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Celebrating over 30 years of amplifying Asian American & Asian diasporic literature to mobilize for a more just future → Subscribe → https://t.co/3swae68H0e
Joined April 2009
"Time progresses, but it has also been stalled for months. Whoever thinks of home is reimagining it.". Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera writing during the thick of Hong Kong protests this past fall, marks a contemporary fixation on time. @hongkongpen.
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Happy birthday to Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X! 🎉 Today, we remember this pair of close friends’ contributions toward Black & Asian solidarity and liberation. Here is a mini thread of articles from The Margins on these two legendary organizers––tellers for our ongoing struggle:.
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During a time marked by grief, anger, and loss, we're holding space for our words and stories. Join us for a marathon reading featuring a powerhouse collective of female Asian American artists. RSVP HERE:
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We condemn the endless lies that @SmithsonianAPA has fed the press and public. This has never been a conversation. This has never been about postponement. This has never been about lack of preparation. This is not an inconvenience, this is violence.
On July 5th, we made the difficult decision to postpone the Asian American Literature Festival. We recognize the inconvenience, frustration, and disappointment this caused participants and the literary community.
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Our hearts are broken at the news of last night’s murder of eight innocent victims in Atlanta, GA. Read our full statement here:
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As we move through collective grief and its resulting outpour of community momentum and action, we've rounded up some much needed resources, events, and calls for artists, writers, readers, and more. 🧵.
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Today, we remember those who peacefully protested at Tiananmen but were met with violence repression. We stand in solidarity with continued struggles for democracy. This thread revisits pieces from The Margins that respond to June 4th, 1989 and its sustained relevance. #六四.
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Next Wed (1/13), join us as we celebrate #KoreanAmericanDay with @Minarimovie, starring @SteveYeun, Yeri Han, + Yuh-Jung Youn, followed by a Q&A with writer/director Lee Isaac Chung + @minjinlee11! Tickets are free + limited. RSVP here:
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As many of our community members know, the 2023 Asian American Literary Festival (#AALF23) to take place August 4-6 has been canceled. AAWW, alongside hundreds of festival organizers and partners have spent countless hours on programming and are turning to you for support! 🧵⬇️.
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We're thrilled to launch Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities—a project from @blkwomenradical and @aafcollective published on The Margins that will look to feminist histories of care, community, and survival as part of an ongoing commitment to solidarity
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🚨 WE'RE HIRING! AAWW is currently seeking a Managing Editor. Details and application instructions are available here:
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🎉ANNOUNCING AAWW RECESS🎉—a brand-new series of programming dedicated to exploring and uplifting Asian/Asian American Diasporic work in genres including (but not limited to) young adult, graphic novels, middle grade, children's, romance, and sci-fi. (1/4)
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We are now accepting applications for the 2021 Margins Fellowship! And we're excited to announce that starting this coming year emerging Asian diasporic writers based in NYC of ALL ages are eligible to apply. Read more on our fellowship page. Deadline 9/7
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We're launching a new series called Syllabus! . Read the first by Tyrell Haberkorn (@turtelista) “Democracy Dreams: A Pedagogy of Struggle in Thailand” to find out #WhatsHappeninginThailand and dig deeper.
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🌟🌟🌟Applications for the 2020 Margins Fellowship for emerging writers of color are open now! 🌟🌟🌟. The year-long fellowship includes $5,000, mentorship, publishing opportunities, @MillayCol writing residency & more. @WritersofColor @PocPub
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Today, August 14, marks the International Memorial Day for "Comfort Women," during which we honor and remember the thousands of women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII, and continue to call for justice for today's survivors.❤️🩹.
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Something to look forward to! We're partnering with @LincolnCenter for a 🔥 conversation featuring poets Yanyi, Solmaz Sharif, and Ocean Vuong on Wednesday, May 4th at 7:30pm ET! This event will be IN PERSON; seating and entry are first-come, first-served
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We're going live in 10 minutes with @tamaranopper for a lecture on "Anti-Asian Violence and Black-Asian Solidarity Today" . Join us online here:
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Jaimee A. Swift examines her personal archives of Black and Asian American lesbian newsletters & the long legacies of intraracial and cross-racial organizing. The latest in Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities from @blkwomenradical + @aafcollective .
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WE'RE HIRING! . AAWW is currently seeking a Programs Coordinator: details and information on how to apply at the link below.
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As the year comes to a close, we want to share our Bookify Wrapped—books that we were thankful to read from 2022!. Kicking off our thread is Vandana with "All This Could Be Different" by Sarah Thankam Mathews and "Disorientation" by @elainehsiehchou 📚🍡
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We're looking for a Digital Communications Manager and a Programs Manager! Apply today to work at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
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"Until I was ten, I believed what my grandmother told me: that bone grows into the body like a tree." . The latest essay in our special FRUIT issue: @k_mingchang writes on fruit as broken lineage and rebirth .
