Upcoming – Asian American Writers' Workshop

Upcoming Upcoming Events

November 13, 2025 , 7:00 PM

GOVERNING BODIES BY SANGAMITHRA IYER W/ RAHNA REIKO RIZZUTO

Join AAWW and Astoria Bookshop for the publication of Sangamithra Iyer's new memoir, GOVERNING BODIES: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed!

November 23, 2025 , 11:00 AM

PAGE TURNER: THE 2025 AAWW PUBLISHING CONFERENCE

PAGE TURNER convenes experts and authors across industries and genres to share candid insights, advice, and experiences!

Past Upcoming Events

November 5, 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!

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!

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 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 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 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 8, 2025 , 8:00 PM

[VIRTUAL] OUR HISTORY BRINGS US HERE: A READING AND CONVERSATION WITH RHONI BLANKENHORN, LUISA IGLORIA, AND MICHELLE PEñALOZA

Join us for readings and a conversation with Luisa Igloria, Michelle Peñaloza, and Rhoni Blankenhorn moderated by R. A. Villanueva!

October 1, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN-STORE: LANA LIN - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM W/ MONIQUE TRUONG

Join us for a celebration of Lana Lin's "The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam" featuring Monique Truong!

September 30, 2025 , 7:00 PM

ALPHA BETA BLAH - THE PAST TENSE

Join AAWW for Alpha Beta Blah, a new reading series that removes the secret from secret society!

September 26, 2025 , 7:00 PM

A BIRTHDAY READING FUNDRAISER & RAFFLE FOR GAZA

Join AAWW and Kundiman for a fundraiser and raffle for Gaza!

September 25, 2025 , 6:00 PM

[VIRTUAL] IN CELEBRATION OF WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM

Join AAWW for a celebration of Elaine Hsieh Chou's Where Are You Really From, featuring Delia Cai!

September 21, 2025 , 7:30 PM

VOICES FOR GAZA

Join AAWW and Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani at The Town Hall for an evening of readings and conversation in solidarity with Gaza, emceed by Aasif Mandvi, and featuring a film by Nan Goldin and a performance by the Resistance Revival Chorus!

September 21, 2025 , 11:00 AM

BREAKING GENRE: WHEN ARTISTS DON’T STAY IN THEIR LANE

Join AAWW and Brooklyn Bookfest for a special conversation featuring Samira Asma-Sadeque, Siyang Lim, and Katie Yee moderated by our Executive Director, Jafreen Uddin!

September 20, 2025 , 1:00 PM

WRITING FOR GRAPHIC NOVELS

Join Wendy Xu and Chris Kindred for a workshop on writing for graphic novels!

September 19, 2025 , 7:00 PM

RADICAL HISTORIES: A ROUNDTABLE OF KOREAN/AMERICAN AUTHORS

Join Kaya Press, AAWW, and Brooklyn Bookfest for a roundtable of Korean/American authors, featuring Alice Sola Kim, Cathy Park Hong, Ed Park, Gina Chung, Hannah Bae, and Jane Kim!

September 18, 2025 , 6:00 PM

CTRL+ALT+LIT: FAN FICTION, ZINES, AND INDEPENDENT LITERATURE

Join AAWW for Ctrl+Alt+Lit, a celebration of alternative literatures and countercanons!

September 17, 2025 , 6:30 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF SEABEAST

Join AAWW for a celebration of Seabeast by Rajiv Mohabir, featuring Megan Pinto, Ashna Ali, and Rosamond King!

September 15, 2025 , 6:30 PM

WRITING CITY NATURE, WRITING THE CITY SELF

Join Rajiv Mohabir for a workshop on writing about the environment!

September 12, 2025 , 7:00 PM

KINDRED: PRINTED MATTER NY ART BOOK FAIR OFFSITE READING

Join us for a special New York City reading in celebration of Mizna's forthcoming issue, 26.1 Kindred!

September 2, 2025 , 7:00 PM

ALPHA BETA BLAH - THE PARTY SCENE

Join AAWW for Alpha Beta Blah, a new reading series that removes the secret from secret society!

July 29, 2025 , 7:00 PM

LACTOSE INTOLERANT

Join us for readings by Adlan Jackson, Ama Kwarteng, Kyle Carrero Lopez, May Teng, and Ruth Minah Buchwald!

July 26, 2025 , 1:00 PM

FROM JOURNALISTS TO AUTHORS: THE MAKING OF STORIES

Join AAJA and AAWW for an enlivening conversation on transitioning from reporting to long-form storytelling, featuring Vicky Nguyen and Youngmi Mayer!

July 23, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF MARGINLANDS

Join AAWW for a celebration of Marginlands by Arati Kumar-Rao!

July 22, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF MAGGIE; OR, A MAN AND A WOMAN WALK INTO A BAR

Join Yu & Me, the New York Public Library, and AAWW for a celebration of Katie Yee's debut novel, Maggie; Or, A Man And A Woman Walk Into A Bar, featuring Hannah Bae!

July 22, 2025 , 6:00 PM

ARTISTS & WRITERS SUMMER SOCIAL

Join the merriment with A4 and AAWW this summer at Land to Sea!

