Past Events
Joey de Jesus, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Aldrin Valdez
How can poets of color use visual art, photos, and sound to explore absences in language? Come through for a reading featuring three multidisciplinary poets whose work embodies multiple genres of art, translation, and sound. Come see award-winning poet Diana Khoi Nguyen, whose debut collection Ghost Of was a finalist...
March 21, 2019
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
John Cha, Yong Soon Min, Lawrence Rinder, Ken Chen, and more
Join us for a marathon reading of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's avant-garde classic, Dictee, organized by Sarah Schulman at Performance Space New York. Featuring Theresa's brother John Cha, Yong Soon Min, Lawrence Rinder, Ken Chen, Nuar Alsadir, Lee Ann Brown, Alexander Chee, Ava Chin, Kandice Chuh, Una Chung, Monika Gagnon, Erica Cho,...
March 17, 2019
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Performance Space New York
150 First Ave, 4th Floor
New York NY
150 First Ave, 4th Floor
New York NY
Kay Ulanday Barrett, Sarah Gambito, Jessica Hagedorn & Ligaya Mishan
Have you ever written a recipe that turned out to be a love poem? Does your aunties’ fervor for seafood on sale feel like a hell-raising occasion of resistance? Join us for a meditation of Filipinx food and the immigrant experience with four romantic, melancholic, and witty gastronomical pinxys. We’ll...
February 21, 2019
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi and Jeffrey Yang
Join us for an evening of Korean poetry in translation with Kim Hyesoon, a groundbreaking feminist poet and one of the most influential contemporary poets of South Korea. Her latest poetry collection, The Autobiography of Death, is a breathtaking collective elegy inspired by the Sewol Ferry Disaster of April 2014, and a narration performed...
February 15, 2019
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Gina Apostol and Sabina Murray
***THIS EVENT WAS POSTPONED FROM 1/31. THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON 2/07*** Join us for a reading with Gina Apostol to celebrate her latest work of fiction, Insurrecto, a tour de force about about the Philippines’ past and present told through rivaling scripts from an American filmmaker and her...
February 7, 2019
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Marwa Helal, Sahar Romani, and Belal Mobarak
Is immigration your second language? Join us for a celebration of poet Marwa Helal’s debut collection Invasive species, a bold collection that pokes holes in the English of immigration officials, lols at the false expertise of Western commentators on the Middle East — and asks for nothing less than a...
January 23, 2019
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W. 27th St, STE 600
New York NY 10001
112 W. 27th St, STE 600
New York NY 10001
Nicole R. Fleetwood, Madhu Kaza, Sarah Wang, Aviva Stahl & Daniel A. Gross
There are enough people in American prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers to populate a country. And like a country, American incarceration has its own language. There's the technocratic and euphemistic language of the state—offender, felon, illegal immigrant, detainee, parolee. There's also the language that the incarcerated use to describe...
January 16, 2019
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Critical Resistance
Every year in the wintertime, Critical Resistance New York City sends a note of solidarity, hope, and encouragement to all of the 1,500+ subscribers of The Abolitionist newspaper that are currently locked up in jails, detention centers, and prisons on the east coast. This year, we invite you to join...
December 16, 2018
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Alexander Chee, Eugene Lim, Mitchell Kuga, T Kira Madden, and Daniel K Isaac
Join us for an event to honor the work and legacy of the queer Korean American novelist Samuel Park, whose novel The Caregiver was released posthumously this past fall. A panel of queer and Asian American writers featuring by Alexander Chee, T. Kira Madden, Mitchell Kuga, Eugene Lim and Daniel...
December 13, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
PJ Raval
Call Her Ganda follows the tragic murder of Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transgender woman by a U.S. marine, the community organizing and effort that brought her murderer to justice - and the role that the long US-Philippine relationship played in this. Amidst a media storm and police inquiry, as Jennifer’s...
