All of our writing workshops are open to writers of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels. (Unless otherwise noted, e.g. youth programming is only open to high school aged students.)

Saturdays, June 21-28, July 12-26, Aug 2-9, 12 - 2pm (6 sessions)
Summer Fiction Workshop with Ed Lin

A writing workshop for people who want to learn how to tell the truth by lying well. Check back shortly for further information.

Ed Lin is the author of the novel Waylaid (Kaya Press, 2002) and This Is A Bust (Kaya, 2007).

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Cost is $175/$150 for members

Tuesdays, July 8 - 29, 7 to 9pm
Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Creative Non-Fiction with Bushra Rehman

A workshop on writing drawn from real life, but employing the techniques of poetry and fiction. Check back shortly for further information.

Bushra Rehman is the author of a collection of poetry, Marianna's Beauty Salon (Colorlines Magazine, 2006), and one of the editors of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). Bushra has been featured in NY Newsday and her work has appeared in Colorlines, Curve, SAMAR, Bottomfish, and is forthcoming in Writing the Lines of Our Hands: An Anthology of South Asian-American Poetry. She performs her work around the country.

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16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)

Cost is $175/$150 for members

Tuesdays, August 5-26, 7 to 8:30pm
Summer Poetry Workshop with Lisa Chen

A four-week workshop for poets, budding and experienced alike. Check back shortly for further information.

Lisa Chen is the author of Mouth (Kaya Press, 2007). Her work has been published in Hanging Loose, ZZYZVA, Prairie Schooner, and Threepenny Review.

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16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)

Cost is $175/$150 for members

Date, Time TBA
Daddy Project monologues with Dawn Akemi Saito

A monologue workshop where scripts will be reviewed for presentation in the fall. More details TBA shortly.

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16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)

Saturday, March 8, 2-6pm
Spring Poetry Workshop with Aimee Nezhukumatahil

PROSE POETRY: TENDING THE GARDEN --In this workshop, we will explore ways to bring the outside world into a miniature "garden" form that the reader (and writer) can savor again and again. To what extent can such writing play a role in bringing about a more balanced sense of shared humanity? Whether you have traveled to Antarctica or have never stepped foot outside of New York City, this class will help you realize a landscape's potential for crafting poetry that leaps and sizzles off the page. Instead of traditional travel narratives or journaling, we will investigate examples and exercises from the little-used Japanese form, the haibun, and a variety of other formats.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the poetry collections At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo Press, 2007) and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo Press, 2003), winner of the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year and the Global Filipino Literary Award. Recent poems appear in Tin House, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner. She is associate professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia where she was awarded the Chancellor's Award and the Hagan Scholar Prize.

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$75 General, $60 for Members

Saturdays, March 15 - April 19, 2-6pm
Spring Youth Writing Workshop: UnFairy Tales: The Myths in Myths

In your version of Cinderella, is Cinderella more Jenny from the Block than forlorn maiden servant? Or how about the Frog Prince, is he really just your gamer best friend who can't seem to hit off with any of the girls he meets? In UnFairy Tales: The Myths in Myths you will write down such alternatives to traditional notions of fairy tales and myths and explore why there is a need for revision.

Narratives about heroes and role models influence how we view the world. Fairy tales and cultural mythologies from Cinderella to Tiger Girl and Chinese Dragon to figures from Greek mythologies and the Old Testament all shape how we come into our identities and understand ourselves in relation to others. In turn, we unwittingly look for and expect similar behaviors and attitudes, sometimes reinforcing narrow and often stereotypical roles - Damsel in Distress, Prince Charming.

UnFairy Tales will meet for six sessions from March to April. Our goal is to explore together how these stories have scripted the role of gender and shaped sexuality and ethnicity in contemporary life and to think critically about these issues in our personal and educational lives, through readings, discussions, and field trips. We will generate creative work as a result of this exploration, culminating in a final live performance/reading.

