AWP Conference & Bookfair
Portland, Oregon, United States
Conference
CONTACT: Cynthia Sherman
PHONE: (240) 696-7700
EMAIL: conference@awpwriter.org
WEBSITE: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview
The AWP Conference & Bookfair is an essential annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers.
Each year more than 12,000 attendees join our community for four days of insightful dialogue, networking, and unrivaled access to the organizations and opinion-makers that matter most in contemporary literature. The conference features over 2,000 presenters and 550 readings, panels, and craft lectures. The bookfair hosted over 800 presses, journals, and literary organizations from around the world. AWP’s is now the largest literary conference in North America. Join us in Portland, OR, in 2019 to celebrate the best of what contemporary literature has to offer.
Faculty
Featured Writers Include:
Keynote: Colson Whitehead
Check out all the #AWP19 featured events: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/presenters_featured_presenters_overview
Genres
Poetry, Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting, Children's literature
Oregon Convention Center
Location
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Portland
Oregon, United States
97232
AWP
AWP provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 500 college and university creative writing programs, and 125 writers’ conferences and centers. Our mission is to foster literary achievement, advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing.
