Many of our 2018 faculty, visitors, and staff will be speaking on panels at the upcoming AWP Conference in Tampa, FL (March 7–10). We're looking forward to these wonderful panels and hope to see you there! You can also stop by our bookfair booth with the Sewanee Review and Sewanee School of Letters at #1206.
Thursday, March 8
R108. The Mentor/Mentee Relationship for Creative Writers
Amina Gautier, Doug Ramspeck, Benjamin Ludwig, Christine Sneed, Amy Wallen
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Grand Salon A, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor
R131. Intersectional South: New Perspectives in Southern Poetry
Adam Vines, Chad Abushanab, John Poch, T.J. Jarrett, Juliana Gray
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Room 18 & 19, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
R162. Sound and Fury: Orality in Contemporary Literature
Jeffery Renard Allen, Andy Johnson, Akwaeke Emezi, Renee Simms, Stephanie Han
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Room 18 & 19, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
R167. Why We Chose It: Crazyhorse
Daniel Groves, Jonathan Heinen, Erica Dawson, Mark Jude Poirier
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Room 25, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
R197. Memoir as an Agent of Social Change
Parneshia Jones, Connie May Fowler, Joy Castro, Sue William Silverman, Gale Massey
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Room 24, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
R201. Should You Pursue a Creative Writing PhD?
Gwen Kirby, Michael Knight, Leah Stewart, Micah Dean Hicks, Danielle Deulen
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Grand Salon B, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor
R214. Tribute for Michelle Boisseau
Mark Jarman, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Enid Shomer, Robert Stewart
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Virginia Barber Middleton Stage, Sponsored by USC, Exhibit Hall, Tampa Convention Center, Third Floor
R222. A Winding Stair: Teaching Poetic Form
David Yezzi, Richie Hofmann, Emily Leithauser, Derrick Austin
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Room 14, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
R212. How Do I Know When This Thing Is Done?
Michelle Brower, Rakesh Satyal, Anjali Singh, Annie Hwang, Maria Gagliano
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Ballroom D, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
R245. Waccamaw Journal's 10th Anniversary Celebration Reading
Hastings Hensel, Jason Ockert, Joe Oestreich, Dan Albergotti, Jessica Lee Richardson
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Virginia Barber Middleton Stage, Sponsored by USC, Exhibit Hall, Tampa Convention Center, Third Floor
R266. This Pussy Fights Back: Poems of Witness and Resistance
Allison Joseph, Lisa Dordal, Kendra DeColo, Wendy Chin-Tanner, Cynthia Manick
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Grand Salon D, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor
R292. The Gatekeepers: Behind the Scenes of Literary Agencies
Michelle Brower, Lucy Carson, Allison Hunter, Erin Harris, Beth Staples
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Room 24, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
Friday, March 9
F111. Born on the Bayou: Five Fiction Writers with Southern Ties
Emily Nemens, Alexander Lumans, Yuri Herrera, Mary Miller, Crystal Wilkinson
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Grand Salon D, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor
F121. Finding Funding for Your Writing: Grants, Fellowships, and Other Ways to Get That Cash
Brittany K. Allen, Julia Phillips, Darley Stewart, Thaddeus Rutkowski, John Domini
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Room 3 & 4, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
F181. What Agents Want, Sponsored by The Authors Guild
Jeff Kleinman, Paul Morris, Anjali Singh, Sarah Bowlin
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Ballroom D, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
Amina Gautier, Marian Crotty, David James Poissant, Manuel Gonzales, Rion Amilcar Scott
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Room 22, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
F205. Vassar Miller Poetry Prize 25th Anniversary Reading
Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Caki Wilkinson, Alison Stine, James Najarian, Jordan Windholz
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Florida Salon 1, 2, & 3, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor
F239. Instructor, Agent, Editor: Mentors in Service of the Emerging Writer
Jeff Kleinman, Fred Leebron, Barbara Jones, Rob Spillman, Anna deVries
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Florida Salon 1, 2, & 3, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor
F274. A Woman’s Place: Ecotone Essayists Expand the Boundaries of Place-Based Writing
Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Belle Boggs, Shuchi Saraswat, Aisha Sabatini Sloan
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Florida Salon 4, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor
F287. Dispatches from Flyover Country: Building Literary Community in Far Off Places
Allison Joseph, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Katie Mertz, Silas Hansen, Brian Oliu
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Room 11, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
Saturday, March 10
S126. Profundity as Purpose: Thoughts on Sentences, Vocabulary, and Style
Christine Schutt, Josh Weil, John Keene, Christian Kiefer, Kim O'Neil
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Room 15, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
S196. The Glories of Impossible Translations: International Perspectives on Creative Process
Sidney Wade, Helene Cardona, Hilary Kaplan, Willis Barnstone, Christopher Merrill
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Room 23, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
S243. Can Poetry Hold the Center? Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press
Maurice Manning, Michael Wiegers, Lisa Olstein, Ha Jin
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Ballroom B, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
S239. Women for Women—Building Community Through Mentorship
Parneshia Jones, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Patricia Smith, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Ellen Hagan
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Florida Salon 6, Marriott Waterside, Second Floor