UnFairy Tales is open to male and female youth grades 9-12, of all racial backgrounds. All participants are expected to commit to a six-session program and complete all assignments. Upon successful completion of the program, a $50 stipend will be awarded. Space will fill up quickly, so applicants are advised to return their complete applications as soon as possible; early applicants will be given first consideration. This youth program is FREE.

UnFairy Tales takes place at The Asian American Writers' Workshop on West 32nd Street in Manhattan, between 5th Avenue and Broadway, one block from the Empire State Building. Founded in 1991, The Asian American Writers Workshop is the country's largest literary arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation, development, publication, and dissemination of Asian American literature.

The project is directed by Nina Sharma.
Nina Sharma is a writer living in New York City. She is in the Liberal Studies, American Studies Graduate Program at Columbia University, where she is specializing in diaspora and immigrant studies.

This youth program is funded by The Asian Women Giving Circle, The Ong Family Foundation and the Union Square Awards.

Please mail, fax, or e-mail application by Tuesday, March 1, 2008. Applications must be received by this date.

Mail to: UnFairy Tales
The Asian American Writer’s Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
New York, NY 10001-3808

Fax to: 212.494.0062

E-mail to: to desk@aaww.org (Please include UnFairy Tales in the subject line)

Download an application (MS Word format)

Saturdays, May 10 & 17, 10am - 1pm
Young Adult writing with Marina Budhos

This is an intensive 2-part workshop for writing young adult fiction. Participants will do in-class exercises, generate ideas, and workshop written pieces. We'll talk about the differences and overlaps with writing fiction for adults and discuss some of the exciting young adult literature that is being published today.

Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction. She has published the novels, Ask Me No Questions (Simon & Schuster, 2006), The Professor of Light (Putnam, 1999), House of Waiting (Global City Press, 1995) and a nonfiction book, Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers (Henry Holt, 1999). Her short stories, articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in publications such as The Kenyon Review, The Nation, Ms., Travel & Leisure, Time Out, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. She has received an emma (Exceptional Merit Media Award), a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers, and a Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Ms. Budhos has been a Fulbright Scholar to India, given talks throughout the country and abroad, and is currently on the faculty of the English Department at William Paterson University. She is married to editor and author Marc Aronson.

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16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)

$100 General, $75 for Members.

Wednesday, July 11 - Friday, July 20
Summer Youth Writing Workshop: Txt Me: Identity and Community

Do you have a blog? A MySpace page? What do you write on it? What don't you write on it? The Asian American Writers' Workshop is offering a new creative writing project that focuses on what's most important to you. Over the course of two weeks, you will explore issues of community and identity through new forms of communication such as YouTube, text messages, podcasts, and blogs. You will work together to each produce and present a final digital multimedia project.

Txt me will meet for eight classes in July. We will create and discuss our writing and explore different forms and elements of prose and poetry through digital multimedia. Txt me will culminate in an event featuring live readings and performances, which will be recorded and broadcast via podcast through the Workshop's website. Txt me will feature guest speakers and excursions, including a trip to the New York Times.

Txt me is FREE workshop open to youth, grades 9-12, from all racial backgrounds: Asian American, African American, Latin American, and Caucasian. All participants are expected to commit to the duration of the workshop and complete all assignments. Space will fill up quickly, so applicants are advised to return their complete applications as soon as possible; early applicants will be given first consideration.

Txt me takes place at The Asian American Writers' Workshop on West 32nd Street in Manhattan, between 5th Avenue and Broadway, one block from the Empire State Building. Founded in 1991, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is the country's largest literary arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation, development, publication, and dissemination of Asian American literature.

The sessions will take place on:

Wednesday - Friday, July 11 - 13, 1 pm - 5 pm each day
Monday - Friday, July 16 - 20, 1 pm - 5 pm each day
Closing Event, Thursday, July 19 at 7 pm

The project is co-directed by Nicholas Chung, Mrigaa Sethi and Kaori Suzuki.

