The Writer's Notebook
Articles on publishing, teaching, career advice, current literary affairs, and more. In short, a blog about everything in your notebook.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Deborah Paredez
AWP | February 2020
I'm a San Antonio native, and March is a beautiful time to visit. I would recommend taking in some art at the Presa House Gallery and hiking the Mission Trail and having a drink at the legendary Esquire Bar.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Elizabeth Acevedo
AWP | February 2020
Listening to Patricia Smith read had a lasting impact; she is legendary and it felt clear in the way the entire room seemed to be on the edge of their seats, craning forward, that she was casting a spell on all of us.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Jake Skeets
AWP | February 2020
I think it’s important to honor the writers who have paved the way for Native & Indigenous literature to exist within the national market and consciousness.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Mahogany L. Browne
AWP | February 2020
I'm always excited to see what new ways the writers and educators are sharing their work and processes.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Katharine Coles
AWP | February 2020
The times that give me the warmest feelings involve drinking wine and eating great food with my old friends from graduate school and newer friends who have grown close along the way.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Norma E. Cantú
AWP | January 2020
I am looking forward to Helena Maria Viramontes’s Keynote and to the sessions with Latinx writers like my buddies from Kansas City!
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Liliana Valenzuela
AWP | January 2020
It’s ginormous! Focus on a few authors and panels and go from there.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Kristen Young
AWP | January 2020
Though I’ve often preferred to travel alone, I was glad to have a buddy during my first AWP. I feel renewed by even brief meetups for coffee, and it’s nice to have someone to sit with between panels. Later in the evening, nothing saves a hotel bar like a familiar face.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Monique Truong
AWP | January 2020
In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow: a debut novel that introduces us to an unforgettable small town in North Carolina and a cast of characters who are remarkably fully formed, each one charming and flawed and carrying within them the weight of history.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with TC Tolbert
AWP | January 2020
I’m a student at heart so I love going to the panels where I take copious notes and geek out.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Aimee Liu
AWP | January 2020
There’s almost too much to choose from! This year I’m excited to be part of the Red Hen Press family at the Bookfair, and I always look forward to the keynote and to the AWP reunion of alumni and faculty from the Goddard College MFA Program where I teach.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Ada Calhoun
AWP | January 2020
I met the Solid State Bookstore guys at an AWP panel a couple of years ago and when I was on my last book tour they took me to a Nationals game. I'm hoping to parlay this AWP into more baseball games nationwide.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Ellen Meeropol
AWP | January 2020
My publisher, Red Hen Press, always has a big booth at the Bookfair and I love hanging out there. It’s my AWP home base.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Jess Row
AWP | December 2019
Every year I discover a panel or event focused on a subject or theme I've never thought about.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Donna Hemans
AWP | December 2019
I'm looking forward to discovering new journals and new writers and expanding the scope of writers and publications I read.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Matthew Zapruder
AWP | December 2019
I always love walking around the Bookfair, especially early in the morning, while everyone is bright and the first coffee is just kicking in.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Raquel Salas Rivera
AWP | December 2019
I look forward to checking out all the small presses and running into people I otherwise wouldn’t see at the Bookfair. Since I’m now in Puerto Rico, I’ll get to see people I miss.
