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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:
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

  • Wild
    Poetry
    By Divya Kirti

    At fifteen Nani shot a / tiger. A big gun in a girl’s hands; I’ve seen the picture.

    Voices and Visuals: Black-Asian Solidarity in NYC
    Essays
    By Abigail Savitch-Lew

    Young Asian Americans hit the streets to link arms supporting Black Lives Matter

    City in the North
    Poetry
    By Mihee Kim

    My family has legends in the form of a spider’s legs.

    Home Is Where Your Friends Are: An Interview with Frances Cha
    Interviews
    By Hannah Bae

    “I would see thousands of people streaming from their officetels to Gangnam station, all very young, very self-possessed, very confident. I was imagining how everyone living in these officetels is very far from home.”

    NO BALIKBAYAN IS LARGE ENOUGH TO PLACE THE UNFATHOMABLE NEWS THAT EVERY THING WE’VE EVER KNOWN WILL SHORTLY BE ON FIRE: Two Poems by Dujie Tahat
    Poetry
    By Dujie Tahat

    At this / moment there are more than two dozen / revolutions occurring around the globe in / Chile, Lebanon, Hong Kong, France, Sudan.

    To Hmong Americans, On Racial Justice and Patriarchy
    Essays
    By Mai Der Vang

    There is no equity in silence.

    AAWW at Home with Esmé Weijun Wang
    Video
    By Esmé Weijun Wang

    “It’s a time to fight and a time to take care of ourselves.”

    Make Yourself Vulnerable: A Conversation with Jenny Zhang
    Interviews
    By Ruth Minah Buchwald

    “As I was writing these poems, I felt that friendship was a constant thing I was returning to.”

    Press Play with Rajiv Mohabir and Kay Ulanday Barrett
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    A regular round-up of AAWW digital programming to keep you company at home.

    After Peace
    Poetry
    By Alan Fang

    This little ocean has a way / of submerging everything behind its mask. And Lam, / it has swallowed you whole and I could do / nothing.

    The Silence Between Our Words: An Interview with Alexandra Chang
    Interviews
    By Michael Prior

    The author of Days of Distraction on microaggressions in fiction and writing confrontation through fragments

    Inheritance
    Poetry
    By Megan Kim

    When my harabeoji died / last spring I thought I’d move to California, convert / to Catholicism, kneel beside my halmeoni at early Mass // become student of those hundred and three / Korean saints though I can’t name more than one.

    AAWW at Home with Rajiv Mohabir
    Video
    By Rajiv Mohabir

    The poet and winner of the Restless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize on supporting DRUM and the work of Guyanese poet Martin Carter

    The Little Brown Brother’s Burden
    Essays
    By Vina Orden

    From the crop fields in the 1900s to modern-day hospitals, the history of Filipinos in the U.S. is a story of survival and resistance.

    Press Play with PEN America
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    Featuring Tarfia Faizullah, Jenny Zhang, CAAAV, and more.

    How to Dismantle an American Myth: An Interview with C Pam Zhang
    Interviews
    By Mimi Lok

    “This book is labeled historical, but it is a reimagining. It is surreal.”

    AAWW at Home with Nadia Q. Ahmad
    Video
    By Nadia Q. Ahmad

    The East Elmhurst-based poet and editor on Ada Limón’s “Instructions on Not Giving Up” and supporting Laal NYC

    Divination
    Poetry
    By Vivien Song

    In our home we brewed ginseng tea to battle unnamed / diseases. We held hands with health. I was never good at it, of course: / always too bitter, oversteeped. Always the universe mocking me / from the sidelines.

    AAWW at Home with Sokunthary Svay
    Video
    By Sokunthary Svay

    The Khmer poet and musician brings us a special performance

    Plant a Kapok Tree
    Essays
    By Tian Veasna

    A chapter from Year of the Rabbit, a graphic novel memoir of one family’s life under the Khmer Rouge

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