Biden and Harris Make First Appearance as Running Mates

And Other Things to Know From Angry Asian America.



Harris, As Biden's Running Mate, Says Case Against Trump Is 'Open And Shut'
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his newly named running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California, made their first joint appearance Wednesday. Watch the video of their remarks here.

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Where Can AAPI Voters Have the Most Impact in November 2020?
Asian Americans and Pacific Islander voters saw increases in voter registration after the 2016 election. These sizable gains in voter registration could potentially make a noticeable impact this November in battleground states like Arizona, where 173,231 AAPIs comprise 4.6 percent of the state’s electorate. In addition to increases in voter registration, AAPI turnout might also be influenced by other factors, such as the selection of Senator Kamala Harris as the first Asian American person on a major party's presidential ticket.

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'47 Ronin' Sequel Sets 'Mulan's Ron Yuan As Director
Ron Yuan is set direct the upcoming sequel to the Keanu Reeves film 47 Ronin. While the 2013 movie, based on a real-life story of a group of samurai who set out to avenge the death of their master, was set in 18th century Japan, it's being reported that the untitled quasi-sequel re-imagines the tale set 300 years in the future, blending martial arts, action, horror and cyber-punk. You have my attention.

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42 & A-Major Media Team For Movie Adaptation Of 'Good Fortune'
Production companies 42 and A-Major Media are teaming up to produce develop and produce a film adaptation of Megan Chan Meinero's play Good Fortune. Developed in New York with the New Group and Ensemble Studio Theatre, the darkly comic social satire tells the story of Mei-Ling, who was adopted at birth from China by Julie, an American woman who wanted a daughter that would love her and be with her forever. Eighteen years later, Mei-Ling is ready to go to college, but Julie has a different plan.

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Apply to AAWW's 2021 Margins Fellowship
Hey writers! Applications are now open for the Asian American Writers' Workshop's 2021 Margins Fellowship. Every year, AAWW supports four emerging creative writers of color based in New York City with a year-long fellowship that includes a $5,000 stipend; month-long residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts; six-month mentorship with an established writer; career meet-ups with agents, editors, and fellow writers; publication opportunities and more. Applications are due September 7. For more information, go here.

Apply to AAWW's Open City Fellowships

Now accepting applications for the Neighborhoods Fellowship and the Muslim Communities Fellowship



Hey, writers! They Asian American Writers' Workshop is accepting applications for the Open City Fellowships.

Specifically: the Neighborhoods Fellowship, a unique opportunity for emerging Asian American writers to publish narrative nonfiction over the span of six months on the vibrant Asian American communities of New York City; and the Muslim Communities Fellowship, a six-month opportunity for NYC-based writers from Middle Eastern and North and East African communities and Muslim writers of color to write about the Muslim American communities in the city.

Both fellowships offer a $2,500 grant, skill-building workshops, and publishing opportunities to write about the Asian immigrant and Muslim communities of New York City. The fellowship is six months long, beginning in September 2018 and ending in March 2019.

Here are some more details:

Speculative Visions: An Evening with Ted Chiang

Friday, July 15 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.



Hey, New York City. The Asian American Writers' Workshop invites you to a special evening with one of the country's most prominent science fiction writers, Ted Chiang, the winner of four Nebula and four Huge Awards. The conversation will be moderated by Whiting Award winner Alice Sola Kim and introduced by Kirby Kim, Ted's literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit. It's happening Friday, July 15 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Here are some more details:

AAWW Publishing Conference '16

Presented by the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Saturday, June 25



Hey writers! The Asian American Writers' Workshop invites you to the AAWW Publishing Conference, a special one-day boot camp for any writer who's ever felt left out and wants to invest in their career. Meet with publishing professionals from Penguin Random House, Catapult, Buzzfeed and more.

It's happening Saturday, June 25 at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn. Here are some more details:

Writers respond to "Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?"

"Asian Americans are in the room, and although his poem wasn't meant for us, we're speaking back to it."



