(Sean Bernard, Allison Wyss, Talia Kolluri, Farah Ali, Jennifer Acker). "Memory that Pricks the Skin": Five Asian Women Poets Writing About History Edgar Gomez is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. F203. Priest has published two collections of poetry and is the recipient of an Allied Arts Professional Poets Award. Kiana Nguyen is a literary agent with Donald Maass Literary Agency. Nick Francis Potter is a writer, cartoonist, and educator. He is the author of the novel, The Made-Up Man, and the story collection, Big Lonesome. Tracey T. Flores is an assistant professor of language and literacy at the University of Texas at Austin. Across age groups, Im a big fan of original fantasy, accessible but smart science fiction, paranormal or creepy horror, thrillers (especially if they have a shocking twist! Erin Elizabeth Smith is the executive director for Sundress Publications and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. She is the author of a nonfiction chapbook, Nest. Those who canTEACH, Sponsored by WITS Alliance She is the cofounder and editor in chief of SWWIM Every Day. July 21-24, 2022. Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators His essays and short stories have appeared in both Turkey and the US. is his debut novel. Other books include The Octopus Museum and Our Andromeda. She is a professor in poetry and poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Becca Rose Hall founded and directs Frog Hollow School, a children's writing program in Seattle. (Jean Kwok , Angie Kim, Rebecca Makkai, Mitchell S. Jackson, Danielle Trussoni). She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Levinson Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. She leads DVAN (DVAN.org). Joanna Rakoff is the author of the bestsellers, My Salinger Yearrecently adapted into a feature film starring Sigourney Weaverand A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction. Danielle Trussoni is a New York Times, USA Today, and Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author whose novels have been translated into 33 languages. Its worth taking a moment to negotiate, because you might be leaving money on the tableor worse, giving away precious rights to your own creative work. Minerva Laveaga Luna is a Mexican writer and editor living in the US. Four poets over age 65 will read poems that share the wisdom of their Tlingit, Lenape, Cherokee, Gingaskin, Assateague, Chumash, and Tohono Oodham heritages. An NEA fellowship recipient in nonfiction, she teaches at the University of Arkansas and in the low residency MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Encouraging Writing and Literacy in Bilingual Communities: Si, se Habla Espaol Rebecca Hazelwood is an essayist / memoirist who has been published widely in literary magazines. AWP invites you to this extraordinary reading and reception to celebrate AWPs Award Series winners, our partner presses that publish the Award Series winners, and the creation of a new endowment to sustain AWPs Award Series Prize for the Novel, now called the James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel. She is assistant professor of writing (nonfiction) at Eugene Lang College at The New School. Schedule: Fall 2023 Workshop - The 2023 Seattle Writing Workshop (Alison Kinney, Minda Honey, Natalie Lima, Denne Michele Norris, Jodi M. Savage). Drawing from their personal experience growing up in online book communities, theyll break down the ins and outs of popular social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok to help strategize content creation and investigate ideas of digital responsibility, global networking, and how social media is rewiring the publishing industry. Options. How Writers of Color Use Humor To Tell Their Stories Pacific Northwest Resources Writers Connection His work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Indiana Review, and Storymagazine. Wouldnt it be wise to give that query letter (i.e., your pitch) one great edit before that meeting? Catholic Writers Guild. She can also be enticed by the odd horror, thriller, or speculative (sci-fi/fantasy) fiction. An editor of three anthologies, including Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West, she is founder and publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books. She is the author of two books of poetry and a book of essays; the creator of the film A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff; and the creator / performer of Girls in Trouble, a feminist indie-folk song cycle about Biblical women. Napa, California. Object Lesson: Activating Material Intelligence Mentoring across Race: Practices to Support BIPOC Students and Writers in Japanese Studies from William Jewell College. His books are This Wound Is a World(2017), NDN Coping Mechanisms (2019), A History of My Brief Body (2020), and A Minor Chorus (2022). Come prepared to talk about potential solutionsbig and smallfor the challenges facing this growing population of higher educators. (Rena Priest, Kimberly Blaeser , Deborah Taffa). Marco Wilkinson is an assistant professor of literary arts and cultural studies in the Literature department at UC San Diego. She sits on the national council of the Dramatists Guild and advocates for dramatists in the western United States and Canada. F192. In this session, we will explore which rules you can carefully and purposefully break to make your work original. Will it surpass lackluster debut sales? A number of