Upcoming Events
Join AAWW and McNally Jackson Books for a celebration of Primordial by Mai Der Vang, featuring Monica Sok!
Join AAWW and the New York Public Library for a celebration of Poetry and the Bengali Diaspora in New York City!
Join AAWW for a celebration of Roohi Choudhry's Outside Women, featuring Mona Eltahawy and Yashica Dutt
April 26, 2025
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Xenana Projects
154 Scott Avenue, Studio 317
Brooklyn New York 11237
154 Scott Avenue, Studio 317
Brooklyn New York 11237
Join AAWW for a celebration of Sarah Aziza's debut memoir, The Hollow Half, in conversation with Hannah Bae and featuring Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Ghinwa Jawhari, Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani, and H. Sinno!
May 8, 2025
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
18 West 21st Street, Suite 900
New York NY 10010
18 West 21st Street, Suite 900
New York NY 10010
Join the brilliant Q.M. Zhang for a month-long workshop that includes weekly readings, in-class guided writing and take-home writing provocations, and a structured and supportive small group environment for experimentation and feedback on new writing!
Join Megan Pinto and Kiran Bath for a virtual workshop on writing about the people we love!
Join AAWW for a match up between the New York Liberty and the Golden State Valkyries during AAPI Heritage Night!
May 27, 2025
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Barclays Center
620 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn NY 11217
620 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn NY 11217
Past Events
Join AAWW at the Guggenheim Museum for a generative poetry workshop led by Courtney Faye Taylor!
April 19, 2025
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave
New York NY 10128
1071 5th Ave
New York NY 10128
Join World's Borough Bookstore and AAWW for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry, featuring Stine An!
March 20, 2025
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
World’s Borough Bookstore
3406 73rd St
Queens NY 11372
3406 73rd St
Queens NY 11372
Join A4 and AAWW for a celebration of poetry featuring Taiyo Na and Sreshtha Sen!
Join us for a screening of Mustache by Imran J. Khan!
March 13, 2025
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
Join us for readings by Izzy Ampil, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Danya Issawi, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, and Karen Yuan, hosted and curated by Ruth Minah Buchwald.
February 25, 2025
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
![[VIRTUAL] Author Mentorships: Getting the Most Out of the Experience](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Author-Mentorships-16x9-1.png)
Join the Author's Guild, AAWW, Blue Stoop, and Las Musas for a webinar on author mentorships!
Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Nayantara Roy's The Magnificent Ruins, featuring Nina Sharma, Aditi Misra, Shayon Maitra, and Priya Roy!
February 6, 2025
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
Join Metrograph and AAWW for the US theatrical premier of This Woman!
Join us for readings and a conversation with Audrea Lim and Amy Ching-Yan Lam on how real estate ownership is woven into our cities, societies, relationships and psyches.
January 15, 2025
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
Join AAWW and graduate students from Sarah Lawrence College to explore the ever-deepening connection between creative practice and community building!
December 7, 2024
2:00 PM
2:00 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
Join us for a celebration of writer Emily Jungmin Yoon's Find Me as the Creature I Am, in conversation with Monica Sok and Sally Wen Mao!
November 21, 2024
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
![[VIRTUAL] Mouth to Mouth Showcase & Open Mic](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SummerFall-2024-Programs-Graphics-1-1.png)
AAWW and Kay Ulanday Barrett present a celebratory reading and open mic featuring SA Smythe and Mars!
Come celebrate Belladonna’s first full-length book launch since 2020 and first partnership with AAWW!
PAGE TURNER centers the work and experiences of writers of color, and aims to demystify the business of publishing!
November 9, 2024
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
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
![[Virtual] Poetry as consciousness - AAWW x Red Bean Poetry](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1-Nov-Zoom-event-flyer-3.png)
Join AAWW and Red Bean Poetry for an online reading and conversation with Chen Chen, R. A. Villanueva, Monica Youn, and Ethan Yu!
![[In Person] lactose intolerant](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/unnamed-1.jpg)
Join AAWW and lactose intolerant for readings by Jennifer Baker, Irene Hsu, Benedict Nguyễn, Jasmine Reid, Tony Tulathimutte, and Ryan Lee Wong. Curated and hosted by Ruth Minah Buchwald!
