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AWP Annual Conference
| Contact: | Alycia Tessean | ||
| Address: | AWP Conference Services, Mail Stop 1E3, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 | ||
| Phone: | 703-993-4301 | ||
| E-mail: | conference@awpwriter.org | ||
| Website: | http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/index.php | ||
| Dates: | Annually Mid-Winter or Early Spring | ||
| Seasons: | Winter, Spring | ||
| Tuition: | See website for registration fees | ||
| Genres: | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Children's Literature | ||
| Faculty: | 2008 Keynote speaker is John Irving. 2008 Featured Presenters include: Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, E.L. Doctorow, Louise Glück, Galway Kinnell, A.S. Byatt, Mark Strand, James Tate, Robert Pinsky, Natasha Trethewey, Carolyn Forché, Ha Jin, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Billy Collins, Frank McCourt, Sonia Sanchez, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Lopate, Amy Hempel, Peter Cameron, Charles Simic, Martin Amis, Alan Cheuse, Edwidge Danticat, and William Kennedy. | ||
| Description: | The Annual Conference typically features 300 presentations: readings, lectures, panel discussions, and Forums plus hundreds of book signings, receptions, dances, and informal gatherings. The conference attracts more than 5,000 attendees and more than 400 publishers. In 2008, AWP will bring its annual conference and bookfair to New York City for the first time in the organization's 40-year history. Held between January 30 and February 2, 2008 at the Hilton New York, we expect the 2008 conference will be our most popular conference ever. Long Description: Each year, AWP holds its Annual Conference in a different region of North America in order to celebrate the outstanding authors, teachers, writing programs, literary centers, and small press publishers of that region. It's one of the biggest and liveliest literary gatherings in North America. Join the big literary conversation. Join us at the next Annual Conference. Mark your calendar now! Here are the locations and dates of our future conferences: 2008 New York, New York Proposals for Presentations- AWP welcomes proposals for presentation at the conference. Proposals may be submitted between February 1st and May 1st of each year; during that period, a form will appear on this website for submitting your proposal for next year's conference. Sponsorship- AWP also welcomes sponsorship and support for the conference. Sponsorship enables AWP to waive or reduce conference registration fees for over one thousand students each year, while such support also helps AWP build a more exciting conference. Contact awp@awpwriter.org if you are interested in becoming a sponsor. Advertising in the Conference Program- If you are interested in advertising in the Annual Conference Program, please contact Kirsten Clodfelter at advertising@awpwriter.org. If you have any particular requests, please make them in writing to Alycia Tessean at conference@awpwriter.org no later than the 15th of December. |
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