poets, including Remica Bingham-Risher, Ama Codjoe, and Evie Shockley, will share poems by Moon that have inspired them. She is the author of the speculative fiction novels Sub Rosa and Sodom Road Exit, the memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir, and the poetry collection Where the Words End and My Body Begins. Dene Grigar is professor and director of creative media & digital culture at WSU Vancouver who works in born-digital literature, digital preservation, and curation. F179. His work has appeared in The Masters Review, Cimarron Review, New Haven Review, Gulf Stream, and The Ilanot Review, among other venues. Add $29 to secure a 10-minute one-on-one meeting with any of our literary agents or editors in attendance. Writing Motherhood in Post-Roe America, Sponsored by Hugo House Five women writers of color incorporate personal and global historiesof India, Pakistan, and the Netherlands, and within the U.S., California, Louisiana, and the Texas-Mexico borderinto their prose, poetry, and hybrid texts. For all the books I work with, I prefer to work with queer creators and BIPOC creators, and strongly encourage those creators to send me their work. Keith works as a writer and game designer in Chicago. Ballroom 2 & 3, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 5, F183. The default was Zoom, but fully asynchronous creative writing programs have existed for years. She coordinated an early literacy program in Spanish, worked as a parent educator and as a language teacher. Each author will briefly present their work and read a short excerpt. Lydia Cheshewalla is an Osage / Xicana transdisciplinary artist and writer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. JP is the author of innovative diary collections such as OF (What Place Meant), Furthermore, and Slow Living. July 31 - Aug 4, 2022. Sober AWP, Room 330, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, F102. Here are quick testimonials regarding writers who have signed with literary agents after pitching them at prior Writing Day Workshops events. She is editor of the creative nonfiction collectionSwelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories. Visit her at poetsusanrich.com. She is currently finishing a memoir. Caits Meissner is a New York Citybased artist and writer. Emily Dickinson, Wellness Room outside Room 440, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, F103. She is also the author of Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between. Please join us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art. On this panel, creative writing educators who teach asynchronous classes discuss best practices for creating compassionate classrooms, as well as how the move to Zoom is impacting the broader scope of remote creative writing pedagogy. Ruth L. Schwartz has published five books of poems including the National Poetry Series winner Edgewater, and the recipient of 16 national writing awards. She manages the TikTok account of Soman Chainani, author of The School for Good and Evil series. Black Trauma, Black Joy: Telling Hard Stories to Young Readers (Tiffany Midge, Rick Saez, Jacqueline Keeler, Henry Gordon, trevino Brings Plenty). (Joseph Legaspi, Ina Cario, Aldo Amparn, J. Estanislao Lopez, Janine Joseph). Sex with a Brain Injury, her memoir, is due out in 2024. She is the director of prison and justice writing at PEN America where she edited The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writers Life in Prison (Haymarket, January 2022). (Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Brendan Constantine, Derrick Brown, Nicole Homer, TAYLOR MALI). She is also the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. William Dameron is an award-winning blogger, memoirist, and essayist. Halley is looking for fiction that plays with genre and form, for plot-driven literary novels, commercial fiction, adult speculative fiction and hybrid works of narrative nonfiction. Nicole Comforto is an award-winning comedy writer and New York Times Modern Love essayist. His work has been supported by the NEH, NEA, and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Her forthcoming poetry book, To Stir & is forthcoming from Word Works press. Stephanie Feldman's work includes the novels Saturnalia (forthcoming) and the award-winning The Angel of Losses, the multigenre anthology Who Will Speak for America?, and short fiction and essays. Tom Hart is the author / artist of the New York Times #1 bestselling graphic memoir, Rosalie Lightning, and the executive director of The Sequential Artists Workshop, an organization and school for comics and graphic novels in Gainesville, Florida, which also offers extensive online courses. He is a Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) board member and Periplus mentor. In this panel, five creators in various prose genres discuss carrying on this lineage through the art of comedic storytelling. He teaches at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. Seattle, WA The 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair will take place in-person at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, from March 8 to March 11, 2023. Online events are easy and awesome, and the virtual events we've done thus far have received wonderful feedback. She lives with her wife in Texas. In Middle Grade, she is looking for adventure stories and big emotions. She's executive director of Inlandia Institute, a literary 501(c)(3). He awakens to