As the Asian American Writers’ Workshop celebrates its 30th anniversary, we invited current and former editors, writers, community members, and workers to make new meaning from the Workshop’s archive. Together, they have awakened AAWW’s print anthologies and journals, returned to the physical spaces of the Workshop starting from our basement location on St. Mark’s, and given shape to the stories from within AAWW that circulate like rumors, drawing writers back again and again. In revisiting the Workshop’s history, we hope for insight into the ever-changing landscape of Asian diasporic literature and politics and inspiration to guide us forward in our next 30 years.
In which we awaken and make new meaning from our archive
Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, and Kyle Dacuyan talk about the funky, raw arts spaces we need
On the past and present of finding and sharing Asian diasporic literature
Former and current Workshop directors and workers reflect on 30 years of AAWW’s spaces
The Workshop as a space of “experimentation and even error”
AAWW’s current executive director reflects on virtual space and community
Former programs associate Nadia Q. Ahmad on work, rest, and AAWW’s fabled green couch
Luis H. Francia and Eric Gamalinda talk about the making of AAWW’s Filipino American literary anthology
Former Open City Fellow Humera Afridi answers 10 questions about her writing life
The poet talks with Eileen Tabios about his writing process and how “language can be a thicket and brambles”
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
112 W 27th Street, Suite 600
New York, NY 10001