The China Writers Association (CWA) is a subordinate people's organization of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC).
Founded in July 1949, the organization was initially named the China National Literature Workers Association. In September 1953, it was renamed the Chinese Writers Association. In April 2012, the organization changed its translated name to China Writers Association.
It had 5,196 members as of 2008 and more than 9,000 registered members, including 1,092 come from ethnic groups, as of 2011, with branch associations across the nation. The first CWA Chair was Mao Dun, under the leadership of the then CFLAC Chairman Guo Moruo. In 1985, Mao Dun was succeeded by Ba Jin and in 2006, Ba Jin was succeeded by Tie Ning. The incumbent chair is Zhang Hongsen since 2025. Other successive Associate Chairs include Ding Ling, Feng Xuefeng, Lao She, Ke Zhongping, Shao Quanlin and Liu Baiyu.
It was founded in July 1949 as the China National Literature Workers Association. In September 1953, it was renamed the Chinese Writers Association.
The association's leadership was purged shortly after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
In April 2012, the organization changed its translated name to China Writers Association.
In 2015, the CWA established its Internet Literature Committee for members who are writers, critics, or scholars of internet literature.
In 2017, two vice presidents of the Suzhou branch of the CWA publicly resigned as a protest to what they perceived as the Chinese Communist Party's tightening of control on writers.
The Chinese Writers' Association publishes several magazines, includingãÂÂãÂÂRenmin Wenxue (People's Literature) (monthly),ãÂÂä¸Âå½ä½Â家ãÂÂZhongguo Zuojia (Chinese Writer) (bimonthly),ãÂÂè¯ÂÃ¥ÂÂãÂÂShi Kan (Poetry) (monthly),ãÂÂæ°ÂæÂÂæÂÂå¦ãÂÂMinzu Wenxue (Folk Literature) (monthly),ãÂÂå°Â说éÂÂÃ¥ÂÂãÂÂXiaoshuo Xuankan (Selected Novels) (monthly), and Newspaper of Art (weekly). Its publishing arm is the Chinese Writers Publishing House. It also issuesWenyi Bao (ãÂÂãÂÂ, Literature and Art Newspaper, currently three times a week).