Awp conference & Bookfair 2018 Tentative Accepted Events


This is the Place: Women Writing About Home



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This is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Kelly McMasters, Amanda Petrusich, Dani Shapiro, Naomi Jackson, Catina Bacote)

As women coming of age in the modern era, moving out of our parents’ homes and into spaces of our own was exhilarating and terrifying. We looked to the past, to the homes our mothers and grandmothers defined for us, and we looked forward to something new we were going to create. In making homes for ourselves, we have defined ourselves—as partners, mothers, citizens. Readers are select contributors to This is the Place: 30 Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, November 2017).


This Pussy Fights Back: Poems of Witness and Resistance (Lisa Dordal, Kendra DeColo, Jan Beatty, Wendy Chin-Tanner, Allison Joseph)

Despite significant advances made in the fight for women’s equality over the past fifty years, there still exists a deeply entrenched hatred of and prejudice against women and girls across the globe. As manifested during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and election, sexism is not only alive and well, it is thriving. Five award-winning poets share poems of witness and resistance, shedding necessary light on the realities lurking behind the myth that we live in a post-feminist society.


Toad Press International Chapbook series celebrates 15 years of translation (Genevieve Kaplan, Seth Michelson, Paul Cunningham, Tiffany Higgins, Katherine Hedeen)

The Toad Press International chapbook series is proud to celebrate its 15th year publishing literary translation. Join the press’s publisher, alongside translators and authors, for a reading and discussion celebrating the exciting and necessary work of contemporary literary translation. Featured translators continue to publish widely, working from languages including Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.


Two-countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents. An Anthology of Flash Memoir, Personal Essays and Poetry (Tina Schumann, Chris Wiewiora, Prageeta Sharma, Timothy Liu, Sahar Mustafah)

A selection of contributors will read their contribution from the 2017 anthology "Two-Countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents. An Anthology of Flash Memoir, Personal Essays and Poetry." Introduction by editor, Tina Schumann. Q and A to follow. Contributors include Richard Blanco, Timothy Liu, Tina Chang, Prageeta Sharma, Li-Young Lee, Ocean Vuong, Ira Sukrungruang, Elisa Albo, Kazim Ali, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, and many other talented children of immigrant parents.


Uncanny Technologies in New Latinx Fiction (Matthew Goodwin, Pablo Brescia, Frederick Aldama, Sabrina Vourvoulias)

In this panel, three authors included in Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy (Wings Press 2017) will give readings of their most recent work. These writers show the diversity of ways that Latino/a literature is grappling with the ever-changing landscape of technology and its effects on the Latinx community. They work as futurists, providing readers with a unique means to imagine a future in which Latinxs play a pivotal role.


VARIEDADES: A Ballad Beyond the Border Wall (Rubén Martínez, Dagoberto Gilb, Cristina Rivera Garza, Raquel Gutiérrez, Leticia Hernández)

Now in its 7th year, VARIEDADES is an interdisciplinary per­for­mance se­ries that brings to­gether spoken word, music, theater, and comedy, loosely based on the Mexican vaude­ville shows (“variedades”) of early 20th century Los Angeles that my Mexican grand­parents per­formed in. Each show is fo­cused by a par­ti­cu­lar theme. For AWP in Tampa I am assembling a Southwest edition called VARIEDADES: A Ballad Beyond the Border Wall, a polyvocal invocation to breach walls in art and life.


Vassar Miller Poetry Prize 25th Anniversary Reading (John Poch, Caki Wilkinson, Alison Stine, James Najarian, Anna Lena Phillips Bell)

The Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, founded at the University of North Texas in 1993, honors Texas poet, writer, and disability rights advocate Vassar Miller (1924–1998). To commemorate the prize's 25th anniversary, four winners will read from their collections, showcasing the formal and geographic variety of poetry published in the series. The reading will be followed by a Q&A led by the prize series editor.


We Are a Helix, We Survive: Calypso Authors Read Poetry, Prose, and Translation from Angel Island to the American South (Jan Freeman, Jeff Leong, Margaret McMullen, Carrie Meadows, Robin Davidson)

Calypso writers read from their new books, shattering silences imposed by natural disaster; racism; genocide; homophobia; and the confinements of place, family, morality. From outsider artists of the South to New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina to a Chinese immigrant detainees at Angel Island, CA, and intractable losses of community, identity, home – these writers offer transcendent observations of the continuum of human experience. We are a helix.


