A man broke into my flat last month and hostaged my baby. I wasn’t careful and hadn’t locked the metal gate to my home. When it happened I was in…

In 1914, 376 Sikh, Muslim, and Hindu migrants from Punjab sailed to Vancouver, BC, aboard the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru with the hopes of immigrating to Canada. All passengers were…

To celebrate the 97th year since the 1919 March First Independence Movement uprisings in Korea against the Japanese Empire, we present translated poems by three colonial-era Korean writers. Goldfish by…

The first time we see Lilliet Berne, the soprano-cum-circus performer-cum-empress’s maid protagonist of Alexander Chee’s The Queen of the Night, she is in a palace wearing an elaborate dress: a…

Scroll down or click here to watch “Wind Among the Trees on the Riverbank,” a video of Pik-Shuen Fung’s story “Ghost Forest.” Bird Twenty-one days after my dad died, a…

  An Astral Death   You realize you have been a time traveler for a while now. You touched the edge of a time zone with your breathing, while nibbling…

Matt Huynh has a way of drawing outside the lines, having crossed many of them over the course of his life. As an artist who regularly intertwines his graphic work…

Last fall, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop received more than 100 applications for our fellowships supporting emerging Asian American writers based in New York City. We spent weeks glued to…

The Pearl Divers’ Daughters   We are the pearl divers’ daughters skinning the ocean of her abalone scales, planting oyster seeds in each other’s vertebrae. Our mothers carved veins into…

    The End of History   I’ve found myself here, which is to say nowhere. It’s almost like fate, the way I’m no one. Not fate as predetermined ghost,…

For this week’s #PoetryTuesday, we have two poems from Timothy Yu’s “Chinese Dreams” series, which Yu describes as “a project in progress that is rewriting the Dream Songs of John…

“How does anyone win on this thing?” I ask the blonde casino waitress. The waitress is about my age, wearing an ornate navy blue bikini top and something that looks…

On AAWW TV, our new YouTube channel, you can relive the magic of live events at our space in the Flatiron, check out in-depth interviews with writers, and more. Every…

An excerpt from “Third Country National,” a story from Hasanthika Sirisena’s award-winning collection The Other One Anura’s regular job on the base was to clean: the TCNs in his unit…

Ziggy Chang waits alone for the bus on a cold Brooklyn night. A baleful wind lashes his face. His eyes begin to lose focus, the wintry void blurring into impressionistic…

Earlier this month The New Yorker published a poem by writer and humorist Calvin Trillin titled “Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?” in which Trillin, who has written for…

Hijra Sleepwalkers, uterus dust, you heard the gunfire and folded into clay. We begged our bodies for alchemy, death into new lungs, we fed bread to the jinn. The clouds…

Come hear Zeina Hashem Beck read alongside Haya Alyan and J. Mae Barizo tonight, Tuesday, April 12, at AAWW.   I Dreamt We Threw Bread Crumbs   I dreamt we…

Haris A. Durrani’s debut novella, Technologies of the Self, is told from the perspective of Jihad, or Joe, a Dominican-Pakistani-Muslim engineering student growing up in Washington Heights. Sofia Samatar writes:…

Grandfather as a Kaiju on Fire A year later your body still burns, still sends your skin up as embers and gives the sky its disposition. When we point towards…