You may have come across writer and humorist Calvin Trillin's New Yorker poem "Have The Run Out of Provinces Yet?" in which a foodie bemoans the increasing, overwhelming presence of regional Chinese cuisine. The exasperated diner in Trillin's poem longs for the"Simple days of chow mein but no stress, / When we never were faced with the threat / Of more provinces we hadn't met."

Yes, it's satire. But as many critics of the poem have pointed out, it also reads like nostalgia for a pre-1965 era, before racist immigration quotas based on national origin were phased out. You see, America loves Chinese things. They want to consume Chinese things. They just don't want anything to do with actual Chinese people.

Trillin's poem "continues an American tradition of talking about Asia as if we Asians were not in the room," poet Timothy Yu writes in the New Republic. "It's an in-joke among white consumers of Chinese things, but actual Chinese people are at best absent from its lines, and at worst a looming peril within them. The eruption of response to the poem shows how wrong Trillin was: Asian Americans are in the room, and although his poem wasn't meant for us, we're speaking back to it."

The Asian American Writers' Workshop asked writers to submit their own takes on Trillin's poem -- to take up space in this room and speak back. They've posted fourteen different responses, like this hot bit of verse from poet Franny Choi:

Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet

Thursday, February 11 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop



If you're in New York City, join the Asian American Writers' Workshop for a discussion featuring some of your favorite Asian fashion thinkers. Minh-Ha T. Pham's new book Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet explores the rise of elite Asian fashion bloggers. Join Pham, NYU Professor Thuy Linh Tu, and beauty and fashion politics writer Arabelle Sicardi as they talk "Asian taste," racialized eliteness, and the digital fashion economy.

Here are some more details about the event:

Apply to The Margins Fellowship & Open City Project Grants

The Asian American Writers' Workshop invites emerging writers to apply by November 9.



Are you an Asian American creative writer in search of a home to help cultivate your work? Do you want to write the stories of Asian immigrant communities in New York City you wish you saw in the mainstream media? Here's a great opportunity. The Asian American Writers' Workshop is now accepting applications for The Margins Fellowship and Open City Project Grant.

The year-long Margins Fellowship combines publication opportunities, a writers' retreat, mentorship, work space, and a $5,000 grant. With a six-month Open City Project Grant you'll join our journalism workshops series, have a chance to publish with AAWW, and get a $2,500 grant, plus more.

Here's some more information about both opportunities:

Comics & Graphic Vignettes - From Scribble to Strip, July 11

With Wendy Xu and Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, presented by the Asian American Writers' Workshop


If you're in New York City this weekend, and want to learn how to make comics, check out this one-time workshop with comics artists Wendy Xu and Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Comics & Graphic Vignettes - From Scribble to Strip, presented by the Asian American Writers' Workshop. They'll be reading, discussing, and drawing all things comics. Come nerd out with them. It's happening Saturday, July 11 in Manhattan.

Here are some more details:

Job Opportunity: Editor, Open City Magazine

The Asian American Writers' Workshop is hiring a part-time editor to take over Open City.



The Asian American Writers' Workshop is looking to hire a part-time editor to take over Open City, an online magazine that seeks to tell the stories of low-income Asian American immigrant communities in New York.

The ideal applicant is committed to the mission of the publication, excited about managing and mentoring emerging writers of color, and ready to publish excellent, deeply reported and researched nonfiction.

Over the last few years, Open City has tackled topics ranging from stop-and-frisk in Jackson Heights, Sikh temples in Queens, the underground Chinatown Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card community, the eviction of tenants on 81 Bowery, the Queens hip hop scene, the welfare-to-workfare system, domestic violence in the Afghan community, participatory budgeting in Queens, the last movie theater in Chinatown, Hurricane Sandy's effect on communities of color, and more.

