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.

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/

We’re so pleased to announce our 2026   nominees! Thank you so much for trusting us with your work and sharing your wond...
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/.

Read last week’s   poem, “Tall Tale: An Abecedarian from Father to Son” by Ira Sukrungruang, published in  . 🪷🍈🪺 Read mo...
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/.

Join us for our next installment of ALPHA BETA BLAH on Thursday, October 30, our ongoing open mic and mixer series hoste...
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/.

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

Today we’re sharing the first of two poems by Kimberly Alidio (), “Thumb over the halo-halo layers ghostly over the seat...
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/.

On October 16, we’re excited to be celebrating Kim Liao’s () debut memoir, WHERE EVERY GHOST HAS A NAME, which follows h...
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/.

Today we’re sharing the first of two poems by Michelle Peñaloza, “Upon Rereading Island of the Blue Dolphins,” from “Nos...
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/.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in September for our readings, writing workshops, and events both at our space on 21...
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/.❤️‍🔥

“I brushed my hand over each costume as I walked through, wondering who I would become.” Read flash fiction piece “Short...
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/

“I brushed my hand over each costume as I walked through, wondering who I would become.” Read flash fiction piece “Short...
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/

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