Past Events

REGISTER HERE! This August, join NYPL, AAWW, SAJA, and AAJA-NY for a celebration of award winning journalist Prachi Gupta's highly anticipated memoir, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us, named one of the best books of the season by the New York Times and the Washington Post....

BUY TICKETS! This summer, we are thrilled to be presenting PAGE TURNER: The Asian American Writers’ Workshop Publishing Conference, a signature program that we’ll present in-person on Saturday, August 19, at The Peoples' Forum. For those unable to attend in person, the event will be available via YouTube livestream for...

Join us for an in-person event with award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao for a discussion of her new poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces. Joining Sally in conversation is author and translator Ricardo Alberto Maldonado. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room...

GET TICKETS! This July, AAWW and Books Are Magic come together to celebrate KING OF THE ARMADILLOS, Wendy Chin-Tanner's transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and a historical leprosarium in Louisiana, following one young man’s quest to not only...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.**...