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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:
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

  • Trans Liberation Matters, Regardless of The Presidency
    Essays
    By Fei Lu

    Regardless of who is in the White House in 2021, Asian and Black trans women will not be ignored or silenced. Even with a Biden win, the fight is not over.

    The Old House in Sam Bat
    Essays
    By Katie Gee Salisbury

    I am no longer striving to understand something foreign, or to earn some measure of acceptance or belonging that I don’t deserve. I am here, simply, to see the land that my family came from, to know that we have been here before.

    My Mother’s Story, Vol. 2 Chapter 6
    Fiction
    By Eun Sung Kim, Julie Moon

    Since the new government promised land reform, the have-nots in your father’s village buckled over with joy, while the landed were bewildered

    Ode to Gatorade…
    Poetry
    By Paul Asta

    When I look back, I think about all the times Gatorade has let me down in my life.

    A Radiant Home
    Fiction
    By Meghna Rao

    She was a prisoner in this home, where death and decay had collected like a fog.

    Blood Memory
    Essays
    By Elisabeth Sherman

    Paragraph by paragraph I am piecing together the story of my Indonesian family—their trauma and struggle against colonial rule—alongside my dad.

    three sorry prayers
    Poetry
    By Connie Ni Chiu

    we inherited sickly
 / roots our ancestors couldn’t plant / deep enough to
 / grow

    Dirty Kitchen
    Essays
    By Jill Damatac

    Far from our barrios, mountains, and islands, we cook, so that we may practice swallowing our undesirable truths, acidic and blood-heavy.

    The Best American Poetry 2020: Asian American Poets
    Video
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    Watch readings by ten poets from this year’s Best American Poetry anthology, edited by Paisley Rekdal

    非凡 (EXCEPTIONAL)
    Poetry
    By Michael Chang

    It’s funny how ppl were saying that the peaches in Parasite / were some serious motif & symbolism of prosperity’s toxicity

    An Aquatic History of My Family
    Fiction
    By K-Ming Chang

    There was a time, Abu says, before your great-grandmother, when water was blue because it was a bruise, when it could feel our hands like the skin of a fruit.

    Land: A Folio
    Essays
    By Joseph Lee

    Land holds so much of our history and memory—both personal and collective. In this special folio, seven writers investigate and explore Asian relationships with land.

    Hello, doorknob
    Fiction
    By Jen Lue

    Sometimes she grew so nervous that she had to sit in her room for hours until her hands stopped trembling. She wondered if her daughters ever thought about her.

    The Sentence Called You
    Poetry
    By Eugene Mok, Mirae Yang

    I stow away the sentences in which there is no you in my drawer right after writing them I remember the time when I emptied the bottom of my drawer for you There I found stuff like a key that became useless forever

    We Lead The World’s Liberation: A Conversation with Sex Work Activists SX Noir And Kate Zen
    Interviews
    By Kate Zen, SX Noir

    “Sex worker activism is always based in anti-police, anti-prison activism.”

    Madison, WI 1968 (Before the Fall)
    Poetry
    By Cole Chang

    Left home at sixteen, said you wanted to go see the West. Grandpa didn’t stop / you. Figured you might die in some jungle across the Pacific.

    Seven Writers On the YA Fiction That Has Shaped Their Work
    By Traci Chee, Hafsah Faizal, Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, Adiba Jaigirdar, Ed Lin, Abdi Nazemian, Emily X.R. Pan

    From tender coming-of-age and coming-out stories to eye-opening historical fiction & unforgettable fantasy

    Monsters
    Fiction
    By Sadia Quraeshi Shepard

    That spring my wife covered the walls of our living room in newsprint.

    I’ll Do What I Want: A Conversation with Kim Min Jeong
    Interviews
    By Kim Min Jeong, Soeun Seo, Jake Levine, Park Joon

    “For Korean women writers, for whatever kind of poetry they want to write, I think this country has excellent soil for growing in any direction you want.”

    while my lover travels, I take notice
    Poetry
    By Sarah Taban

    Love letters spill / down the narrow stairs as I leave. I think I would like nothing / to miss her like I do, hence this tenderness, hence my hands smudging / myself. 


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