2025 Conference Schedule

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Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	Creative Writing Program at Texas Tech A reception for current students, prospective students, and alums! Join us to discuss our new MFA program, to meet faculty, current, and former students, and to chat about all things writing in West Texas. There will be a selection of desserts and beverages. Reception Location: Georgia Room II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T254A	Location: Georgia Room II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T254A	2025032718:0019:30 035	THU, MAR 27	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PDT	AWP TCU Fellowship Program Reception Join us in celebrating the launch of the AWP Tribal Colleges & Universities Fellowship Program! Enjoy refreshments, meet the #AWP25 faculty and student fellows, and hear from the inaugural creative advisor, Jake Skeets. Reception Location: Olympic Room I, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T252	Location: Olympic Room I, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T252	2025032717:0018:30 015	THU, MAR 27	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	Writer to Writer Mentorship Program Reception Celebrate twenty wonderful seasons of the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program! Former mentors and mentees are invited for a reunion and celebration. Bring a plus one, mingle with fellow participants and AWP staff, and enjoy a drink and some light fare. Reception Location: Olympic Room II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T253	Location: Olympic Room II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T253	2025032718:0019:30 020	THU, MAR 27	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	Coast to Coast: A Preview of 2025 Trio House Press Titles Trio House Press is pleased to host a meet and greet with our authors! The first twenty attendees will get a free 2025 pre-sale Trio House Press title, signed by the author! Come meet our 2025 authors, including Rhoni Blankenhorn, Anthony Borruso, Renee Gilmore, Elline Lipkin, Kalehua Kim, Samina Najmi, and Martheaus Perkins, along with our past authors, editors, and friends of the press. Books will be available for sale/signing, including 2025 pre-sales available only at AWP. Reception Location: Olympic Room II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F255	Location: Olympic Room II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F255	2025032818:0019:30 013	FRI, MAR 28	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Bookfair Concessions Concessions are available in the West Lobby and inside West Hall A in the Los Angeles Convention Center. Debit, credit cards, and tap to pay are accepted at all food and beverage locations. Please consult the maps in the AWP mobile app for location details. Pro Forma Location: West Lobby, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T108	Location: West Lobby, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T108	2025032709:0017:00 005	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Bookfair Concessions Concessions are available in the West Lobby and inside West Hall A in the Los Angeles Convention Center. Debit, credit cards, and tap to pay are accepted at all food and beverage locations. Please consult the maps in the AWP mobile app for location details. Pro Forma Location: West Lobby, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F108	Location: West Lobby, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F108	2025032809:0017:00 005	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Bookfair Concessions Concessions are available in the West Lobby and inside West Hall A in the Los Angeles Convention Center. Debit, credit cards, and tap to pay are accepted at all food and beverage locations. Please consult the maps in the AWP mobile app for location details. Pro Forma Location: West Lobby, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S108	Location: West Lobby, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S108	2025032909:0017:00 005	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025	Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT	Author Portraits by Adrianne Mathiowetz Photography Stop being embarrassed of your author photo! A great portrait is not only flattering, but actively invites your audience to get to know you and your work. Returning for a sixth year at AWP, author photographer Adrianne Mathiowetz will be offering twenty-minute studio sessions on-site. See your proof gallery of images immediately; any portrait you choose will be fully processed and digitally delivered in high resolution for $125. (Conference discount: In Adrianne’s Boston studio, hour-long portrait sessions with one image included are priced at $950.) Additional images: $75 each. Fine processing (spot adjustments beyond usual file preparation): $175/file. Rush processing: $100/file. Put your best face forward on websites, book covers, social media, and published interviews. Advanced sign-up required: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/am-photography/awp25 Pro Forma Location: Room 505, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: W102	Location: Room 505, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: W102	2025032614:0018:00 000	WED, MAR 26	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT	Author Portraits by Adrianne Mathiowetz Photography Stop being embarrassed of your author photo! A great portrait is not only flattering, but actively invites your audience to get to know you and your work. Returning for a sixth year at AWP, author photographer Adrianne Mathiowetz will be offering twenty-minute studio sessions on-site. See your proof gallery of images immediately; any portrait you choose will be fully processed and digitally delivered in high resolution for $125. (Conference discount: In Adrianne’s Boston studio, hour-long portrait sessions with one image included are priced at $950.) Additional images: $75 each. Fine processing (spot adjustments beyond usual file preparation): $175/file. Rush processing: $100/file. Put your best face forward on websites, book covers, social media, and published interviews. Advanced sign-up required: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/am-photography/awp25 Pro Forma Location: Room 505, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T106	Location: Room 505, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T106	2025032708:0018:00 000	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT	Author Portraits by Adrianne Mathiowetz Photography Stop being embarrassed of your author photo! A great portrait is not only flattering, but actively invites your audience to get to know you and your work. Returning for a sixth year at AWP, author photographer Adrianne Mathiowetz will be offering twenty-minute studio sessions on-site. See your proof gallery of images immediately; any portrait you choose will be fully processed and digitally delivered in high resolution for $125. (Conference discount: In Adrianne’s Boston studio, hour-long portrait sessions with one image included are priced at $950.) Additional images: $75 each. Fine processing (spot adjustments beyond usual file preparation): $175/file. Rush processing: $100/file. Put your best face forward on websites, book covers, social media, and published interviews. Advanced sign-up required: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/am-photography/awp25 Pro Forma Location: Room 505, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F106	Location: Room 505, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F106	2025032808:0018:00 000	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT	Author Portraits by Adrianne Mathiowetz Photography Stop being embarrassed of your author photo! A great portrait is not only flattering, but actively invites your audience to get to know you and your work. Returning for a sixth year at AWP, author photographer Adrianne Mathiowetz will be offering twenty-minute studio sessions on-site. See your proof gallery of images immediately; any portrait you choose will be fully processed and digitally delivered in high resolution for $125. (Conference discount: In Adrianne’s Boston studio, hour-long portrait sessions with one image included are priced at $950.) Additional images: $75 each. Fine processing (spot adjustments beyond usual file preparation): $175/file. Rush processing: $100/file. Put your best face forward on websites, book covers, social media, and published interviews. Advanced sign-up required: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/am-photography/awp25 Pro Forma Location: Room 505, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S101	Location: Room 505, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S101	2025032908:0013:00 000	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025	Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT	Accessibility Tour Join AWP conference staff for a tour of the Los Angeles Convention Center. This tour will cover main event areas of the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be an opportunity to ask questions about conference accessibility. This tour is great for someone who would like to get a sense of the distances between meeting rooms and to plan easiest routes. If you are unable to make it to this 3:00 p.m. tour, please email ADA@awpwriter.org to arrange for a different time. Pro Forma Location: Accessibility Services Desk, West Lobby, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: W103	Location: Accessibility Services Desk, West Lobby, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: W103	2025032615:0015:30 000	WED, MAR 26	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Name Game: Literary Journals That Have Changed Names & Flourished There are risks to a literary journal deciding to change its name, but with risks can come rewards. Five editors of journals that have recently undergone name changes—reemerging as swamp pink, Redivider, sin cesar, and Kansas City Review—will discuss reasons for the new name, practical steps to make such a change, and positive effects on branding, funding, and growing an audience. A name signals a lot about a journal’s mission and values; changing it could be a solution for struggling journals. Speaker(s): Presenter: Gary Jackson Moderator: Marianne Kunkel Presenter: Jonathan Bohr Heinen Presenter: Katie Mihalek Presenter: Viva Padilla Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S132 AWP25_Event_Outline_The Name Game.docx	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S132	2025032909:0010:15 110	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	WITS Alliance Meeting Join other teaching writers and writer-in-the-school programs to discuss the rewards and challenges of the field at this moment. Goals for this meeting are to forge stronger connections within the network of WITS Alliance organizations and practitioners and to set the coalition’s agenda for the year ahead. This meeting is open to anyone interested in the work of writer-in-the-school teaching artists, programs, and organizations. Speaker(s): Moderator: Asari Beale Presenter: Olivia Jones Hall Presenter: Michele Kotler Pro Forma Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T158	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T158	2025032710:3511:50 110	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Electric Conduit: Poetics, Translation & the Digital Age In an era of digital glut, translation offers an engaging experience across cultures by literally making us think in another’s language and syntax. This panel explores translation as an art, focusing on the translator’s choices as a pathway through cultural difference and an opportunity to create new connections. Panelists will discuss balancing form and content, the cultural and political implications of translation, and how to ensure translation remains viable in the digital age. Speaker(s): Presenter: Alana Levinson Moderator: Mathew Timmons Presenter: Omar Pimienta Presenter: David Shook Presenter: Alan Sobrino Translation Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T131 Copy of AWP 2025 Translation Panel.docx	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T131	2025032709:0010:15 105	THU, MAR 27	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	This Centre Holds & Spreads: Writing & Learning in Northern Ireland Acclaimed poets and scholars from Belfast, Northern Ireland, will join together with two former Fulbright Distinguished Scholars at the Seamus Heaney Centre to discuss the cross-cultural work of the Centre, and options for US students to pursue graduate work in creative writing there, as well as opportunities for the development of research and study abroad programs. The panel will also discuss a range of additional rich opportunities for Fulbright scholars in creative writing around the globe. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jenny Browne Presenter: Glenn Patterson Presenter: Stephen Sexton Presenter: Connie Voisine Presenter: Dawn Watson Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F189 AWP SHC panel outline (2).docx	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F189	2025032812:1013:25 120	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Santa Fe’s School for Plays: Bilingual Adventures in Playwriting Education How do you build a playwright? What can playwriting mean to a new generation? As fears about AI complicated teaching plans, we encouraged our students to create in motion: to put down computers and phones, explore their communities, record words and impressions, and make plays in Spanish and English. The presenters will share tips drawn from training high school students in collaborative research and devising and writing short Spanish, English, and bilingual plays rooted in shared experience. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jacob Kaltenbach Presenter: Maritza Sánchez Presenter: Norah Tullman-Kaltenbach Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F159 Event Outline - 2025 AWP School for Plays.pdf	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F159	2025032810:3511:50 115	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Amplifying Filipino American Voices in YA Fiction Building on the fact that there is more to marginalized people than their pain, these authors of young adult books go beyond identity-centered-trauma narratives and explore nuanced Filipino/Filipino American experiences through horror, fantasy, contemporary, and futuristic lenses. This panel will discuss how and why marginalized authors infuse elements of their backgrounds into their work and how Fil/FilAm characters and world-building have (or have not) fit into traditional publishing. Speaker(s): Moderator: Tracy Badua Presenter: Shannon Price Presenter: Clare Osongco Presenter: Alex Brown Children’s & Young Adult Literature Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S214 Event Outline - Amplifying Filipino American Voices in YA Fiction.pdf	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S214	2025032913:4515:00 115	SAT, MAR 29	3B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Veins & Tributaries: A Reading with Diasporic Burmese American Writers Explore literary tributaries branching from the Burmese diaspora with poetry, fiction, and memoir. Five intergenerational authors, each drawing from their deep ancestral roots in Myanmar, explore the intricate geopolitical themes of identity, displacement, and legacy. Join us for a vivid dialogue on how the shadows of postindependence Burma shape notions of time, space, and self. Speaker(s): Moderator: Audrey Williams Presenter: Michelle Dunn Marsh Presenter: Maw Shein Win Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S187 Event Outline-2025 AWP Veins and Tributaries Burmese Reading.pdf	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S187	2025032912:1013:25 115	SAT, MAR 29	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Poetry in Translation: Satisfactions & Discontents This panel brings together writers/translators from Iranian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Armenian backgrounds, all living in the American diaspora, and writing in their native tongues and in English. As poets, novelists, and literary scholars, the panelists tackle a wide array of issues, including linguistic transgressions, gains and losses, dual identities, and politics of translation at times of calamity. Speaker(s): Moderator: Fatemeh Shams Presenter: Ahmad Almallah Presenter: Armen Davoudian Presenter: Huda Fakhreddine Translation Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T187 AWP-Poetry in Translation.docx	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T187	2025032712:1013:25 110	THU, MAR 27	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Intersection of Language: Translating from the Diaspora, Sponsored by ALTA What does it mean to be a translator situated in the diaspora, and how does this shape one’s relationship with heritage languages, source literatures, and the act of translation? Join three translators working with Asian languages to discuss their translingual creative practices. They will reflect on how their positionality in the diaspora affect their translation decisions, discuss how their translations and writings intersect, and explore the benefits and joys of working across languages. Speaker(s): Moderator: Wendy Chen Presenter: Yilin Wang Presenter: Stine An Presenter: Jack Jung Translation Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S240 Event Outline - The Intersection of Language_ Translating from the Diaspora, Sponsored by ALTA .pdf	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S240	2025032915:2016:35 110	SAT, MAR 29	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Young Adult & Middle Grade Short Stories: Craft & Market The process of writing and publishing short fiction for an adult audience and novels for young people has been often discussed, but what about the craft and market for short stories intended for young adult and middle grade audiences? Five professional kidlit short story writers are here to talk about not only how to write these types of stories but also where to place them (journals, magazines, anthologies, collections, special edition novels, etc.). Speaker(s): Moderator: Aaron Aceves Presenter: Lauren T. Davila Presenter: Jen Ferguson Presenter: Rex Ogle Children’s & Young Adult Literature Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F218 Young Adult & Middle Grade Short Stories_ Craft & Market.docx	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F218	2025032813:4515:00 115	FRI, MAR 28	3B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT	HBCU MFA Think Tank The HBCU MFA Think Tank at #AWP25 will convene creative writers and creative writing educators working at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In this collaborative space, participants will consider developing MFA programs at HBCUs, where none currently exist. The cultural, curricular, and programmatic demands of developing MFA programs at HBCUs will be discussed, with a long-term goal of elevating the existing cultural presence of the HBCU within the literary community. Pro Forma Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T220	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T220	2025032714:0017:00 000	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Babel at the Table: How to Run a Successful Multilanguage Translation Workshop The multilanguage translation workshop is a seminar in world literature grounded in specificity. The work is to breathe again into a text and let it live again. When teaching translation workshops, we ground the discussion in relation to key theories of praxis while emphasizing the process as a cross-cultural endeavor—or transcreation—that draws attention to the subtleties of language and requires creative experimentation. Speaker(s): Presenter: Judy Halebsky Presenter: Alana Levinson Presenter: Mira Rosenthal Moderator: Iris Dunkle Translation Panel Discussion Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S159 Babel at the Table Event Outline.2.docx	Location: Room 513, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S159	2025032910:3511:50 105	SAT, MAR 29	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Baggage & Coat Check A baggage and coat check area will be open in the Los Angeles Convention Center’s Business Service Center on Saturday, March 29 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Business Service Center is located on level one in Concourse Hall between the West Hall and South Hall lobby. The cost for all day service is $10.00, and the cost for four hours or less is $5.00. Cash, debit or credit card, or tap to pay are accepted. Pro Forma Location: Business Service Center, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S108A	Location: Business Service Center, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S108A	2025032909:0017:00 010	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Stories of Mental Health from the Margins Healthcare and wellness, notions once believed to be self-evident, have in recent years become increasingly fraught sites of critical reconceptualization. This panel will upend received beliefs regarding our contemporary understanding of both concepts, discussing the systematically ignored psychic lives of marginalized groups in the United States, the belief that sickness is the aberrant alternative to healthfulness, and the overlooked events in people’s lives that have lasting consequences. Speaker(s): Presenter: Prachi Gupta Presenter: Nina Sharma Presenter: Mimi Khúc Moderator: Jafreen Uddin Nonfiction Readings Reading Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S239 Event Outline - Stories of Mental Health from the Margins.