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The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told.

By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop:
Global Chinatowns: Histories of Resistance & Community
Press Play with Rajiv Mohabir and Kay Ulanday Barrett
Press Play with PEN America
Press Play with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and Sujatha Gidla
Press Play with Aria Aber, lê thị diễm thúy, and Eugene Lim
Press Play with Celeste Ng, PubCon, and MIZNA
Part II: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Four Writers on Poetry and Protest
Part I: “I Am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”—Six Writers on Poetry and Protest
Introducing the 2020 AAWW Margins Fellows

Recent Articles

  • 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Classics in Translation
    By Niloufar Talebi

    Works of the classical period that appear in multiple translations

    Original Sin: Two Poems by Megan Pinto
    Poetry
    By Megan Pinto

    They say / the faithful go to God with the love // of a child, they say the soul sees everything / without eyes. I am trying to understand // my life.

    100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Poetry, Hybrid Works, Anthologies
    By Niloufar Talebi

    We continue in our bookmarks series with works that sing, dissolve boundaries, and gather voices together

    100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction
    Essays
    By Niloufar Talebi

    I embarked on this list with an assumption of scarcity. But I discovered an embarrassment of riches.

    Notes for “Third”
    Poetry
    By Zaina Alsous

    She does not know if she’s an “opportunist”; this probably means she is an opportunist; She wonders if there is Judgement Day before the revolution; She forces all of her sexual partners to watch The Battle of Algiers.

    The End of an Era: Hong Kong 2020
    Essays
    By May-lee Chai

    In the summer of 1990, 62,000 Hong Kong people chose to flee the city because of the violent crackdown on student protesters at Tiananmen Square the previous year. Now once again, people in Hong Kong were faced with the dilemma: to emigrate or to stay.

    Mystery and Pleasure: A Conversation with Shruti Swamy
    Interviews
    By Yasmin Adele Majeed

    “I think that sensual pleasure is at the heart of what I find to be exciting about writing.”

    Latitude: Two Poems by Natasha Rao
    Poetry
    By Natasha Rao

    Back then I was committed to the color blue, felt moved to paint my walls, nails, furniture the same shade of teal. Now my body swells at the window with casual longing.

    GAG, HOME, KILL: Three Poems by Ather Zia
    Poetry
    By Ather Zia

    rises, bloodied, and breathing and begins walking as if in hope. / of being heard.

    Enunciations Yet To Come: reflections on Excerpts from The Hongkong/Xianggang Cookbook
    Essays
    By Rosemarie Ho

    No one fasts just for the hell of it

    Summer
    Fiction
    By Chen Chen

    The sunflowers fall, right along with their mason jar, in the middle of the night. Their heads too gloriously full of early July. How they seem to know everything, except the virus.

    Far but Not Far Enough: Travels—and Travails—in the Brown Zone
    Essays
    By Luis H. Francia

    Looking to Jose Rizal and Carlos Bulosan to speak to our present

    Broken Ghazal, Before Balfour: Two Poems by George Abraham
    Poetry
    By George Abraham

    a sunburn the shape of the settler dictator’s face on everyone who will claim /
    FREE PALESTINE’s earth but not FREE PALESTINE’s skin

    The Trust Gap: Why We Won’t Go Back
    Essays
    By Lynn Shon, José Luis Vilson

    As teachers who are in it for the long haul, we believe in seizing this moment as an opportunity to design more just and humane schools that heal and empower our most marginalized students and their communities.

    My Mother Renames Herself Winter Blossom: Two Poems by JinJin Xu
    Poetry
    By JinJin Xu

    At birth, my mother recites my ba zi / to a monk, and like all good daughters, // I do not ask. How can a mother / help but lead her daughter // Astray?

    If The Revolution Has Come
    Poetry
    By Quincy Scott Jones, Nina Sharma

    Let it be known this country has a memory / Let it be known the news called this / “Unrest in America” / as if for four hundred years / America’s been resting just fine

    How to Protest
    Poetry
    By Hadiyyah Kuma

    Or Say: a piece of rope at the top of the stairs where shame broke even and shame blame and victim bad-name got it’s nasty plug.

    What Things
    Fiction
    By Mai Nardone

    He collected the past in amber, often describing war memorials as beautiful. He called himself a gardener.

    On The Radical Possibilities of Leading With Love: An Interview with Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey
    Interviews
    By Jaimee A. Swift

    An activist, educator, and transnational feminist, Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey has dedicated her life to challenging systems of oppression.

    Monsters Made, Not Begotten
    Essays
    By Tiffany Tsao

    The recovery of my familial and cultural heritage has always been continual, albeit somewhat stop and start—just when I think I have unearthed the final root, my spade hits another one with a meaty thwack.

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