Past Events

[VIRTUAL WORKSHOP] AAWW and The Poetry Coalition Present: Mourning & Making: dedications to loving ghosts & the ancestors who became them
Kay Ulanday Barrett
Tuesday, July 25 | 7 PM ET - 8 PM ET | APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED UNTIL 11:59 PM ET, JULY 19 ***A free poetry workshop by and for Queer and Trans Sick, Disabled, Deaf, and Neurodivergent folx of the Global Majority (BIPOC). If you do not identify as such and are...
[VIRTUAL] AAWW Presents: Natural History + The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu with Jennifer Shyue, Michelle Har Kim, and Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
This July, AAWW presents contemporary translators Jennifer Shyue and Michelle Har Kim in a conversation moderated by translator Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, following their respective recent publications that bridge literary spheres and allow us access to the acclaimed works of two Peruvian writers. RSVP HERE! One of Peru's most revered contemporary poets,...
AAWW & Books Are Magic Present: The Sea Elephants with Shastri Akela & Rakesh Satyal
GET TICKETS! This July, AAWW and Books Are Magic come together to celebrate THE SEA ELEPHANTS, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who flees his father's threats to send him to a conversion center by joining a street theater troupe. Shagun knows he will...
July 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Books Are Magic
122 Montague Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
[VIRTUAL] AAWW & Greenlight Present: Elsewhere with Yan Ge
This July, AAWW and Greenlight welcome the multi-award-winning author, Yan Ge, for a virtual evening celebrating the launch of her highly anticipated new collection, Elsewhere: Stories. In twenty years, Yan Ge has authored thirteen books written in Chinese, working across an impressive range of genres and subjects. Now, Ge transposes...
Ballads at Battery Park City
Adeeba Shahid Talukder, Aldrin Valdez, Catherine Chen, and Sokunthary Svay
Join us at Rector Park on July 7th at 7 PM ET where the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Battery Park City present Ballads at Battery Park City, the third installment of our summer poetry series in collaboration with Battery Park City Alliance. This reading will include a reading and...
July 6, 2023
7:00 AM
Rector Park East
Rector Place & South End Ave
New York NY 10280
[VIRTUAL] AAWW and Kay Ulanday Barrett Present A PRIDE Celebration!
Kay Ulanday Barrett, Chrysanthemum Tran, Diamond Forde, and Ryka Aoki
Join us on Thursday June 22 for a celebratory reading for PRIDE on our virtual stage! This year we are featuring our co-presenter Kay Ulanday Barrett, Chrysanthemum Tran, Diamond Forde, and Ryka Aoki! RSVP HERE! KAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet, essayist, cultural strategist, and A+ napper. They are the...
[VIRTUAL] Interdisciplinary Poetics: Migration, Earth, and Empire
Angela Peñaredondo, Jan-Henry Gray, Jen Soriano, Christine Imperial, and Kay Ulanday Barrett
Join us on Thursday June 15 at 7 PM ET for a reading and roundtable on interdisciplinary approaches to migration, earth, empire, and mental health featuring Filipinx poets Angela Peñaredondo, Jan-Henry Gray, Jen Soriano, and Christine Imperial! We’ll witness each poet’s work and move on to a moderated conversation with...
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...
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...
[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...
[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...
June 2, 2023
4:30 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
New York NY 10028
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
[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...
May 10, 2023
8:00 PM


AAWW & MoMA PRESENT Writing Club: On Memory with Sarah Thankam Mathews
REGISTER NOW! In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, AAWW Presents Writing Club. 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 History into Being. This workshop takes place in person at...
May 9, 2023
6:00 PM
Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd Street
New York NY 10019
In Celebration: Love Letters and 回 / Return
Emily Lee Luan, Yi Wei, and Abigail Mengesha
Join us at Rector Park on May 4th at 6 PM ET where the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Battery Park City present In Celebration: Love Letters and 回 / Return and the first installment of our summer poetry series, Ballads at Battery Park City. Featuring incredible poets Emily Lee...