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S239	2025032915:2016:35 105	SAT, MAR 29	45806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Diasporic Dreaming: Jewish Writers on Anti-Zionist Possibility Canceled Unfortunately, this event was canceled by the event participants. Speaker(s): Moderator: Temim Fruchter Presenter: Sam Cohen Presenter: noam keim Presenter: Hannah Lillith Assadi Presenter: Emma Specter Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T157 Event Outline - Diasporic Dreaming- Jewish Writers on Anti-Zionist Possibility.docx	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T157	2025032710:3511:50 105	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Beyond Anthropomorphism: Reimagining Animals in Literature What is the role of nonhuman animals in literature today? How do we represent them on the page, and what do those representations reveal about humans, other animals, and our shared, imperiled planet? Are animals Others? Heroes? Symbols? Mirrors? Five writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry discuss their approaches to writing about other species—from wolves to cows to bugs to octopi to a queer LA mountain lion—and how doing so might grow the human imagination and redefine our own animality. Speaker(s): Presenter: Lydi Conklin Moderator: Eleanor Henderson Presenter: Erica Berry Presenter: Gina Chung Presenter: Henry Hoke Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S158 Beyond Anthropomorphism_ Reimagining Animals in Literature.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S158	2025032910:3511:50 100	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Women Writers Talk Shame in the Classroom, Academia & Their Writing Lives Women panelists discuss how they navigate feelings of shame as teachers, as functionaries in academic institutions, and as writers. How much of our performance and presentation in these spaces is shaped by shame? How complicit are institutional structures in shaming? What added dimensions of shame do marginalized folks experience in these spaces? How does shame affect the creative process? Can shame be a force for good in our work, or is it always destructive? Speaker(s): Moderator: Uche Okonkwo Presenter: Tara Ballard Presenter: Alina Nguyen Presenter: Silvia Park Presenter: Ava Winter Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T244 Event Outline - Women Writers Talk Shame - Updated 23 March 2025.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T244	2025032715:2016:35 115	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	A Reading from Recent Prizewinning Short Story Collections Authors of four recently published prizewinning short story collections will read from their collections and talk about the process of publishing their books through contests. These collections use games or magic to explore relationships and have won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize, the Juniper Prize for Fiction, and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize. Panelists will also answer questions and share strategies for marketing short story collections. Speaker(s): Moderator: Marian Crotty Presenter: Mubanga Kalimamukwento Presenter: Christian Moody Presenter: Nina Sudhakar Presenter: Terese Svoboda Fiction Readings Reading Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T130 EventOutline_AReadingfromRecentPrizewinningShortStoryCollections.docx	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T130	2025032709:0010:15 100	THU, MAR 27	2721969A-8498-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Gil Cuadros: Queer Literary Love & AIDS in Latino/Chicano LA Trailblazing writer Gil Cuadros left an indelible mark on queer and Latinx literature with his groundbreaking 1994 book, City of God. Cuadros’s essential work continues to inspire and challenge. In 2024, City Lights released My Body Is Paper, a poignant collection of Cuadros’s previously unpublished writings. Powerful themes permeate Cuadros’s writing, including his unflinching portrayal of HIV/AIDS, his profound exploration of Chicanx identity, and the transformative potential of love and desire. Speaker(s): Moderator: Terry Wolverton Presenter: Pablo Alvarez Presenter: Omar Gonzalez Presenter: Kevin Martin Presenter: Amy Scholder Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F217 Event Outline- Gil Cuadros- Queer Literary Love and AIDS and Latino:Chicano Los Angeles.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F217	2025032813:4515:00 110	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Beyond Our Labor: Writing Our Lives as Farmworkers Driven to honor farmworker creativity and resiliency, especially in the current political climate, contributors to The Common magazine’s Farmworker Portfolio (issue 26) invite you to witness our farmworker pasts and to explore and celebrate texts that influence our writings and pedagogical choices in traditional and nontraditional classrooms. We’re diverse in age, education, location, orientation, and stages of our writing careers. We’ll also share our #FarmworkerLit inspirations and aspirations. Speaker(s): Moderator: Miguel M. Morales Presenter: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Presenter: Aideed Medina Presenter: Manuel Muñoz Presenter: Oswaldo Vargas Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F246 AWP25 Beyond Our Labor Outline.pdf AWP25 Farmworkerlit Reading List.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F246	2025032815:2016:35 115	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Mizna Presents: Arab Time—Hybridizing Form, Language & Temporality To write in relation to Arabic in the US is to confront problematic “East meets West” discourse through contrapuntal processes that unlock entire canons, forms, and genres. Intergenerational Mizna contributors from diverse backgrounds explore how hybrid language generates formal possibility that embraces orality and interrogates homogeneity. Panelists discuss how vast Arabophone traditions provide innovative techniques for attending to narrative structure, time, language, voice, and more. Speaker(s): Moderator: George Abraham Presenter: Sarah Aziza Presenter: Jameelah Lang Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T186 Arab Time Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T186	2025032712:1013:25 105	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	The Sky Above the Roof: Community & Creativity in Carceral Environments Facilitating creative writing in carceral settings is vital work that demands flexibility and careful planning. This discussion will explore roadblocks one might encounter while setting up workshops, as well as ways to foster community so that incarcerated writers can explore their own stories, invent and give shape to the kind of writing they would like to develop, and share their work in a supportive setting. Panelists bring a range of experience working with juveniles and adults. Speaker(s): Moderator: Alison Pelegrin Presenter: Jane V. Blunschi Presenter: Geffrey Davis Presenter: Nik de Dominic Presenter: Sally Keith Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T215 The Sky Above the Roof Panel Outline.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T215	2025032713:4515:00 115	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	New Mythologies in South Asian Literature What happens when South Asian futurities and mythologies collide? How do we envision that which has yet to exist? This panel of speculative fiction, science fiction, and postcolonial writers from South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora will collectively share their practices and processes for reimagining, remixing, and reunderstanding mythologies, including South Asian folklore, legends, and epics through and beyond time. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jafreen Uddin Presenter: Aparna Verma Fiction Readings Reading Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F158 Event Outline - New Mythologies in South Asian Literature.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F158	2025032810:3511:50 110	FRI, MAR 28	2721969A-8498-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Challenges to Speaking Our Truth: Filipino Women Writing Nonfiction What craft techniques, including storytelling styles from our own culture, can we utilize to write into and around truth(s)? How can nonfiction subvert or defy expectations imposed on us as women and nonbinary people in underrepresented communities? Filipino women and femme nonfiction writers discuss the complexities and nuances of sharing their experiences, while confronting the uncomfortable truths of a culture that hasn’t always looked favorably on the act of public disclosure. Speaker(s): Presenter: Laurel Flores Fantauzzo Moderator: Monica Macansantos Presenter: Jen Palmares Meadows Presenter: Melissa Chadburn Presenter: Anna Cabe Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S130 AWP Event Outline 2025.docx	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S130	2025032909:0010:15 100	SAT, MAR 29	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Cost of Assimilation: Asian Diaspora Writers on Losing Their First Language Being a child of the Asian diaspora means living at the intersection of cultures and languages. Assimilation offered safety—stepping out of the leaky boat of immigrant identity onto the solid ground of Americanness. Nothing could be done about our faces, so we did the next best thing: mastered new languages, lost our accents, focused on the future. But what happens when we examine our parents’ lives and homelands, and how do we reclaim our lost languages and selves in borrowed tongues? Speaker(s): Moderator: Grace Prasad Presenter: Geetha Iyer Presenter: Annie Tan Presenter: Brian Truong Nonfiction Readings Reading Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S186 Annie Tan_Excerpt from Memoir AWP25.docx Geetha Iyer_Excerpt from Love Songs for AWP 2025.docx AWP 2025 Event Outline_ The Cost of Assimilation_ Asian Diaspora Writers on Losing Their First Language-2.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S186	2025032912:1013:25 110	SAT, MAR 29	45806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Wandering Jews: Poetics of Diaspora & Land In a time of climate crisis and societal instability, diasporic Jewish poets contribute to the work of repair and healing with poems that connect to lands we live on and memorialize lands left behind. Repeated exiles and homecomings inform our poems on making home where we are. How do ecopoetics converse with histories of immigration? Our poems answer the call of unfolding catastrophe and explore challenges and opportunities of our cultural and political context. Speaker(s): Moderator: Josette Akresh-Gonzales Presenter: Dan Alter Presenter: Jacqueline Osherow Presenter: Mónica Gomery Presenter: Hila Ratzabi Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F188 Event Outline.docx	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F188	2025032812:1013:25 115	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	What Is & What If: The Speculative in Creative Nonfiction Five authors consider the speculative as a deft and bold tool in creative nonfiction. Panelists read from their innovative creative nonfiction that pries at the real and imaginary and discuss how speculative, mythic, ghostly, and otherwise more obviously imaginative modes wrangle events from life into narrative. This panel asks what’s at stake in inviting speculation into our nonfiction and interrogates whether speculative creative nonfiction is a new genre or integral to creative nonfiction’s lineage. Speaker(s): Presenter: Megan Milks Presenter: Emilly Prado Moderator: Adèle Barclay Presenter: Nisa Malli Presenter: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S213 AWP 2025 Panel Outline.docx	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S213	2025032913:4515:00 110	SAT, MAR 29	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 7:30 AM - 8:45 AM PDT	Sober AWP Daily 12-step meeting. All in recovery from anything are welcome. Pro Forma Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T100	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T100	2025032707:3008:45 000	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM PDT	Sober AWP Daily 12-step meeting. All in recovery from anything are welcome. Pro Forma Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T251	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T251	2025032717:0018:15 010	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 7:30 AM - 8:45 AM PDT	Sober AWP Daily 12-step meeting. All in recovery from anything are welcome. Pro Forma Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F100	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F100	2025032807:3008:45 000	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM PDT	Sober AWP Daily 12-step meeting. All in recovery from anything are welcome. Pro Forma Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F253	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F253	2025032817:0018:15 010	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 7:30 AM - 8:45 AM PDT	Sober AWP Daily 12-step meeting. All in recovery from anything are welcome. Pro Forma Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S100	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S100	2025032907:3008:45 000	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM PDT	Sober AWP Daily 12-step meeting. All in recovery from anything are welcome. Pro Forma Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S244	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S244	2025032917:0018:15 000	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Away from Her: Canadian Writers on the Work & Evolving Legacy of Alice Munro Shortly after Alice Munro’s death in 2024, a family history of child sexual abuse and silence was revealed by the Nobel laureate’s daughter, Andrea Robin Skinner. A year later, fiction writers from her home country reflect on the life and suddenly contentious legacy of an artist once described by New Yorker critic James Wood as “our Chekhov.” In what ways have they been influenced by her portrayals of domestic lives and Canada? Can they continue to read and teach her writing? And if so, how? Speaker(s): Presenter: Dionne Irving Presenter: Kevin Chong Moderator: Holly Flauto Presenter: Kathryn Mockler Presenter: Kasia Van Schaik Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F131 AWP Alice Munro panel for outline.pdf	Location: Room 511AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F131	2025032809:0010:15 105	FRI, MAR 28	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Dickinson Quiet Space 1 A dedicated quiet space for you to collect your thoughts, unwind, and escape the literary commotion. “There is a solitude of space, / A solitude of sea, / A solitude of death, but these / Society shall be, / Compared with that profounder site, / That polar privacy, / A Soul admitted to Itself: / Finite Infinity.” —Emily Dickinson Pro Forma Location: Room 506, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T102	Location: Room 506, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T102	2025032708:0017:00 005	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Dickinson Quiet Space 1 A dedicated quiet space for you to collect your thoughts, unwind, and escape the literary commotion. “There is a solitude of space, / A solitude of sea, / A solitude of death, but these / Society shall be, / Compared with that profounder site, / That polar privacy, / A Soul admitted to Itself: / Finite Infinity.” —Emily Dickinson Pro Forma Location: Room 506, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F102	Location: Room 506, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F102	2025032808:0017:00 005	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Dickinson Quiet Space 1 A dedicated quiet space for you to collect your thoughts, unwind, and escape the literary commotion. “There is a solitude of space, / A solitude of sea, / A solitude of death, but these / Society shall be, / Compared with that profounder site, / That polar privacy, / A Soul admitted to Itself: / Finite Infinity.” —Emily Dickinson Pro Forma Location: Room 506, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S103	