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Hoàng Vu Tran, an incarcerated writer published on The Margins, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. @ThaoHaPhD is fundraising to request medical furlough, so Vu does not undergo treatment while in prison, where he is at risk of Covid-19. Donate here:
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"The many births you have passed through, try to remember them as I do mine. Memory is all you have.". Rest in peace, Meena Alexander (1951 - 2018).
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"Really interesting art and writing can happen when there are no gatekeepers.". We spoke with nine artists and collectives on zine fests, artistic influences, and the growing world of queer Asian zine makers ✨.
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“Sex worker activism is always based in anti-police, anti-prison activism.”. New in the Black Asian Feminist Solidarities project, a conversation with @sxnoir and @katezenlove . @blkwomenradical @aafcollective.
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"I ask my mom, Why care so much for someone who hasn't done the same for you?". In a new essay in A World Without Cages, artist and anti-deportation organizer @tranchauha connects questions of care and forgiveness to the work of abolition.
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Learn about the history of enforced disappearances in Kashmir and the poetry of resistance as India's brutal lockdown of Kashmir continues. An all-new episode of our podcast, AAWW Radio #StandWithKashmir @standwkashmir
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Applications for our 2022 Fellowship Programs are NOW OPEN! Join a long and vibrant history of Asian American writers finding a home for and in their practice. Submit materials by October 18 and view more information at
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Submissions are open for the 2021 Margins Fellowship for emerging Asian diasporic writers in NYC! . Apply by 9/7 for:. —$5,000.—Mentorship.—Residency at @MillayCol .—Publication opportunities .—Workshops + talks with editors, writers, and agents. more.
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Today we're announcing our Spring 2021 events, and hope you'll join us online this season! We're celebrating new works by #KazuoIshiguro, @Jbrekkie, & @nikeshshukla & looking forward to conversations w @mirajacob, @charles_yu, and many more! RSVP at
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We're so thrilled to share with you our newest cohort of Margins Fellows, @bretyamanaka, @prepartynap, @Nuri_ibrahim, and @rajatdayalsingh! Stay tuned for more from this incredible group of writers, thinkers, and makers!
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“How do we tell our stories and not anger our parents? How do we respect our community and still depict our vision? If the truth in art is against Vietnamese racists, then you have to speak that truth. It is our job to tell those stories.” - @viet_t_nguyen #DVAN.
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Submissions are now open for two new special issues of The Margins! 💥. MAGIC, a folio on survival, transformation, and the unfathomable, curated by @mprtrzng . LAND, a folio on indigeneity, ownership, and identity, curated by @josephvlee .
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The Margins is looking for submissions and pitches for essays on new books and writing craft, interviews, and features of writers!. This is a paid opportunity. Send us your work 💥.
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We're thrilled to announce our 2021 Margins and Open City Fellows! Big congratulations to @AnneBranigin,.@ggjawhari, Madeleine Mori, @saharromani, Aaisha Bhuiyan, Ayesha Islam, Lylla Younes, Jessica Joyce Jacolbe, Teresa Mathew! Read about them here
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Thanks to @blkwomenradical & @aafcollective for this important reading list on Black and Asian American feminist solidarities, w/ readings on racial disparities in public health, anti-Blackness in Asian American communities, historical solidarities & more.
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We're thrilled to announce our team of Transpacific Literary Project advisors! They will be reading and recommending LULLABIES submissions in Burmese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Khmer, Thai, Chinese, Malay, and Indonesian. Say hello! And submit by Dec. 1 at .
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AAWW's Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, founded by @blkwomenradical & @aafcollective, is closing submissions on October 15!✊🏽.Find guidelines, info & submit:
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🎉 We're excited to announce our 2020 Margins Fellows: Joseph Lee, Emily Lee Luan, Sarah Thankam Mathews, and Emperatriz Ung! 🎉.
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We're thrilled to announce AAWW's New Executive Director! -
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"When the reporter asks you why there are so many Filipino nurses in the U.S., you realize that your research is caught in a moment of intense hypervisibility and invisibility.". Historian @CCenizaChoy opens our NURSE notebook with new creative nonfiction.
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It's that time again! Apply for the 2024 Margins & Open City Fellowships by Friday, September 29! 🤓✍️Learn more about each fellowship and meet our alums at
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"The racialized feminine Asian body is both a spectacle and an absence, coveted and reviled at the same time. Asian women’s bodies have always existed at the intersection of attraction and revulsion.". —@sallywenmao in convo w/ @jennymxie . @GraywolfPress.
