Asian American Writers Workshop | 2019 AAWW Margins Fellows & Mentors Reading! @AAWWNYC | Uploaded December 2019 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Come celebrate the 2019 Margins cohort with our fellows—Amanda Ajamfar, Sabrina Imbler, Yuxi Lin and Abigail Savitch-Lew—and their mentors, novelist Zaina Arafat, the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn Tina Chang, National Book Award finalist Lisa Ko, and New York Times bestselling science writer Ed Yong. We’ll have cake, drinks, and will be selling copies of a limited-edition chapbook featuring selections of each fellow’s writing and the art of Kaitlin Chan.
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Margins Fellowship was first established in 2014, as part of AAWW’s 25 year tradition of incubating emerging writers of color. A hub for the next generation of Asian American literature, the Margins Fellowship materially improves the lives of emerging writers of color through an innovative mix of re-granting, publication, and career development. Four writers are annually supported through the year-long fellowship which provides them with financial support, publication opportunities, work space, mentorship, and a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts.
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AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans–in other words, we’re the preeminent organization dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told.
We’re building the Asian literary culture of tomorrow through our curatorial platform, which includes our New York events series and our online editorial initiatives. In a time when China and India are on the rise, when immigration is a vital electoral issue, when the detention of Muslim Americans is a matter of common practice, we believe Asian American literature is vital to interpret our post-multicultural but not post-racial age. Our curatorial take is intellectual and alternative, pop cultural and highbrow, warm and artistically innovative, and vested in New York City communities.
Our curatorial platform is premised on the idea of a big-tent Asian American cultural pluralism. We’re interested in both the New York publishing industry and ethnic studies, the South Asian diasporic novel and the Asian American story of assimilation, high culture and pop culture, Lisa Lowe and Amar Chitra Katha, avant-garde poetry and spoken word, journalism and critical race theory, Midnight’s Children and Dictee. We are against both an exclusive literary culture that believes that race does not exist and Asian American narratives that lead to self-stereotyping and limit the menu of our identity. We are for inventing the future of Asian American literary culture. Named one of the top five Asian American groups nationally, covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Poets & Writers, we are a safe community space and an anti-racist counterculture, incubating new ideas and interpretations of what it means to be both an American and a global citizen.
Come celebrate the 2019 Margins cohort with our fellows—Amanda Ajamfar, Sabrina Imbler, Yuxi Lin and Abigail Savitch-Lew—and their mentors, novelist Zaina Arafat, the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn Tina Chang, National Book Award finalist Lisa Ko, and New York Times bestselling science writer Ed Yong. We’ll have cake, drinks, and will be selling copies of a limited-edition chapbook featuring selections of each fellow’s writing and the art of Kaitlin Chan.
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Margins Fellowship was first established in 2014, as part of AAWW’s 25 year tradition of incubating emerging writers of color. A hub for the next generation of Asian American literature, the Margins Fellowship materially improves the lives of emerging writers of color through an innovative mix of re-granting, publication, and career development. Four writers are annually supported through the year-long fellowship which provides them with financial support, publication opportunities, work space, mentorship, and a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts.
aaww.org
facebook.com/AsianAmericanWritersWorkshop
twitter.com/aaww
AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans–in other words, we’re the preeminent organization dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told.
We’re building the Asian literary culture of tomorrow through our curatorial platform, which includes our New York events series and our online editorial initiatives. In a time when China and India are on the rise, when immigration is a vital electoral issue, when the detention of Muslim Americans is a matter of common practice, we believe Asian American literature is vital to interpret our post-multicultural but not post-racial age. Our curatorial take is intellectual and alternative, pop cultural and highbrow, warm and artistically innovative, and vested in New York City communities.
Our curatorial platform is premised on the idea of a big-tent Asian American cultural pluralism. We’re interested in both the New York publishing industry and ethnic studies, the South Asian diasporic novel and the Asian American story of assimilation, high culture and pop culture, Lisa Lowe and Amar Chitra Katha, avant-garde poetry and spoken word, journalism and critical race theory, Midnight’s Children and Dictee. We are against both an exclusive literary culture that believes that race does not exist and Asian American narratives that lead to self-stereotyping and limit the menu of our identity. We are for inventing the future of Asian American literary culture. Named one of the top five Asian American groups nationally, covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Poets & Writers, we are a safe community space and an anti-racist counterculture, incubating new ideas and interpretations of what it means to be both an American and a global citizen.