Location: Room 506, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S103	2025032908:0017:00 005	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Dickinson Quiet Space 2 A dedicated quiet space for you to collect your thoughts, unwind, and escape the literary commotion. “There is a solitude of space, / A solitude of sea, / A solitude of death, but these / Society shall be, / Compared with that profounder site, / That polar privacy, / A Soul admitted to Itself: / Finite Infinity.” —Emily Dickinson Pro Forma Location: Room 507, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T103	Location: Room 507, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T103	2025032708:0017:00 010	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Dickinson Quiet Space 2 A dedicated quiet space for you to collect your thoughts, unwind, and escape the literary commotion. “There is a solitude of space, / A solitude of sea, / A solitude of death, but these / Society shall be, / Compared with that profounder site, / That polar privacy, / A Soul admitted to Itself: / Finite Infinity.” —Emily Dickinson Pro Forma Location: Room 507, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F103	Location: Room 507, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F103	2025032808:0017:00 010	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Dickinson Quiet Space 2 A dedicated quiet space for you to collect your thoughts, unwind, and escape the literary commotion. “There is a solitude of space, / A solitude of sea, / A solitude of death, but these / Society shall be, / Compared with that profounder site, / That polar privacy, / A Soul admitted to Itself: / Finite Infinity.” —Emily Dickinson Pro Forma Location: Room 507, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S104	Location: Room 507, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S104	2025032908:0017:00 010	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Low-Light Space A darkened, quiet, and more private space for attendees to gather their thoughts, reset, or take a break from the lighting of the Convention Center. Pro Forma Location: Room 511C, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T104	Location: Room 511C, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T104	2025032708:0017:00 015	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Low-Light Space A darkened, quiet, and more private space for attendees to gather their thoughts, reset, or take a break from the lighting of the Convention Center. Pro Forma Location: Room 511C, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F104	Location: Room 511C, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F104	2025032808:0017:00 015	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Low-Light Space A darkened, quiet, and more private space for attendees to gather their thoughts, reset, or take a break from the lighting of the Convention Center. Pro Forma Location: Room 511C, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S105	Location: Room 511C, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S105	2025032908:0017:00 015	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Lactation Lounge The lactation lounge is located in Room 517 of the Los Angeles Convention Center and is available for any nursing parent to use. Pro Forma Location: Room 517, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T105	Location: Room 517, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T105	2025032708:0017:00 020	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Lactation Lounge The lactation lounge is located in Room 517 of the Los Angeles Convention Center and is available for any nursing parent to use. Pro Forma Location: Room 517, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F105	Location: Room 517, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F105	2025032808:0017:00 020	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT	Lactation Lounge The lactation lounge is located in Room 517 of the Los Angeles Convention Center and is available for any nursing parent to use. Pro Forma Location: Room 517, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S106	Location: Room 517, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S106	2025032908:0017:00 020	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project This panel focuses on the hybrid literary works created by writers working in an Afro-Caribbean organization dedicated to preserving the fifty-year legacy of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe—an Afro-Puerto Rican cultural organization located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side—from being elided by revisionist history. These writers will discuss the difficulties of producing work that documents the lives of those silenced by colonial violence while highlighting the importance of such work in liberatory projects. Speaker(s): Presenter: Joseph Caceres Moderator: Kendra Sullivan Presenter: Lois Griffith Presenter: Vallerie Matos Presenter: Jonathan Toro Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F124 AWP 2025 Event Outline_The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F124	2025032809:0010:15 070	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Disability & the Residency Experience As residencies seek to expand inclusion and widen engagement, how do those who identify as disabled navigate the expectations, facilities, and cohort combinations so that they can engage fully in the residency experience? What are best practices for organizations in providing essential accommodations as well as meaningful stipends to offset travel and associated costs of a residency? We will explore these questions through the experiences of four writers who self-identify as disabled. Speaker(s): Moderator: Monika Burczyk Presenter: Kay Ulanday Barrett Presenter: Leslie McIntosh Presenter: Orchid Tierney Presenter: Beth Weeks Program Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S151 EVENT OUTLINE Disability and the Residency Experience.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S151	2025032910:3511:50 065	SAT, MAR 29	4F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Sumud Motifs: Woven Inheritances in Arab Visual & Literary Storytelling Award-winning Arab, Black, and Indigenous creators are weaving literary and visual elements, rendering multicultural multimedia modalities grounded in sumud/steadfastness and decolonial resistance to oppression. Award-winning Womanist/Queer/Trans creatives will share cutting-edge storytelling structures through graphic novels, installation art, poetry based on Palestinian Tatreez, dance/movement, graphic art, multilingual printmaking, and text within painting/audio/video/visual poetics. Speaker(s): Presenter: Doris Bittar Presenter: Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán Presenter: Marguerite Dabaie Presenter: Samah Fadil Moderator: Micaela Kaibni Raen Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F151 Sumud Motifs Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F151	2025032810:3511:50 075	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	FUSE (Forum for Undergraduate Student Editors) Caucus How do we create, build, and sustain undergraduate literary magazines? How do we garner greater technical, administrative, and financial support? What editorial skill sets are most important, and how do we engage with the larger publishing scene? Come meet other undergraduate writers, editors, and designers, and discuss the many opportunities and resources available to support you and your team. Speaker(s): Moderator: Catherine Dent Presenter: Emi Harris Presenter: Sarah Ledet Caucus Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F239 Event Outline—2025 FUSE Caucus.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F239	2025032815:2016:35 080	FRI, MAR 28	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Beyond the Slush: Engaging Students in Literary Publishing College-based literary journals have traditionally tasked students with reading the slush pile, but there are alternative, and perhaps preferable, ways that students can contribute to the enterprise. How can journals better serve students, allowing them to develop diverse skills and interests? How can faculty work with student staff to inject fresh vitality and new perspectives into their publications? Hear from five editors who are working with students in innovative, interdisciplinary ways. Speaker(s): Moderator: Paul Jaskunas Presenter: Emily Everett Presenter: Gerald Maa Presenter: Dora Malech Presenter: Anna Lena Phillips Bell Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S206 AWP - Beyond the Slush OUTLINE.docx	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S206	2025032913:4515:00 075	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM PDT	Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers Caucus Indigenous writers and scholars participate fluidly in AWP by teaching and directing affiliated programs, working as independent writers/scholars, in language revitalization, and local community programming. Annually imparting field-related craft, pedagogy, celebrations, and concerns as understood by Indigenous-Native writers from the Americas and surrounding island nations is necessary. Essential program development continues in 2025. Speaker(s): Moderator: Mary Leauna Christensen Presenter: Abigail Chabitnoy Presenter: M.S. RedCherries Caucus Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T256 Event Outline - 2025 Indigenous Caucus Meeting Agenda.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T256	2025032718:3019:45 001	THU, MAR 27	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	For the Love of the Novella: A Reading & Conversation The novella is a form that is in-between—not quite a short story, not quite a novel. Perhaps that in-betweenness is the reason fans of the form are so devoted; or, as Debra Spark suggests, “The novella is a Goldilocks form, not too much this and not too much that but just right.” This panel celebrates the form with readings by four novella writers, followed by a discussion of craft possibilities and challenges, favorite novellas to use as models, and the publication landscape. Speaker(s): Moderator: Anne Elliott Presenter: Matt Bell Presenter: Sasha Hom Presenter: Ashley Honeysett Presenter: Rion Amilcar Scott Fiction Readings Reading Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S123 AWP_2025_Outline_Novellas.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S123	2025032909:0010:15 065	SAT, MAR 29	2721969A-8498-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Concatenations of LA Our point of departure is author Raquel Gutiérrez’s seminal essay “A Concatenation of Sprawls,” which explores the ’90s queer Latine underground in LA as a site of creative liberation on the margins of the raced, heteronormativized city. We propose to explore literatures that reveal the under-, alt-, DIY, and organic communities that gather in clubs, ethnic enclaves, and other diverse subcultures. We bring together a poet (Vickie Vértiz), novelist (Alex Espinoza), and essayist (Raquel Gutiérrez), all of whom have intimate knowledge of the city, to conjure an oft hidden geography. Speaker(s): Presenter: Vickie Vertiz Presenter: Alex Espinoza Moderator: Ruben Martinez Presenter: Raquel Gutierrez Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F181	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F181	2025032812:1013:25 080	FRI, MAR 28	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Anti-Racist Pedagogy: Creative Writing Workshops at Community Colleges How do panelists center voices of students from underrepresented groups and teach published work from underrepresented groups? Panelists will share best practices and discuss the mechanics of leading anti-racist discussions within the academy. They will also discuss the tensions between art for art’s sake and art that’s socially conscious. What are the challenges? What are the rewards? What do panelists consider when creating a course? Speaker(s): Presenter: Rashaun Allen Moderator: Shinelle L. Espaillat Presenter: Keith O'Neill Presenter: Gail Upchurch-Mills Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T150 Event Outline_AntiRacist Pedagogy Creative Writing Workshops in Community Colleges.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T150	2025032710:3511:50 070	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Cancer & Creativity: Turning Personal Challenges into Plays Panelists discuss how they bring their experience with cancer into playwriting, using humor, theatricality, and magic realism to engage with the overwhelming real-life drama of a medical diagnosis. Using personal experience with cancer as a springboard for theatrical or nonrealistic storytelling for the stage, these intergenerational playwrights share approaches to writing about cancer’s effect on relationships with family and with self, and ways of conjuring the internal drama of the body. Speaker(s): Moderator: Alice Eve Cohen Presenter: Catalina Florescu Presenter: Lia Romeo Presenter: E.M. Lewis Playwriting & Screenwriting Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T208 Event Outline Cancer and Creativity Turning Personal Challenges into Plays.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T208	2025032713:4515:00 080	THU, MAR 27	49806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM PDT	K–12 Caucus The caucus creates a space where teachers in K–12 schools, as well as those who work part-time with young writers, can share their classroom experiences with the hope of helping one another understand the complex and diverse needs of young writers in the twenty-first century. The meeting will feature presentations by caucus members to help generate discussion around issues of pedagogy and how to build a creative writing curriculum that is accessible to students no matter their identity or background. Speaker(s): Moderator: Molly Sutton Kiefer Presenter: Allison Campbell Caucus Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F251 Download Course Materials	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F251	2025032817:0018:15 001	FRI, MAR 28	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Cane & Malunggay: Manoa Journal Explores South Asian Coolie & Philippine History Manoa Journal’s two most recent issues present writing emerging from the South Asian Coolie Diaspora and Philippine political resistance. The event will combine readings and conversation to showcase this powerful writing in the context of the vibrant literary community the journal has facilitated for three decades. The panel will explore tradition, belonging, identity, land, and the oceans that connect us all. It will explore how we document survival and create a roadmap for the future. Speaker(s): Moderator: Subramanian Shankar Presenter: Vinod Busjeet Presenter: Rachelle Cruz Presenter: Rajiv Mohabir Presenter: Gina Apostol Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S179 Event Outline_Cane and Malunggay_2025 AWP Panel.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S179	2025032912:1013:25 075	SAT, MAR 29	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	You Call That a Book Review?!: On Poetry Criticism and/as Creative Practice Poet-critics from Poetry Northwest’s Critics at Large program share how their critical practices shape and are shaped by their creative work, how criticism can offer rigorous and novel forms of witness to others’ poetic labors, and their expansive approaches to crafting creative, incisive cultural criticism that explores, complicates, and/or transforms how we read the relationship between poetry and the social, cultural, political, and relational worlds it assembles/dismantles. Speaker(s): Moderator: Nanya Jhingran Presenter: Cristina Correa Presenter: Summer Farah Presenter: Esther Lin Presenter: Dujie Tahat Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T123 AWP 2025_ Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T123	2025032709:0010:15 065	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM PDT	Art School Writing Faculty Caucus The Art School Writing Faculty Caucus provides a forum for writers to consider issues unique to art and design environments, their students, and their curricula. This year we welcome new members and guests to an open-forum discussion of topics including pedagogy, technology, and craft. We also seek input concerning the coming year’s caucus programming, executive board elections, and the needs of our caucus members and their respective institutions. Speaker(s): Moderator: Lee Griffith Presenter: Tyler Gillespie Presenter: Amy Lemmon Presenter: Lauren Strawbridge Caucus Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T249 Event Outline - FINAL - 2025 AWP Art School Writing Faculty Caucus.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T249	2025032717:0018:15 001	THU, MAR 27	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Small Press Ecologies: How Can We Make Them More Robust? Small presses are essential, yet readers know little about them. Chain bookstores do not prioritize small presses, and libraries rarely offer a broad range of small press books. With the shuttering of SPD, small presses sustained devastating losses, and readers lost their best chance to discover wonderful new books and authors. Organized by Necessary Fiction’s books editor Diane Josefowicz, this panel of publishers, critics, and booksellers will explore forms of literary citizenship that make small press ecosystems more robust and advance goals of representation and inclusion. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jee Koh Moderator: Beth Castrodale Presenter: Feliza Casano Presenter: Lucas Mann Presenter: Tonya Todd Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T237 EventOutline.SmallPressEcologies-2.