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We're live now with @tamaranopper for a lecture on "Anti-Asian Violence and Black-Asian Solidarity Today"!. Join the conversation here:
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Join us on March 23rd, 6-8 PM ET, for a free lecture led by @tamaranopper on anti-Asian violence and Black-Asian solidarity. RSVP at to receive a link to the webinar shortly before the event. Live captions provided.
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We are over the moon with the news that AAWW's The Margins has been awarded a @WhitingFdn Literary Magazine Prize!
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Did you miss last night's WOMEN WARRIORS reading? Watch (or rewatch!) the full event on our YouTube channel! ���💛.
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January brings queer Palestinian poetry, assassins of Seoul crime fiction, a history of post-1949 Chinese exile, fantastical Afghani-American fables, and the poetics of Filipino American food.
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TOMORROW at 2pm ET, our next ep of SHOES OFF! An Asian (Twitter) Space will feature: @AnnieAHwang, literary agent at @agent_ayesha! She and @vandanaiscool will be discussing coalition building through championing underrepresented voices in literature 📚
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The incredible folks at @haymarketbooks are offering Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine on their website! Download them all! 🫶
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🎊 We're thrilled to announce our newest class of Open City fellows! 🎊 6 writers will begin a 6-month fellowship writing about NYC’s Muslim American and Asian American communities.
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In a new interview, Akemi Kochiyama reflects on her grandmother Yuri Kochiyama's legacy and her anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and internationalist politics. The latest installment in Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities @blkwomenradical @aafcollective
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This week, we begin publishing a notebook of experimental and experiential Vietnamese poetry on The Margins as part of the Transpacific Literary Project. Read this essay by Nhã Thuyên, which opens the collection.
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“As a writer, as someone who reveals their innermost selves linguistically, it’s lonely not to speak the same language as your parents.”. @choitotheworld spoke with @EmoOcean for The Margins
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Highlights from our celebration for K-Ming Chang’s debut novel BESTIARY 🐅 ! In this conversation, @k_mingchang + @fannychoir discuss family + queer girlhood, monstrousness + memory. #MicDropMoments. WATCH @OneWorldLit @LambdaLiterary @kundimanforever
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Safe Asian Americans—On the carceral logic of the model minority myth. A new essay by @tamaranopper on The Margins.
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Today, we join @mujerxsrising and 75 other organizations in taking a stand with India's farmers - and against the police brutality, arrests and detentions, and other human rights violations they have faced. #FarmersProtest
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Black Lives Matter. How did translators of the Letters for Black Lives project carry this brief and impactful statement across language? Read from translators of the Lao, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Bengali, and Hindi letters on The Margins today.
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Applications for the 2019 Margins Fellowship for emerging Asian American creative writers are NOW OPEN! Apply by Sep. 12 for $5,000, mentorship, a month long writing residency, publishing opportunities & more ✍️
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🔥JUST ANNOUNCED! 🔥. Writer and comedian @karencheee will join @cpamzhang in conversation this April 6 to celebrate the paperback launch of her Booker Prize longlisted debut, HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD. RSVP for their event here:
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📢 DEADLINE EXTENSION 📢 Calling all queer south asian writers, artists, makers, and beyond! You now have until February 15 to submit to Mehfil, edited by 2022 Margins Fellow @rajatdayalsingh! 💃🏽
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Calling all Asian American fiction writers! Got some new work to share? Old work that you'd like to revive? #TheMargins is accepting #FlashFiction submissions through November 15! Send your short stories, excerpts, works in progress, and tableaus to
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We're overjoyed to be reopening submissions for poetry on #TheMargins! Share your work with our incredible editors @EmilyYoon and @SkunkBabePoet through June 5!! 🤩❤️🔥 . ~~ ~~
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Learn about the roots and foundations of feminist-of-color-led reproductive justice movement with this new syllabus from @saloneee of @aafcollective as part of our Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities series! Now up on #TheMargins!
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To commemorate the late poet Meena Alexander (1951-2018), we're sharing our 2019 essays in tribute and celebrating the new edition of her memoir FAULT LINES (@FeministPress).
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New in November & December books by Asian writers: the art of queer diaspora, surreal stories of contemporary China, journeys into the hazy history of the Philippine-American War, and the story of the subcontinent through bodies of water.
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When 20,000 Asian Americans Demanded Garment Workers' Rights—And Won
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Congrats to Jenny Zhang for winning the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction for SOUR HEART at the @PENamerican awards last night!! 💜 You can read an interview with her on The Margins
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🚨 We're going live in 15 minutes! . Join us for a powerhouse reading featuring over 40 Asian women writers and poets. We gather tonight to grieve, heal, and acknowledge each other. WATCH HERE:
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#PoetryTuesday. I wish I was only as cruel as.the first time I noticed.I was cruel, waving my tiny.shadow over a pond to scare.the copper minnows. — "Forfeiting My Mystique" by @KavehAkbar.