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#AWP20 Featured Presenter Q&A with Marie Mockett
AWP | December 2019
AWP is where I binge buy poetry. Throughout the year, a few prose writers and I will exchange poems before we start working a part of the way we start the day.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Pam Houston
AWP | March 2019
At about the thirty-minute mark the door banged open and Larry floated in in a cloud of cigarette smoke. He had that way of walking, almost like a cartoon dog, where his feet didn't exactly touch the ground. He was all in leather, of course, and a couple of chains. He floated, more than walked to the podium. The room fell silent.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Ching-In Chen
AWP | March 2019
I loved the high energy, fun, and community gathered at last year’s Kundiman, Kaya Press & Asian American Literary Review Literaoke event. Even though I had just about lost my voice by that last night, I was lifted by all the love and camaraderie in the room.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Evie Shockley
AWP | March 2019
When I think about all the works I might not have encountered, without the funding that supported their creation and dissemination, I am really made aware of the profound importance of our collective investment in the arts.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Jennifer Foerster
AWP | March 2019
I’m excited for the number of panels and readings featuring writers from the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Fady Joudah
AWP | March 2019
Since I was a teenager, I've wanted to speak with Malcolm X.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Ellen Bass
AWP | March 2019
I have many wonderful conference memories, but my favorite has to be meeting Toi Derricotte.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Carmen Giménez Smith
AWP | March 2019
My favorite conference memories most often have to do with reconnecting with other publishers and with folks from SPD to talk about what's ahead and what books we're excited to read. And the candy.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Camille Dungy
AWP | March 2019
I'd love a chance for a long, deep chat with Phillis Wheatley. I bet she would be super hip and sassy (and also deeply thoughtful) if she were alive today.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Dawn Lundy Martin
AWP | March 2019
Portland has some excellent cuisine. The last time I visited, I was very taken by a little ramen shop in a reclaimed warehouse space called Afuri.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Luis Alberto Urrea
AWP | February 2019
I love to walk the floor and connect with the editors and staffs of smaller presses and lit mags and I really enjoy solo author events.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Javier Zamora
AWP | February 2019
Favorite memory has to be my very first AWP in Minneapolis. The shock of it. The sheer amount of people interested in writing, flying to a conference, the commotion of the Bookfair, brushing shoulders with living legends, etc. It was overwhelming in a great way.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Lisa Ko
AWP | February 2019
It's critical for writers and artists to be valued for the work that we do.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Joan Silber
AWP | February 2019
Grants from the NEA and the NY Foundation on the Arts were hugely important to me as a younger writer. It’s not just the money, it’s the proof that you’re not crazy calling yourself a writer.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Mitchell S. Jackson
AWP | February 2019
I’ve thankfully received a handful of grants in the last few years. They give me the money to live, pay a bill, travel, keep my accounts from running anemic, but they also provide the encouragement to continue scribbling away. And that encouragement is invaluable.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Sandra Gail Lambert
AWP | February 2019
It's the squealing that happens when you turn a corner and right there is a friend you haven't seen since that last residency, conference, or reading.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Jericho Brown
AWP | February 2019
I remember going to a panel with Toi Derricotte, Kay Murphy, and Alicia Ostriker back when I was getting my MFA. I was so happy to just lay eyes on and marvel at the genius of Ostriker. And I remember that their three talks left me with the feeling that I could indeed allow everything I have and know into my own poems.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Karen Russell
AWP | February 2019
I was so thrilled to give the keynote at AWP in 2015. It was a surreal and wonderful experience.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Joy Ladin
AWP | February 2019
The author I would most want to meet is Emily Dickinson, whom I have studied, read, and taught for decades.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Paul Guest
AWP | February 2019
As great as the conference is, I’ve always been energized and refreshed—inspired—by those around me.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
AWP | January 2019
I have my own large study where I write and the landscape here has really affected where my writing has taken me for my next book.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Max Wolf Valerio
AWP | January 2019
I wandered into a panel on crime writing—true crime, noir, hardboiled—and was overjoyed to hear swearing, blunt and forceful speech, no-nonsense direct language, and a generally intense, even inflamed atmosphere.... It occurred to me that possibly I had missed a calling. I am interested in exploring this type of writing at some point and seeing where it leads me.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Victoria Chang
AWP | January 2019
I fall in love with words, not stars.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Martín Espada
AWP | January 2019
Boston, 2013: I gave a reading at a benefit for Split This Rock. A good friend of mine made a stunning entrance. The Hynes Convention Center will never be the same.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Rebecca Makkai
AWP | January 2019
I've always wondered how F. Scott Fitzgerald would hold up at the hotel bar.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Adrian Matejka
AWP | January 2019
This is such a bountiful time for literature and poetry especially, so I’ll share a few new poetry collections I hope will get a little more attention.
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#AWP19 Featured Presenter Q&A with Marilyn Chin
AWP | January 2019
My work would not have flourished without public funding—it’s the lifeblood of poetry.