We Remain: Resurgent Indigenous Belonging (Margo Tamez, Kimberly Blaeser, Juan Guillermo Sanchez)

Engaging the call for Indigenous poets to engage, claim and interrogate Indigenous memory, this poetry reading will address the poetics and the politics of Indigenous memory, collective memory, Indigenous poetic consciousness and the persistence of Indigenous peoples' relationships and artistic traditions embedded within a shared history of resistance to destructive practices of dominant groups. This reading engages difficult knowledge, place, space, restorative justice, and healing.


We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America (Lisa Page, Achy Obejas, Sergio Troncoso, Brando Skyhorse, Marc Fitten)

Essayists from the anthology, We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America, will discuss misrepresentations of identity through gender, class, and race and other categories. Panel will feature five creative nonfiction essayists, all of whom are part of this anthology.


We Will Survive, But We Will Not Forget: Poetry by Muslims as Historical Documentation in Post-9/11 America (Adam Hamze, Marwa Helal, Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar)

It's incredibly difficult for many Muslims to feel safe practicing Islam in America. Since 9/11, Muslims have tried to live peacefully despite the violence and bigotry that has attempted to scare them away. This era may pass, but years from now, what medium will hold our stories of survival? Join four contemporary Muslim poets in discussing this crucial role that poetry can play: Documenting the history of a people who refused to give up a religion and its community, despite the risk of erasure.


Wesleyan University Press Poetry Reading (Evie Shockley, Kazim Ali, Brenda Hillman, Sarah Blake, Kerri Webster)

Politically aware poets read from their latest work, reacting to our political climate and reflecting on our place, as individuals, in an unsettled world. Exploring the anxieties and isolation of our troubled times—these voices ponder how we can care for ourselves and each other. We ask, is it possible to break free from a seemingly endless, soul-numbing cycle of emotions, moving through outrage, mourning, and despair, again and again?


What I Found in Florida: Essays From the Sunshine State (Jim Ross, Jill Christman, Corey Ginsberg, Katelyn Keating, Lucy Bryan)

This reading will feature five writers whose essays appear in the What I Found in Florida anthology, forthcoming from University Press of Florida (2018). Travel with these authors to a nature preserve in the panhandle, a Miami neighborhood beset by crime, and a centuries-old city in the path of a hurricane. In their works, Florida is not only a backdrop but also a character—one that inspires meditations on motherhood, the meaning of home, the passage of time, and the future of our planet.


Why We Chose It: Crazyhorse (Jonathan Heinen, Daniel Groves, Erica Dawson, Mark Jude Poirier)

The editorial selection process often seems mysterious. A brief editorial rationale will precede readings from recent Crazyhorse fiction, nonfiction, and poetry contributors in an attempt to offer some insight into why we chose their work for publication.


Witchy Ways: A Brujx Binders Reading (Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes, Susannah Drissi, Juanita Mantz, Desiree Zamorano, Natalia Sylvester)

Brujx Binders, a sub-group of Facebook's Binders Full of Women Writers group, is for any and all Brujx who identify as Latin-American, and/or writers who explore themes surrounding Latinx Heritage/Issues in their writing. This panel will feature five writers of various genres at different stages in their careers. They will address the significance of being a Bruja/x an identity in itself and illustrate, through their writings, how the issues and connections shape their perspectives as Brujx.


Women for Women - Building Community through Mentorship (Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Parneshia Jones, Patricia Smith, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Ellen Hagan)

Friendships with fellow women writers are essential. They are balm and salve, they mend and protect, they channel and calm. Northwestern University Press gathers its powerhouse of women writers for a reading and celebration. This multi-generational, multicultural collective of poets is dedicated to building a thriving and diverse range of voices that act as a buoy for one another, lifting and encouraging both craft and community as they rise up together.