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T237	2025032715:2016:35 080	THU, MAR 27	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	LGBTQ+ Writers Caucus - VIRTUAL MEETING The LGBTQ+ Writers Caucus provides a space for writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer to network and discuss common issues and challenges, such as representation and visibility on and off the literary page, and how to incorporate one’s personal identity into professional and academic lives. The caucus also strives to discuss, develop, and increase queer representation for future AWP conferences, and to serve as a supportive community and resource for its members. This caucus meeting will now take place virtually. Interested attendees can email lgbtq.writers.caucus@gmail.com for access information. Speaker(s): Moderator: Belinda Kremer Presenter: Erin Sharkey Caucus Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: V117	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: V117	2025032915:2016:35 070	SAT, MAR 29	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD C1560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Preserving Voices: Narrative Guardians of Identity & Resilience This panel brings together a diverse group of authors whose works embody the power of writing to preserve history and personal narratives. The discussion will explore how creative writing serves as a vessel for documenting marginalized communities and individuals’ unseeable and silent experiences and the impact of historical and social changes on individual lives. The four panelists, each a creative author, will offer critical insights on this topic along with brief readings from their works. Speaker(s): Moderator: Bahar Momeni Presenter: Clara Burghelea Presenter: Manuel Luis Martinez Presenter: Moniro Ravanipour Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F210 Event Outline-AWP2025Preserving Voices_ Narrative Guardians of Identity & Resilience.docx (1).pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F210	2025032813:4515:00 075	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton This event honors the life and work of award-winning poet, professor, and LGBTQ+ activist Maureen Seaton (October 20, 1947–August 26, 2023), author of more than two dozen solo and collaborative books. Participating poets pay tribute to Maureen by reading favorite poems from her expansive collection, in addition to reading their own work from the new LGBTQ+ anthology When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton and discussing her craft, influence, and enduring contributions to the canon. Speaker(s): Moderator: Nicole Tallman Presenter: Dustin Brookshire Presenter: Denise Duhamel Presenter: Caridad Moro-Gronlier Presenter: Diamond Forde Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T179 02.19.25 AWP Event Outline_When I Was Straight_A Tribute to Maureen Seaton_FINAL.pdf	Location: Room 409AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T179	2025032712:1013:25 070	THU, MAR 27	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM PDT	SWANA Writers Caucus This will be a town hall–style meeting, creating a much-needed space for SWANA writers to build and connect within AWP. We invite established and emerging writers, editors, students, scholars, and organizers, and aim for the caucus to facilitate networking and exchange on literary endeavors, craft, publishing, poetics, and praxis. Our caucus seeks to empower and center the voices of underrepresented Americans with roots in SWANA cultures and communities. Speaker(s): Moderator: Aliah Lavonne Tigh Presenter: Rabha Ashry Presenter: Tariq Luthun Presenter: Pinar Banu Yasar Presenter: Sophia Babai Caucus Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F252 Outline for SWANA Caucus , Draft.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F252	2025032817:0018:15 005	FRI, MAR 28	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Making Meaning out of Work: The New American Labor Poetry Labor—retail work, entrepreneurism—is entwined with the American Dream, shaping our values and informing our relationships with others. We equate our worth and identities to our jobs and may even reduce others to theirs. This panel features five poets who will discuss how poetry’s antagonism to capitalist structures can be a means to limit and expand personhood, as well as explore the impact of mechanization in daily life. How does writing about labor negotiate a poem’s aesthetics? Speaker(s): Presenter: Ama Codjoe Presenter: Edgar Kunz Presenter: Rosanna Oh Presenter: Joseph Rios Moderator: Joshua Gottlieb-Miller Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F154 Event Outline - Making meaning out of work_ the New American Labor Poetry revised.docx	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F154	2025032810:3511:50 090	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Tales of the Town: Writers Speak to Oakland’s Resilient Urban Culture Urban environments play a special role in American culture, providing safety, sanctuary, and community for many, including immigrants, people of color, low-income people, and LGBTQ people. This intergenerational group of authors and activists with deep roots in the East Bay and involved in ecological and social justice movements will temper some media pundits’ “doom loop” narrative of fear and despair with tales of cultural survival and innovation. We speak from our experiences and read from our work. Speaker(s): Moderator: Nayomi Munaweera Presenter: Thaddeus Howze Presenter: Nazelah Jamison Presenter: Norma Smith Presenter: Aimee Suzara Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F242 AWP25 Panel Outline_ Tales of the Town_ Writers Speak to Oakland’s Resilient Literary Culture.docx	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F242	2025032815:2016:35 095	FRI, MAR 28	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Good, Fast, Cheap: Short Film Screenwriting From Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) to Taika Waititi (Two Cars, One Night) to Andrea Arnold (Wasp), short film is where every great filmmaker starts. But the compelling short script is often overlooked in the pilot/feature film-or-bust commercial market. Using excerpts from unpublished, award-winning scripts, this panel brings together four working screenwriters to focus exclusively on the craft of the short: why they work, what mistakes to avoid, and what elevates one from good to great. Speaker(s): Moderator: Austin Bunn Presenter: Ben Frahm Presenter: Taylor Vaughn Lasley Playwriting & Screenwriting Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S235 Hearts&Darts_FirstTwo.pdf GodOfLove_FirstTwo.pdf Event Outline - Good, Fast, Cheap - Short Film Screenwriting.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S235	2025032915:2016:35 085	SAT, MAR 29	49806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Beyond Tiger Moms & Model Minorities: Imagining the Asian American Family When crafting family dynamics in literature, avoiding stereotypes is paramount; but what if you had a tiger mom? What if you played both piano and violin? How can we render the experiences of our cultural upbringings in ways that are both broadly recognizable and uniquely specific? In a lively discussion, Asian American fiction and nonfiction authors will tackle this important writing question: How do we give voice to cultural family values that feel both authentic and universal? Speaker(s): Moderator: Kim Liao Presenter: Kirstin Chen Presenter: Jimin Han Presenter: Beth Nguyen Presenter: Matt Salesses Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T240 Event Outline Beyond Tiger Moms (1).pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T240	2025032715:2016:35 095	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Fighting Tropes, Changing Narratives: BIPOC Adoptee Writers Break Out BIPOC adoptee writers who write against popular adoption tropes challenge deeply ingrained yet damaging narratives. Adoption is a popular literary theme, addressing what it is to be human and have a family. Yet adoption-focused writing has been dominated by adoptive parents or the adoption industry, leaving adopted people marginalized. This diverse panel of BIPOC adoptee writers will read poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction and discuss why and how they write to reframe the adoption narrative. Speaker(s): Moderator: Susan Kiyo Ito Presenter: Alice Stephens Presenter: Angela Tucker Presenter: Shannon Gibney Presenter: Ansley Moon Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T126 EVENT OUTLINE AWP 2025 BIPOC ADOPTEES.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T126	2025032709:0010:15 080	THU, MAR 27	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Twenty Years of Reimagining Place: An Ecotone Anniversary Reading Ecotone was founded in 2005 with a mission to reimagine place. Over the past twenty years, the magazine has created a welcoming space for a wide range of place-based writing and art. To celebrate this milestone, contributors will read from their work, and contemplate the value and the responsibilities of a magazine of place and environment in a time of climate crisis. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jennifer Tseng Moderator: Oindrila Mukherjee Presenter: Geoffrey Brock Presenter: Patricia Smith Presenter: Rebecca Makkai Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T182 Event Outline_Twenty Years of Reimagining Place.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T182	2025032712:1013:25 085	THU, MAR 27	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM PDT	Two-Year College Creative Writing Caucus Do you teach at a two-year college? Interested in job opportunities at two-year colleges? Join us for our annual networking meeting. With almost half of all students starting at two-year colleges, and increasing numbers of MFAs landing two-year college teaching jobs, the future of creative writing courses and programs at our campuses looks bright. We will discuss teaching creative writing at the two-year college, hold a short business meeting, and provide tangible resources. Speaker(s): Presenter: James Ducat Presenter: Dan Kirk Presenter: Ethan Klein Moderator: Stephanie M. Lindberg Presenter: Courtney O'Banion Smith Caucus Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T257 Event Outline AWP Two Year College Creative Writing Caucus.pdf AWP two Year caucus minutes 2024.docx	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T257	2025032718:3019:45 005	THU, MAR 27	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Playful yet Rigorous: World-Building in the Creative Writing Classroom The teachers on this panel will address what benefits world-building brings to their classroom, their institution, and their teaching practice. World-building can build community, foster interdisciplinarity, increase engagement, and improve craft. Topics include the ethical dimensions of world-building, as well as specific activities, and applications, from multimodal storytelling to study abroad or game-based learning. The panelists encompass a variety of regions, institution types, and ranks. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jennifer Pullen Presenter: Julialicia Case Presenter: Chris Drew Presenter: Trent Hergenrader Pedagogy Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S209 AWP Worldbuilding 2025 panel event outline.docx	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S209	2025032913:4515:00 090	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	But It Wasn’t Written in English: Translated Literature in the CW Classroom What happens when creative writing syllabi include texts not originally written in English? What new dimensions does translated literature add to conversations about writing process, craft, language, and revision? This panel’s writer-teachers discuss the meaningful insights that emerge when questions about translation are invited to the college creative writing classroom. They address concerns about teaching non-English texts, share advice, and reflect on what translation brings to their writing and teaching. Speaker(s): Moderator: Bonnie Chau Presenter: C Dylan Bassett Presenter: May-lee Chai Presenter: Jennifer Tseng Pedagogy Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S182 Event Outline - But It Wasn’t Written in English 2025 AWP panel.docx	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S182	2025032912:1013:25 090	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Honoring California Indian Poet Janice Gould: “Lungs Full of Indigenous Air” Janice Gould (1949–2019), an award-winning Koyangk’auwi Maidu writer, scholar, and Two-Spirit, was a major force in the shaping of contemporary California Indian identity and literature. Born in San Diego, raised in Berkeley, Janice created work that is a postgenocide triumph of love. As Joy Harjo says, “Janice Gould was a real poet. [Her work] lays it all down, gives it up, and leans into the sound worlds of words.” We honor Janice’s legacy with tributes and selections from her forthcoming poetic memoir. Speaker(s): Presenter: Mimi Wheatwind Presenter: Ruth Nolan Moderator: Deborah Miranda Presenter: Malea Powell Presenter: Kim Shuck Tributes Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T153 AWP event outline.docx	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T153	2025032710:3511:50 085	THU, MAR 27	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Poetic License or Neurodivergence? As boundaries between poetic license and neurodivergent thinking are examined, what seems like deliberate choice might sometimes be the standard way of thinking for a dyslexic, autistic, or ADHD poet. From the leaping ADHD brain to autistic hyperfixation to the dyslexic languaging of E. E. Cummings’s “helves surling out of eakspeasies” or “you in win / ter who sit,” this panel investigates ways neurodivergent traits weave into poetic process while extending the understanding of poetry itself. Speaker(s): Presenter: Leslie McIntosh Presenter: Nathan Spoon Moderator: Abriana Jette Presenter: Nazifa Islam Presenter: Robyn Lear Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F184 Event Outline_AWP 2025_Poetic License or Neurodivergence.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F184	2025032812:1013:25 095	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Poetry & Climate: Building Eco-Resilience Through Poetry & Community Action How can poetry build resilience during the climate crisis by connecting us to one another and the more-than-human world, while giving us courage to act? Poets for Science founder Jane Hirshfield and three other poets will share initiatives and collaborations that bring poetry to the most urgent and evolving needs of our time. This panel will showcase multimedia creations stemming from research-based and scientifically informed approaches to poetry that use innovative methods to build community. Speaker(s): Presenter: David Hassler Presenter: Kimberly Blaeser Presenter: Sean Hill Presenter: Jane Hirshfield Moderator: Nickole Brown Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F127 Event Outline - 2025 Poetry & Climate- Building Eco-Resilience Through Poetry & Community Action.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F127	2025032809:0010:15 085	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	We Are Still Here: A Reading for Palestinian & Armenian Solidarity IALA (International Armenian Literary Alliance) presents a reading of multigenre writers of Palestinian and Armenian descent. Their works in prose, poetry, and nonfiction examine culture and heritage in the diaspora despite ongoing campaigns of silencing by colonialist and fascist governments. In the face of exile and violence, our coalition fights for the recognition of our peoples’ safety and autonomy while celebrating writing as a continued form of resistance and survival. Speaker(s): Moderator: Gina Srmabekian Presenter: Nancy Agabian Presenter: Mai Serhan Presenter: Raffi Wartanian Presenter: Priscilla Wathington Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F213 Event Outline- We Are Still Here-A Reading for Palestinian and Armenian Solidarity.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F213	2025032813:4515:00 090	FRI, MAR 28	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM PDT	Latinx Writers Caucus Latinx writers are becoming increasingly visible in literary spaces. However, there is still work to be done to address inequalities in access and visibility. The Latinx Writers Caucus creates space for new, emerging, and established writers of varied Latinx identities to network, discuss obstacles to publication (e.g., active oppression and the cultural marginalization of Latinx writers), and discuss panel and event planning that will increase Latinx participation at future AWP conferences. Speaker(s): Presenter: Amy Alvarez Moderator: féi hernandez Presenter: Claudia Castro Luna Presenter: Amairani Pérez Chamu Presenter: Karina Muñiz-Pagán Caucus Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T250 AWP LATINX CAUCUS EVENT AGENDA.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T250	2025032717:0018:15 005	THU, MAR 27	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025	Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT	CLMP Membership Meeting This event is for all independent literary magazine and small press publishers: seasoned professionals, those just starting out, and all in between. Learn what we’re planning for the year and share your thoughts on how we can best ensure that our community thrives. Even if you’re not yet a member of CLMP but would like to find out more, please feel welcome to join us. Pro Forma Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: W104 Event Outline_CLMP Annual Meeting-2.pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: W104	2025032617:0018:00 001	WED, MAR 26	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Poets’ Debut Nonfiction: Poetics, Process & Things We Wish We’d Known Poets come to nonfiction with undeniable strengths, but a new genre—and a different publishing landscape—may ask poets to consider new approaches to craft and process. In this panel, poets will talk through the joys and growing pains of moving into nonfiction. How can poets unfold poetics across a book-length work of prose? What rewards and challenges come with writing and publishing autobiographical nonfiction? What do panelists wish they’d known at the beginning or middle of the process? Speaker(s): Presenter: Tyler Mills Presenter: Jane Wong Presenter: Michael Kleber-Diggs Presenter: Chet'la Sebree Moderator: Jessica Johnson Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S126 Outline_ Poets Debut Nonfiction 3.25.25 .pdf	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S126	2025032909:0010:15 080	SAT, MAR 29	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Soul-Searching in the Archives: How to Research a Memoir That Sells A good memoir tells a story with universal appeal. Today, many editors request writers do this by adding research to create “hybrid memoirs.” In our panel, three authors and one editor from a major imprint will discuss how to use research to turn the story of one into the story of many. How do you comb through archives and conduct interviews? How do you stay true to your story as you juggle citations? We’ll discuss how we did our research and folded it into our work, and the lessons we learned. Speaker(s): Presenter: Lee Oglesby Presenter: Marian Schembari Presenter: Shalene Gupta Moderator: Susan Shapiro Presenter: Michelle Bowdler Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S154 AWP Researched Memoir Panel.docx	Location: Room 501ABC, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S154	2025032910:3511:50 080	SAT, MAR 29	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Queering Form, or Weird Fiction, Sponsored by the Center for Fiction Writing fiction is finding your way to something true. What if you were permitted to abolish the binaries, break every rule you were given in workshop, and dare to be as weird as your story demands? Join us for a discussion of what it means to make form work for your story, and how to find readers and editors who will help you realize your highest ambitions and imaginings. Read the panelists’ bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Andrea