Many of our 2017 faculty, visitors, and staff will be speaking on panels at the upcoming AWP Conference in Washington, DC (February 8–11). 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 #612.
Thursday, February 9
R136. The Craft of Editing Poetry: Practices and Perspectives from Literary Magazine Editors.
Anna Lena Phillips Bell and George David Clark, Sumita Chakraborty, Jessica Faust, James M. Smith Jr.
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Room 209ABC, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
R197. We All Have to Start Somewhere: How Bad Writing Gets Good.
Richard Bausch, Melissa Stein, Tayari Jones, Natalie Diaz, Nick Flynn
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Room 207A, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
R227. Tribute to Dave Smith.
Mary Flinn, Kate Daniels, T.R. Hummer, Molly McCully Brown, Ernest Suarez
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Room 204C, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
R201. Mining a Dark Vein: Writing About Appalachia and America’s Working Class.
Jill McCorkle, Larry Bingham, Amy Clark, Crystal Wilkinson, Carter Sickels
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Marquis Salon 1 & 2, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
R246. But Do You Have a Novel? How and Why Short Story Writers Transition into Novelists.
Amina Gautier, Susan Perabo, David James Poissant, Caitlin Horrocks, Kirstin Valdez Quade
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Capital & Congress, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
R236. Troubled Waters: Negotiating Disturbing Students & Texts in the Creative Writing Classroom.
Allison Joseph, Audrey Colombe, Lisa Norris, Fred D'Aguiar
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Marquis Salon 6, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
R280. Come Firewalk with Me: The Black Mind.
Jeffery Renard Allen, Morowa Yejide, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Jason Reynolds
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Capital & Congress, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
R291. United Artists: Creative Writers in the Trenches of the American Education System.
Parneshia Jones, Paula Whyman, Ellen Hagan, David Mura
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Room 204AB, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
Friday, February 10
F126. Celebrating The Golden Shovel Anthology in Honor of Gwendolyn Brooks
Marilyn Nelson, Maura Snell, Major Jackson, Sandra Beasley, Natalie Richardson
9:00 am to 10:15 am
AWP Bookfair Stage, Exhibit Halls D & E, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
F113. I Survived—and Thrived: Conference Veterans Discuss the Benefits and Drawbacks of Writing Conferences.
Amina Gautier, Eric Sasson, Sian Griffiths, Todd Kaneko, Rosebud Ben-Oni
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Marquis Salon 12 & 13, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
F260. Spalding MFA's Celebration of Writing.
Parneshia Jones, Sena Naslund, Jeanie Thompson, Nana Lampton, A. H. Jerriod Avant
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Virginia Barber Middleton Stage, Sponsored by USC, Exhibit Halls D & E, Convention Center, Level Two
F268. The Village of Your Novel.
Margot Livesey, Rebecca Smith, Carole Burns, Robin Black
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Room 207B, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
F252. School of Exactly One: C.D. Wright Memorial, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press.
Michael Wiegers, Ben Lerner, Dana Levin, Rikki Ducornet, Pura López-Colomé
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Ballroom B, Washington Convention Center, Level Three
F274. Editors Engage the Digital Age: Transforming the Modern Lit Journal.
Speer Morgan, Robbie Maakestad, Jodee Stanley, Sarah M. Wells, Joel Hans
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
Marquis Salon 6, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
F316. Distant Lands, Intimate Voices, with Patricia Engel, Sabina Murray, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sponsored by Grove Atlantic.
Elisabeth Schmitz, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Sabina Murray, Patricia Engel
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Ballroom C, Washington Convention Center, Level Three
Saturday, February 11
S127. Putting Madness to Work: The Poetics and Politics of Recovery.
Jeffery Renard Allen, Cynthia Oka, Rickey Laurentiis, Seema Reza, Vincent Toro
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Room 202A, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
S149. Get in Formation: Form in Young Adult Literature
Marilyn Nelson, Pamela L Laskin, Tiffany Jackson, Suzanne Weyn, Caroline Bock
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Liberty Salon N, O, & P, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
S191. Such Mean Stories: Women Writers Get Gritty.
Jill McCorkle, Luanne Smith, Jayne Anne Phillips, Vicki Hendricks, Stephanie Powell Watts
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Room 202A, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
S218. Celebrating Langston: Langston Hughes and Contemporary Writers.
Allison Joseph, Erika Wurth, Timothy Leyerson, Abdul Ali
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Room 101, Washington Convention Center, Level One
S227. We Go On Saying Thank You: A Tribute to W.S. Merwin.
Maurice Manning, Michael Wiegers, Naomi Shihab Nye, Chase Twichell
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Room 204AB, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
S237. Wayfaring Stranger: Writing Away from Our Experience.
Richard Bausch, Michael Croley, Brad Watson, Anne Valente, Laura van den Berg
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Marquis Salon 7 & 8, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
S301. A Reading and Conversation with Margot Livesey and Colum McCann, Sponsored by Arts & Letters / Georgia College.
Margot Livesey, Colum McCann
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Ballroom C, Washington Convention Center, Level Three
