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Flash Fiction

The Graduate

Did she even graduate? Kevin will ask me later, when it’s just us, slumped on our flight back home.

By Celeste Chen

Essays Reportage Marginalia Interviews Poetry Fiction Videos Everything

Transpacific Literary Project

One Day

Poetry

By Park Nohae

Snapshots from a South Korean dissident poet

Transpacific Literary Project

One Day

Poetry

By Park Nohae

Snapshots from a South Korean dissident poet

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, May 31, 7:00 PM

AAWW & The Strand Present: The Light at the End of the World by Siddhartha Deb with Ken Chen

Siddhartha Deb, Ken Chen

This May, join us for an event with award-winning author Siddhartha Deb for the release of his new book The Light at the End of the World. Joining Siddhartha in conversation is Barnard College professor and author Ken Chen. Purchase a ticket here! Connecting India’s tumultuous 19th and 20th centuries to its distant past...

Thursday, June 1, 7:00 PM

Ballads At Battery Park: Queer Delight and Desire

Wo Chan, Jasmine Reid, Xan Forest Phillips, and Devyn Manibo

Join us at Rector Park on June 1st at 7 PM ET where the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Battery Park City present In Celebration: Queer Delight and Desire, the second installment of our summer poetry series, Ballads at Battery Park City. This event will be a reading with a...

Friday, June 2, 4:30 PM

[Workshop] Mapping the Met, Wilderness in Islamic Art

Sana Khan and Aaisha Bhuiyan

Friday, June 2, 2023 | (4:30 Arrival) 5 PM ET - 7 PM ET | Sliding Scale $15- $30 In-Person | 1 Session | REGISTER HERE! **Apply for a scholarship seat here! Limited scholarship seats are available and will be chosen by lottery. The deadline to apply for a scholarship...

Saturday, June 3, 2:00 PM

[VIRTUAL WORKSHOP] Blurring the Genre Lines of Speculative Fiction

Victor Manibo

Saturdays, June 3 and 10, 2023 | 2 PM ET - 5 PM ET | Sliding Scale $100- $200 Online | 2 Sessions | REGISTER HERE! **Apply for a scholarship seat here! Limited scholarship seats are available and will be chosen by lottery. The deadline to apply for a scholarship...

Monday, June 5, 5:30 PM

Bluestockings Bookstore, Lambda Literary, and AAWW Present: Queer Black and Asian Voices

Akil Kumarasamy, Courtney Faye Taylor, Golden, Bushra Rehman, and Natalie Wee

RSVP HERE! Celebrate Pride Month with the 2022 Lambda Literary finalists of color, organized by Lambda Literary and the Asian American Writers Workshop in co-partnership. Featuring readings by Akil Kumarasamy (Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, finalist in Bisexual Fiction), Courtney Faye Taylor (Concentrate, finalist in Lesbian Poetry), Golden (A...

Wednesday, June 14, 7:00 PM

The Art of the Short Story: M. Evelina Galang on When the Hibiscus Falls with Hannah Bae

M. Evelina Galang, Hannah Bae

RSVP HERE! This June, join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) and The Center for Fiction to celebrate When the Hibiscus Falls, a story collection by award-winning writer M. Evelina Galang that traverses borderlines, mythic and real, to delve into the lives of Filipino and Filipino American women and their...

Past Events

Friday, May 19, 5:30 PM

Bluestockings and Asian American Writers' Workshop Presents My Dear Comrades My Dear Comrades Author Talk

Sunu P. Chandy, Naomi Jackson, Purvi Shah, andSwati Khurana

RSVP to this in-person event here! Please join AAWW and Bluestockings for a book celebration for Sunu P. Chandy's My Dear Comrades. Sunu will be in conversation with writers, Naomi Jackson and Purvi Shah, with introductory remarks by multimedia artist, Swati Khurana. //ACCESSIBILITY// The event will take place at 116...

Wednesday, May 17, 7:00 PM

AAWW & McNally Jackson present: Ada Zhang's The Sorrows of Others with Sarah Thankam Mathews

Join AAWW and McNally Jackson this May in celebration of THE SORROW OF OTHERS. Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, Ada Zhang presents a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders - as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families....

Tuesday, May 16, 6:00 PM

AAWW and Yu & Me Books present: Wandering Souls with Cecile Pin and t. tran le

This May, join AAWW and Yu & Me Books for a celebration of WANDERING SOULS by Cecile Pin, described by Ocean Vuong as “a deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope.” Cecile will be in conversation with AAWW Senior Programs Coordinator, t. tran le. After the last...

Monday, May 15, 6:00 PM

AAWW & MoMA PRESENT Writing Club at Home: On Memory with Sarah Thankam Mathews

REGISTER NOW! In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, AAWW Presents Writing Club At Home. This May, Writing Club at Home welcomes guest writer Sarah Thankam Mathews to facilitate a writing workshop on the theme of memory, focusing on artworks by Lorna Simpson and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons on view in the installation...

Wednesday, May 10, 8:00 PM

[VIRTUAL] In Celebration: BIANCA

Eugenia Leigh and Tarfia Faizullah

Join us on May 10 at 8 PM ET as we celebrate Eugenia Leigh’s latest and universally lauded poetry collection, BIANCA, a book that documents and confronts living in the throws of mental illness, complex trauma, and straddling the emotional spheres that orbit each other. Eugenia will be joined by...