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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:
#WeToo: About the Art
Harm and the Trump Era: Four Years of Reading
Introducing the 2021 Margins and Open City Fellows
Bookmarks: Best of 2020
The Best American Poetry 2020: Asian American Poets
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

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    Fiction
    By Sezin Koehler

    “It’s started. It’s changing me. It’s happening. Now.”

    Magdalene
    Poetry
    By Sarah Ghazal Ali

    On a dewing street I stood bare and pinned by desire.

    The Search for Space
    Essays
    By Jessica Jacolbe

    A scene report takes a look at one burgeoning but endangered arts community in Queens

    The New York I’ve Come to Know
    Essays
    By Aaisha Bhuiyan

    A love letter to the city that made me

    Two Poems by Lee Doane
    Poetry
    By Lee Doane

    It’s no wonder / that so very few / survive / the experience of being / cast out / into the blinding light.

    Fifty Years of Pearl River Mart
    Essays
    By Michelle Chen

    A half-century of NYCs Chinatown history through the windows of the “Friendship Store”

    When the government demolished the only
    house we’d ever owned for a bridge in Manila
    Poetry
    By Hannah Keziah Agustin

    A bridge has landed on my doorstep & a paper is asking me to leave / behind what isn’t mine.

    Keep Moving: A Poem by Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
    Poetry
    By Sham-e-Ali Nayeem

    When the sky is falling / you must learn to / generate a force field.

    Atrophy
    Fiction
    By Maya McCoy

    She remembers the rituals she had imbued with her own significance: how her ex used to bring her a single flower after every exam, and how she’d watch it wilt on her desk as she studied for the next.

    The Here and There: On Refugees and Translation
    Essays
    By Jennifer Hayashida

    What knowledge, beyond fluency, is required in acts of translation?

    Hurting, Hurting
    Poetry
    By Erin Jin Mei O’Malley

    I’m not apologizing / when I offer my head to the leash // of your hands

    Twenty Years Later, Asian Americans Are Building the Scaffolding for Solidarity
    Essays
    By Deepa Iyer

    What does it take to strengthen and sustain the solidarity built in responses to crises like 9/11?

    Teaching as a Pakistani American Muslim Feminist: Ten, Twenty Years On
    Essays
    By Samina Najmi

    I’m often the outsider-insider and sometimes a bridge.

    Afterlife Diptych
    Poetry
    By Joumana Altallal

    In the gentle pull of the first light, / we hobble to stand our bodies / ours and wanting

    Collective Memories
    Interviews
    By Rajini Srikanth, Parag Rajendra Khandhar, Jyothi Natarajan

    Looking back at 9/11 and the Fall 2011 issue of the Asian American Literary Review

    A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer
    Fiction
    By Jefferson Lee

    I should have studied their faces as they said goodbye, the way they smelled, the lines on their hands.

    Permission and Perfectionism: A Conversation with erin Khuê Ninh
    Interviews
    By Mimi Wong

    “I think if we can hear from each other that being a model minority is not the only way to have value, and that being the good child is not the only way to be a good person, what might that unlock?”

    Origin Story
    Poetry
    By Krysta Lee Frost

    I emerged a tether / -less, violent hiss // of becoming, staring winter / straight in the mouth.

    “We Were Not Allowed To Mourn”
    Reportage
    By Lylla Younes

    An Oral History of New York’s Arab and Muslim Community After 9/11

    The Last Palestinian
    Fiction
    By Mohamad Saleh

    What kind of exhibit on revolutionaries would it be without a living Palestinian? The rub of course is there are so few of you.

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