May 4, 2023
7:00 PM
Rector Park East
Rector Place & South End Ave
New York NY 10280
AAWW & The Strand Present: Paper Names by Susie Luo
Join us for an in-person event with debut novelist Susie Luo, for the release of her new book Paper Names. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street. An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and...
AAWW & A4 Present: Get Shamele$s About Your Art as a Business!
REGISTER NOW! This May, join AAWW and Asian American Arts Alliance for a financial wellness workshop for arts workers with certified financial planner Pamela Capalad and educator Brian "Dyalekt" Kushner. Our dreams of being creatives didn’t include having to be our own accountant, bookkeeper, HR, insurance specialist, marketing, merch desk, shipping, and personal...
May 3, 2023
6:30 PM
Asian American Arts Alliance
29 West 38th Street #9th Floor
New York NY 10018
Yu & Me Books X AAWW Presents: The Man in the McIntosh Suit Book Event with Rina Ayuyang and Cliff Chiang
Join AAWW and Yu & Me Books this May to celebrate The Man in the McIntosh Suit, a Filipino-American take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and lost love. No registration required! The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a...
Think!Chinatown, AAWW, and Yu & Me Books Present: Mott Street by Ava Chin
Join us as we celebrate the publication of Ava Chin’s new book, “Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming" with a special book reading and Q&A session! As a fifth generation Chinese American, Ava Chin’s family stories were shrouded in mystery. It was only until she...
[VIRTUAL WORKSHOP] Dappling Your Own Lighting Design: On Archive Erasure, Autofiction, and Artist Statements
benedict nguyễn
Mondays, April 17 and 24 | 6 PM ET - 8 PM ET Online | 2 Sessions | Sliding Scale $100- $200 REGISTER HERE! **This workshop is exclusively for BIPOC (Black and Indigenous, and People of Color) writers. If you are not BIPOC, we ask that you do not register.**...
In Celebration of DUST CHILD: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Vanessa Chan
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Vanessa Chan
RSVP HERE! On April 5th at 7 PM ET, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop presents a celebration of best-selling author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s latest novel, DUST CHILD, a convergence of lineage and memory borne from decisions made in time of war. Chanel Miller says, “In DUST CHILD, rupture leads...
April 5, 2023
7:00 PM
New Design High School
350 Grand Street (entrance on Ludlow)
New York NY 10002
AAWW & The Strand Present: Jinwoo Chong + Alexander Chee - Flux
Join us for an in-person event with debut author Jinwoo Chong for a discussion of his debut novel Flux. Joining Jinwoo in conversation is New York Times best-selling author Alexander Chee. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
AAWW, Graywolf, and Greenlight Bookstore present: Monica Youn & Claudia Rankine
Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?” It’s a question every Asian American gets asked, the refrain of an incessant chorus saying you’ll never belong here, you’re a perpetual foreigner, you’ll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. Monica Youn’s...
[VIRTUAL] In Celebration of DISORIENTATION: Elaine Hsieh Chou and Sabrina Imbler
RSVP HERE! The Asian American Writers’ Workshop presents a virtual event celebrating the paperback launch of Elaine Hsieh Chou's DISORIENTATION. This debut novel explores a Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness as she ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus. The hilarious satire is an examination of privilege and power...
[VIRTUAL] Hybrid Possibilities: Asian Queer Writers Across Genre
Kirin M. Khan, Zeyn Joukhadar, Angela Peñaredondo, Lisa Factora-Borchers, and Kay Ulanday Barrett
What does writing Asian and South/east Asian futures even mean? Join us as we uplift innovative writers Kirin M. Khan, Zeyn Joukhadar, Angela Peñaredondo, Lisa Factora-Borchers, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. Together they will share new work and discuss the current stakes and patterns in craft, audience, editing, and themes centering...
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