The New School will once again be featured at #AWP16, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference! This year's conference will be held in Los Angeles, California, from Wednesday, March 30-Saturday, April 2nd. You can find students, faculty, and staff of The New School throughout the conference at the AWP Bookfair, Booth #1512 . We will have copies of the brand-new issue of LIT Magazine, 12th Street Journal, and plenty of New School swag.
Inquisitive Eater is relaunching the #EatingAWP hashtag for all of the food lovers in attendance at the conference. Share photos of your food in and around AWP in Los Angeles using the #EatingAWP hashtag on Twitter and Instagram, and follow along with the Inquisitive Eater at @InquistiveEat on Twitter and on Instagram at inquisitiveeater.
Alumni and faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing Program will also be featured at many panels throughout the conference, as well as at many on- and off-site readings. Here are selected programs featuring the New School community:
Bookfair
The New School, LIT Magazine, 12th Street Journal- Booth #1512
Barrow Street (founded by professor Patricia Carlin) - Booth #608
Birds, LLC (co-founded by MFA alum Justin Marks) - Booth #1529
Black Lawrence Press (staffed by MFA alum Yvonne Garrett) - Booth #1526
Cave Canem, friend of The New School - Booth 806
Forklift Ohio (edited by MFA alum Amanda Smeltz) - Booth 1054
H.O.W. Journal (founded by MFA alum Alison Weaver) - Booth 1456
Monk Books (publisher of MFA alumni Christine Kanownik and Alina Gregorian) - Booth 1741
National Book Critics Circle (friends of The New School) - Booth 808
Noemi Press (publisher of MFA alumni Steven Karl and Julia Cohen) - Booth 1528
Octopus Books (publisher of MFA alumni Dan Hoy, Amy Lawless, and Ben Mirov) - Booth 1537
WONDER (co-founded by MFA alum Ben Fama) - Booth #408
Conference Panels
Thursday, March 31st
10:30am - Learning the Craft of Children’s Literature in an Adult World, featuring 12th Street Advisory Board Chair Rene Steinke
10:30am - Literary Orphans Presents: Burning Down the Walls: The Art and Importance of Writing Essays That Can Change the World, featuring faculty member Ashley Ford
12:00pm - 25 Years of Diversity from Sable and St. Petersburg Review: A Reading, featuring professor, featuring faculty Jeffrey Renard Allen
1:30pm - A Sarabande Books Reading, moderated by Kathleen Ossip
1:30pm - Art of the Literary Interview, featuring MFA alum and faculty member Joseph Salvatore
1:30pm - The Life of the Poet in the World, featuring MFA alum r. erica doyle
1:30pm - Writing the Hyphen: How to Explore, Not Exploit, Your Background, featuring MFA alum Mira Jacob
3:00pm - Genre-Crossing and Poetic Truth: Lyric Nonfictions, Reported Poems, featuring faculty member Robert Polito
3:00pm - Mandelstam in America, featuring faculty member Val Vinokur
4:30pm - The Print Journal in a Digital Age, featuring faculty member John Freeman
4:30pm - American Tropics, featuring professor Tiphanie Yanique
Friday, April 1st
10:30am - The Art of the Book Review, featuring faculty member Helen Schulman and MFA alum and faculty member Joseph Salvatore
10:30am - The Ethics of the Artist: Writing About Family in Essay and Memoir, moderated by faculty member Laura Cronk and featuring faculty members Alice Eve Cohen and Honor Moore and alum Aspen Matis.
1:30pm - From MFA to JOB: Making a Living, Making a Difference, featuring MFA alum Jen Benka
3:00pm - Mentoring Elderly Students at Writers' Centers, Local Ys, and Elder Care Facilities, featuring Kathleen Ossip
4:30pm - There's No "I" in "We": Writing Creative Nonfiction About the Groups We Belong To, featuring faculty member Honor Moore
4:30pm - I Wrote My First Book Because I Wanted to Read It: Black Women and Their Debut Fiction, featuring faculty member Angela Flournoy
Saturday, April 2nd
10:30am - Invisible to Whom?: Black Fiction Writers on Craft and the White Gaze, featuring MFA alum Dianca London
12:00pm - We Need Diverse Books: Shifting the Narrative Lens, featuring MFA alum Sona Charaipotra
12:00pm - A Reading by Edward Hirsch and Natasha Trethewey, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, moderated by MFA alum Jen Benka
1:30pm - Privacy Matters: Sell Your Books, Not Your Soul, featuring MFA alum Mira Jacob
4:30pm - Writing the Personal with Helen Macdonald, Rabih Alameddine, and Francisco Goldman, Sponsored by Grove Atlantic Press, moderated by faculty member John Freeman
4:30pm - Writing Sex in YA: Choices and Consequences, featuring MFA alum Corey Ann Haydu
8:30pm - A Reading by Edward Hirsch and Natasha Trethewey, Sponsored by the Academy of American Poet, moderated by MFA alum Jen Benka
OFFSITE EVENTS
Fourway Books & Friends Short Readings, Thursday, 6:30 pm, featuring Laura Cronk, NS visiting writer Patrick Rosal, and other writers from Fourway Books and Persea Books, Little Easy, 216 West 5th Street, LA
The Poetry Brothel, an AWPish Offsite Event, Thursday, 8:00 pm, curated by MFA alumni Stephanie Berger and Nicholas Adamski, Next Door Lounge, 1154 N Highland Ave, West Hollywood, General Admission $30, with AWP registration $20.
LIT Launch, In collaboration with Camp Real Pants, Friday, April 1, 7:30pm, Astroetic Studios 224 E 11th St #700a, Los Angeles, CA 90015
We Survived AWP, a reading featuring New School alum Gabriel Don. Sunday, April 3, 6:00pm, Chevalier's Books 126 N. Larchmont Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004
