Asian American Writers' Workshop

Asian American Writers' Workshop Celebrating 30 years of Amplifying Asian diasporic storytelling to mobilize for a more just future.

The Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW) is a national literary nonprofit dedicated to publishing, incubating, and amplifying work by Asian and Asian diasporic writers and artists. Since our founding in 1991, we have provided a countercultural literary space that operates at the intersections of migration, race, and social justice. At a time when migrants, women, people of color, Muslims, and L

GBTQ people are specifically targeted, we offer a new countercultural community space in which to imagine a more just future.

Join us on November 23 for our annual publishing conference, PAGE TURNER, featuring a day of stacked panels on navigatin...
11/06/2025

Join us on November 23 for our annual publishing conference, PAGE TURNER, featuring a day of stacked panels on navigating the literary and publishing industry as writers of color.

PAGE TURNER convenes experts and authors across industries and genres to share candid insights, advice, and experiences!

OSIPON, the latest folio from , is live at aaww.org/tlp-osipon/. ❤️‍🔥 Swipe to see the folio’s landing page, the Editor...
11/05/2025

OSIPON, the latest folio from , is live at aaww.org/tlp-osipon/. ❤️‍🔥 Swipe to see the folio’s landing page, the Editor’s Note by and translated by , and beautiful artwork by Rustom Pujado. 🌺⚖️

We're so excited to be presented OSIPON, the newest folio from ! Featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, Osi...
11/05/2025

We're so excited to be presented OSIPON, the newest folio from ! Featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, Osipon is a folio of six pieces from the Bikol region of the Philippines. 🇵🇭

As guest editor Kristian Sendon Cordero writes in his editor’s note, osipon is “our way of revealing, of complaining, of reprimanding, of shouting, of teasing… [our] storytelling is a promise.”

Read the folio ❤️‍🔥

Six pieces from the Philippines’ Bikol region

Presenting OSIPON, the newest folio from AAWW’s that gathers six pieces of poetry, short fiction, and literary critici...
11/05/2025

Presenting OSIPON, the newest folio from AAWW’s that gathers six pieces of poetry, short fiction, and literary criticism from the Bikol region of the Philippines, edited by , featuring art by Rustom Pujado. 🇵🇭 It goes live TOMORROW MORNING, at aaww.org/tlp-osipon/! 💫

Read the start of today’s piece, “Aubade with American Dream” by Ela Kini (.kinii), published in . Find the poem in f...
11/04/2025

Read the start of today’s piece, “Aubade with American Dream” by Ela Kini (.kinii), published in . Find the poem in full at aaww.org/the-margins/. 🛶🌊

Applications for our 2026 Margins Fellowship are open now until December 1! 💞 We’re so excited to learn about you, your ...
11/01/2025

Applications for our 2026 Margins Fellowship are open now until December 1! 💞 We’re so excited to learn about you, your work, and how we can support your budding literary project. 🌟 Learn more and apply at aaww.org/fellowships/.

Today, we’re sharing a poem by , “Show Us Your Papers,” published in our Transpacific Literary Project column in March 2...
10/31/2025

Today, we’re sharing a poem by , “Show Us Your Papers,” published in our Transpacific Literary Project column in March 2020. ❤️‍🔥 Read the FULL piece in , at aaww.org/show-us-your-papers-a-poem-by-sham-e-ali-nayeem/.

We’re thrilled to announce this year’s Page Turner, our annual publishing conference that centers the work of writers of...
10/30/2025

We’re thrilled to announce this year’s Page Turner, our annual publishing conference that centers the work of writers of color, convening authors across genres to share candid insights, advice, and experiences. ❤️‍🔥🍄‍🟫

Join us in our new space at 18 W 21st Street on Sunday, November 23, for a day full of literary talks and community building! 💘➡️ Swipe to see the schedule! Stay tuned for the lineups in the coming weeks!

💫 Register at aaww.org/pubcon25!

Read the start of Tiffany Wu’s () “The alternative to your country is not my country,” this week’s piece published in ou...
10/29/2025

Read the start of Tiffany Wu’s () “The alternative to your country is not my country,” this week’s piece published in our column. ⭐️ Read the FULL poem in at aaww.org/the-margins/!

We’re still thinking about last week’s radiant Diwali celebration, generously hosted at , and ’s delectable meal! 💫🪔 Tha...
10/27/2025

We’re still thinking about last week’s radiant Diwali celebration, generously hosted at , and ’s delectable meal! 💫🪔 Thank you so much to the old and new friends who joined us in celebrating and in supporting the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Our work uplifting Asian diasporic community and storytelling is only possible with your support—help us keep our doors open for decades to come ❤️‍🔥➡️ aaww.org/donate

End the week with ’s new poem in our column, “Funeral for My Twenties.” 🌅🦇 Swipe to read the start of the piece, and r...
10/24/2025

End the week with ’s new poem in our column, “Funeral for My Twenties.” 🌅🦇 Swipe to read the start of the piece, and read the full poem in TheMargins at aaww.org/the-margins/.💞

✨ The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is not simply a literary nonprofit. It is a home, a catalyst, and a sanctuary tha...
10/22/2025

✨ The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is not simply a literary nonprofit. It is a home, a catalyst, and a sanctuary that has shaped the landscape of Asian American literature for more than thirty years. Amidst immense financial loss across the landscape of arts nonprofits, AAWW’s mission is more crucial than ever. We’re calling on our community to help sustain the essential work we do.

When you support the Workshop, you’re not just funding our programs—you are ensuring that our narratives and our communities continue to shape culture and reach the audiences who need them most. You are committing to a future where our stories are witnessed and celebrated, central and not sidelined. Your support keeps the door open for those who refuse to be erased. Help us keep the Workshop a powerful home for writers and readers—now, and for generations to come. ❤️‍🔥

Each generation of Asian American and diasporic writers has found a home here, and the future of that legacy depends on the ongoing commitment of our community. Help us keep our doors open for decades to come! 🚪🩷🏡 aaww.org/donate/

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