AAWW and Kay Ulanday Barrett present a celebratory reading and open mic featuring SA Smythe and Mars!Join us on November 19 at 7 PM ET for a Mouth to Mouth reading followed by an open mic!Hosted and curated by Kay Ulanday Barrett, this month's Mouth to Mouth celebrates writers SA Smythe and Mars. If you […]
Join us for a celebration of writer Emily Jungmin Yoon's Find Me as the Creature I Am, in conversation with Monica Sok and Sally Wen Mao! Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Emily Jungmin Yoon's Find Me as the Creature I Am! Emily will be joined by writers Monica Sok and Sally […]
Join AAWW and graduate students from Sarah Lawrence College to explore the ever-deepening connection between creative practice and communityThe Asian American Writers' Workshop is proud to host this special event, which brings together graduate students from Sarah Lawrence College who have been exploring an ever-deepening connection between creative practice and community building. At the heart […]
Join us for readings and a conversation with Audrea Lim and Amy Ching-Yan Lam on how real estate ownership is woven into our societies. From skyrocketing rents, to restoring environments & retreating from neighborhoods threatened by climate change, questions of landownership lie at the heart of society’s most pressing issues. Typically grouped together with buildings […]
Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Nayantara Roy's The Magnificent Ruins!Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Nayantara Roy's The Magnificent Ruins, a "rare feast" of a novel in which a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait […]
Join us for readings by Izzy Ampil, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Danya Issawi, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, and Karen Yuan, hosted and curated by Ruth The Asian American Writers' Workshop is proud […]
Join us for a screening of Mustache by Imran J. Khan! Join AAWW for a screening of Mustache by Imran J. Khan! It’s the mid-90’s in Northern California and 13-year-old Pakistani-American Ilyas is facing a major crisis — his parents yanked him out of his comfortable Islamic private school and now he has to face […]
Join World's Borough Bookstore and AAWW for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry, featuring Stine An! Join the Asian American Writers' Workshop and World's Borough Bookstore for a celebration of Wenzhou Street Sonnets by Mila Jao Barry, featuring Stine An! Mila Jao Barry is a poet, hand-cut printmaker, and community arts […]
Join AAWW at the Guggenheim Museum for a generative poetry workshop led by Courtney Faye Taylor! In collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum's Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers exhibition, AAWW is excited to present Poetry as Solidarity, Art as Constellation, a writing workshop led by Courtney Faye Taylor. This generative poetry workshop will explore […]
Join AAWW for a celebration of Roohi Choudhry's Outside Women, featuring Mona Eltahawy and Yashica Dutt Join AAWW for a powerful celebration of Roohi Choudhry’s incandescent debut novel Outside Women, a sweeping, century-spanning story of feminist resistance, radical kinship, and migrant solidarity. Choudhry will be joined by Mona Eltahawy (The Seven Necessary Sins for Women […]
Join us for a celebration of The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza, in conversation with Hannah Bae! Join AAWW for a celebration of The Hollow Half, an urgent and groundbreaking memoir by Sarah Aziza, one of the most important new voices in contemporary literature and criticism. Sarah will be in conversation with Hannah Bae, with […]
Join Megan Pinto and Kiran Bath for a virtual workshop on writing about the people we love! How do we write about the ones we love? A common writing adage is write what you know, and while free writing, we might find ourselves returning to core relationships that have shaped us, be it romantic, familial, […]