Here are some more details about the position:

AAWW presents Undocupoets Petition Reading

Friday, March 27 at The Asian American Writers' Workshop



Did you know that many writing contests require you to be a US citizen? This requirement ends up discriminating against millions of undocumented writers of color a year. If you also think no poet should be excluded just because of where they were born, the Asian American Writers Workshop invites you to their Undocupoets Petition Reading, requesting that writing contests change their guidelines and get out of the business of checking passports. Featuring Wo Chan, Sonia Guiñansaca, Jennifer Tamayo, Javier Zamora and Christopher Soto, it's happening Friday, March 27 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York.

Here are some more details about the reading:

The 2014 AAWW Publishing Conference

Sunday, June 8 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop


Hey writers! Are you trying to get your work published? Want to get your manuscript in front of the right people? Where the heck do you even begin? The Asian American Writers' Workshop invites you to The 2014 AAWW Publishing Conference. You'll hear trade secrets from agents, editors and publishers, as well as writers who have landed book deals. It's happening Sunday afternoon, June 8 in Brooklyn.

Here are some more details about the conference:

Noir, Neon, Karaoke, Crime with Henry Chang

Thursday, May 15 at Asia Roma in New York City



Basement bars, book readings, and karaoke. If you are in NYC's Chinatown on Thursday, May 15, you can have all three. Henry Chang's new novel Death Money follows Detective Jack Yu through New York's Chinatown, and Chang will be reading excerpts from his new book at Asia Roma. And yes, there will be karaoke after:

Apply to the Asian American Writers' Workshop Fellowships

Two different fellowships for emerging writers in New York City



Hey, writers! The Asian American Writers' Workshop is now accepting applications for two different year-long fellowships for emerging writers in New York City, associated with AAWW's online magazines, Open City and The Margins. Whether you're a hard-nosed reporter, a prose stylist, or a poet, they've got something for you. Read on for more information about the fellowships:

The Interdependent Self: A Reading & Conversation with Ruth Ozeki & Gish Jen

Wednesday, January 8 at the Asian American Writers' Workshop



If you're in New York City, join the Asian American Writers' Workshop as they kick off their 2014 season with acclaimed writers Ruth Ozeki and Gish Jen. Join in with these celebrated writers for a reading and conversation about The Interdependent Self. What does that mean? Reserve a spot and find out. It's happening Wednesday, January 8. Here are some more details about the event:

Page Turner: The AAWW Food & Books Festival, October 5

Twelve reasons to get your literature lovin' self to Page Turner.



New York City, this looks legit. On Saturday, October 5, the Asian American Writers' Workshop presents the Page Turner Food and Books Festival. Readings, performances, dumpling-making sessions, a DIY poetry booth, and much more. And it's all free to the public and fun for everyone. Here's AAWW's list of all the reasons you should go:

Apply to AAWW's 2013 Open City Fellowship

Open City, an online magazine published by the Asian American Writers' Workshop, documents the pulse of metropolitan Asian America as it's being lived on the streets of New York right now. Open City grants a $5,000 fellowship, career guidance, and publishing opportunities to five Creative Nonfiction Fellows to write and produce both short-form and long-form editorial content on the vibrant immigrant communities of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

Are you an emerging Asian American writer who needs mentorship, financial support and a place to publish? You're invited to apply for the Open City 2013-2014 Creative Nonfiction Fellows. Past Open City Creative Nonfiction Fellows have gone on to publish in the Atlantic, The Nation and the New York Times. This could be you, so get on this with your writerly self.

UPDATE: Here's a new video on Open City Creative Nonfiction Fellowship:

Job Opportunity: Open City Editor, Asian American Writers' Workshop

A job opportunity for writerly folks in New York...

The Asian American Writers' Workshop is currently looking for a new Open City Editor. Specifically, "a self-motivated and resourceful individual with a vibrant vision of how the stories of immigrant New York City should be told." Maybe that's you. This is your opportunity to lead a smart publication about issues you actually care about and that you actually want to read.

Here are some more details about the position:

the aaww publishing conference, december 8

New York writers! Think fast. The Asian American Writers' Workshop is holding its first annual publishing conference this Saturday, December 8. Learn how to frame a pitch, find an agent, and how to work toward that big break you've been looking for. Here's a brief overview of what you're in for: