Join AAWW for a celebration of Where Every Ghost Has A Name by Kim Liao, featuring Anru Lee and Jimin Han! Join AAWW for a celebration of Where Every Ghost Has A Name by Kim Liao, featuring Anru Lee and Jimin Han! __ Kim Liao is the author of Where Every Ghost Has a Name: […]
Join AAWW for Alpha Beta Blah, a new reading series that removes the secret from secret society! The 2025 AAWW Margins fellows present “Alpha Beta Blah”, a new reading series that invites writers to come frat out with the fellows. The third reading of this series will take place on October 30th at 7 pm […]
Join H. M. Zafer for a workshop on harnessing the generative and emancipatory power of scripture! This is a two-part workshop, scheduled over two dates - Tuesday, 9/23, and Wednesday, 9/24 - between 6pm and 9pm ET each day. Workshop registration covers both dates. Please reach out to msaleh@aaww.org for assistance if you are able […]
PAGE TURNER convenes experts and authors across industries and genres to share candid insights, advice, and experiences! This fall, we are thrilled to present PAGE TURNER: The 2025 Asian American Writers’ Workshop Publishing Conference, a signature program that we’ll present in-person on Sunday, November 23rd, at our event space in New York. For those unable […]
Join AAWW for Alpha Beta Blah, a new reading series that removes the secret from secret society!The 2025 AAWW Margins fellows present “Alpha Beta Blah”, a new reading series that invites writers to come frat out with the fellows.The fourth and final reading of this series will take place on December 16th at 7 pm […]
Join AAWW for a screening of After All This, featuring Sarah Thankam Mathews, Andrew Nadkarni, and Maryam Mir! Join AAWW for a screening of the documentary short After All This profiling Margins alumna, Sarah Thankam Mathews, directed by Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker Andrew Nadkarni and produced by Open City alumna, Maryam Mir! - After All This (15 […]
Join AAWW at the Museum of Chinese in America to learn how to confidently edit Wikipedia! Want to improve the state of Asian and Asian American literary representation on Wikipedia, the world’s largest freely accessible encyclopedia? Stop by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s edit-a-thon on February 28 and March 1 to learn how to confidently […]
Join AAWW at the Museum of Chinese in America to learn how to confidently edit Wikipedia! Want to improve the state of Asian and Asian American literary representation on Wikipedia, the world’s largest freely accessible encyclopedia? Stop by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s edit-a-thon on February 28 and March 1 to learn how to confidently […]
Join AAWW and SALGA NYC for a discussion on gender and performance, featuring Sandip Roy, Mayukh Sen, and Arun Venugopal!What does it take to be seen and what must be hidden to survive? In Chapal Rani, Sandip Roy resurrects the life of Chapal Bhaduri, the last great female impersonator of Bengali jatra theatre, whose art […]
Join Amin Ahmad for a workshop on developing a writing process that allows you to be fearless and productive! Are you working on a novel, memoir or non-fiction project? Did you start off with great enthusiasm, only to feel the project bog down? Are you overwhelmed by the complexity of the task? Has anxiety crept […]
Join AAWW for a celebration of Hafeez Lakhani's Abundance, featuring Victor Suthammanont! Join AAWW for a celebration of Hafeez Lakhani's Abundance, featuring Victor Suthammanont! _ In suburban Miami, sixty-year-old Sakeena—co-owner of a Dunkin’ franchise along with her husband, Ramzan—has nine months to live unless she consents to an organ transplant. Thirty years ago, at Ramzan’s […]
Join the 2026 Margins Fellows for their inaugural open mic and mixer, Archive of the Self, in an evening of tracing personal histories and e Who are you? Who have you been? What makes you who you are? The inaugural reading series from 2026’s Margins Fellows explores memory, self-invention, and the idea that we are […]