Lawlor Presenter: Kazim Ali Presenter: Henry Hoke Fiction Craft & Criticism Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T194 _Queering Form, or Weird Fiction, Sponsored by the Center for Fiction.docx	Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T194	2025032713:4515:00 010	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Rich Benjamin & Sloane Crosley in Conversation with Amelia Possanza, Sponsored by the Authors Guild How do writers fill absences? Great literature is often created when the author writes the book only they can write—the book they want to read but that does not yet exist. Rich Benjamin is the author of the award-winning Searching for Whitopia and, most recently, Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History, a grandson’s account of the coup that ended his grandfather’s presidency of Haiti. Sloane Crosley is the author of the New York Times bestselling books Grief Is for People, How Did You Get This Number, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake, as well as Look Alive Out There (a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and the novels Cult Classic and The Clasp. Benjamin and Crosley will read from their work, followed by conversation with Amelia Possanza, book publicist and Lambda Award–winning author of Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Rich Benjamin Presenter: Sloane Crosley Moderator: Amelia Possanza Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T223 Event Outline - Rich Benjamin and Sloane Crosley in Conversation with Amelia Possanza.pdf	Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T223	2025032715:2016:35 010	THU, MAR 27	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	NBF Presents: Page to Screen What is the relationship between writing for the page and for the screen? Join National Book Award–honored authors Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven, 2014 fiction finalist) and Charles Yu (Interior Chinatown, 2020 fiction winner) for a conversation on what it means to have your work adapted for film and TV, and the many different professional hats worn by contemporary writers. Moderated by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Charles Yu Moderator: Ruth Dickey Presenter: Emily St. John Mandel Fiction Craft & Criticism Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F167 NBF Presents- Page to Screen_AWP Event Outline.pdf	Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F167	2025032812:1013:25 010	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Like a Hammer: Poets On Mass Incarceration Book Launch, Sponsored by the University of Arizona Poetry Center Join us for launch reading of Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration, an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America’s carceral system. These powerful poems of witness address the oppressive systems that define the US prison-industrial complex, exposing cracks in a criminal justice system that often feels unchangeable. The impact of this system reverberates across generations. The poets gathered here foreground the real experiences of those affected, challenging dominant narratives, exposing injustice, and serving as a fulcrum for organizing communities. Like a Hammer explores how art and imagination can be vehicles for endurance, offering hope to envision a better future. Read the panelists’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Moderator: Diana Marie Delgado Presenter: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Presenter: Angel Nafis Presenter: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Presenter: Tongo Eisen-Martin Poetry Readings Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F196 AWP Event Outline.docx - Google Docs.pdf	Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F196	2025032813:4515:00 005	FRI, MAR 28	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	NBCC Fiftieth Anniversary: All-Stars Breaking New Ground in Fiction A special fiftieth-anniversary literary partner National Book Critics Circle featured reading at the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Los Angeles, with all-star fiction writers Jonathan Escoffery, Jonathan Lethem, and Justin Torres, three authors honored as NBCC finalists or award winners, whose work is breaking new ground. Readings and conversation, moderated by NBCC President Heather Scott Partington, will cover inspiration, research, influences on their work, writing in these times, and evolving forms. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Justin Torres Moderator: Heather Scott Partington Presenter: Jonathan Escoffery Presenter: Jonathan Lethem Fiction Readings Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F225 Outline for “NBCC Fiftieth Anniversary_ All-Stars Breaking New Ground in Fiction”.pdf	Location: Petree Hall D, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F225	2025032815:2016:35 010	FRI, MAR 28	2721969A-8498-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Literary Production During Authoritarian Governments Panelists explore literary history and resistance tactics used during authoritarian governments that actively work to silence and exile writers. We consider the colonial and patriarchal histories of Korea, the authoritarian governments of El Salvador, and the looming warning signs in the US, such as book banning. Panelists share their writing and discuss the work of notable authors to provide strategies for understanding, surviving, and resisting authoritarianism as it sprouts across the globe. Speaker(s): Presenter: Emily Jungmin Yoon Presenter: Christopher Soto Presenter: Sally Wen Mao Moderator: Alexandra Lytton Regalado Presenter: Myriam Gurba Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F248 Event Outline 2025 AWP Literary Production During Auth Gov.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F248	2025032815:2016:35 125	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Literary Rebels: Breaking & Remaking the Boundaries of Literary Genre Despite new innovations and increasing interest in the fields of hybrid writing, many publishers, agents, and publicists remain resistant to these forms, leaving authors uncertain as to how to find their audience. Established members of the publishing industry will discuss navigating the rules—written and unwritten—of literary genre, and how to rebel against them effectively. We will discuss current trends in genre bending, blending, and experimentation, as well as opportunities for such work. Speaker(s): Moderator: Caroline Hagood Presenter: Jiwon Choi Presenter: Clarence A. Haynes Presenter: Tariq Shah Presenter: JP Howard Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S215 AWP Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S215	2025032913:4515:00 120	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Behind the Acronym: Empowering Ethnic Voices - Launching a Literary Nonprofit What does it mean to be a literary nonprofit dedicated to a specific ethnic group? What are the benefits of highlighting diverse voices within a community that others see as defined by their cultural background? Hear from founders and arts administrators of the International Armenian Literary Alliance, Mizna, and the Radius of Arab American Writers on the importance of visibility, diversity, and practicalities in launching and maintaining a successful nonprofit. Speaker(s): Presenter: Arthur Kayzakian Moderator: Shahe Mankerian Presenter: Zeyn Joukhadar Presenter: Ellina Kevorkian Writers’ Conferences & Centers Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S133 Event Outline - 2025 AWP_ Behind the Acronym_ Empowering Ethnic Voices - Launching a Literary Non-Profit.pdf	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S133	2025032909:0010:15 115	SAT, MAR 29	57806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	From Submission to Page: A Day in the Life of a Literary Magazine Editor In the movie version, the literary magazine editor is an alchemist who finds the soul in a manuscript. In real life, an editor also handles the nuts and bolts involved in the day-to-day running of a journal. In this panel, editors from four journals that regularly place work in the annual Best of... anthologies—Callaloo, Colorado Review, Georgia Review, and New England Review—discuss the fine points, from copyright issues to fact-checking to bringing editing to the classroom. Speaker(s): Presenter: Kyla Kupferstein Torres Moderator: Elizabeth Kadetsky Presenter: Stephanie G'Schwind Presenter: Emily Mitchell Presenter: Gerald Maa Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T160 From Submission to Page AWP event outline.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T160	2025032710:3511:50 120	THU, MAR 27	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Ghosting: The Privileges & Perils of Writing Someone Else’s Book Ghostwriting plays a bigger role in the publishing ecosystem today than ever before. It’s not just celebrities who hire ghosts, but industry leaders and online influencers, as well as grandparents who want their story immortalized for future generations. There are even agents who specialize in matching writers with “authors.” This panel of new and veteran ghostwriters shares tips for securing a successful ghost project, as well as the professional pitfalls and rewards of this literary masquerade. Speaker(s): Moderator: Aimee Liu Presenter: Jennifer Carr Presenter: Amy Friedman Presenter: Victoria Veldhoen Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T217 AWP 2025 Ghostwriting Event Outline.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T217	2025032713:4515:00 125	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Beyond the Linear: Supporting “Nontraditional” Memoirs by BIPOC Voices Writers of fragmented/nonlinear memoirs face unique challenges, from workshop feedback to finding agents, pressured to fit into “traditional” packaging to be more palatable. But this comes at high cost, especially for BIPOC writers. We write as we do because the structures often taught as “cannon” don’t serve our stories. BIPOC writers (including one who launched a publishing company) will discuss staying true to our voices. By disrupting dominant narratives, we aim to reshape the literary landscape. Speaker(s): Presenter: Lorena Hernandez Leonard Moderator: Anri Wheeler Presenter: Artress Bethany White Presenter: Anjali Mitter Duva Presenter: Theresa Okokon Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T132 AWP Event Outline for Beyond the Linear_ Supporting “Nontraditional” Memoirs by BIPOC Voices.pdf	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T132	2025032709:0010:15 110	THU, MAR 27	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Going Indie: Why & How to Work with Independent Publishers & Bookstores How do independent presses and their authors collaborate throughout the process of publishing a book, from submission, acceptance, and editorial, to marketing, sales, and beyond? How do these publishers work with distributors and indie bookstores to raise the profile of their authors and maximize sales? Representatives of indie presses in the US and Canada, their authors, and an indie bookstore owner share their practices and elaborate on their methods to foster a writer’s work. Speaker(s): Moderator: Lori Feathers Presenter: Yuka Igarashi Presenter: Corinna Vallianatos Presenter: Alana Wilcox Presenter: Suzette Mayr Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F161 updated AWP outline.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F161	2025032810:3511:50 125	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	“Getting Out of Our Own Way”: Cultivating a Sustainable Writing Practice How can writers cultivate a sustainable creative practice while paying the bills, growing a career, and accounting for domestic responsibilities? Award-winning authors with multiple books and diverse lived experiences discuss their ongoing journeys to do so—while also taking into consideration the roles of culture and institutions—as well as their best advice for tending to the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of the writing life. Speaker(s): Presenter: Amanda Churchill Moderator: Lorinda Toledo Presenter: Karen Connelly Presenter: Janet Fitch Presenter: Reyna Grande Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T189 Event Outline_GettingOutofOurOwnWay_SustainablePractice_AWP 2025 Panel_2.26.25 Final.pdf	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T189	2025032712:1013:25 120	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Books of Purpose: From Empathy to Activism Many books foster empathy. Some cross into advocacy and activism. What’s different about writing and promoting books of purpose? How can we steward our messages with accountability and integrity? Panelists representing a range of disciplines and lived experiences will detail the role advocacy plays in their written work and related events, and describe how they strive to ensure that their books are helpful and sensitive to the communities and causes they’re writing about. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jody Hobbs Hesler Moderator: Viet Dinh Presenter: Sunu Chandy Presenter: Christine Maul Rice Presenter: Halle Hill Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S188 Official Event Outline for Books of Purpose.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S188	2025032912:1013:25 120	SAT, MAR 29	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Comeback of the Short Story Collection For too long, mainstream publishing has shied away from the short story collection. Short story collections have survived through small presses and contests. Freed from commercial stakes and standardized values, short stories have been free to take risks, explore form, and make room for writers left out of mass culture. Five writers of short story collections will discuss the potential of the short story form and how they play with the conventions of the Anglophone short story’s expectations. Speaker(s): Moderator: Gemini Wahhaj Presenter: Khem Aryal Presenter: Aruni Kashyap Presenter: Jennifer Maritza McCauley Presenter: Chaitali Sen Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S241 AWP 2025 EVENT outline.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S241	2025032915:2016:35 115	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	It Takes a Village: Blurbs, References, Editing, Organizing & More Organizing readings, writing blurbs and reference letters, and editing journals are foundations of the literary world. But there’s not a lot of conversation or guidance for how to do these things well and ethically. Writers with years of experience provide tips and best practices, whether you’re just getting started in literary service or looking for ways to do it better. We include time to brainstorm ideas and meet other participants, so you’ll leave with useful information and new connections. Speaker(s): Presenter: Faith Adiele Moderator: Rosamond S. King Presenter: JP Howard Presenter: Swati Khurana Presenter: Serena W. Lin Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F220 It Takes a Village AWP Outline 2025.pdf	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F220	2025032813:4515:00 125	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Daily & Long-Term Nuts & Bolts of Writing a Novel Step inside the minds of novelists to learn how they handle the daily and long-term challenges of their craft. What creative practices—and time management tricks—have worked for them? What methods do they use to plan and edit their books? How do they sculpt characters into flesh-and-blood individuals? What are their approaches to research and integrating fact into the fiction? This panel will offer hard-earned reality checks on writer’s block, plot twists, dialogue, and so forth. Speaker(s): Moderator: Sally Wiener Grotta Presenter: Elysha Chang Presenter: Roohi Choudhry Presenter: Kim Coleman Foote Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F191 AWP 2025 Event Outline for Panel on The Daily & Long-Term Nuts & Bolts of Writing a Novel .pdf	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F191	2025032812:1013:25 130	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Conflict: Hell Is Story Friendly; Put Your Protagonist Among the Damned Conflict remains essential to any work of fiction. It propels the story forward as the characters struggle to seek resolution and solicit empathy. Five diverse, award-winning authors of realistic and speculative fiction will discuss different types of conflict, underscoring various principles and techniques that can effectively improve and/or define it and make the story as charged and compelling as possible. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry Presenter: Caroline Kim Presenter: Matthew Lansburgh Presenter: Maurice Carlos Ruffin Presenter: Laura Spence-Ash Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S160 AWP 2025--Event Outline: Conflict-Hell Is Story Friendly; Put Your Protagonist Among the Damned.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S160	2025032910:3511:50 110	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Voices from the “Other” California: A Sense of Place—Belonging & Divisions Often lost and overlooked are the hidden and “other” voices—specifically from Inland California. Voices of outsiders that are marginalized: rural, working class, mixed-race families, agrarian, communities of color—all explore a new meaning of diversity. A unique sense of place and history are woven into the voices from these hidden perspectives—with a brutal honesty from those who live in a different world in the shadows of the established. Connect with revealing legacies. Speaker(s): Moderator: Mas Masumoto Presenter: Susan Straight Presenter: Lee Herrick Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T246 Event Outline Voices from the "Other" California.