Project Co-director, Nicholas Chung is an English concentrator at Brown University. He is an editor at Opium magazine, a coordinator for the Brown Language Arts Program, and has taught various workshops on creative writing and art.

Project Co-director, Mrigaa Sethi is a native of New Delhi and a resident of Bangkok. She is the contest editor at Washington Square Review, and also teaches public school students and New York University undergraduates creative writing.

Project Co-director, Kaori Suzuki is a graduate of Evergreen State College, and was born in Saitama, Japan. She has coordinated various writing and media arts projects as a student, exploring identity, community, and language. She teaches ESL with the CIELO Project and pursues work in linguistics and mixed media art.

Please mail, fax, or e-mail application by Thursday June 28th, 2007. Applications must be received by this date.

Mail to: Txt me
The Asian American Writer’s Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
New York, NY 10001-3808

Fax to: 212.494.0062

E-mail to: to desk@aaww.org (Please include Txt me in the subject line)

Download an application (MS Word format)

This is a six-week workshop focused on the craft of the short story. Participants should expect to submit work on a regular basis as well as provide generous, constructive feedback for their peers' submissions. Additional readings and discussions may cover traditional and non-traditional story structures, the perils of epiphany, de-familiarization and the exotic, the pleasures of exposition, and the art of revision, among others. For beginning, serious writers with some experience with the short story form.

Rattawut Lapcharoensap was born in Chicago and raised in Bangkok. His work has been published in Granta, Zoetrope, Best New American Voices, and Best American Non-Required Reading, among others. Sightseeing, a collection of short stories, was published by Grove Press in 2005. It was selected for the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" program, won the Asian American Literary Award and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. He was recently named on Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists" list.

Limited to 12. $250 general, $225 for members.

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16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
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Saturday, December 8, 1-4pm
Approaches to Asian American Literary Anthologies with Luis Francia

A free workshop for teachers of high school seniors and first-year college students. Complimentary copies of Workshop anthologies with teachers' guides. Call 212.494.0061 to register.

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FREE

This is a course designed to introduce students to writing poetry and the prose poem. Emphasis on experimental and rule-bound forms of composition, aleatoric writing, "uninspired" forms/boredom, and prison-escape modes of writing. This course will be run as a weekly workshop and includes a short reading list as well.

Tan Lin is the author of two books of poetry, Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe (Sun & Moon Press), and BlipSoak01 (Atelos). His poetry, fiction, and critical writing have appeared in numerous journals including Conjunctions, The Boston Review, Cabinet, Hambone, the New York Times Book Review, New American Writing, Tripwire, The Voice Literary Supplement, the World, Art in America, Purple, and Blackbook. He has taught at the University of Virginia, Cal Arts, and Centre College, and currently teaches creative writing at New Jersey City University.

Limited to 12, $250 general, $225 for members

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In this course, writers will learn how to develop a full-length feature screenplay. Students will learn the fundamentals of story structure, character development, problems and solutions of screenwriting, the elements of drama and the business of screenwriting. Class time will include writing exercises, discussion of student work and viewing film examples. This class is open to writers of all different levels.

Clifford Son, a native of New York City, attended the film program at the School of Visual Arts. His film "Giant Metal Insects" has been featured in many international film festivals and was the recipient of the Kodak Screenwriting Award. The screenplay to his first feature film "Helium" attracted the attention of Hollywood where he was represented by the Broder Kurland Uffner and Webb agency. His work in included television writing for Disney and ABC and projects developed by Dreamworks and 20th Century Fox. He also created and wrote the comic book series "9 Volt" published by Image Studios, is a contributing writer to Flaunt magazine and was a founding member of the Firecracker music series in Los Angeles. He resides in New York City where he works on his next feature "Melody Lee" which is slated for production in 2007.