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month: An Interview with the Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers Caucus
AWP | November 2018
In continuation of our celebration of Native American Heritage Month, AWP invited members of the Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers Caucus to respond to a few questions about the upcoming conference in Portland and about established and emerging Indigenous voices.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Melissa Hammerle
AWP | March 2018
Recently, several of us have lost our most influential literary mentors. In response, we hope to both honor and explore the role of mentorship in our writing lives.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Maggie Smith
AWP | March 2018
At AWP I always wish I could be seven places at once. There are so many panels, readings, and offsite events packed into those few days.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Brian Brodeur
AWP | March 2018
My hope is that attendees will leave this event both inspired and provoked.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
AWP | February 2018
Absolutely I feel like community is fostered and mentorship more widely available through creative writing programs.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Bob Shacochis
AWP | February 2018
A writer's main responsibility is not to be swept up and carried away by a cultural moment.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
AWP | February 2018
If I am writing about an historical event that is in connection to our current climate, how may I approach it differently? If I am writing about my personal lineage as it relates to global migration and displaced cultures, how may I explore this in a manner that touches upon a variety of expressions?
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with CJ Hribal & Participants Dean Bakopoulos & Peter Ho Davies
AWP | February 2018
I hope people come away with a larger sense of fiction’s possibilities for engaging with the smaller moments that can illuminate the larger issues.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Carmen Maria Machado
AWP | February 2018
I'm always excited for the exhibits at Nightboat Books, Dorothy: a publishing project, and Small Beer Press!
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Luanne Smith
AWP | February 2018
We all know certain women, real or imagined, out there are bad asses. They loom large in our minds, whether for their outspoken nature or their actions.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Rick Barot
AWP | February 2018
Given the urgencies within the self and the emergencies surrounding the self, each writer has to figure out his or her way into the work and the purpose of that work.
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#AWP18 Event Participant Q&A with Paul Morris, Jeff Kleinman, Anjali Singh, & Sarah Bowlin
AWP | February 2018
The author-agent relationship is one of the most important things to get right at the start of your career, or even when you’re considering a transition from one agent to another.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Nathan Englander
AWP | February 2018
There’s about a million things I want to do, and a million folks I want to see—the old friends and the new writers whose work I admire.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Katherine Coles
AWP | February 2018
The goal is to help attendees not only navigate such issues in their own lives, but also return to their institutions with specific ideas about how to identify and talk about problems.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Morgan Parker
AWP | February 2018
Acknowledging an artist's labor as a valuable and critical contribution to culture is the cornerstone of society, and investing in artists is investing in progress.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Patricia Spears Jones
AWP | February 2018
On the one hand there are many writers, teachers of writers, and programs in which they work. But are there more readers—serious, engaged readers of poetry? No one really knows.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Melanie Brooks
AWP | February 2018
For so many, hearing others share similar stories helped them find the courage to speak. The same is often true for writers of trauma.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Maud Casey
AWP | February 2018
The task is still to pay imaginative attention. James Baldwin, as usual, said it best: “to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.”
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Tyehimba Jess
AWP | January 2018
Public funding for the arts has been fundamental to my understanding of art and my ability to write.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Sofia Samatar
AWP | January 2018
It's fair to say that right now American politics are monstrous. We want to discuss, among other things, what's at stake in that notion.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Mary Ruefle
AWP | January 2018
Each writer must determine for herself what she means by “responsibility” and what hers is. Would that not be in itself an act of freedom? To write at all is an act of freedom, so any form of writing on any subject injects freedom into a world where we might not recognize it at large.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Virgil Suárez
AWP | January 2018
If it spent a small fraction of what it spends on the military on education, the arts, and medical research it be a completely different country.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Sherwin Bitsui
AWP | January 2018
Choosing a panel over another is always difficult—there are simply too many concurrent events.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Lisa Olstein
AWP | January 2018
We need it all: reflection and instigation; documentation and invention; discovery and disruption; sanctuaries and calls to arms and voyages into otherwise unthought and unfelt places.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with John Hoppenthaler
AWP | January 2018
Our panel is relevant today, and always, because history is that which is memorialized and documented.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Lauren Groff
AWP | January 2018
A writer’s responsibility is mostly the responsibility of being a good citizen: to be informed, to speak out against injustice, to vote, to pay taxes, to try to leave the world much better than we came into it.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Carey Salerno
