AAWW participates in the Community Access Scholarship Program offered through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Each year, AAWW nominates one aspiring writer from a diverse background and/or culture to receive three complimentary creative writing or screenwriting workshops. This writer is able to choose any three courses at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program to be taken at any time during the UCLA 2010-2011 academic year (e.g. Fall Quarter 2010 to Summer Quarter 2011).
Application deadline is Friday, August 13, 2010, but sooner the better because applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The application process includes committee review of submitted materials as well as phone interview of all applicants. Email cover letter, cv / resume, digital headshot photo (high quality / resolution) and as many writing samples of any and all genres that you desire to scholarship@aaww.org The more writing samples you submit, the better. In the past, most applicants submitted at least three writing samples.
Open only to members of the AAWW who reside in the greater Los Angeles area, obviously who can attend the UCLA courses. AAWW membership status will be verified of all applicants. If you are unsure if you are an AAWW member, then most likely your membership has expired. Contact AAWW directly regarding membership.
Questions? Email us at scholarship@aaww.org
Hyphen and the Asian American Writers' Workshop are pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Asian American Short Story Contest: Sunil Yapa for "Pilgrims."
"Pilgrims" was chosen by judges Alexander Chee and Jaed Coffin as the winner of the 2010 Asian American Short Story Contest. Yapa will be awarded $1000 and "Pilgrims" will be published in the Fall Issue of Hyphen, to be on newsstands this September.
We would also like to congratulate the finalists, who will receive a one-year subscription to Hyphen and a one-year membership to AAWW:
- Viet Dinh for "Lucky Dragon"
- Soma Mei Sheng Frazier for "Antique"
- Marjan Kamali for "Tehran Party"
- Stellar Kim for "Dissolution"
- Tsering Lama for "The Greatest Tibetan Ever Born"
- Jenie Pak for "Something Out There"
- JK Shushtari for "The Sweet Dry Fruit of the Lotus Tree"
- Shilpi Suneja for "The Simpleton"
- Shruti Swamy for "Blindness"
We received a record-breaking number of submissions for the contest this year and would like to thank all entrants for allowing us to review their work. We wish them the best in their writing endeavors. Past winners of the Asian American Short Story Contest include Preeta Samarasa and Shivani Manghnani.
Thank you also to the judges, Alexander Chee, Whiting award-winning author of Edinburgh, and Jaed Coffin, author of A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants. A special thank you to reader Maria X. Isip-Bautista.
We also would like to give a special thanks to our media and community sponsors: Angry Asian Man, AsianWeek, Center for Asian American Media, Fiction Writers Review, Kearny Street Workshop and the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance.
The Asian American Writers' Workshop and Hyphen are proud to announce the winner of our 2008 Short Story Contest: Shivani Manghnani for "Playing the Sheik." Manghnani, of Brooklyn, NY, will receive $1000 and her story will be published in Issue 17 of Hyphen, which will hit newsstands in April.
The Workshop and Hyphen would like to recognize these finalists:
- Jessamyn Edra for "Blue Women"
- Vanessa Hua for "Harte Lake"
- Celeste Ng for "Girls, At Play"
- Genaro Ky Ly Smith for "Perfect in Parts"
- Bushra Rehman for "Bhangra Blowout"
- Kevin T.S. Tang for "Columnus"
- Ky-Phong Tran for the stories: "I Will Love You More Than I Can" and "A Thing Called Exodus"
- Joy Wood for "The Man in the Elevator"
Contest entries were reviewed blind with the names of the entrants removed. The Workshop and Hyphen would like to thank all entrants for submitting their work and encourage them in their writing endeavors.
Special thanks to Short Story Contest judges Monica Ferrell, the author of the novel The Answer is Always Yes and the poetry collection Beasts for the Chase, and Preeta Samarasan, the author of the novel Evening is the Whole Day. We encourage you to check out their work!
Win a Vespa! And Support the AAWW!
The Asian American Writers Workshop is "molto felice" to introduce its Spring Raffle for a brand-new Vespa LX50. For more information, click here.