the wonders of Cascadia every day, but his heart yearns east to his other home, Delhi. The novel has thrived as a vehicle for scary stories since the time of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, and after three centuries, horror is returning to the mainstream. Woods has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Colorado Boulder. In the process, well pull back the curtain on what agents actually do all day and how writers can assess which agents will be the best partners and advocates for their work. Stop by the AWP Membership Booth to learn more about the many year-round benefits of AWP. Her American Amnesiac was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award. She is the resident playwright at Macha Theatre Works and a Dramatists Guild member, and was a 2021 Hedgebrook writer in residence. She lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Writing creative nonfiction demands intimacy and trust from writers and readers, students and faculty. They have writtenThings to Pack on the Way to Everywhere (Andrs Montoya Poetry Prize Finalist); published inLatina Outsiders; Best American Poetry; Acentos Journal; Kweli Journal; and are a Macondo Fellow and Geraldine Dodge Poet. If they wish, attendees are free to sign up for multiple 10-minute pitch sessions at $29/session pitching multiple individuals. He is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at UBC in Vancouver. Maija Makinen is a Finnish-born writer and translator. Kanika Agrawal is an Indian (im)migrant writer-editor. You can read Danielles Dark Matters column in the New York Times Book Review. We will have literary agents online to give feedback and take pitches from writers, as well. Melissa Alter Smith is the creator of the #TeachLivingPoets movement. Are spaces still available? Learn more about Halley here. This writing event is a wonderful opportunity to get intense instruction over the course of one day, pitch a literary agent or editor (optional), get your questions answered, and more. She teaches at the College of Wooster; previously, she taught at UH Mnoa. She gravitates toward American history, hidden history, true crime, platform-driven nonfiction in the social sciences (especially concerning politics, feminism, and social justice), as well as deep dives into specific subjects with a prescriptive approach, aiming to help the reader live a better life, such as Johann Haris Stolen Focus. J.D. Their work has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Adroit, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. F190. The 52nd installment in this series is with agent Miriam Kriss (Irene Goodman Literary) for her author, Karen Mahoney, for the YA urban . Rebecca Hoogs is the author of Self-Storage and a chapbook, Grenade. Venita Blackburn's works have appeared in thenewyorker.com, Harpers, The Paris Review, and others. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at UNC Wilmington, and has also taught in India, Italy, and Mexico. K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. F136. Find out how they battle the sophomore slump with slightly thicker skin, a better understanding of publishing, a healthy dose of anxiety, and a lot of gratitude for their peers. She is the founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current coeditor of Slapering Hol Press. In fiction, she seeks: dark and transporting Young Adult fantasy; atmospheric and whimsical Middle Grade; Young Adult & Adult mysteries with a unique hook; clever retellings of folklore/legends/myths; stories that feature diverse voices and multicultural experiences; Graphic Novels. How can you measure success? She writes the Substack newsletter A Few Crooked Words to inspire kids' writing. She writes for the New York Times andVogue. This could look like an historical fiction that uses captivating detail and relatable characters to bring times-gone-by to life (My Antonia, Outlander), or it could be a SFF world that highlights virtues like empathy and self-sacrifice (Lord of the Rings, Song of Albion, The Sparrow). Sassafras Lowrey's books have been honored by organizations ranging from the American Library Association and the Dog Writers Association of America to the Cat Writers Association. April 22, 2017: New Orleans Writers Conference (New Orleans, LA) May 6, 2017: Seattle Writers Conference (Seattle, WA) May 19-21, 2017: PennWriters Conference (Pittsburgh, PA) June 24, 2017: The Writing Workshop of Chicago (Chicago, IL) Aug. 18-20, 2017: Writer's Digest Conference (New York, NY) Other writing/publishing articles and links . She is coauthor of The Norton Guide to AP Literature and coauthor of Teach Living Poets. Terese Svoboda has published 19 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, translation, and the biography Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet. AWP Conferences began our caucus discussions in 2010. Rooms 343-344, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, F194. Presenters on this event prefer all attendees wear a mask while in attendance at the event. F167. She is a past chief editor of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Please check back here and our Upcoming Events page for more information and updates. Seattle writers: Take note of 15 events at the AWP Conference this week Nortons newest flash anthology, Flash Fiction America, features seventy-three stories, all under 1,000 words, that build around the concept of the United States in contemporary times. This