AWP | January 2018
For those who are discovering June Jordan’s body of literary work, we hope they’ll find a deep appreciation for her revolutionary, singular voice.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with George Saunders
AWP | December 2017
I wouldn’t mind running into Dickens in the bathroom and cornering there at the hand-dryer until he told me how it felt in those weeks he was writing A Christmas Carol.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Amy Brill
AWP | December 2017
Looking back at the forces that brought us here is one way for writers to reckon with the racism, sexism, misogyny, and white nationalism of our times.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Connie May Fowler
AWP | December 2017
Political, personal, and social transformation is impossible without empathy.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Molly Brodak
AWP | December 2017
I think we as writers are eager to talk about how to write our way through our current political moment at the same time that we write about our private lives—and how these connect.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Linda Rodriguez & Participants Mary Kathryn Nagel, Denise Low, & Diane Glancy
AWP | December 2017
We hope attendees will walk away with a deep appreciation of the contributions Diane Glancy has made, not only to Native literature, but the world of literature as well.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Cherríe Moraga
AWP | December 2017
How to continue along this path as a writer, knowing that your deepest impressions (your embodied knowledges) are not the stuff of mainstream literature.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with David Hassler
AWP | December 2017
Writing Across Borders interactive exhibit will experience short videos, posters, and photographs that give a human face and voice to the issue of how we welcome newcomers to our country.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Kao Kalia Yang
AWP | November 2017
One of my favorite features of AWP is the fact that I get to discover new writers and books each time I visit.
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#AWP18 Event Organizer Q&A with Michael Fischer
AWP | November 2017
Writers are masters of finding excuses for why the present place and moment isn’t conducive to our writing.
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#AWP18 Featured Presenter Q&A with Jamie Quatro
AWP | November 2017
I can’t wait to hear Lauren Groff and Nathan Englander in conversation, and I won’t miss Virgil Suarez or George Saunders.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Hannah Tinti
AWP | February 2017
It’s been exciting to see the literary world expand this way, and to see so many people coming into the field later in life, bringing their own unique experiences.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Viet Thanh Nguyen
AWP | February 2017
It’s necessary to find the balance that is appropriate for you. I can only speak for myself in saying that I’ve always been a writer who sees himself as politically and socially committed.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Karen Joy Fowler
AWP | January 2017
I'm hoping someone has advice for me on how to be a writer and a person in the next four years.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Danez Smith
AWP | January 2017
When artists are taken care of we all are taken care of.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Rikki Ducornet
AWP | January 2017
The creative imagination is the agency that releases us from all that compromises our capacity for clarity and so: transformation. We are wired to think creatively, just as we are wired to play, to be curious, to wander, to fall in love, to ask questions, to overcome obstacles, to search for answers.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Angela Flournoy
AWP | January 2017
I'm crossing my fingers for an Edward P. Jones sighting. I'd love to talk about movies with him because I think his writing has a very evocative, cinematic quality.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with J. Mae Barizo
AWP | January 2017
I'm very grateful for grants and funding I've received. But there's always more need for writers from underrepresented, marginalized communities.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Rita Dove
AWP | January 2017
Prior to AWP and the proliferation of creative writing programs, for a writer to be assured some measure of financial security, she would have had to earn a degree in a field not quite aligned to her special expertise.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Azar Nafisi
AWP | January 2017
I define creative writing a subversive discipline thriving in a highly theoretical academic atmosphere.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Margot Livesey
AWP | January 2017
It seems a wonderful thing that so many people are now getting to live in the world of words.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Emma Straub
AWP | January 2017
Public funding makes creative work possible for many, many people.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Sarah Manguso
AWP | December 2016
Listen more; risk more; assemble. That's the advice I wish I'd heard a year ago.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Thomas Mallon
AWP | December 2016
I'd hope to run into George Orwell, to hear what he had to say about all the rubbish and cant talked in this country on both the left and the right.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Tim Seibles
AWP | December 2016
Don’t be afraid to write what you see. Part of a writer’s obligation is to be articulate in difficult socio-political circumstances.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Patricia Engel
AWP | December 2016
I love catching as many panels as possible, though there is never enough time to see them all.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Eileen Myles
AWP | December 2016
Meeting in great numbers and even writing for choral situations rather than solo voices is profound and valuable.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Paul Lisicky
AWP | December 2016
I suppose the downside is that the “career” side of things is often over-emphasized. It can be too easy to lose sight of why we do this.