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T246	2025032715:2016:35 125	THU, MAR 27	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Preparing Students for Life Beyond the Writing Program Many students leave writing programs with uncertainty about their careers and questions about how to keep writing and publishing after graduation. From developing marketable job skills to querying agents and applying for grants and residencies, this group of panelists will share practical strategies for teaching undergraduate and graduate students how to support their writing, publish their work, and maintain an active writing practice outside a writing program. Speaker(s): Moderator: Marian Crotty Presenter: Katie Cortese Presenter: Amina Gautier Presenter: Rochelle Hurt Presenter: Jack Wang Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F133 AWP Outline_Life Beyond the Writing Program.docx	Location: Room 515A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F133	2025032809:0010:15 110	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Strength in Numbers: Southern California Women & Femme Organizers in Action You are not as alone as you think. Join a diverse intersectional group of women and femme leaders in Southern California as we share how we empower each other in the poetry community. Our panelists will offer insights on literary activism, identity complexities, collaboration pitfalls, and best practices. We hope to acknowledge the work of women and femmes and ignite a new cohort of community leaders, hosts, teaching artists, and organizers. Speaker(s): Presenter: bridgette bianca Presenter: Danielle Mitchell Moderator: Kelsey Bryan-Zwick Presenter: Natalie Graham Presenter: Jessica Wilson Writers’ Conferences & Centers Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S216 Strength in Numbers_ Southern California Women & Femme Organizers in Action (FINAL).pdf	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S216	2025032913:4515:00 125	SAT, MAR 29	57806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Magazine Archives & What to Do with Them, Sponsored by CLMP Accumulating a sizable magazine archive is an impressive feat—a mark of longevity and success over years of publishing. Deciding what to do with a growing collection of old issues is another question. The magazines on this panel have found success in storing, sharing, monetizing, and/or digitizing their archives. Panelists will discuss how to store physical archives, options for monetizing back issues, how to undertake a digitization project, and more. Speaker(s): Presenter: Kevin Craft Presenter: Joy Garnett Presenter: Emily Wallis Hughes Moderator: Mary Gannon Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F221 Event Outline_Magazine Archives-2.pdf	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F221	2025032813:4515:00 130	FRI, MAR 28	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	From Satire to Dad Jokes: How Humor Can Be Literary, Political & Funny As a fiction writer, how can you use humor to tell stories that describe human experiences, while also addressing forces such as racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia? What literary devices can you use? How do you work with editors who do not share your sense of humor? In this panel, four fiction writers—with different literary styles and types of humor—will share their new work and how they use humor in their novels and short stories. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kathryn Fay Presenter: Kristen Arnett Presenter: Z. Hanna Presenter: Alana Saab Presenter: Isle McElroy Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T218 AWP25_Event Outline_From Satire to Dad Jokes.pdf	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T218	2025032713:4515:00 130	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Minding the Gap: Navigating the Holes in Our Memories, Histories & Perspectives The holes in our awareness often translate to limitations in our individual, historical, psychological, metaphorical, and cultural blind spots in both fiction and nonfiction. How do we know where the limitations are? How do we redress absences in archives, create reliable narrators, or generate narratives without witnesses? The panelists will focus on developing narrative strategies to address the losses informed by racial, colonial, migrational, temporal, and spacial gaps. Speaker(s): Moderator: Angelique Stevens Presenter: Alexander Chee Presenter: Marcela Fuentes Presenter: Yahdon Israel Presenter: Leila Nadir Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T133 AWP Final Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T133	2025032709:0010:15 115	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Big & Bodied: Writing Against Fatphobia In a world where fat bodies are disdained and eating disorders are stigmatized, how can fiction illuminate what it feels like to live and hunger in a body today? How do the answers to these questions change when the bodies are also bodies of color and trans bodies? How do we navigate a fatphobic professional industry? Five fiction writers of recent and critically acclaimed novels and short story collections with a focus on bodily experience read from their work and discuss their strategies. Speaker(s): Presenter: Megan Milks Presenter: Carmen Maria Machado Presenter: Jasmine Guillory Presenter: Isle McElroy Moderator: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T190 Big and Bodied.docx	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T190	2025032712:1013:25 125	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Birthing Books & Babies: Navigating the Double Bind of Caregiving & Writing The double bind of caregiving and artistic pursuit can feel incongruous—yet why does the metaphor of “birthing a book” exist, and is that what publishing is like? Are parenting and writing in competition with one another, or can both identities exist simultaneously and, dare we consider, fruitfully? Published authors at diverse stages of child-rearing and the publication journey share their experiences and provide new frameworks for conversation and engagement on this nuanced subject matter. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kaitlin Solimine Presenter: Natashia Deon Presenter: Camille Dungy Presenter: Marie Mutsuki Mockett Presenter: Daniel Tam-Claiborne Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T161 AWP Event Outline - Birthing Books and Babies.docx	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T161	2025032710:3511:50 125	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Book Tours: Wisdom & Warning from Those Who’ve Gone Before “Unless you’re selling out stadiums like Michelle Obama, presses don’t pay for book tours” is a common sentiment heard by new authors. But is it true? With wisdom won from experience, this panel will share mistakes, successes, and advice learned from our own in-person and virtual tours. We’ll talk money, travel choices, tactics for filling seats, what to do when only two people show up, tricky audience members, conversation partners, whether to bring family along, and how to not burn out. Speaker(s): Moderator: Minna Dubin Presenter: Brad Balukjian Presenter: Susan Kiyo Ito Presenter: Ruth Whippman Presenter: Tomas Moniz Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S161 Event Outline -Book Tours - Wisdom & Warning from Authors Who've Gone Before.pdf	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S161	2025032910:3511:50 115	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Find Your Submission Groove: Cultivate Radically Different Paths to Publication Submission is a critical step toward publication. It is second only to writing, but writers are often ill-prepared for the submission process. Join us to hear our radically different paths to publication, and how you can use our submission strategies to support your publication goals. We go beyond the usual discussion of submission solely as technique and discuss mindset too. We draw upon our experiences as editors, multiple genre writers, and working with large publishers and small presses. Participants will leave with five to ten concrete ideas for a submission plan. Speaker(s): Presenter: Amy Shearn Presenter: Joanna Rakoff Moderator: Michele Berger Presenter: Susan Lee Presenter: Elizabeth Silver Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S189 EVENT OUTLINE-Find Your Submission Groove-2025-1.pdf	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S189	2025032912:1013:25 125	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Writing With/About Unruly Bodies What does it mean to write about and from an unruly body? In a world that controls and punishes bodies that are queer, trans, disabled, mad, sick, fat, and/or racialized, writing about our unruly bodies can be an act of resistance—but that act can come at a cost. How do we write about our unruly bodies in a way that supports our flourishing? Is such a practice possible, and if not, what is needed to make it so? Speaker(s): Moderator: Margeaux Feldman Presenter: Amanda Choo Quan Presenter: Carolyn Collado Presenter: Fariha Roisin Presenter: Kai Cheng Thom Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S242 Download Course Materials	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S242	2025032915:2016:35 120	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	It’s Personal, Not Strictly Business: Networking for Writers Some writers think “networking” means chasing after important people who might be useful for their career. (Spoiler: It’s not that.) Others think networking is just an obnoxious thing that business types do—writers are too introverted and devoted to the art to do that, right? (Also no.) Join our panel of writers who run workshops, readings, organizations, and publications for a discussion about networking: If it’s really about building relationships and community, how can writers do it well? Speaker(s): Presenter: Jessica Jacobs Moderator: Katie Manning Presenter: Abayomi Animashaun Presenter: Elizabeth Dark Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S134 Event Outline - It’s Personal, Not Strictly Business - Networking for Writers.docx	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S134	2025032909:0010:15 120	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Writing & Publishing in the AI Era, Sponsored by the Authors Guild Artificial intelligence has sparked existential questions about what it means to be a writer. It has also brought real, material changes to the lives of writers. What is gained and lost with increasingly powerful AI? How do we reconcile the need to retain humanity in the arts while navigating a world in which many writers and the publishing industry itself embrace AI? This discussion convenes acclaimed authors with advocates from the Authors Guild to discuss AI’s impact on writing as an art and a profession. Speaker(s): Moderator: Mary Rasenberger Presenter: Rich Benjamin Presenter: Vauhini Vara Presenter: Umair Kazi Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F162	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F162	2025032810:3511:50 130	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Judging by the Cover: Trends & Strategies for Designing Beautiful & Market-Worthy Books, Sponsored by CLMP A beautiful cover on the bookstore shelf can attract readers and sell a book. How do publishers work with in-house and freelance designers to create cohesive, contemporary designs that represent the best of the work inside? What do small presses need to know about cover design on a budget? And how much should authors be involved in the process? Designers and marketing professionals will address these questions in discussing their approach to cover design for literary titles. Speaker(s): Presenter: Justin Carder Presenter: Mary Austin Speaker Presenter: Kit Schluter Moderator: Nicole Dewey Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T247 Event Outline_Judging by the Cover-2.pdf	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T247	2025032715:2016:35 130	THU, MAR 27	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Art & Craft of Speculative Memoir Writing outside the boundaries of the verifiable in memoir can feel like being lost in the woods. But speculative memoir provides the space to interrogate truths through fabulism, folklore, imagined lives, hauntedness, and other slanted lenses. Authors will discuss how the speculative operates in their own books, the philosophy of their choices, the definitions of the genre, and the freedom it offers marginalized communities to challenge and renegotiate society’s definition of reality. Speaker(s): Moderator: August Grimm Presenter: Shannon Gibney Presenter: Carmen Maria Machado Presenter: Jami Nakamura Lin Presenter: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F134 Final Event Outline_ Speculative Memoir.pdf	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F134	2025032809:0010:15 115	FRI, MAR 28	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Poets Who Edit: The Joy & Conundrum of Wearing Two Hats Poetry editors from W. W. Norton, Yale Review, The Atlantic, Harvard Review, and Paris Review discuss what it’s like to be both a poet and a poetry editor. Panelists will seek to answer questions such as, Does one’s own poetics interfere or highlight the poets you publish? Do you see yourself primarily as an editor or a poet? What’s it like to have to turn down so many labors of love? What are you looking to publish? How do you maintain your own poetic process while publishing other poets’ work? Speaker(s): Presenter: Meghan O'Rourke Presenter: Shrikanth Reddy Presenter: Major Jackson Moderator: Jill Bialosky Presenter: Walt Hunter Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F192 Event Outline-Poets Who Edit Panel.docx	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F192	2025032812:1013:25 135	FRI, MAR 28	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Intimate Podcast: A Path to Community Members of The Hive Poetry Collective discuss the value of intimate conversations with poets on their weekly Santa Cruz radio show and podcast series. These conversations nurture community and their own poetic growth. Circumventing tribalism, the collective shares how their differences—identities, poetic tastes, interviewing techniques—are strengths. This woman-run collective in its sixth year will share examples and history, and conduct two lightning interviews of volunteer audience members. Speaker(s): Presenter: Dion O'Reilly Moderator: Farnaz Fatemi Presenter: Julia Chiapella Presenter: Julie Murphy Presenter: Roxi Power Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F249 Download Course Materials	Location: Room 515B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F249	2025032815:2016:35 130	FRI, MAR 28	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Of Many Tongues: Diverse Traditions in Anglophone Writing South Asian writers writing in America—their English jostling alongside Hindi, Telugu, Urdu, and more—explore our instinctual turn to hybridized literature. Panelists will present excerpts of their work and share choices behind writing at the intersection of two or more languages for an English-reading audience. We will discuss whether such work dislocates English from a Western hold, identifying its dialectical uses; bridges the gap toward global literature; or carves out a liminal third. Speaker(s): Presenter: Torsa Ghosal Moderator: Meher Manda Presenter: Shakstri Akella Presenter: Sham-e-Ali Nayeem Presenter: Raghav Rao Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S217 Event Outline - Of Many Tongues.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S217	2025032913:4515:00 130	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Student-Run Literary Magazines: Don’t Throw in the Towel! Student-run literary magazines function as more than platforms for showcasing undergraduate and graduate student work. They complement and inform classroom learning, create opportunities for professionalization as well as experimentation, and act as creative catalysts for the campus community. This panel of faculty advisors and students will share insights on successful practices and advise on how to secure funding and address institutional and other challenges. Speaker(s): Presenter: Kylan Rice Presenter: Catherine Dent Presenter: Sarah Ledet Presenter: Zafira Demiri Moderator: Mihaela Moscaliuc Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S190 AWP25 Panel Outline.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S190	2025032912:1013:25 130	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Revisions: Performing Heart Surgery on Yourself Without Anesthesia To be a successful writer, one has to develop two essential yet opposite skills: generating a first draft and revising. Five prizewinning authors will lead a discussion on the often painful, often brutal process of revision; the choices they had to make, whether on their own or while working with editors/publishers; and what determined those choices. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry Presenter: Caroline Kim Presenter: Andrea Jurjevic Presenter: Maria Kuznetsova Presenter: Sanjena Sathian Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F163 AWP 2025--Event Outline: Revisions-Performing Heart Surgery on Yourself Without Anesthesia --K. Gorcheva-Newberry.docx	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F163	2025032810:3511:50 135	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Writers and/as Artists Seizing the Image How do writers working at the margins of race, gender, and sexuality seize the possibilities of the image in verbal language through visual art? This panel negotiates the interplay between drawing, collage, video, and graphic art against the usual means of writing: story, metaphor, and plot. This panel presents five writers who practice visual art to resist conscripted identities to present radical possibilities of the imagined across verbal and visual language via the image, icon, and picture. Speaker(s): Presenter: Angela Penaredondo Presenter: Addie Tsai Moderator: Ronaldo V. Wilson Presenter: S. Erin Batiste Presenter: Paul Cunningham Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T219 AWP Panel Outline 2025226.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T219	2025032713:4515:00 135	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Publishing Process & Systemic Interventions for Equity & Justice Amidst rising awareness about disparities within the book industry, what about solutions? These organizations have created meaningful interventions toward equity: a press focused on social justice titles, a mentorship that places interns of color in publishing, a publisher-affiliated foundation supporting equitable spaces for authors, and a coaching community to help BIPOC+ally authors break into the industry. In a frank discussion, they will demystify what authors need to know about making impact and progress in all stages of the publishing process. Speaker(s): Moderator: Minal Hajratwala Presenter: Nuola Akinde Presenter: Nayelli Gonzalez Presenter: Maya Marshall Presenter: Hiram Sims Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S243 AWP25 Event Outline The Publishing Process and Interventions for Equity and Justice.