Past Events

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.**...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Friday, March 3, 2023 | 5 PM ET - 7 PM ET Online | 1 Session | Sliding Scale $50- $100 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.** **LIMITED...

Join us for another Mouth to Mouth with Open Mic on February 28 at 7 PM ET! Hosted and curated by Kay Ulanday Barrett, this month Mouth to Mouth celebrates writers Aurielle Marie and Noah Arhm Choi! Limited open mic slots are available! To put your name in for lottery...

Saturdays, February 25 and March 4 | 4 PM ET - 6 PM ET (1 PM PST - 3 PM PST) 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...

An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangkok, telling the story of three families striving to control their destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis. Mai Nardone is a Thai and American writer whose fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Granta,...

RSVP HERE! The Asian American Writers’ Workshop presents a virtual book launch event for V. V. Ganeshananthan's novel, Brotherless Night. A heartbreaking exploration of civil war and its' impact on a Sri Lankan family, Ganeshananthan presents “an achingly moving portrait of a world full of turmoil, but one in which...