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#AWP17 Featured Presenter Q&A with Aminatta Forna
AWP | November 2016
I'd talk to her about what it meant to commit a life to a single artistic and intellectual endeavor in the fight against oppression.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Linda Gregerson
AWP | March 2016
It’s fun, for one thing, to see the friends we adore but see too rarely and the writers we’ve admired from afar.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates
AWP | March 2016
These are wonderful opportunities for writers to meet readers and one another. I have had memorable on-stage interviews and conversations, & very worthwhile panels.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Susan Orlean & Domingo Martinez
AWP | March 2016
Conferences, retreats, workshops, and gatherings are so important for writers. We all benefit from realizing that we're not alone in our lonely trade, and that it matters to keep doing it.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Rigoberto González
AWP | March 2016
One of my favorite books of 2015 is actually AWP’s Donald Hall Prize for Poetry winner, Karankawa by Iliana Rocha.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Jonathan Lethem & Geoff Dyer
AWP | March 2016
At a conference like AWP we also enjoy an opportunity to briefly remake the world in our own image—an entire population, overflowing the lobbies and bars of a number of hotels, who actually care about this stuff.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Luis Rodriguez
AWP | March 2016
I also think AWP’s panels and readings this year are some of the most diverse and innovative to date. Yes, more can be done—and I will always be a voice and advocate for this. Still, I’m going to make the most of the many fine ideas, skills, and knowledge that AWP brings to Los Angeles in 2016.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Elizabeth McKenzie
AWP | March 2016
it’s amazing to have the names you’ve seen in the mastheads, the editors you’ve sent things to and maybe corresponded with, right there in front of you, three-dimensional and alive, ready to talk to you, not to mention the writers you’ve read who are also there to talk and listen to.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Natasha Trethewey
AWP | March 2016
I've been going to the AWP Conference for nearly twenty years and it has remained one of my favorite ways to reconnect with friends across the country.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Douglas Kearney & Gregory Pardlo
AWP | February 2016
I’ve been thinking recently about ways to more fully attend to joy in my work—but even thinking of “joy” brings to mind a range of nuanced ideas.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Laura Kasischke
AWP | February 2016
It’s a nearly surreal experience to see so many old friends at one time in one place.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Philip Klay
AWP | February 2016
I actually don't think of writing as such a solitary act. For me, community is essential.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with D.A Powell & Marilyn Nelson
AWP | February 2016
I think a bunch of us are gonna sneak off to Knott's Berry Farm!
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Kelly Link
AWP | February 2016
I meet up with a couple of writers a couple of times a week and we all work together.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Richard Bausch
AWP | February 2016
Almost all the writers I know are outlandishly gregarious people who love to tell stories and gather to do so. Given this fact, the conference makes perfect sense to me.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Rachel Eliza Griffiths
AWP | February 2016
It's such a large community that each conference you're likely to meet new writers and editors who care about the politics and practices of writing, craft, and publishing.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Peter Davies & Roxana Robinson
AWP | February 2016
I think it can be very heartening to meet other members of your tribe. Writers are peculiar creatures, and if you feel you are the only one of your kind, it’s dispiriting. Finding the rest of your kin is crucial!
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Juan Felipe Herrera
AWP | February 2016
Community is the magic word. We need it.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Leslie Jamison
AWP | January 2016
I love meeting people face-to-face that I have corresponded with—or admired—from afar, editors and writers alike.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Jess Walter
AWP | January 2016
I find it thrilling to see so many people chewing on ideas and issues I've never considered or have only contemplated alone in the quiet of my office.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Naomi Shihab Nye
AWP | January 2016
Discovering so many books and voices you never knew before.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Francisco Goldman
AWP | January 2016
I think I'm most excited to hear Maggie Nelson speak. She's so brilliant but I've never listened to her in person.
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#AWP16 Featured Presenter Q&A with Robin Coste Lewis
AWP | January 2016
I come to AWP to see my friends! Because writing is so solitary, as you say, and because I'm often reclusive, the chance to kiss the cheeks of folks I adore, all in one spot, is just irresistible.
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