lecture will be followed by a book signing. And even though this is the Online Fall "Seattle" Writing Workshop, make no mistake writers from everywhere are welcome to attend virtually. (Sonora Jha, Angela Garbes, Claire Dederer, Jessamine Chan). (240) 696-8250 Chelsey Emmelhainz is a literary agent with Copps Literary Services. Micaela Kaibni Raen is a Palestinian American poet and non/fiction writer, LGBT+ community organizer, and international human rights activist. Danny Thanh Nguyen is a Lambda Literary and Kundiman Fellow. The Future of Queer Aesthetics: How to Write Authentic LGBTQ+ Characters In addition to his teaching duties, he is an academic advisor and the capstone coordinator. Joan Kwon Glass is the author of Night Swim, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest. Urvi Kumbhat graduated from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan, where she is currently a Zell Fellow. How do you use it to prompt student writing? An employee of Open Books: A Poem Emporium and cohost of the podcast The Poet Salon, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Redefining poetic justice, this panel explores actionability in terms of prison reform, racial injustice, gun violence, abuse, sexual assault, and immigration law. Across: One Poem in a Thousand Voices: Comparative Perspectives in Translation, Sponsored by ALTA Wounds. Folklore serves as a powerful proxy for lost memory, especially for marginalized communities with fractured or inaccessible histories. Teaching, Learning, and Programming outside the Academy: A Case for Writers Centers His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other places. He is an adoptee of Cambodian, Portuguese, and Spanish heritage. The full program will be available soon. Jaquira Daz is the author of Ordinary Girls, an Indies Introduce Selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and an Indie Next Pick. Despite a strong literary presence, forums for support among American Jewish writers are limited. Payment is by PayPal or check or credit card. She loves found family books! She applies critical disability studies to writing studies to support more accessible and effective teaching and learning. Given how fundamental a writer's language is to the experience and portrayal of their world, how does the negotiation between a multilingual writer's home language and writing language (English) present both challenges and opportunities? There is a growing body of poetry by survivors of suicide loss and a need to gain visibility and share this work with each other and with the world. Most memoirs take readers on a journey through a steady, singular voice. (What you see here is a quick layout of the days events. Huan Hsu the author of The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China. Standing at the Center and Writing from the Margins: A Lecture by A.J. She teaches and writes in Exeter, New Hampshire. His debut novel, Pax Americana, was published by Stalking Horse Press. Seattle Writing Workshop: April 29, 2023 MICHIGAN 2023 (Live & in person) She co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin. Conference Events She is seeking: Young adult & new adult: Issue driven, romance (anything but erotica), speculative fiction (fantasy & sci-fi), magical realism, paranormal, rom-com, suspense, mystery. They received their PhD in ethnic studies from the University of California, Riverside. She holds an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and an MA in English Civilization from the University of the French West Indies. She helped assemble the 2022 Common Reading Anthology for first-year students. He established the first Community & Oral History Archive & Library for the Greeks of New York, and he is the Director of HAP (www.hapsoc.org). Athena Dixon is the author of The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press) and No God in This Room (Argus House Press). Verdelle, a novelist, essayist, and the creative advisor to AWP's HBCU Fellowship Program, currently in its inaugural year. Journaling is employed as a therapeutic tool, but if unstructured, can retraumatize by replicating pain and disempowerment. Lindsay Wong is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo and the YA novel, My Summer of Love and Misfortune. Emerald City Writers' Conference - Emerald City Romance Writers - ECRW Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (an interdisciplinary collaboration); Yesterday, the Bees; and Rust Fish. Tameka Cage Conley, PhD, is a graduate of the fiction program of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and 201819 recipient of the Provost Visiting Writer Fellowship at the University of Iowa. Winner of the PEN Jean Stein Grant, her memoir Whiskey Tender is forthcoming from HarperCollins Harper in 2023. His focus is on creative nonfiction and eco-writing. Their chapbook Dyke (geology) is out with Black Lawrence Press. Having stayed the course, these panelists celebrate lived experience in crafting their debuts, despite challenges of finding space, time, income, and community. This poetry reading honors the life and work of poet Kamilah Aisha Moon (19732021), author of Starshine & Clay and She Has a Name, who touched the lives of countless people through her moving words and clear-eyed way of being in the world. He holds an MFA in poetry from Chicago State University. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided. He is a fiction writer, interested in genre fiction, literary theory, experimental fiction, sound design, and interdisciplinary narrative. Jeffers was elected into the American Antiquarian Society, whose members include fourteen U.S. presidents, and is critic at large for Kenyon Review. She is the recipient of a 2021 O. Henry Prize and a 2020 USA Artists Fellowship. F170. F196. In Young Adult, she is looking for contemporary stories that pack an emotional punch. He received his BA in English from the University of . Speakers for 2023 include: Russell Brunson (ClickFunnels), Michael Hyatt (Full Focus, multi NYT Bestselling Author), Amy Porterfield (NYT Bestselling Author), and Hal Elrod (Miracle Morning). In adult fiction, she seeks Romance, Speculative Fiction/Suspense (think Dean Koontz), Humor (combine all three and now were talking!) The bilingual writers on this panel discuss how they navigate their translingual / transcultural work and how language constructs identity and a sense of belonging. Sokunthary Svay is the author of Apsara in New York. She received an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, and was awarded a Fulbright grant to research and write in Estonia. Join diverse, multigenre queer writers from Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia as they read and discuss what draws them to Cascadia, how locale informs their work, and what it means to write in the Northwest, outside the major LGBTQ2S+ hubs of New York City, San Francisco, and Toronto. She teaches at Northern Arizona University. Divya, Molly Tanzer, Andy Marino, Ruthanna Emrys, and Amy Alkon. F159. Joshua Welsh earned his PhD in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication from the University of Minnesota in 2013. Please consult the bookfair map in the AWP mobile app for location details. Her novel Failing the Trapeze won the Nilsen Award for a First Novel, and she has received awards from the Fulbright foundation, NEH, AAUW, Hedgebrook, Jentel, Playa, and Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has appeared in Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Water~Stone Review, and many other places. How do you navigate the admissions process? AWP Award Series Reading and Celebration Rooms 347-348, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3, F169. He studied law at the University of Iowa, and creative writing at Columbia University. Mariah Stovall is an agent at Trellis Literary Management, where she represents adult fiction and nonfiction. Writers of multiple genres who directly engage with diverse cultural traditions discuss their influences and strategies for wrestling with literary legacies. She has served as the jury chair of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and currently writes the Dark Matters column for The New York Times Book Review. She is an associate professor of English at The University of Alabama at Birmingham where she is also editor in chief of NELLE, a literary journal that publishes women. Her essays are in New York Times, Lit Hub, River Teeth, and more. Learn more about Kelly here. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, shares pages with Quenton Baker and Dr. Christina Sharpe. Connect with him at shankarnarayan.net. Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of deciduous qween. Hannah Andrade is an Agent & Royalties Manager at Bradford Literary Agency. What forms emerge when imagination and memory occupy the same space? Anna Leahy is a poet, nonfiction writer, pedagogy scholar, and medical humanities facilitator. Rooms 433-434, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, F121. He has edited two retrospective volumes of the poetry of Frank Stanford, including What About This, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and received the Balcones Poetry Prize. Among her awards are Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and The California Arts Council, The Lambda Literary Award, and three Pushcart Prizes. The film won numerous Best Picture and Best Director awards. In addition to marketing tips, authors will talk about community-building efforts and how satellite events can support creative work. F165. F112. AWP: Conference & Bookfair Registration - Association of Writers Sharp Tongues: Multilingual Writing in Emerging Asian Diasporic Poetics Rooms 435-436, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4, F122. His scholarship focuses on writing, literacy, and craft. Her most recent nonfiction book is Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece (2022). New Queer Weirda retrospectively-applied labelmuddies boundaries, mixing multiple speculative genres and non-normative realism. (A.J. In 2015, his fiction debut, Academy Gothic, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. Rosebud Ben-Oni won the 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery and is the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS. Hannah is very interested in stories that explore the intricacies of multicultural identities. Her work has received special mention and been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and Best Small Fictions. She serves as the executive director of Anaphora Arts, a nonprofit organization that advocates for writers of color. He occasionally contributes interviews to The Blue Mountain Review. Misbehaving Memoirs Kurt Baumeisters writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Rain Taxi, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Rumpus.
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