Past Events
You're a writer. We know it. You know it. We also know that sometimes the hardest part isn't getting your ideas down on paper, but getting your manuscript out of the slush pile. It's hard to know where to start, especially if you've got a full-time job or are raising...
December 8, 2012
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Daruma Asset Management
80 West 40th Street, 9th Fl.
New York NY 10018
80 West 40th Street, 9th Fl.
New York NY 10018
Jason Chan, Bethany Li, Alisa Pizarro, Damaris Reyes, and Garrett Wright
Join longtime activists, advocates, writers, and photographers to discuss the effects of natural disasters and poverty on low-income communities of color in New York City. Panelists include: Jason Chan, Organizer, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities Bethany Li, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Alisa Pizarro, Public Housing Resident...
December 3, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
8 Washington Mews
New York NY 10003
8 Washington Mews
New York NY 10003
Museum of Chinese in America & Hyperallergic
Postponed-new date coming soon
October 31, 2012
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street
NY NY
215 Centre Street
NY NY
Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah, Jeffrey Yang, Sinan Antoon, & Susan Bernofsky
Join us for a night of translation as we welcome award winning translators and writers: Fady Joudah, Sinan Antoon, Susan Bernofsky, Jeffrey Yang, and Ghassan Zaqtan. Renowned writers in their own right, they will read literature spanning China and Japan to new innovations in Palestinian poetry, including work by Mahmoud...
October 17, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street
NY NY 10001
110-112 West 27th Street
NY NY 10001
Hirsh Sawhney
Tarun Tejpal, founder of Tehelka—India’s leading political magazine, guides us through the corridors of power and into the belly of India’s forgotten underclass in his novel The Story of My Assassins. Recently released in the United States, The Story of My Assassins follows a journalist’s investigation into the plot of...
October 3, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
The Strand
828 Broadway
New York New York 10003-4805
828 Broadway
New York New York 10003-4805
Ed Park
“Kitamura’s words are tough, and her characters are tied to the tails of wounded beasts: mother countries, the land itself, and hierarchies both out of steam and out of date...Kitamura makes the end of history— many histories—seem both casual and immediate,” says Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker. Set in...
September 27, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street
New York New York 10001
110-112 West 27th Street
New York New York 10001
Jeff Biggers, Rinku Sen, Aura Bogado, Felipe Baeza, & Chude Mondlane
American Book Award-winning author Jeff Biggers joins us on the East Coast to report on the situation on the ground of Arizona post- SB 1070. In his new book, State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream, Biggers diagnoses the root of the problem...
September 24, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Performance Project
184 Eldridge Street
New York New York 10002
184 Eldridge Street
New York New York 10002
Jay Caspian Kang and Hua Hsu
Much-anticipated for its “fierce, fresh language,” Jay Caspian Kang’s debut novel melds pop culture, sports fandom, and high literature into a trippy neo-noir novel. Join us on for a reading and discussion with Grantland editor Jay Caspian Kang and writer Hua Hsu. Meet Phil Kim- twentysomething MFA grad and online...
September 19, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street
NY NY 10001
110-112 West 27th Street
NY NY 10001
Pushkar Sharma & Cihan Kaan
Long overdue is our salute to Sikh Americans’ contributions to stand-up comedy and spoken word. Jen Kwok and Ed Lin host a night of levity and healing on the inauspicious 9/11. Polish off your jokes and rhymes to join the open mic roll call and showcase your talents. Harnessing socially-conscious...
September 11, 2012
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street
New York New York 10001
110-112 West 27th Street
New York New York 10001
Ed Lin
It's easy to bat around issues about character, plot, point of view, description, dialogue, setting, pacing, voice and theme (whew!) in terms of writing. But Ed Lin promises to spend as little time as possible talking about those concepts. Lin believes writing is akin to playing a musical instrument that...
September 10, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 W. 27 Street, Ste. 600
New York NY 10001
110-112 W. 27 Street, Ste. 600
New York NY 10001
Gina Apostol & Sabina Murray
Gina Apostol and Sabina Murray, two storytellers, whose works are steeped in history and its fractured retellings, will discuss latest projects, rewriting the past, and stumbling upon new worlds and the same old imperial ones. Join us for a dual reading, where Apostol and Murray will pick each other’s brain...