July 17, 2025 , 6:30 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF NOTHING MORE OF THIS LAND

Join the Worlds Borough Bookshop and AAWW for a celebration of Joseph Lee's debut book, Nothing More of This Land, featuring Katie Yee!

July 13, 2025 , 1:30 PM

AAWW AT THE NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL

Join AAWW and Kaitlin Hsu, N.S. Ahmed, and Cathy de la Cruz at The New York City Poetry Festival!

July 10, 2025 , 7:00 PM

KINETIC MIXER

Join AAWW and IMGE Dance for Kinetic Mixer, a new dance film networking event designed to for aspiring and established dance filmmakers!

July 9, 2025 , 6:00 PM

A BOMB PLACED CLOSE TO THE HEART BY NISHANT BATSHA

Nishant Batsha's expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I

June 20, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF SAGE

Join AAWW for a celebration of Yaffa’s latest book, Sage!

June 17, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF MOTHERSALT AND BECOMING GHOST

Join AAWW for a celebration of Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Becoming Ghost by Cathy Lin Che, featuring readings by Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh!

June 5, 2025 , 7:00 PM

MEMORY & MOLLUSKS: IN CELEBRATION OF CLAM DOWN AND ANAM

Join AAWW for the joint launch of André Dao's new novel, Anam, and Anelise Chen's new memoir, Clam Down!

May 17, 2025 , 1:00 PM

WRITING INTIMATE DISTANCE - VIRTUAL WRITING WORKSHOP

Join Megan Pinto and Kiran Bath for a virtual workshop on writing about the people we love!

May 15, 2025 , 7:00 PM

LOVE-GRIEF IN POETRY

Please join us for a reading and conversation with poets Jimin Seo and Emily Jungmin Yoon, moderated by R. A. Villanueva! The authors will discuss the poetics of love, grief, haunting, and Asian diasporic experience.

May 9, 2025 , 3:00 PM

WORKING WITH UN/COMMON SOURCES

Join the brilliant Q.M. Zhang for a month-long workshop that includes weekly readings, in-class guided writing and take-home writing provocations, and a structured and supportive small group environment for experimentation and feedback on new writing!

May 8, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF THE HOLLOW HALF

Join AAWW for a celebration of Sarah Aziza's debut memoir, The Hollow Half, in conversation with Hannah Bae and featuring Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Ghinwa Jawhari, Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani, and H. Sinno!

April 26, 2025 , 6:00 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF OUTSIDE WOMEN

Join AAWW for a celebration of Roohi Choudhry's Outside Women, featuring Mona Eltahawy and Yashica Dutt

April 24, 2025 , 6:00 PM

NEW VOICES OF THE BENGALI DIASPORA: POETRY READING AND DISCUSSION

Join AAWW and the New York Public Library for a celebration of Poetry and the Bengali Diaspora in New York City!

April 22, 2025 , 6:30 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF PRIMORDIAL

Join AAWW and McNally Jackson Books for a celebration of Primordial by Mai Der Vang, featuring Monica Sok!

April 19, 2025 , 1:00 PM

POETRY AS SOLIDARITY, ART AS CONSTELLATION - WRITING WORKSHOP

Join AAWW at the Guggenheim Museum for a generative poetry workshop led by Courtney Faye Taylor!

March 20, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF WENZHOU STREET SONNETS

Join World's Borough Bookstore and AAWW for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry, featuring Stine An!

March 18, 2025 , 6:30 PM

A4 MARCH TOWN HALL: POETRY

Join A4 and AAWW for a celebration of poetry featuring Taiyo Na and Sreshtha Sen!

March 13, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN PURSUIT OF LIGHT: MUSTACHE

Join us for a screening of Mustache by Imran J. Khan!

February 25, 2025 , 7:00 PM

LACTOSE INTOLERANT

Join us for readings by Izzy Ampil, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Danya Issawi, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, and Karen Yuan, hosted and curated by Ruth Minah Buchwald.

February 11, 2025 , 1:00 PM

[VIRTUAL] AUTHOR MENTORSHIPS: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE EXPERIENCE

Join the Author's Guild, AAWW, Blue Stoop, and Las Musas for a webinar on author mentorships!

February 6, 2025 , 7:00 PM

IN CELEBRATION OF THE MAGNIFICENT RUINS

Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Nayantara Roy's The Magnificent Ruins, featuring Nina Sharma, Aditi Misra, Shayon Maitra, and Priya Roy!

February 4, 2025 , 6:15 PM

US THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF THIS WOMAN

Join Metrograph and AAWW for the US theatrical premier of This Woman!

December 7, 2024 , 2:00 PM

BUT THERE ARE NEW SUNS: A CELEBRATION OF POETRY AND COMMUNITY

Join AAWW and graduate students from Sarah Lawrence College to explore the ever-deepening connection between creative practice and community building!

November 19, 2024 , 7:00 PM

[VIRTUAL] MOUTH TO MOUTH SHOWCASE & OPEN MIC

AAWW and Kay Ulanday Barrett present a celebratory reading and open mic featuring SA Smythe and Mars!

November 9, 2024 , 10:00 AM

PAGE TURNER: THE 2024 AAWW PUBLISHING CONFERENCE

PAGE TURNER centers the work and experiences of writers of color, and aims to demystify the business of publishing!