Asian American Writers' Workshop

10/15/2025

"Safety is a body with/ a place to hide in."

Read "Safety Pin" by Luisa A. Igloria, new in our column in . 🧷
https://aaww.org/safety-pin/

10/15/2025

We’re so pleased to announce our 2026 nominees! Thank you so much for trusting us with your work and sharing your wonderful pieces of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction with us. 💞 Good luck to those nominated! Read all these pieces and more at aaww.org/the-margins/.

10/14/2025

Read last week’s poem, “Tall Tale: An Abecedarian from Father to Son” by Ira Sukrungruang, published in . 🪷🍈🪺 Read more poetry at aaww.org/the-margins/.

10/09/2025

Join us for our next installment of ALPHA BETA BLAH on Thursday, October 30, our ongoing open mic and mixer series hosted by our 2025 Margins Fellows. 🧡🎃 The theme of this month’s reading is “to the death”—share your work with us at [email protected] by October 16 to be considered for the lineup! 👻🪦 Register at aaww.org/events/.

10/08/2025

"Imagine this man, invincible, in a land clear of light, where/ jasmine bloom like white stars in a sea of green"

Read the latest poem published in our column, "Tall Tale: An Abecedarian from Father to Son" by Ira Sukrungruang, in . 🌌🌿

Witness your father in this white world, withered, without will.

10/06/2025

Today we’re sharing the first of two poems by Kimberly Alidio (), “Thumb over the halo-halo layers ghostly over the seated pink mini,” published in her collection TEETER (Nightboat Books, 2023) and shared in in September 2023. 💗🌞 Read the second poem, “I will tell an old story of my name,” at aaww.org/two-poems-by-kimberly-alidio/.

10/03/2025

On October 16, we’re excited to be celebrating Kim Liao’s () debut memoir, WHERE EVERY GHOST HAS A NAME, which follows her time in Taiwan in 2010 tracing her grandfather’s role in the Taiwanese independence movement. Joined in conversation by writer Jimin Han () and anthropologist Anru Lee, don’t miss a conversation on writing creative nonfiction, excavating family history, and the movement for Taiwanese independence. ❤️‍🔥🇹🇼 Register at aaww.org/events/.

10/02/2025

Today we’re sharing the first of two poems by Michelle Peñaloza, “Upon Rereading Island of the Blue Dolphins,” from “Nostalgia is Your Sibling,” first published in in June 2016. 🐬 Catch Michelle and a lineup of other Filipino writers at a virtual reading next Wednesday, October 8! 🩵 Read the full piece at aaww.org/nostalgia-michelle-penaloza/, and register for the reading at aaww.org/events/.

09/30/2025

"I know something about the nation from the way/ it resembles a body that could split another body."

Read this week's piece, "With these crows for hands, I caress a flower" by Yunkyo Moon-Kim, in . 🐦‍⬛🌷

https://aaww.org/with-these-crows-for-hands-i-caress-a-flower/

09/30/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us in September for our readings, writing workshops, and events both at our space on 21st Street and at the ! 🧡🍂 Excited to see you in October! Full information about past & upcoming events at aaww.org/events/.❤️‍🔥

09/29/2025

“I brushed my hand over each costume as I walked through, wondering who I would become.” Read flash fiction piece “Short King,” by Seoung Kim, in . 👑🪶🪭 aaww.org/short-king/

09/29/2025

“I brushed my hand over each costume as I walked through, wondering who I would become.” Read flash fiction piece “Short King,” by Seoung Kim, in . 🎤🪭 aaww.org/short-king/