October 22, 2024
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
LIVING ADAPTATIONS, the 6th Singapore Literature Festival returns to NYC, spotlighting writing for stage and screen!
Join us for an evening of multilingual poetry celebrating Julia Wong Kcomt's legacy and the transnational/translational life she forged in the world and on the page!
October 9, 2024
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
Join Radix and Asian American Writers’ Workshop to celebrate the launch of Coining a Wishing Tower by poet and The Margins Assistant Poetry Editor Ayesha Raess!
October 4, 2024
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
Join AAWW for a celebration of Aruni Kashyap’s short story collection The Way You Want to Be Loved and Puloma Ghosh's short story collection Mouth, in conversation with writer Nur Nasreen Ibrahim!
October 1, 2024
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
![[BKBF] "What do you mean funny? Like a clown?" - The Politics of Comedic Depiction](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SummerFall-2024-Programs-Graphics-1.png)
Join AAWW's Executive Director Jafreen Uddin for a conversation about the politics of humor with comedians Sureni Weerasekera, Pooja Reddy, and Zubi Ahmed on the Brooklyn Bookfest main stage!
September 29, 2024
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
![[BKBF] The Asian American BookCon](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BookconPoster-copy.jpg)
Join the Asian American Writers' Workshop, the Asian American Book Club, and Hana House for an all-day literary gathering and celebration!
September 27, 2024
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Hana House
345 Adams Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
345 Adams Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
![[IN PERSON] In Celebration of Difficult](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/unnamed-7.png)
Join AAWW and STORM Books in celebrating the release of Rewa Zeinati’s poetry chapbook, Difficult, with readings by poets Zeina Hashem Beck, Ghinwa Jawhari, Kamelya Youssef, Sarah Aziza, and Hind Shoufanil, and music by Huda Asfour!
![[#AALF2024] The Homeland in My Body](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9_21-AAWW-x-RR-_-The-Homeland-In-My-Body-In-Person-_-Hybrid-2.png)
Join us for the Asian American Literature Festival's marathon reading uplifting and celebrating Palestinian voices!
September 21, 2024
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
The People’s Forum
320 W 37th St.
New York NY 10018
320 W 37th St.
New York NY 10018
![[IN PERSON] All Shall Be Well Screening and Q&A with Director Ray Yeung](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9.png)
Join AAWW and Film Forum for a screening of All Shall Be Well and Q&A with director Ray Yeung!
September 20, 2024
6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Film Forum
209 West Houston St
New York NY 10014
209 West Houston St
New York NY 10014
![[#AALF2024] A Bicoastal Trans Kinship Reading](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9_18-AAWW-x-RR-_-A-Bicoastal-Reading-In-Person-_-Hybrid.png)
Join Asian American Writers' Workshop and Reorienting Reads to share space for a luminous bicoastal evening of connection and kinship, uplifting our trans, intersex, non-binary, and gender expansive communities.
September 18, 2024
8:00 PM
8:00 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
![[#AALF2024] Meetup & Book Swap for Trans, Intersex, Nonbinary, & Gender-Expansive People](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9_118-AAWW-x-RR-_-Meetup-Book-Swap-In-Person-3.png)
Join Reorienting Reads and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop for a meetup and (optional) book swap for trans, intersex, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people!
September 18, 2024
6:00 PM
6:00 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
![[IN PERSON] In Celebration of The Lucky Ones](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SummerFall-2024-Programs-Graphics-3.png)
Join us for a celebration of writer Zara Chowdhary's memoir The Lucky Ones, in conversation with Nur Nasreen Ibrahim!
September 17, 2024
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
![[#AALF2024] In Celebration of We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9_15-AAWW-x-RR-_-In-Celebration-of-We-The-Gathered-Heat-In-Person-_-Hybrid-3.png)
Join us for a celebration of We the Gathered Heat with Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Noah Arhm Choi, Yalini Dream, and Jess X. Snow!
September 15, 2024
3:00 PM
3:00 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
![[#AALF2024] The Meena Alexander Reading Room](https://aaww.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/9_17-18-AAWW-_-Meena-Alexander-Reading-Room-In-Person-_-Hybrid-2.png)
Join the Asian American Writers' Workshop for an exhibition of the late poet Meena Alexander’s library!
September 15, 2024
12:00 PM
12:00 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