AWP Panels Featuring Sewanee Faculty, Visitors, and Staff

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

 

F231. How Short Story Collections Are Born: Demystifying the Process of Publishing Your Debut Collection

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