November 27, 2018
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
NY NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
NY NY 10001
Salil Tripathi, Jennifer Chowdhury, and Kavitha Rajagopalan
Nov 15th is The Day of the Imprisoned Writer, and Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam remains incarcerated. Join author Salil Tripathi and journalist Jennifer Chowdhury in conversation with The Polis Project as they shed light on the political, and historical events that have led to the current crisis in Bangladesh and...
November 16, 2018
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
NY NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
NY NY 10001
Larissa Pham
Six Sessions, 2.5 hours (6:30PM-9PM) Mondays, November 12 - December 17 Fees & Payment Options: $325 General/$295 Member (JOIN THE FAN CLUB!) *This is a small class. Please apply through the link below if you are interested. Please complete this application. We will notify you if you are accepted into the...
November 12, 2018
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York New York 10001
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York New York 10001
Eugenia Kim, Alice Stephens, and Julayne Lee
Join us for a reading with three Korean diasporic writers whose work spans memoir, poetry, and fiction to look at the legacy of the Korean War and the life of Korean adoptees in the United States. Eugenia Kim will read The Kinship of Secrets, a riveting story two sisters, one...
November 8, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Worskhop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Aminder Dhaliwal, Megan Nicole Dong and Anne Ishii
Come hear two storytellers who became friends while working in animation and are releasing absurdist graphic novels based off popular web comics: internet sensation Aminder Dhaliwal, whose debut graphic novel Woman World started off an an infectiously funny instagram comic about a group of women who gab and hang out...
November 1, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Gaiutra Bahadur, Rajiv Mohabir, & Grace Aneiza Ali
UPDATE: Please note the new location. This program will now take place at the NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center located at 53 Washington Square South. While conducting research for her book Coolie Woman, Gaiutra Bahadur (Visiting Scholar, A/P/A Institute at NYU) came across Lal Bihari Sharma’s Holi...
October 29, 2018
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Preti Taneja, Chaya Bhuvaneswar & Megha Majumdar
Join us for a reading with two South Asian diasporic writers who both have published ambitious and energizing new works of political fiction. Novelist and journalist Preti Taneja will read from her debut novel, We That Are Young, a modern-day rendition of King Lear in which a family dynasty implodes...
October 25, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
NY NY
112 W 27th St Suite 600
NY NY
Fay Hoh Yin, Monona Yin, Huiying B. Chan, and Eveline Chao
How do we document our first-generation elders’ histories, and the stories of the vanishing communities they grew up in? Join us for a special event with Chinese-American writers who use an innovative mix of memoir, oral history, and intergenerational storytelling to do just that. We’ll hear a special presentation from...
October 24, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Cyree Jarelle Johnson
Join us for a book launch and conversation for Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and disability justice poetics conversation with Leah and Cyree Jarelle Johnson. What the hell is disability justice? How do collective care, disability justice and sick and disabled Black and brown femmes save the...
October 18, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27t St Suite 600
NY NY 10001
112 W 27t St Suite 600
NY NY 10001
Roshan Abraham, Humera Afridi, Pearl Bhatnagar, Huiying B. Chan, Aber Kawas, Sarah Moawad & Roja Heydarpour
Join us for a special reading with the Open City fellows. We’ll hear from Neighborhood Fellows Roshan Abraham, Pearl Bhatnagar, and Huiying Bernice Chan, who have been documenting the pulse of metropolitan Asian America as it's being lived on the streets of New York right now, and our Muslim Communities...
October 11, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Nicole Chung and Greg Pak
What does it mean to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them? Join us for an event with Nicole Chung as she discusses her debut memoir All You Can Ever Know, a poignant and graceful exploration of transracial adoption, family, and identity. In...
October 10, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Ste 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Ste 600
New York NY 10001
Ahmad Fuadi, Margaret Scott & Lutfi Kurniawan
Join us for a night of reading and film with visiting Indonesian writer Ahmad Fuadi, whose bestselling novel Negeri 5 Menara (The Land of Five Towers), an uplifting story of a young Muslim boy’s journey to Islamic boarding school, became the source of inspiration for one of Indonesia’s top box...
