Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW)

Website http://aaww.org

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    • After All This: Making Your Second Work

    Asian American Writers' Workshop 18 W 21st St, Suite 900, NY, NY, United States

    Join AAWW for the PBS-streaming premiere of After All This, featuring Sarah Thankam Mathews, Andrew Nadkarni, and Maryam Mir!Join AAWW for the PBS-streaming premiere night of documentary short After All This profiling Margins alumnus, Sarah Thankam Mathews, directed by Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker Andrew Nadkarni and produced by Open City alumnus, Maryam Mir!-After All This (15 minutes) […]

    • Book Event: Memory & Mollusks: In Celebration of Clam Down and Anam

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States

    Join AAWW for the joint launch of André Dao's new novel, Anam, and Anelise Chen's new memoir, Clam Down! Join AAWW for the joint launch of André Dao's new novel, Anam, […]

    In Celebration of Mothersalt and Becoming Ghost

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States

    Join us for a celebration of Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Becoming Ghost by Cathy Lin Che, with Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh!Join AAWW for a celebration of Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Becoming Ghost by Cathy Lin Che, featuring readings by Sahar Muradi and Eugenia Leigh!__Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of MOTHERSALT […]

    In Celebration of Sage

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States

    Join AAWW for a celebration of Yaffa’s latest book, Sage!Join AAWW for a celebration of Yaffa’s latest book, Sage!Sage is a poetry collection that acknowledges all transphobia is systemic but the pain of everyday interpersonal violence is still felt in our bones. A collection that highlights challenges and joy within interpersonal relationships from the perspective […]

    • In Celebration of Marginlands

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States

    Join AAWW for a celebration of Marginlands by Arati Kumar-Rao! Join AAWW for a celebration of Marginlands by Arati-Kumar Rao! As a child growing up in Mumbai, Arati Kumar-Rao’s parents instilled in her an abiding love for the natural world and a passion for storytelling. Years later, adrift in a corporate job and concerned by […]

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    From Journalists to Authors: The Making of Stories

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States

    Join AAJA and AAWW for a conversation on transitioning from reporting to long-form storytelling! Join AAJA and AAWW for an enlivening conversation on transitioning from reporting to long-form storytelling, featuring […]

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    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States

    Join us for readings by Adlan Jackson, Ama Kwarteng, Kyle Carrero Lopez, May Teng, and Ruth Minah Buchwald!The Asian American Writers' Workshop is proud to host lactose intolerant (@lactoseintolerantnyc), an anti-clout reading series featuring writers of color in NYC.Join us for readings by Adlan Jackson, Ama Kwarteng, Kyle Carrero Lopez, May Teng, and Ruth Minah […]

    Alpha Beta Blah – The Party Scene

    Asian American Writers' Workshop 18 W 21st St, Suite 900, NY, NY, United States

    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 inaugural reading will take place on July 31st at 7 pm ET. Readers must submit a […]

    • Alpha Beta Blah – The Party Scene

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States

    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 inaugural reading will take place on September 2nd at 7 pm ET. Readers must […]

    Writing City Nature, Writing the City Self

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States

    Join Rajiv Mohabir for a workshop on writing about the environment! Writing about the environment is not the province of the rich, the country-dwelling, and the white poet. Asian American poets and writers have been expanding their ideas of the natural world to be expansive, including human-made structure and infrastructures as being natural. They write […]

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    Book Talk: In Celebration of Seabeast – Hybrid

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Join AAWW for a celebration of Seabeast by Rajiv Mohabir, featuring Megan Pinto, Ashna Ali, and Rosamond King! Join AAWW for a celebration of Seabeast by Rajiv Mohabir, featuring Megan Pinto, Ashna Ali, and Rosamond King! Organized as an alphabetical bestiary, Seabeast lyrically catalogues whale species by common name and behaviors, resulting in a poetic […]

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    Ctrl+Alt+Lit: Fan Fiction, Zines, and Independent Literature (Hybrid)

    18 W 21st St suite 900 18 West 21st Street, #suite 900, New York, NY, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Join AAWW for Ctrl+Alt+Lit, a celebration of alternative literatures and countercanons! From Tumblr threads to self-published novels, alternative literature is rewriting how we tell stories and who gets to tell them. Ctrl+Alt+Lit will explore how alt-lit remixes cultural narratives and creates community beyond traditional publishing, diving into a world shaped by parasocial relationships, the internet, […]