IWL 2025 submissions are now open until March 23, 2025. Apply today to join a cohort of BIPOC writers who will spend this summer working across different literary genres!
Read MoreAVA Lab is a 9+ week hybrid seminar, professional practices, and cultural organizing intensive and is intended to develop and mentor APA visual artists looking to deepen their praxis in and with community, rooted in KSW’s organizational praxis of Solidarity, Renewal, Futurity, and Autonomy.
Read MoreSubmissions for IWL 2025 are open until Saturday, March 23rd! We’re excited to announce this year’s instructors including author of the critically acclaimed, Little Gods (HarperCollins 2020), Meng Jin, author of mahogany (2023 Wesleyen Press), and essayist featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and more, Amanda Machado!
Read MoreIn memory of artist, organizer, and KSW’s former Executive Director, Mark Izu.
Read MoreThanks to you, Kearny Street Workshop raised $28,000, above and beyond our $25,000 goal for “Together, We’ll Make It.”
Read MoreThank you all for supporting KSW throughout this year. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the many incredible accomplishments and the programs we hosted with your help
Read MoreTo all those who have donated, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We’ve raised an incredible $17,680 in peer-to-peer fundraisers, pledges from our closest supporters, mailed checks and cash, anonymous donations, and from our incredible monthly donors!
Read MoreAnother year of APAture is in the books!
Read MoreOn September 14th the Asian American Literature Festival Collective (AALFC) opened the week-long 2024 Asian American Literary Festival, Cosmic Kinship. Read Nellie Wong's keynote address from the SF Bay Area Book Fair!
Read MoreAPAture 2024 Tickets now on sale!
Read MoreMeet the inaugural cohort of KSW’s newest Visual Arts mentorship program, AVA Lab!
Read MoreAs we kickoff AAPI Heritage Month, we invite you to support Kearny Street Workshop through the Give in May campaign. Visit https://www.giveinmay.org/organization/Kearny-Street-Workshop for more info!
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