September 6, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
Hua Hsu
What do MIA, Adam Yauch, Jay Electronica, Christian Hosoi, Rondo, and the Kardashians all have in common? Grantland staff writer and Atlantic magazine regular Hua Hsu has written incisive criticism about all of them. Want to learn to write about your favorite (or most hated) cultural icons? This three-session course...
August 14, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
Ed Park, Marissa Lichwick, Henry Chang, Elahe Izadi, & Gibran Saleem
Ed Lin and Jen Kwok are back with an All-Stars Edition of Mouth to Mouth Open Mic! For one night only, we’re bringing you the best of the best—so spectacular that open mic slots are only available by lottery! Will you be the lucky winner of one of the five...
August 10, 2012
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
Pauline Chen, Don Lee & Aimee Phan
Spanning 1980s Midwest to imperial court China, our second installment of Bricolage—a salon-style multimedia show-n-tell—takes us into the brilliant minds of novelists on journeys of recovery. American Book Award-winner Don Lee’s The Collective is a gripping tale of friendship, loss, and the “melancholy burden of unfulfilled dreams” (Publishers’ Weekly). After...
July 26, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
Ashok Kondabolu of Das Racist, Julio Salgado, Ishle Park, Christina Xu & Tao Lin
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is launching three new magazines about race and immigration. We’re having a free party (with RSVP) at projective space in Chinatown to celebrate on June 28th with Ashok Kondabolu of Art Core Hip Hop Trio Das Racist, Julio Salgado, Tao Lin, Cognac Cocktails, Tiger Beer, and art swag tote bags by artist Tania Bruguera of Immigrant Movement International.
June 28, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Projective Space
72 Allen Street (@ Grand) Third Floor
New York New York 10002
72 Allen Street (@ Grand) Third Floor
New York New York 10002
Tania James, Rajesh Parameswaran, Xu Xi
A lonely spinster marries a ghost. A live-at-home son writes dispatches from his basement. A laid-off techie tries his hand at doctoring day laborers without a license. These are the tales of antiheroes, itinerant workers and gender refugees in Tania James, Rajesh Parameswaran, and Xu Xi’s newest short story collections.
June 21, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 10001
Alexander Chee
Have you tried to write a novel and found yourself paralyzed by the task? Are you unmotivated, or aimless in your literary pursuit? In this class, we’ll go over some of the basic steps, approaches, and methods for the beginning of novels and their drafting, how to organize your life differently, approaches to plotting and structure, how to work with an outline, and how to know when to drop your outline.
June 18, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 1000
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor Between 6th and 7th Avenues Buzzer 600
New York New York 1000
Tania Bruguera
We want you to help celebrate our launch by posting photos of your immigrant parents and grandparents to Twitter--or anyone else in your family!--along with a short narrative tweet that will tell us what the person in the picture meant to you. Vijay Prashad
Why did Indian Americans, wearing turbans and carrying the Indian republic flag, march in New York’s St Patrick’s Day parade in 1920? What’s the connection between the Israel lobby in the US and the rise of the Hindu lobby? And how did multiculturalism facilitate the growth of rightist Hindu groups on US college campuses? Vijay Prashad’s takes on these questions in his latest book Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today. Jeff Yang & Trevor Zhou
Leave your dancing monkey at home and meet Spike Lee/Jonah Hill collaborator Trevor Zhou and Mr. Asian America, Jeff Yang of The Wall Street Journal. Trevor is the face of Verizon FiOS and starring in Spike Lee's The Girl is in Trouble and the upcoming 20th Century Fox feature The...
June 1, 2012
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street
New York NY 10001
110-112 West 27th Street
New York NY 10001
Nora Chau & Cihan Kaan
Take a load off and join special guests Nora Chau and Cihan Kaan at our next rib-tickling Mouth to Mouth event. Nora Chau- Ma-Yi Writer's Lab member and ABC/Disney New Talent Screenwriting grant recipient- will mystify you with her unique brand of vaudevillian storytelling 'til your jaw drops and your eyes bulge. Award-winning video artist and...
May 18, 2012
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York NY
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York NY
Cathy Park Hong, Young Jean Lee, & Monica Youn
Join us for our inaugural edition of Bricolage, our salon-style multimedia show-n-tell, where your favorite authors and artists present the images that have been haunting their writing. We have an incredible line-up of critically-acclaimed artists to kick off the first Bricolage. You’ll be serenaded by cowboy ballads, nostalgic for beloved...
May 14, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 10001
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 10001
Ed Lin & Cindy Cheung
Join us for our first ever husband-and-wife reading to celebrate the release of One Red Bastard, the novel. Ed Lin's sequel to the highly acclaimed Snakes Can’t Run and the latest installment of the Robert Chow series about the travails of a Chinatown beat cop in 1976 New York City....
May 12, 2012
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 10001
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 10001
Favianna Rodriguez, Jeff Chang, Daniel Alarcón, Laughter Against the Machine, & Others
CultureStrike coordinator Favianna Rodriguez teams up with other creative minds for UndocuNation: An Artistic Response to the Immigration Crisis. With talks, food, revelry and rabble-rousing, the event offers “an evening of culture jamming, visual art, and performances addressing the devastating consequences of our country’s broken immigration system.” Sponsored by CultureStrike,...
May 3, 2012
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St (Mission & 3rd )
San Francisco California
701 Mission St (Mission & 3rd )
San Francisco California
Tan Lin, Pamela Lu, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Dorothy Wang, and Lucy Ives
Join us for a night of ambient poetics with three experimental writers who probe the relationship between art-making and found technologies from parking garage reverberations to the neon glow of TV broadcasts. Treat your ears to Tan Lin’s Insomnia and the Aunt, Pamela Lu’s Ambient Parking Lot, and Sueyeun Juliette...
April 27, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 10001
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 10001
Mirza Waheed, Angana P. Chatterji, & Kanishka Raja
Once known for its majestic snow-capped Himalayas, Kashmir now hosts a militarized hotbed of insurgency and conflict between India, Pakistan, and China. Join us for an inter-disciplinary dialogue between three guests whose work shed light on Kashmir’s complex identity. You’ll hear stories of pre-partition India, lyrical accounts of village life,...
April 21, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 10001
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 10001
Negin Farsad, Jen Kwok, & Sheng Wang
Come join us for an Asian American all-star comedy festival! AAWW favorite Jen Kwok, the velvety voice that brought you Date an Asian and Ballad of the Tiger Mom, will bring her ukulele and extraordinary talent. Relish the sharp stylings of Sheng Wang, who won top honors at NBC Universal's...
April 19, 2012
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Queens College
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing New York 10001
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing New York 10001
Robert Casper, Ken Chen, Mya Spalter, Patrick Ryan, and Sarah LaPolla
A discussion with Robert Casper, Ken Chen, Mya Spalter, Patrick Ryan, and Sarah LaPolla. Robert Casper is the head of the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress. He is also publisher of the literary magazine, jubilat, and co-founder of the jubilat/Jones Reading Series in Amherst, Massachusetts. Ken...
April 16, 2012
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building (The New School)
65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor
New York New York
65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor
New York New York
Chris Grace and ManSee Kong
We know- we can't believe it's time for another one of our lavishly funny Open Mics! This month we are delighted to host talented singer/songwriter Chris Grace as well as sassy documentarian ManSee Kong. Chris's seductive vocals will knock you flat and ManSee Kong’s sharp chops will glue you to...
April 13, 2012
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 1001
112 West 27th Street, Suite 600
New York New York 1001
Krys Lee & Alexander Chee
Krys Lee’s debut short story collection, Drifting House, explores the heartbreaking forgings of Korean identity in the wake of war and economic collapse. Haunted by their tragic past, Lee’s cast of characters include a spurned wife who seeks to rescue her kidnapped daughter in America and a tenant who believes...
April 9, 2012
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
New York New York
112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
New York New York