Limited to 12, $250 general, $225 for members

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This workshop on memoir will focus on voice and on craft. In the first part of the workshop we will clarify how in the case of each writer the normal, everyday voice differs from the writing voice. During the discussion on craft, our main goal will be to recognize, beneath description, what our writing is really about. We will use our own writing samples as well as excerpts from well-known memoirs to better define the precise relationship between who is speaking and what is being said.

Limited to 12, $150 general, $125 for members

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Amitava Kumar is the author of Husband of a Fanatic (The New Press), Bombay-London-New York (Routledge), and Passport Photos (Univ of California Press). His work has also appeared in The Nation, Harper's, Kenyon Review, New Statesman, Transition, American Prospect, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Toronto Review, and The Times of India, among others. He is a professor of English at Vassar College.

An intensive daylong course designed to help playwrights access their unconscious and stimulate dialogue, character development and theatrical moments for the stage. Catered to all writers interested in theatre and performance. Session will feature professional advice about writing for the theatre, working in/for the stage, landing an agent and a first production.

Limited to 12, $200 general, $175 for members

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16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)

David Henry Hwang is the Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright of M. Butterfly, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB. He cowrote Disney's international musical hit Aida and his extensive repertoire further includes three opera librettis (in collaboration with Philip Glass) and several feature films. Hwang also serves on the Council of the Dramatists Guild.

An intensive workshop focused on the craft of the short story. Discussion will focus on jump-starting your writing, troubleshooting and revising, creative exercises, thoughtful critique, and group feedback in a supportive environment. For beginning, serious writers.

Limited to 12, $150 general, $125 for members

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16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)

Susan Choi received an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. She won the Asian American Literary Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Discover Great New Writers Award for The Foreign Student. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has also appeared in Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean-American Fiction; Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing; Writing Away Here: A Korean-American Anthology; and Hard Choices: An Iowa Review Reader.

Saturday, October 28, 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 5pm
Speed Dating Round 2: Short Story Clinic
Cosponsored with

Short fiction has been wildly popular at times in American literature and a chosen first form for emerging writers. In Speed Dating Round 2, short story writers are paired up one-on-one with editors. Personal feedback, professional advice and criticism make this a valuable opportunity for writers to have a look into the publishing market for the short story.

To participate:

1) Send your short story (25-page limit, double-spaced) to desk@aaww.org. Include your name, contact information, and a short bio. Write "Speed Dating" on the subject line. Deadline to submit is Tuesday, October 17th.

2) If your story is chosen, the Workshop will forward it to the appropriate editor who will read your work in advance and be prepared to offer personal feedback. Payment is due upon acceptance.

3) Come on time to your assigned half-hour meeting and ask whatever you want. If you are unable to attend the event in person, but would like to participate, we will be accepting phone appointments also.

Featuring editors:

Stacey Barney (Kensington Books)
Lexy Bloom (Random House/Vintage/Anchor)
Kendra Harpster (Penguin/Viking)
Christopher Jackson (Random House/Spiegel and Grau)
Radhika Jones (The Paris Review)
Megan Lynch (Penguin/Riverhead)
Anne McPeak (The Hudson Review)
Jennifer Pooley (HarperCollins/William Morrow)
John Parsley (St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books)
Whitney Pastorek (Pindeldyboz)
Anjali Singh (Houghton Mifflin)
Declan Spring (New Directions)

$65 general, $50 members. Accepted on a rolling basis until filled. The Workshop will do the pairing. Open to individuals from all different levels of writing, ethnic backgrounds and literary interests.

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Stacey Barney, an editor at Dafina/Kensington Books, has held posts in both adult and children's book publishing, beginning her career at Lee & Low Books, a multicultural children's book publisher. She then worked at Farrar, Straus and Giroux with such talented new writers as Chris Abani and Lisa Dierbeck. At Amistad/HarperCollins, she published LA Times Bestselling author Tamara T. Gregory's Passport Diaries as well as acclaimed author Ronin Ro's latest, Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and the bestselling This Voice In My Heart by Gilbert Tuhabonye. At Dafina/Kensington, Stacey is looking for Christian fiction, young adult, pop culture, and narrative nonfiction that speaks to the themes of education, race, class, gender and immigration -- the outsider's voice. She is also very interested in family stories, memoirs, women's fiction, and international fiction. She will launch a young adult line for the Dafina list in the fall.