October 9, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
NY NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
NY NY 10001
Divya Victor, Shiv Kotecha & Rahel Aima
Join us for a reading that pushes the boundary of home and desire through meditations on kin, violence, and rupture. The poet Divya Victor will read from Kith, her visual and instructional book of stolen and insurgent history that asks us to re-order the question of belonging in the Indian...
October 4, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Suite 600
New York NY 10001
Alice Sparkly Kat
Six Weeks (Five Sessions plus Final Reading), 2 hours each (7PM-9PM) Tuesdays, October 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30. Final Reading on Tuesday November 6 Fee & Payment Options: $272 GENERAL // $240 MEMBER (Join the Fan Club!) **Full payment due before first class. We have a limited number of...
October 2, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York NY 10001
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York NY 10001
Chienfang Chang and Pyna Yang
Focusing attention into the palette, AAWW hosts an evening for language, food, art, & place to come together on a shared table. Situating her writing from the perspective of food, author Chienfang Chang will share pieces of her recent work at the Vermont Studio Center as well as engage in...
October 1, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Ste 600
New York NY 10001
112 W 27th St Ste 600
New York NY 10001
Emily Yoon, Wo Chan, Sueyen Juliette Lee, Kristin Chang
Join us for a transcendent night celebrating Emily Yoon’s debut collection of poetry, A Cruelty to Our Species, a collection of testimony to Korean “comfort women” who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II, and a bright elegy to departed ancestors, languages, and girlhood. As...
September 25, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York New York 10001
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York New York 10001
Bushra Rehman
Six Sessions, 2 hours each (7-9pm) Mondays, September 24th, October 8th, 15th, 22th, 29th, November 5th Fees & Payment Options: $425 General / $400 AAWW Members (JOIN THE FAN CLUB!) Full payment due before first class. *Please note: this class skips Monday, October 1st. **There is an application process for...
September 24, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W. 27th St, STE 600
New York NY 10001
112 W. 27th St, STE 600
New York NY 10001
Lucy Tan, Crystal Hana Kim & Vanessa Hua
Join us for an event about globalizing East Asia, love, family, and what happens when we leave one home for another. We’ll hear from Crystal Hana Kim, whose debut novel If You Leave Me tells the story of a refugee of the Korean War and her forsaken love. Lucy Tan...
September 20, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Ste 600
New York NY 11238
112 W 27th St Ste 600
New York NY 11238
Ling Ma and Jia Tolentino
Do you feel like your life resembles an office farce? While Millennials have been blamed for the downfall of homeownership, the diamond industry, and even napkins -- Ling Ma’s debut novel Severance shows what life might look like when you don’t notice the apocalypse because you’re so entrenched in the...
September 18, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York New York 10001
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York New York 10001
Ed Lin, Sokunthary Svay, Sam Chanse, Swati Khurana, Joshunda Sanders, Moncho, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Charles Rice Gonzalez, Quincy Scott Jones
LITERAOKE finally comes to NYC, after unforgettable shows across the country! Come see performers sing their hearts out to their favorite karaoke bangers and then then read from their work. Featuring: Ed Lin, Sokunthary Svay, Sam Chanse, Swati Khurana, Joshunda Sanders, Moncho, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Charles Rice Gonzalez, Quincy Scott...
September 13, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th St Ste 600
NY NY 10001
112 W 27th St Ste 600
NY NY 10001
Hwang Jungeun, Song Kyung-dong, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, and E. Tammy Kim
Join us for a bilingual reading with the novelist Hwang Jungeun, poet Song Kyung-dong, and poet Jennifer Kwon Dobbs. This event is moderated by journalist E. Tammy Kim and co-sponsored by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI). RESERVE A SEAT! $5 SUGGESTED DONATION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Hwang...
September 12, 2018
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York New York 10001
112 W. 27th Street, STE 600
New York New York 10001