Asian American Writers' Workshop

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Asian American Writers' Workshop
Asian American Writers' Workshop logo
Formation	1991
Type	not-for-profit
Purpose	Asian American literature
Headquarters	New York City
Region served	United States
Executive Director	Ken Chen
Website	http://www.aaww.org

The Asian American Writers' Workshop is a nonprofit literary arts organization founded in 1991 to support of writers, literature and community.^[1] The Workshop also offers the annual Asian American Literary Awards and sponsors Page Turner: The Asian American Literary Festival.

In 2007, The Asian American Writers' Workshop partnered with Hyphen Magazine to start a short story contest called the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest, the only national, pan-Asian American writing competition of its kind^[2] Previous winners include Preeta Samarasan, Sunil Yapa, Shivani Manghnani, and Timothy Tau. Previous judges include Porochista Khakpour, Yiyun Li, Alexander Chee, Jaed Coffin, Brian Leung, Monique Truong and Monica Ferrell.

Honorary advisors

Response to controversy

In response to the 2015 "yellowface poet" incident, the organization published a "white pen name" generator^[3], which creates random white-sounding names "all the way back to Plymouth Rock." It was made in mockery of Michael Derrick Hudson, pushing back at the idea that writers of color might find greater success in the publishing industry if their names were whitewashed.

References

↑ Ito, Hiroyuki (1998-11-17). "Asian American Writers' Workshop Makes A Scene". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2009-12-20. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
↑ Announcing the 2011 Asian American Short Story Contest, http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/shortstory/
↑ "#WhitePenName Generator". aaww.org. Retrieved 2016-04-24.

External links

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Notes ¹ The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. ² The United States Government classified Kalmyks as Asian until 1951, when Kalmyk Americans were reclassified as White Americans. ³ The U.S. Census Bureau considers Mongolians and Uzbeks as Central Asians, but a specific Central Asian American group similar to Middle Eastern American does not yet exist. ⁴ The U.S. Census Bureau reclassifies anyone identifying as "Tibetan American" as "Chinese American". ⁵ Bengali Americans may be classified as Bangladeshi or Indian. Punjabi Americans may be classified as Indian or Pakistani. Tamil Americans may be classified as Indian or Sri Lankan.

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