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 to host lactose intolerant (@lactoseintolerantnyc), an anti-clout monthly reading series featuring writers of color in NYC. Join us for readings by Jennifer Baker, Irene Hsu, […]
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, […]
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) […]
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, and Anelise Chen's new memoir, Clam Down! Anelise Chen is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her […]
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 […]
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 […]