Hyphen & The Asian American Writers' Workshop announce:
2008 Short Story Competition
Sorry, the deadline for submission has passed! Thanks for entering. And if you didn't get a chance to send us your work, we hope to see you next year! The second round of judging begins in December, with the winner published in the Spring 2009 issue of Hyphen.
$1,000 prize and publication in Hyphen magazine
Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2008 Short Story Competition jointly sponsored by Hyphen and The Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW). The winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, publication in Hyphen magazine, a one-year subscription to Hyphen and a one-year membership to AAWW. Ten finalists shall also receive a one-year membership to AAWW and a one-year subscription to Hyphen.
The competition is open to all writers of Asian descent living in the United States and Canada. To be eligible, manuscripts must be previously unpublished and in English. No email submissions allowed. Only authors who have not published a book-length prose fiction manuscript are eligible. The competition is limited to short works of fiction, including short stories, novellas and excerpts from novels; the latter must stand alone as a separate work. There is no required theme or page limit.
Submissions must be postmarked by Monday, September 29, 2008 and accompanied by a $10 entry fee per story. Please send four copies of your story using paper clips. Manuscripts will not be returned and will be acknowledged only if a SASE is provided. Include a cover letter with name, address, email, daytime telephone number and a 3-sentence bio. The story title and page number should be clearly labeled on each page of the submission. Your name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript, except on the cover letter. Manuscripts should be typewritten and double-spaced on 8 ½ X 11 plain white paper. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Manuscripts may be under consideration elsewhere, but please notify us immediately if your story is accepted for publication. Hyphen retains first publication rights and the right to publish a portion of the story on its website. All rights revert to the author upon publication.
To enter the short story competition, please send submission to:
The Asian American Writers' Workshop
2008 Short Story Competition
16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
New York, NY 10001-3808
Make checks payable to "The Asian American Writers' Workshop."
The winner of the 2007 Short Story Competition was Preeta Samarasan (for her story "Our House Stands in a City of Flowers"), whose novel Evening is the Whole Day was published by Houghton Mifflin this year.
Meet Ken Chen!
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan recently visited The Asian American Writers' Workshop to interview its new Executive Director - Ken Chen.
Click here to read the interview!
Listen to the Txt Me summer 2006 youth program podcasts!
Txt Me: Identity and Community was a youth summer program that provided a forum for writing through new means of communication. Inspired by
discussions about internet identity and increasing blog sites, The Asian American Writers' Workshop brought together ten young writers from diverse
backgrounds and experience with web-based literature. Click here!
Four interviews with Asian American authors!
Peter Ho Davies
Min Jin Lee
Bich Minh Nguyen
Mosin Hamid
Congratulations Jay Goyal!
Click here to read the conversation between Workshop staff member Anjali Goyal and her brother Jay Goyal, newly elected State
Representative from the 73rd District to Ohio House of Representatives.
Maxine Hong Kingston on WBAI's Asia Pacific Forum
Click here to listen to "The Woman Warrior, 30 Years Later:
A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston and the Asian American Writers' Workshop," featured on the Asia Pacific Forum, with guests Maxine Hong Kingston
and Harold Augenbraum.
Perhaps no book has had greater significance within Asian American literature than Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. Since
its publication in 1976, the book has been widely read, taught, and analyzed, and has changed the fields of literature and autobiography. At one time,
it was said to be the most frequently assigned book on college campuses. Now thirty years later, we will speak with the author about The Woman
Warrior's impact and legacy, and about her hopes for the book's next thirty years.
Short Story Contest
Congratulations to the winner of the Short Story Contest, cosponsored by Hyphen magazine and the Workshop:
Preeta Samarasan for "Our House Stands in a City of Flowers"
This winning short story will be published in Hyphen Magazine. For more information or to subscribe to Hyphen, click here.
Thank you to judges Brian Leung and Monique Truong
Fall 2006 with the Workshop and Asianweek...
Tommy Nguyen / The Kimono Quandary:
The Problems with Asian Fetishism
Annapurna Potluri / Adolescence and Rebellion
Stephen Kang / Queer Koreans
Elise Shin / Marketing Stereotypes
