Hyphen & The Asian American Writers’ Workshop announce:

2008 Short Story Competition

$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 To be eligible, manuscripts must be previously unpublished and in English.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