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S243	2025032915:2016:35 125	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Excuse My Beauty: Queer Indigenous Poetics, Story & Time “Excuse My Beauty” is a phrase borrowed from the late Stephanie Yellowhair. “Excuse My Beauty” will be a celebration of the diverse and vibrant work of queer Indigenous poets who span landscape, waters, and histories. The poets will read from their own work and the work of others, while engaging in a vital discussion on how time and story are entangled in poetry and how they each invigorate Indigenous sovereignty both here in the United States and abroad. Speaker(s): Presenter: Michael Wasson Moderator: Jake Skeets Presenter: Billy-Ray Belcourt Presenter: No'u Revilla Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F250	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F250	2025032815:2016:35 135	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Writing Our Way: Career & Self-Care Insights from First-Gen Women Join us for “Writing Our Way: Career and Self-Care Insights from First-Gen Women”! This powerhouse panel features first-generation women of color sharing their real wisdom on thriving in the writing world. Expect unfiltered advice on breaking into the industry, juggling life and creativity, and essential self-care practices. It’s not just about surviving—it’s about thriving with savvy, wisdom, and a plan. Get ready to be inspired and empowered to chart your writing life, your way. Speaker(s): Moderator: Hannah Eko Presenter: Amanda Awanjo Presenter: Connie Pertuz Presenter: Tanya Shirazi Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T162 AWP 2025 EVENT OUTLINE - HANNAH EKO.docx	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T162	2025032710:3511:50 130	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Writing Refuge This panel will engage with the topic of refuge—from the word “refugee” that embeds refuge, to the prefix “re” that speaks to the recursive idea of a past one is ever moving, or fleeing, from. The panelists represent tragicomic, fictional, lyrical, and documentary approaches to the worlds of these narratives and poems. The ethics of speaking for those who may not otherwise have a voice, as well as how the writing itself crafts multivalent notions of belonging, will be subjects of discussion. Speaker(s): Moderator: Adrianne Kalfopoulou Presenter: Helen Benedict Presenter: Ewa Chrusciel Presenter: Gazmend Kapllani Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T134 EVENT OUTLINE.docx	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T134	2025032709:0010:15 120	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Performance & the Presentation of the Self: Identity on & off the Page Workshop leaders and instructors encourage writers to mimetically recreate voice on the page and strive for authenticity in their representations of self and community. But how can one authentically express themselves when their identity is exoticized or othered, on and off the page? As Indigenous writers and poets, we’ll discuss craft strategies, including form and curation, as methods of deconstructing the concepts of the authentic other in poetry. Speaker(s): Moderator: Annie Wenstrup Presenter: Kalehua Kim Presenter: Erin Marie Lynch Presenter: M.S. RedCherries Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T248 AWP Outline.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T248	2025032715:2016:35 135	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way Writing is better without alcohol for these award-winning, multigenre writers. A sober perspective has unlocked epiphanies in their work, but sobriety isn’t easy. In this conversation, panelists celebrate community and encourage perseverance by reading their work about sobriety. They also discuss questions like, How do we write about our drunken pasts with honesty and kindness? How do we have fun alcohol-free at conferences and residencies? What do we do when writing—and life—get hard? Speaker(s): Moderator: Caitlin McGill Presenter: Kerry James Evans Presenter: Paul Haney Presenter: Natalie Lima Presenter: Darius Stewart Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F193 Questions for the Lord in the Court of Divine Indifference - Kerry James Evans..pdf Panel Outline (March).pdf Getting Sober Again.pdf "Through the Threads" - Caitlin McGill - HUNGER MOUNTAIN - Feb 2024.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F193	2025032812:1013:25 140	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	How Do You Know When You’re Done? Poets on Revision Are poems ever finished, or just abandoned? In this panel, five poets will explore the process of a single published poem, from initial inspiration and drafting, through the process of revision, and focus on the moment they decided their work was finished—if it ever was. Focusing on works that experienced deep and significant changes throughout their writing, this panel will explore the way revision can reveal hidden rooms within an initial draft, and examine the moments those revisions end. Speaker(s): Presenter: Megan Pinto Moderator: James Fujinami Moore Presenter: Diannely Antigua Presenter: Taneum Bambrick Presenter: Michael Dhyne Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F222 AWP 2025 Event Outline - Poets on Revision.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F222	2025032813:4515:00 135	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Craft for Crafters: How Fiber Arts, Book Arts & More Shape Our Writing Crafts such as sewing, quilting, and collage can enrich creative writing. Working across genres, we explore how our practices with form and language, fabric and scissor, overlap and expand one another. We consider the direct connections between revising prose and the physicality of fiber arts, how freely crocheted garments can offer a story structure, how a knot can be a period, how book arts can inspire creative nonfiction and more. Through craft(ing), we find new ways to be writers. Speaker(s): Moderator: Meg Cass Presenter: Emrys Donaldson Presenter: Genevieve Kaplan Presenter: Doug Van Gundy Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T191 Event Outline--Craft for Crafters- How Fiber Arts, Book Arts & More Shape Our Writing.docx PDF Craft for Crafters AWP 2025.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T191	2025032712:1013:25 130	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Poetry of Empathy & the Art of Resistance & Dissent We’re living in a time marred by existential crises, such as wars, genocides, famine, pandemics, mass migration, and climate change. We face ideological differences, and racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination. Activism has become part of daily life, with protests common in public places and educational institutions. Yet, lasting solutions evade us. What are we lacking, and how are writers, poets, and activists responding? The panel “Poetry of Empathy & the Art of Resistance & Dissent” will discuss all. Speaker(s): Presenter: Askold Melnyczuk Moderator: Kalpna Singh-Chitnis Presenter: Beau Beausoleil Presenter: Richard Modiano Writers’ Conferences & Centers Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S162 Poetry of Empathy and the Art of Resistance and Dissent, AWP 2025.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S162	2025032910:3511:50 120	SAT, MAR 29	57806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Positionality in Publishing Panel discussion on how positionality (one’s station as community member or earnest ally) informs the editorial and writing process. Marginalized authors have many stories of well-meaning yet problematic treatment by dominant gatekeepers (white editors, publishers, agents, etc.). Even marginalized editors misstep dealing with other marginalized authors. In this panel, experienced authors advise publishers and authors on how positionality alleviates problematic decision-making and behaviors. Speaker(s): Moderator: Andrew Hoe Presenter: Mary Fan Presenter: Frankie Huang Writers’ Conferences & Centers Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F135 AWP 2025 EVENT OUTLINE.pdf	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F135	2025032809:0010:15 120	FRI, MAR 28	57806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Legacy of Lyn Hejinian Native Californian poet, professor, and activist, Lyn Hejinian died at 82 on February 24, 2024, at her home in Berkeley. This panel pays tribute to her life and work by reflecting on her importance to contemporary poetry in the US and beyond. Panelists will reflect on her innovative poetry as well as her philosophical essays and will explore the nature of thought and human subjectivity, the significance of sex and gender to writing, and the ethical aspects of language. Speaker(s): Moderator: Grant Matthew Jenkins Presenter: Jessica Lewis Luck Presenter: Anis Shivani Presenter: Kaveh Bassiri Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S135 EVENT OUTLINE THE LEGACY OF LYN HEJINIAN.docx	Location: Room 518, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S135	2025032909:0010:15 125	SAT, MAR 29	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	AWP HBCU Fellowship Program Reception Celebrate the AWP HBCU Fellowship Program's third year at the reception, where you can enjoy refreshments, meet the #AWP25 faculty and student fellows, and hear from this year's creative advisor, Tayari Jones. Reception Location: Olympic Room III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F255A	Location: Olympic Room III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F255A	2025032818:0019:30 015	FRI, MAR 28	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	A Celebration of Beyond Bars’ Inaugural Issue Come meet with the editors of Beyond Bars. Copies of the issue will be available and the first twenty-five attendees will receive a free drink ticket. Light bites will be served. Reception Location: Olympic Room III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T253A	Location: Olympic Room III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T253A	2025032718:0019:30 025	THU, MAR 27	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	University of Cincinnati Creative Writing Program Reception The University of Cincinnati invites alumni, students, and friends to join us for drinks, food, and conversation. Prospective students welcome. Reception Location: Olympic Room III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: S245	Location: Olympic Room III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: S245	2025032918:0019:30 001	SAT, MAR 29	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	Scarlet Tanager Books Celebrates Native American Poetry from California You are warmly invited to join us for food, drink, and conversation with Native American poets from California. Special guests will include Emily Clarke, Denise Low, Stephen Meadows, Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez, Kim Shuck, and others. The Women’s National Book Association is a cosponsor of this event. Reception Location: Atrium Room I, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: S246	Location: Atrium Room I, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: S246	2025032918:0019:30 005	SAT, MAR 29	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	The Helen Zell Writers’ Program Reception We welcome students, faculty, alumni, and recently accepted students of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program to join us for an evening of drinks, snacks, and catching up. Reservations required. Reception Location: Atrium Room I, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F256	Location: Atrium Room I, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F256	2025032818:0019:30 020	FRI, MAR 28	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	AWP Program Directors’ Plenary Assembly This meeting is for all directors of AWP member programs. Please join us for a light breakfast and an informal working session with your regional representatives. AWP Board Chair January Gill O’Neil will give a welcome and briefing before the breakout discussions begin. Please note: Program directors who are unable to attend may send a department representative in their place. Pro Forma Location: Georgia Room I-II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T135	Location: Georgia Room I-II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T135	2025032709:0011:50 000	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT	Yoga for Writers Join Manisha Sharma, a certified yoga practitioner, for a gentle, one-hour yoga and meditation practice, appropriate for practitioners of all levels and abilities. The hour-long practice will focus on stretches, asanas, physical postures, breathing, relaxation, and meditation. Please come wearing comfortable street clothes; mats and yoga apparel are not necessary. Pro Forma Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T109	Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T109	2025032709:0010:00 000	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT	Yoga for Writers Join Manisha Sharma, a certified yoga practitioner, for a gentle, one-hour yoga and meditation practice, appropriate for practitioners of all levels and abilities. The hour-long practice will focus on stretches, asanas, physical postures, breathing, relaxation, and meditation. Please come wearing comfortable street clothes; mats and yoga apparel are not necessary. Pro Forma Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F109	Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F109	2025032809:0010:00 000	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT	Yoga for Writers Join Manisha Sharma, a certified yoga practitioner, for a gentle, one-hour yoga and meditation practice, appropriate for practitioners of all levels and abilities. The hour-long practice will focus on stretches, asanas, physical postures, breathing, relaxation, and meditation. Please come wearing comfortable street clothes; mats and yoga apparel are not necessary. Pro Forma Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S109	Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S109	2025032909:0010:00 000	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM PDT	Meditation for Writers: Quieting the Inner Critic Join April Dávila, a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, for a calming, one-hour meditation session. The session will begin and end with fifteen minutes of guided meditation. The middle thirty minutes will explore a specific mindfulness topic. On Thursday, March 27, participants will focus on quieting the inner critic. Please come wearing comfortable street clothes; mats and yoga apparel are not necessary. Speaker(s): Presenter: April Davila Pro Forma Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T191A	Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T191A	2025032713:4514:45 000	THU, MAR 27	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM PDT	Meditation for Writers: Seeing Clearly Join April Dávila, a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, for a calming, one-hour meditation session. The session will begin and end with fifteen minutes of guided meditation. The middle thirty minutes will explore a specific mindfulness topic. On Friday, March 28, participants will focus on seeing things as they truly are, in the present moment, without judgment. Please come wearing comfortable street clothes; mats and yoga apparel are not necessary. Speaker(s): Presenter: April Davila Pro Forma Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F164	Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F164	2025032812:1013:10 000	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM PDT	Meditation for Writers: Compassion Practice Join April Dávila, a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, for a calming, one-hour meditation session. The session will begin and end with fifteen minutes of guided meditation. The middle thirty minutes will explore a specific mindfulness topic. On Saturday, March 29, participants will focus on compassion practice. Please come wearing comfortable street clothes; mats and yoga apparel are not necessary. Speaker(s): Presenter: April Davila Pro Forma Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S163	Location: Room 510, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S163	2025032912:1013:10 000	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Outside of Academia: Poems Born in & for Community How can poems be vessels for us to find, commune, and walk alongside our communities outside of institutions? From viral readerships galvanized on Instagram to poems inside the confines of incarceration, these poets know a thing or two about the transformative magic of writing with and for the people and places we belong to. Join us and grapple with the questions: How can poetry be an act of community and kinship? Where can it live and thrive among our loved ones? With dialogue and Q&A, we will tackle big topics like finding an authentic audience and building a community-centered writing life. Speaker(s): Presenter: Desiree Dallagiacomo Presenter: Olivia Gatwood Presenter: Yesika Salgado Presenter: Alyesha Wise Moderator: KC Cullinan Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T224	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T224	2025032715:2016:35 015	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	On Tiger Balm & Fourth Kingdom: How Korean American Writers Have Built Community The Korean American writers’ group, The Fourth Kingdom, has met annually at AWP for over a decade, and the Korean American lit community has been ascending, largely due to the writers who have been at its forefront. Inspired by The Fourth Kingdom, a Korean American writers’ group for early career writers, Tiger Balm, has recently materialized. This event will be a tribute to the founders and early members of The Fourth Kingdom while also discussing the next generation of Korean American organizers. Speaker(s): Presenter: Joseph Han Presenter: Marie Myung-Ok Lee Moderator: Hannah Bae Presenter: Alexander Chee Presenter: Gene Kwak Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S193 Event Outline - On Tiger Balm and Fourth Kingdom.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S193	2025032913:4515:00 010	SAT, MAR 29	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Poets Are Writing Novels “Novels written by poets” are having a moment. Their recent critical and commercial successes demonstrate readers’ appetites for narratives with lyrical elements. How are today’s poets influencing fiction? What possibilities and challenges, from a creative and publishing perspective, does fiction afford them? Five poets who regularly publish fiction will try to identify that ineffable quality that writing in both genres brings to their work, and how they navigate walking two roads at once. Speaker(s): Presenter: Ben Purkert Presenter: Sally Wen Mao Presenter: Mahogany Browne Moderator: Ruth Madievsky Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S166 Event Outline - The Poets Are Writing Novels.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S166	2025032912:1013:25 010	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	A Poetics of Radical Parenting For writers, becoming a parent can be the occasion of an intense reckoning and reenvisioning of the self, the communities one is a part of, and the work of writing. Poet parents who locate themselves within complex intersections of racial, sexual, and gender identification discuss the radical work of writing and parenting with a vision toward reimagining ties of kinship and reimagining artistic institutions that undervalue the domestic sphere. Speaker(s): Presenter: Katie Schmid Henson Moderator: Stacey Waite Presenter: Saddiq Dzukogi Presenter: Brandon Som Presenter: Hope Wabuke Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F197 A poetics of radical parenting event outline.