Lexy Bloom is an associate editor at Vintage/Anchor, part of the Knopf publishing group at Random House, where she works on both paperback reprints and original titles. She has worked with numerous authors in paperback, including Edwidge Danticat, James Salter, Mary Gaitskill, John Banville, Helen Oyeyemi, Thisbe Nissen, Richard McCann, and Tova Mirvis. She also works with Natsuo Kirino, Joshua Henkin, Danit Brown, Tod Wodicka, and Mia Kirshner, among others, whose original works are forthcoming from Knopf, Pantheon and Vintage/Anchor in 2007. Before coming to Vintage/Anchor, she was US Books Editor for Granta Books.

Kendra Harpster began her literary career at Doubleday in 1999 where she worked with writers such as Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead and Aimee Bender, published fiction by Shari Goldhagen (Family and Other Accidents), and Rod Liddle (Too Beautiful for You), and non-fiction by David Rakoff (Don't Get Too Comfortable), and the Lance Armstrong Foundation (Live Strong). Now an editor at Viking, her list includes both literary and commercial fiction. Her upcoming titles for Viking/Penguin include Tana French's In the Woods, Danielle Ganek's Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, Susan Vreeland's Luncheon of the Boating Party and Kim Edwards' short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King.

Christopher Jackson is Executive Editor at Spiegel & Grau, a new division of the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group at Random House, Inc. He has worked with numerous bestselling and award-winning authors, from Victor Lavalle and Edwidge Danticat to David Corn and Jack Weatherford. His authors at Spiegel & Grau include Warren St. John, Matt Taibbi, Ta-Nehesi Coates, and Adam Mansbach.

Radhika Jones is the managing editor of The Paris Review, and her interview with Peter Carey appeared in the magazine's summer issue. She is a frequent contributor to Bookforum and the author of introductions to Barnes & Noble Classics editions of Great Expectations, David Copperfield, and A Room with a View.

Megan Lynch is an editor at Riverhead Books, where she acquires and edits literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. Her authors include New Yorker short story writer Cristina Henr’quez, blogger and pundit Ana Marie Cox, and memoirist and humorist Wendy McClure. Prior to joining Riverhead, she worked at Little, Brown and Company and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.

Anne McPeak is the associate editor of The Hudson Review. She received a B.A. in literature from Bard College, with a concentration in writing. Previous to joining the magazine, she was an assistant at the Irene Skolnick Literary Agency. Her fiction and book reviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail.

John Parsley is an Editor at Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, where he acquires and edits literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. He is also the founding editor of LOST Magazine, a monthly online magazine that features fiction and nonfiction and has published writers including Tom Bissell, Wayne Curtis, Marilyn Johnson, Peter Orner, Mary Roach, Floyd Skloot, and Robert Sullivan.

Whitney Pastorek is a writer, musician, and international star of stage and screen. She is the executive editor of the Queens-based lit mag Pindeldyboz, and a correspondent for Entertainment Weekly. A full list of everything can be found at Whittlz.com. She has worked with writers such as Thisbe Nissen, Mike Topp, Corey Mesler, Jim Ruland, Norman Lock, John Verbos, Claire Zulkey, Carrie Hoffman, Lee Klein, Jason DeBoer, Matthew Derby, Mike Magnuson, Amanda Eyre Ward, Pia Ehrhardt, Jessica Anthony, Jami Attenberg, and Benjamin Percy.

