST CHILLI, IN CONVERSATION WITH KAT TANG
Join Fleet and AAWW for the US release of Nikkitha Bakshani's novel Ghost Chilli with Kat Tang at The Crown Inn!
October 20, 2025 , 6:30 PM
BLACK & ASIAN FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES NYC BOOK LAUNCH
Come celebrate the publication of We Are Each Other’s Liberation, a groundbreaking anthology centering Black and Asian feminist solidarities!
October 22, 2025 , 6:00 PM
THE POWER OF STORYTELLING AND ITS INTERSECTIONS
Join AAJA alongside its chapters at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and New York, in partnership with the Asian American Writers Workshop, for a conversation on the power of writing!
October 30, 2025 , 7:00 PM
ALPHA BETA BLAH - TO THE GRAVE
Join AAWW for Alpha Beta Blah, a new reading series that removes the secret from secret society!
November 4, 2025 , 6:00 PM
CREATIVE WRITING WITH OTHER SCRIPTURES
Join H. M. Zafer for a workshop on harnessing the generative and emancipatory power of scripture!
Events upcoming
October 16, 2025 , 7:00 PM
IN CELEBRATION OF WHERE EVERY GHOST HAS A NAME
Join AAWW for a celebration of Where Every Ghost Has A Name by Kim Liao, featuring Anru Lee and Jimin Han!
October 16, 2025 , 7:00 PM
NIKKITHA BAKSHANI PRESENTS GHOST CHILLI, IN CONVERSATION WITH KAT TANG
Join Fleet and AAWW for the US release of Nikkitha Bakshani's novel Ghost Chilli with Kat Tang at The Crown Inn!
October 20, 2025 , 6:30 PM
BLACK & ASIAN FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES NYC BOOK LAUNCH
Come celebrate the publication of We Are Each Other’s Liberation, a groundbreaking anthology centering Black and Asian feminist solidarities!
October 22, 2025 , 6:00 PM
THE POWER OF STORYTELLING AND ITS INTERSECTIONS
Join AAJA alongside its chapters at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and New York, in partnership with the Asian American Writers Workshop, for a conversation on the power of writing!
October 30, 2025 , 7:00 PM
ALPHA BETA BLAH – TO THE GRAVE
Join AAWW for Alpha Beta Blah, a new reading series that removes the secret from secret society!
November 4, 2025 , 6:00 PM
CREATIVE WRITING WITH OTHER SCRIPTURES
Join H. M. Zafer for a workshop on harnessing the generative and emancipatory power of scripture!
Must Watch events videos
Our Existence is a Rebellion
Organized and curated by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
In Celebration of Disorientation
With Elaine Hsieh Chou & Sabrina Imbler
Martial Law at 50: To Remember is to Resist
Curated by 2022 Open City Fellow Vina Orden
Remember To Return
A reading and fundraiser for Palestine
Must Read
Poetry
Witness your father in this white world, withered, without will.
Poetry
Witness your father in this white world, withered, without will.
Essays
Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?
Poetry
It’s no wonder / that so very few / survive / the experience of being / cast out / into the blinding light.
Marginalia
Writers share the books they have turned to when imagining a world without without cages
Interviews
An interview with Kanya D’Almeida, the cowriter of Russell “Maroon” Shoatz's memoir.
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