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.

Become a Founding Reader of the AAWW Library and help our public, circulating library dedicated to AAPI diasporic litera...
05/08/2026

Become a Founding Reader of the AAWW Library and help our public, circulating library dedicated to AAPI diasporic literature come to life! 📚🌟 Donations of any amount will help get this project off the ground, but contributions at the above tiers come with your name being permanently inscribed in our library shelves! 🤩 Learn more and join us in our mission: aaww.org/founding-readers/

Read the first of two poems by Susan Nguyen (), published in ’ Imagined Histories folio edited by Kiran Bath () and Meg...
05/04/2026

Read the first of two poems by Susan Nguyen (), published in ’ Imagined Histories folio edited by Kiran Bath () and Megan Pinto (), with art by Devyn Mañibo! 🏡🌬️ Read both poems at aaww.org/imagined-histories/.

Did you know that AAWW holds one of the largest collections of Asian American literature in the country? This collection...
05/01/2026

Did you know that AAWW holds one of the largest collections of Asian American literature in the country? This collection has been living in our archives—until now. This summer, we’re opening the doors to our public, circulating library. 📚

We need your help to turn this dream into a reality! Become a Founding Reader of the AAWW Library—sponsor a shelf, and your name will be inscribed in this permanent, living home for AAPI diasporic literature. ❤️‍🔥 aaww.org/founding-readers/

Today we’re sharing Catherine Chen’s () poem, “A Translation (1975),” published in ’ Imagined Histories folio guest edi...
04/29/2026

Today we’re sharing Catherine Chen’s () poem, “A Translation (1975),” published in ’ Imagined Histories folio guest edited by Kiran Bath and Megan Pinto, with art by Devyn Mañibo. 🍳💍 Find it at aaww.org/a-translation-1975/.

04/24/2026

The final episode of The Source is out, featuring the incandescent .n.alyan in conversation with Ashna () and Divya () about how her background as a clinical therapist lends itself to poetic work. Read the transcript in at aaww.org/the-margins/, and find the full episode on Spotify. 🦋❤️‍🔥

“Nothing arboreal is alien to me.” 🌳 In the spirit of , we’re sharing three fitting poems by Suvendrini Lena (), publis...
04/23/2026

“Nothing arboreal is alien to me.” 🌳 In the spirit of , we’re sharing three fitting poems by Suvendrini Lena (), published in our Imagined Histories folio guest edited by Kiran Bath () and Megan Pinto (), with art by Devyn Mañibo. 🌸 Swipe to read “Prologue: The Cherry Blossom” and “Lucid Tree I,” and see the full piece in at aaww.org/imagined-histories/.

On Tuesday, May 5, we’re thrilled to be celebrating Hafeez Lakhani’s () debut, ABUNDANCE, a novel that grapples with fam...
04/21/2026

On Tuesday, May 5, we’re thrilled to be celebrating Hafeez Lakhani’s () debut, ABUNDANCE, a novel that grapples with families and their repair, health crises, and survival and sacrifice. Hafeez will be joined by Victor Suthammanont (), author of HOLLOW SPACES. 🍰❤️‍🩹 RSVP at aaww.org/events/!

Today we’re sharing Nyingv Jae Saechao’s (.jae) hybrid piece, “Five Decades Dreaming in Diaspora.” The collages feature ...
04/20/2026

Today we’re sharing Nyingv Jae Saechao’s (.jae) hybrid piece, “Five Decades Dreaming in Diaspora.” The collages feature found haikus, comprised of language from National Geographic issues on Laos. Nyingv writes in their author’s note: “I reclaim narrative as a child of diaspora grappling with home, land, and ancestry inevitably shaped by U.S. imperialism. Each collage honors one decade, marking fifty years since the ‘end’ of the wars in Southeast Asia.” ❤️‍🔥🦋 See the full piece at aaww.org/imagined-histories/.

Imagined Histories was guest edited by Kiran Bath () and Megan Pinto (), with art by Devyn Mañibo, and was published in in February 2026. 🌟

Today we’re sharing the beginning of “Passing through Rotterdam on a Night Train,” a poem by Ni Made Purnama Sari (), tr...
04/14/2026

Today we’re sharing the beginning of “Passing through Rotterdam on a Night Train,” a poem by Ni Made Purnama Sari (), translated from Indonesian by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (), and published this winter in our Imagined Histories folio. 🌌🚞 Read it in at aaww.org/imagined-histories/ ❤️‍🔥

Imagined Histories features guest editors Meg Pinto () and Kiran Bath, and art by Devyn Mañibo.

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