Jennifer Pooley is an editor at William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, where she began her career in 1998. She loves discovering strong new voices in literary and commercial fiction and has acquired such debut novels as K. L. Cook's The Girl From Charnelle, Catherine Hanrahan's Lost Girls and Love Hotels, and Willy Vlautin's The Motel Life. Her nonfiction acquisition interests are eclectic and include serious narrative nonfiction, humor, history, science, and memoir that deliver an unforgettable armchair experience, such as Marjorie Hart's Summer At Tiffany (forthcoming) and Alison and Melissa Houtte's Alligators, Old Mink and New Money, and the occasional whimsical gift title with a pop culture slant, such as Amy Allen's This Little Piggy Went to Prada: Nursery Rhymes for the Blahnik Brigade (forthcoming) and David C. Barnette's The Offical Guide to Christmas in the South: Or, If You Can't Fry It, Spraypaint It Gold. She publishes the work of such authors as John Barlow, Christoper Bram, Maud Casey, Emily Franklin, Lolita Files, Lisa Jewell, Ami McKay, and Leslie Pietrzyk, among others.

Anjali Singh began her career in publishing in 1996, when she landed a job as a scout of American and Canadian books for foreign publishers. Before joining Houghton Mifflin in 2006, she worked as an editor at Vintage and Pantheon Books, where she sought out American and international writers of literary fiction, travel, memoir, and narrative journalism. Her authors included Nuha al-Radi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Diana Abu-Jaber, Nadeem Aslam and Valerie Martin. While there, she also carved out a niche publishing graphic novels, among them Marjane Satrapi's memoirs of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, Persepolis and Persepolis 2 (which she also translated from the French), David B.'s Epileptic, Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat and Jessica Abel's La Perdida.

Declan Spring is senior editor at New Directions and has been working there since 1991. He is also the contracts and foreign rights director. Declan has worked on many books of poetry and foreign fiction by Can Xue, Inger Christensen, Julio Cortazar, H.D., Thalia Field, Gu Cheng, Forrest Gander, Gustaw Herling, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Peter Handke, Federico Garcia Lorca, Gregory Rabassa, Leonid Tsypkin, and Paul West. New Directions, founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, is the last remaining self-sustaining independent literary publisher in America.

The Asian American Writers' Workshop is offering a new writing project for high school-age female journalists. We will learn about reporting and interviewing technique and touch on specialized areas of journalism - for example, ethnic media, opinion writing, feature writing, blogging, and radio - depending on students' interests. We'll also study how to pitch stories to publications and editors.

We will meet for six classes in October, November, and December. We will hone our writing through exercises, peer critique, presentations, field trips, and guest speakers. Each student will complete a major project, a profile, by the final session.

51% is open to aspiring female journalists, grades 9 - 12, from all ethnicities and backgrounds. All youth who participate in 51% will receive an artist stipend of $100, based on commitment, attendance and participation.

51% takes place at The Asian American Writers' Workshop on West 32nd Street in Manhattan, between 5th Avenue and Broadway, one block from the Empire State Building. Founded in 1991, The Asian American Writers' Workshop is the country's largest literary arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation, development, publication and dissemination of Asian American literature.

The sessions will take place on the following Saturdays from 1pm - 5pm (except for the first session, October 28th, when the class will be from 2pm - 6pm): October 28th, November 4th, November 11th, December 2nd, December 9th and December 16th

The project is directed by V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan. Sugi Ganeshananthan is a fiction writer and journalist living in New York. She is a student in the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism's MA program, specializing in reporting on Arts & Culture, and has written and reported for The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, BeliefNet, and The American Prospect, among others. In 2005, she received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and in 2005-2006, she was the writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy. Her novel is forthcoming from Random House.

This program is funded by a grant from Asian Women Giving Circle, a donor-advised fund of Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, and The Union Square Awards of the Tides Foundation.

Please mail, fax or e-mail application by Monday October 16, 2006. Applications must be received by this date.

Download an application (MS Word format)

Mail to:
51%
The Asian American Writers' Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
New York, NY 10001-3808

Fax to: 212.494.0062

E-mail to: desk@aaww.org (Please include "51%" in the subject line.)

