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.

Thank you so much for joining us for all of our exciting October events, including (in order as the photos appear), our ...
11/12/2025

Thank you so much for joining us for all of our exciting October events, including (in order as the photos appear), our “to the grave” themed ALPHA BETA BLAH open mic reading, our celebration of ’s WHERE EVERY GHOST HAS A NAME with Anru Lee, and our virtual reading OUR HISTORY BRINGS US HERE featuring Philippine poets , , .a.villanueva, and . 💞🔸Keep an eye out for more upcoming workshops and readings this winter season at aaww.org/event!

Read the start of “A Omegang Babayi,” or “The Omega Woman,” written by and translated from Bikol-Rinconada by Francisco ...
11/11/2025

Read the start of “A Omegang Babayi,” or “The Omega Woman,” written by and translated from Bikol-Rinconada by Francisco V. Peñones, Jr. 🌟 See it in full at aaww.org/tlp-osipon/!

The piece was published last week in ’ latest folio, OSIPON, guest edited by , featuring art by Rustom Pujado. It appears under our Transpacific Literary Project, edited by . ❤️‍🔥🇵🇭 aaww.org/tlp-osipon/

“in my girlhood, there was no love without sacrifice.”Read two new poems from Kimberly Nguyen in our   column, “dodging ...
11/11/2025

“in my girlhood, there was no love without sacrifice.”

Read two new poems from Kimberly Nguyen in our column, “dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive.” 💌💔

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“dodging the bullet” and “google search: do abusers know they are abusive”

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/!

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