Women on the Verge: A Reading (Rachel Khong, Alice Sola Kim, Katie Kitamura, Claire Vaye Watkins, R.O. Kwon)

Lady Macbeth, Elena Greco, Miss Havisham—some of the most memorable woman characters in literature have been the angry ones. Nonetheless, literary writers are often criticized, or overlooked, for bringing to life so-called unrelatable, unlikable woman characters. What are the delights and risks of writing angry women whom some readers might find to be off-putting? What could be potential difficulties? Join five fiction writers as we read from and discuss passages featuring the women we’ve made.


Women Write the Future (Rebecca Gayle Howell, Leah Umansky, Nisi Shawl, Sheree Renée Thomas)

In a world of shifting alliances, power upheavals, and new challenges both environmental, socio-political, and technological, the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative genres offer artists a new imaginative lens to see and right/write the world. Women writers have added their voices and visions to this field and are publishing now more than ever. Join four award-winning women writers reading and discussing works that reimagine the past, examine our present, and contemplate new futures.


Writing at the Crossroads: Exploring the Interface Between Music and Literature. (John Edgar, Rob Spillman, Cyrus Cassells, Melissa Stephenson, Shayla Lawson)

Songs and stories, symphonies and poems, the echo of a nearly forgotten tune on the edge of a memory— music often animates, in subtle and direct ways, the written word. Here, authors from across genres discuss dealing with the difficult connections at play between the page and ear, when music is a not-so-silent character in their work.


Writing Fatherhood (Shane Seely, Geffrey Davis, F. Douglas Brown, Steven Church, Jarod Rosello)

How do men reckon with their lives and roles as fathers? In this multi-genre reading, writers who are fathers read from work exploring their identities, their struggles and their joys, and the ways they make sense of their complex and at times confounding place in the family and in the culture.


Writing LGBTQ Fiction Based on Real People (Alan Lessik, Miguel Munoz, Kathy Anderson)

Novels are often shaped by real events happening to real people that they know. Three LGBTQ novelists will talk about the real people within their stories and how the creative process changed both the characters and ultimately the authors themselves. For LGBTQ novelists, exploring these stories become an exploration of our larger community and the known and unknown histories of our lives. Alan Lessik and two other novelists will discuss these themes and read from their works.


Writing Race, Writing Madness: Writing Trans, Writing Genderfuck (Ari Burford, Mel McCuin, Wryly Tender McCutchen, Ryka Aoki, Berkley Carnine)

This panel focuses on truth telling, specifically writing about trans and/or genderqueer, lives in relation to race and mental illness. We will share readings that evoke questions about naming the varied realities of our lived experiences in a transphobic heteronormative racist ableist world that denies our realities and glorifies white able-bodied androgyny and thinness. Each author will address different challenges around writing memories of trauma.


Writing Workshops in Greece: Faculty and Alumni Reading (Lauren Alleyne, Graham Barnhart, Natalie Bakopoulos, Lauren Clark, Christopher Bakken)

This reading celebrates Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos, which allows writers to gather for a month of literary work and adventure on a remote island. Our reading highlights the diversity and success of our program faculty and alumni, who range widely in age and origin, and who have won numerous book prizes and have served as Stegner Fellows, Cave Canem fellows, and Fulbright scholars. Readers will attest to the value of an immersive international literary experience.


Writing/Righting Cuba/n From Afar (Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, Ivonne Lamazares, Susannah Drissi, Rebecca Fortes)

This panel explores ways in which Cuban American and Cuban-born writers, at various biographical, geographical, and temporal distances from the island, claim rights to cultural and national identity through their fiction. Together, these writers and their works contribute to a larger discussion about not only the various relationships and complex connections that mark narratives about Cuba (written both from the island, as well as from afar), but also about what constitutes Cuban literature.


Xavier University of Louisiana Creative Writing Minor 20th Anniversary Reading (Biljana D. Obradovic, Patrice Melnick, Jonathan Moody, Kristina Robinson, Kayla Rodney)

Located in New Orleans, Xavier University of Louisiana is a Historically Black and Catholic University founded by St. Katherine Drexel and the Sister of the Blessed Sacrament in 1915, and also the first to start a Minor in Creative Writing, celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. One of the founders, creative nonfiction writer, Patrice Melnick as well as a current professor, the poet and translator, Biljana D. Obradovic, will read from their work with their successful creative writing





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