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"If the world were to end now, it would begin again in the way you write toward a possible future.". This month in Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities, we remember writer & public school teacher Kimarlee Nguyen (1986-2020) @aafcollective @blkwomenradical.
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Two poems from Palestinian American poet George Abraham @IntifadaBatata that reflect on the idea of unfreedom and the continuous and connected struggles for freedom globally.
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New in A World Without Cages — a two-part series on South Asians for Abolition . @cemicool on areas of critical solidarity with Black and Dalit liberation struggles: and a convo/ with @sharminultra on South Asian abolitionists:
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Help us spread the word! Call for pitches on DIVERSITY WORK for the June installment of Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities, a collab with @aafcollective + @blkwomenradical on The Margins. Click in for details.
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We are proud to join these orgs & co-sign an open letter condemning @JoeBiden's decision to hire Amit Jani, an avid supporter of the Modi regime, as his AAPI and Muslim Outreach Coordinator #RejectAmitJani.
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This #PoetryTuesday we're partnering with @TheAALR and @SmithsonianAPA to share ten poems from BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2020, edited by @PaisleyRekdal. From 10 AM until 7 PM, we'll be sharing a poem every hour. Stay tuned & follow this thread!
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"Korea is gravel and graves. Girl is girl and she will never be a grandmother. She will be girl, girl, girl is gravel and history will skip her like stone over water. Oh girl, oh glory.". —@EmilyYoon, "An Ordinary Misfortune".
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Last week on #TheMargins, we shared sixteen poems by Palestinian writers that speak to love in its many forms. ❤️🔥. They were originally published in We Call to the Eye & the Night (@PerseaBooks), edited by Hala Alyan and @zeinabeck.🍉.
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🌟 Submissions are open for Flash Fiction at The Margins! 🌟. We'll be publishing work between 500 and 1,000 words by emerging and established Asian American and Asian diasporic writers fortnightly on Fridays.
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This is a poem about a fire that should have happened. Read today's #PoetryTuesday, "I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor" by @seoyoung_chu, on #TheMargins! ❤️🔥.
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One thing I really want this book to do is to open the door for more adoptee stories. The narrative around adoption has been shaped by people who are not us.
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We're super thrilled to welcome Vandana Pawa (@vandanaiscool), our new Programs Coordinator, to the AAWW team today! Please give her a warm welcome 🥳🥳🥳.
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Mark your calendars, NYC friends! Yu and Me Books, the first woman and Asian-American owned, NYC-based bookstore is opening on December 11th! . Be sure to swing by 44 Mulberry St to give them some love in December! 📖
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Congrats and good luck to our 2020 Pushcart Nominees! Read their work at The Margins,
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August 14 is the International Memorial Day for "Comfort Women." Read Jerrine Tan's essay on feminist refusal in Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life and the quiet resistance of comfort women statues.
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"Sex worker organizing has ripple effects across the Global South—workers universally want to be liberated, safe, and in community.". Read more by @tiffanydian for Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities on #TheMargins!
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As an organization dedicated to the empowerment and amplification of marginalized voices, the Asian American Writers' Workshop recognizes that silence is not an option. READ MORE:
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"My encounter with Kim Hyesoon’s poetry was not a chance encounter; it was already in the works on a collective level.". In 2015 @EmilyYoon spoke with @DonMeeChoi on translating Kim Hyesoon's poetry, newly longlisted for a 2019 @PENamerican award
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All this talk about silence obscures the fact that many former “comfort women” were and have been vocal. Insisting that these women continue to need to be given a voice is to render what they have said unheard, robbing them of their voice a second time.
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Next Wednesday! We host LOSING FAITH, a reading and convo with Alexander Chee and R.O. Kwon about her glimmering, disturbing, haunting debut novel The Incendiaries. RSVP for 8/8 here:
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"For me there is something inherently powerful in adoptees speaking up and telling our own stories. And I will always believe that to be true.". —@nicole_soojung in conversation with @mkimarnold .
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"Translating contested narratives requires a certain amount of vigilance, in order not to thoughtlessly adopt the lexicon defined by the dominant powers.". Read @JeremyTiang's personal essay on translation in our new notebook, "The Rainforest Speaks"! ✒️.
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We have recently learned that Penguin Classics is not paying royalties to the family of John Okada. We've updated our excerpt from his novel No-No Boy, and will be publishing essays about Okada's legacy in the near future.
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