"Writing isn't some notion, some abstraction that you can just think yourself through. You must think with your whole body, not just your mind." -Ann Beattie

Thinking of penning your memoir for publication/personal reasons? Looking for new ways to tap into your creativity? In this nontraditional weekend workshop, Leslie Li, novelist, memoirist, and writing/movement teacher, will guide you through a process for exploring thoughts and feelings, playing with words and chance, and invoking memory and imagination. Participants will work with texts, memory exercises and jump-start a new writing project while incorporating yoga. Open to unpublished beginning writers with an open mind.

$150 general, $125 members. Please call 212.494.0061 to register. Limited to 12.

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Leslie Li is the author of Daughter of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes and Bittersweet: A Novel. She is coauthor of Enter the Dragon, a book of children's musical plays based on Chinese folktales and has written personal essays, feature articles and op-ed pieces for various publications, including The New York Times, Saveur, Gourmet, and Travel & Leisure.

An intensive day long workshop devoted to refining your work-in-progress. Discussions will focus on redrafting, jump-starting and troubleshooting, discussion about elements of prose, group critiques and personal advice from instructor. An engaging, supportive environment for serious published or unpublished writers who want critical feedback and suggestions on their fiction.

Participants must submit over email up to 20 pages of chapters/short stories/prose excerpts by Wednesday June 14th. The instructor and fellow participants will receive copies of your work in advance for thoughtful criticism. Your email submission will be acknowledged. Class filled on rolling basis.

$125 general, $100 members. Please call 212.494.0061 to register. Limited to 12 students.

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New York City

Alexander Chee's first novel, Edinburgh (Picador), won the Asian American Literary Award, the Michener and the Lambda. He is a recent the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and a fellowship from the NEA in fiction. His essays and stories are anthologized in The M Word, TakeOut, Loss Within Loss, and Boys Like Us, among others, and he has taught writing at Wesleyan University, the New School and Goddard College. He begins as Amherst College's Visiting Writer in the fall of this year. His new novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin in 2007.

The Asian American Writers' Workshop is offering a new writing project for youth that focuses on capturing personal experiences in the form of creative non-fiction, stories based on real life, essays and journals. We will write of our own personal histories and stories as well as our thoughts on the world as it is. We want to hear what you struggle with, what you have accomplished, and what you deal with as youth. "Where I'm Calling From" is a way for you to pinpoint your location in life and the geography of your situation.

We will meet for ten classes in late June and early July. We will create and discuss our writing and explore different forms and elements of creative non-fiction. A closing event will feature live readings and performances, which will be recorded and broadcast through the Workshop's website.

WICF is open to youth, grades 9 - 12, from all racial backgrounds in New York City and surrounding areas. All youth who participate in WICF will receive an artist stipend of $200, based on commitment, attendance and participation.

WICF takes place at The Asian American Writers' Workshop on West 32nd Street in Manhattan, between 5th Avenue and Broadway, one block from the Empire State Building. Founded in 1991, The Asian American Writers' Workshop is the country's largest literary arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation, development, publication and dissemination of Asian American literature.

The sessions will take place on:

Monday - Friday, June 26 - 30, 1 pm - 5 pm each day Wednesday - Friday, July 5 - 7, 1 pm - 5 pm each day Monday - Tuesday, July 10 - 11, 1 pm - 5 pm each day Closing Event, Wednesday, July 12 at 7 pm

The project is co-directed by Edward Garcia and Bushra Rehman.

Project Co-director, Edward Garcia is a Latino spoken word poet and performer from New York City, who has taught nationally for many different organizations.

Project Co-director, Bushra Rehman is a poet, performer and writer of creative non-fiction. She is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. She performs and teaches nationally.

To apply, please mail, fax or e-mail application no later than Monday June 5, 2006. All applications must be received by this date. Applications accepted and admitted on a rolling basis. We will notify all applicants by mid-June.

Download the WICF application (2 pages, MS Word format.)