“Money woes forced the [New York-based] Asian American Writers’ Workshop to close its doors last month. Public programs are canceled until at least the first week in February… Though AAWW has pulled in roughly $12,000 in individual donations since a November plea, the sum is only a fraction of what it needs. The $500,000 annual budget has been slashed nearly in half. Grants on which the group had relied, from charitable and arts foundations and from the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, were denied for 2004.”