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F197	2025032813:4515:00 010	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Everybody Gets a Stage: Starting a Reading Series That Builds Community As so many essential and communal literary pillars fall, writers and readers seek ways to find each other, learn from each other, and hear new work. The emergence of national reading series in the last few years reveals a desire for art and connection that won’t be left unsatiated. Join us to learn how to start your own reading series or grow one you’ve already started, and hear from new and established series founders about how to build a community from scratch and keep it thriving. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jessica Johnson Presenter: Jason Koo Presenter: Wil Turner Presenter: Jen Winston Program Development Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T110 Outline_Everybody Gets a Stage_3.25.25 .pdf AWP EVENT OUTLINE.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T110	2025032709:0010:15 001	THU, MAR 27	4F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Parenting as a Creative & Creating as a Parent In addition to creative work, parent writers take on the added work of teaching, parenting, and working. We act as though these roles are mutually exclusive, but those who parent and create in any endeavor bring a difficult, exhausting, unsupported, and oftentimes unacknowledged amount of labor to their work. This panel is meant to bring working parents together for support—a safe space to listen and collaborate, share resources, and bring necessary attention to these interconnected roles. Speaker(s): Presenter: Simone Gorrindo Moderator: Holly Taylor Presenter: Krys Malcolm Belc Presenter: Erin Khar Presenter: Mackenzie Smith Sajan Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F168 Event Outline_ Parenting as a Creative and Creating as a Parent Panel (1).pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F168	2025032812:1013:25 015	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Innovations in Arab American Fiction A panel of groundbreaking Arab American fiction writers will read their work and discuss the trajectory of their artistic journeys. What is the responsibility of a writer to represent their culture in a society where their people are often maligned and misrepresented? How does the experience of Arab American writers working in fiction differ from other communities in this current cultural moment? Speaker(s): Presenter: Zeyn Joukhadar Moderator: Betty Shamieh Presenter: Ghassan Zeineddine Presenter: Sarah Cypher Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S219 Event Outline - INNOVATIONS IN ARAB AMERICAN FICTION.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S219	2025032915:2016:35 005	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	A Lyric Freedom: Asian Americans, Racial Legibility & Poetic Subjectivity The Asian American poet (and more broadly, the racialized subject) is expected to occupy a legible, ethnographic, and autobiographical position. How can we wield the lyric to complicate normative assumptions of racial/ethnic subjectivity and representation? How can we be at once intellectual and embodied, unlocated and specific? In this panel, a diverse group of Asian American poets discuss how they champion their racialized subjectivities even as they revolt against performative pressures. Speaker(s): Moderator: Hana Widerman Presenter: Derek Chan Presenter: Kimiko Hahn Presenter: Sandra Lim Presenter: Haolun Xu Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S111 Event Outline - A Lyric Freedom- Asian Americans, Racial Legibility & Poetic Subjectivity.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S111	2025032909:0010:15 005	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Not Cue Cards or Assignments: The Magic of Prompts in Poetry Workshops The creative impulse is always inside you. Period. That is what this panel of poets and educators believe. Whether contemporizing forms or innovating images, prompts can have a pedagogical impact that reaches outside the walls of a classroom or Zoom room. Panelists will share favorite prompts and ways we have taught with prompts and used them in our own work, and offer a prompt to invite the audience to write a poem with us at the conference in Los Angeles. Speaker(s): Moderator: Tyler Mills Presenter: Traci Brimhall Presenter: Dorothy Chan Presenter: Rachel Richardson Presenter: Kai Coggin Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T166 AWP Event Outline-2025.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T166	2025032712:1013:25 010	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	All Mixed Up: The Experience of Writing Mixed Race/Ethnicity Mixed writers have a powerful cultural placement, able to understand and access the experiences of multiple races/ethnicities. Yet those of mixed race/ethnicity often struggle with a sense of identity and belonging. Five mixed writers discuss the challenges they’ve faced in defining their identities, how they have navigated being mixed on the page, and how their work illuminates the experience of being mixed, in addition to speculating about the future place of mixed-race writers in the literary canon. Speaker(s): Moderator: Latifa Ayad Presenter: Summer J. Hart Presenter: Sophia Khan Presenter: Jennifer Maritza McCauley Presenter: Kimberly Quiogue Andrews Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F111 All Mixed Up Outline.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F111	2025032809:0010:15 005	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Scripting into the Apocalypse: How Screenwriters Create for Global Change During this time of climate, political, human rights, and other crises, some screenwriters have chosen to use their talents as instruments for transformation. Five writers for screen and television will discuss their craft, creative process, and the decision to take creative and other risks to contribute to pertinent and difficult conversations. In addition to exploring craft, they will discuss the impact of their projects, and the challenges/rewards of writing for global change. Speaker(s): Presenter: Sara Graefe Presenter: Zac Hug Moderator: Maureen Medved Presenter: Fabio Montanari Presenter: Claire Boyles Playwriting & Screenwriting Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T137 Event Outline - Scripting into the Apocalypse - How Screenwriters Create for Global Change Panel AWP 2025[2].pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T137	2025032710:3511:50 005	THU, MAR 27	49806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Anywhere but Here & Now: California Writers Speculate on Our Past & Future From reimagining the history of Japanese internment to speculating on several possible California futures, both ugly and beautiful, four acclaimed California writers read from their work and discuss the ways speculating about our history and our future can inform our present. Join us in imagining what if things were otherwise. Speaker(s): Presenter: Karen Tei Yamashita Presenter: Cathy Thomas Moderator: micah perks Presenter: Sesshu Foster Fiction Readings Reading Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T195 Event Outline- Anywhere But Here and Now.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T195	2025032713:4515:00 015	THU, MAR 27	2721969A-8498-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Creating Literary Community in an Isolating Landscape In a city and region famous for being so spread out, Southern California can be a lonely and isolating place. So, how does one build and sustain community, much less a literary community, that is authentically supportive and inclusive? What are the issues the literary community faces in building such a community, and how can it improve? A panel of authors and arts administrators from across the region discuss how they help to build and sustain the literary community in such an isolating region. Speaker(s): Moderator: Brian Dunlap Presenter: Eddy M. Gana Presenter: Marilynn Montano Presenter: Cati Porter Writers’ Conferences & Centers Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F226 Event Outline.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F226	2025032815:2016:35 015	FRI, MAR 28	57806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Sounding All Voices: Creative Writing in the Developmental English Classroom This panel explores different approaches to engaging community college developmental English students through creative writing. Topics include the diversity of the overall student population and their unique needs; barriers to their success, whether structural or personal; and how in-class creative writing exercises can lead to their overall self-efficacy and persistence. The panelists reflect on obstacles—some common, some unique—as well as creative solutions and opportunities. Speaker(s): Moderator: James B. De Monte Presenter: Ekaterini Kottaras Presenter: Daniel Ruiz Presenter: Wendy Silva Presenter: Tobin F. Terry Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S139 Event Outline - 2025 - Sound All Voices.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S139	2025032910:3511:50 010	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Library of America & Rigoberto González Present: Latinx Poetry Then & Now Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology is an unprecedented collection that brings together more than 180 poets whose work testifies to the multifaceted past and present of Latinx poetry—its linguistic inventiveness, and its critical reimagining of questions of exile, language, ancestry, identity, and place. In a reading and conversation moderated by editor Rigoberto González, four poets read from the anthology and discuss the ongoing impact of Latinx poetry on American literature. Speaker(s): Presenter: Brandon Som Moderator: Rigoberto González Presenter: Laurie Ann Guerrero Presenter: Alexandra Lytton Regalado Presenter: Eduardo Corral Poetry Readings Reading Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F138 Event Outline-Latinx Poetry Then & Now.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 150 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F138	2025032810:3511:50 010	FRI, MAR 28	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Publishing Paths 101: Big Five, Indie, Hybrid, or DIY? As landing a “traditional” book deal becomes ever more elusive, a range of publishing options, from hybrid models and tiny presses to self-publishing, has opened up for seasoned as well as debut authors to explore. What can a writer expect with regard to editorial process, design, marketing, publicity, and sales? The panel includes memoirists, fiction writers (graphic novels, too), and nonfiction writers who have taken each of these roads to market and will share their experiences and lessons learned. Speaker(s): Presenter: Donnaldson Brown Moderator: Amy Brill Presenter: Chloe Caldwell Presenter: Clifford Thompson Presenter: S. Kirk Walsh Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T196 AWP 2025 Event Outline - PATHWAYS TO PUBLISHING 101.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T196	2025032713:4515:00 020	THU, MAR 27	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	From Research to Recognition: Cultivating Public Visibility as an Academic This presentation will offer a road map for academics interested in extending their influence beyond scholarly circles. Publicist Nanda Dyssou and panelists will focus on publicity and media engagement for academic and crossover books. Attendees will learn practical strategies for promoting their books, including best practices for media outreach, articulating research to the public, collaborating with nonacademic organizations and individuals, and tactics for enhancing online visibility. Speaker(s): Moderator: NANDA DYSSOU Presenter: Brittany Friedman Presenter: Donna Nicol Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T167 Event Outline- From Research to Recognition- Cultivating Public Visibility as an Academic.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T167	2025032712:1013:25 015	THU, MAR 27	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Book-to-Screen: The Legal & Creative Sides of Film Adaptation, Sponsored by the Authors Guild What happens when a literary work gets adapted for the screen? Writers dream of a nice paycheck, creative input, and a chance at greater fame, but the reality can go a lot of different ways. Join us to learn about the legal, financial, and artistic issues at stake for book-to-screen adaptations. Lawyers, producers, and writers will discuss what writers should consider before optioning a work and what to expect from the experience of seeing your work transformed on film. Speaker(s): Moderator: Cheryl Davis Presenter: Caitlin Dimotta Presenter: Franklin Leonard Presenter: Graham Moore Presenter: Sherryl Clark Playwriting & Screenwriting Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S140	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S140	2025032910:3511:50 013	SAT, MAR 29	49806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Making a Literary Future with Artificial Intelligence As artificial intelligence advances, its impact on writers, publishers, and readers is increasingly significant. This panel brings together authors who use AI. With backgrounds in art-science collaborations, computer science, and human-AI cocreation, the panelists will discuss the benefits and risks posed by AI. How will AI reshape the relationship between writers, publishers, and readers? How can the literary world help direct the course of AI and ensure the future of literature? Speaker(s): Presenter: Amy Catanzano Moderator: Dashiel Carrera Presenter: Christian Bök Presenter: Katy Gero Presenter: Nick Montfort Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S194 Download Course Materials	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S194	2025032913:4515:00 015	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Theories of Vastness: On Capaciousness in Poetry What does it mean for a poetic work to be “capacious”? This term implies an expansiveness of scope and experience—the possibility for the primordial and the vatic to converge, the promise of poem as sprawling event. This panel explores the mysteries of the capacious poem, while demystifying capaciousness from a craft perspective. It asks what craft tools can be brought to bear to enact cultural, linguistic, and spiritual vastness in poetic space. Speaker(s): Moderator: Issam Zineh Presenter: Kazim Ali Presenter: Brenda Hillman Presenter: Roger Reeves Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T225 Capaciousness_Event Outline.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T225	2025032715:2016:35 020	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Beyond ChatGPT: How Human Beings Are Creating Subtle Literature with AI In the two years since ChatGPT first chirped onto the scene, many writers have recoiled from its trite poetry and flat fiction. But chatbots are at the bland end of the AI writing spectrum. Approached in the spirit of combinatory literature, bespoke AI tools can produce surprising and affecting texts. While acknowledging real concerns, a poet, an essayist, a fiction writer, and a literary critic will describe how interacting with the large language models has enhanced their work. Speaker(s): Moderator: Laird Harrison Presenter: K Allado-McDowell Presenter: Jesse Damiani Presenter: Sasha Stiles Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T138 Download Course Materials	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T138	2025032710:3511:50 010	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Our Dirty Little Secret: On How (& Why) to Find a Book Coach You’re at your desk, plugging away on a project you love. Shouldn’t it be easier? If you’re plagued by uncertainty and have been pushing around the same paragraphs for a year, or maybe ten, you are not alone. This is where the invaluable role of a book coach comes in. In this panel, writers who have found success using book coaches offer advice on making the most of the experience, and book coaches explain their personalized approaches to supporting writers. Speaker(s): Moderator: Rajpreet Heir Presenter: Marita Golden Presenter: Steph Liberatore Presenter: Courtney Maum Presenter: Eraldo Souza dos Santos Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F112 Event Outline - 2025 Dirty Little Secret Book Coach Panel.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F112	2025032809:0010:15 010	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Media Mastery: Sharing Your Voice with the Public This presentation will serve as an introductory media training session for writers who wish to adequately prepare themselves for interviews with popular media outlets, from print and digital publications, to podcasts and radio, to YouTube and TV. Publicist Nanda Dyssou and a panel of local writers will offer case studies and invaluable insights on strategies they’ve used to effectively promote their books and author brands through the media. Speaker(s): Presenter: Chuck Rosenthal Presenter: Ericka Verba Moderator: NANDA DYSSOU Presenter: Hajar Yazdiha Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S112 Event Outline - Media Mastery- Sharing Your Voice With the Public.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S112	2025032909:0010:15 010	SAT, MAR 29	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Though It May Look like Disaster: Poetic Forms to Save Your Life Do poetic forms have lifesaving properties? Five poets will discuss how meter, rhyme, syllable count, and other constraints have been sources of constancy and control during personal and political upheaval: layoffs, death, addiction, religious trauma, racism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They will examine the healing power of classic forms—sonnet, abecedarian and #ceasefire haiku—as well as remixed/invented forms, and share how forms can be a balm for a writer’s (or reader’s) heartbreak. Speaker(s): Presenter: Melissa Fite Johnson Presenter: Matthew E. Henry Presenter: Ashley M. Jones Presenter: Faisal Mohyuddin Moderator: Marianne Kunkel Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F227 AWP25_Event_Outline_Though It May Look.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F227	2025032815:2016:35 020	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	To Publicist or Not to Publicist? Marketing and publicity is a mystery to even seasoned authors, yet writers are expected to contribute significantly to book promotion, usually without guidance or expertise. What is involved in book promotion? What do publicists do? Why do some writers engage them? Can writers create a successful M&P plan on their own? Panelists, representing an array of backgrounds and disciplines, will address why they did or didn’t hire a publicist and will discuss the pros and cons of their choices. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jody Hobbs Hesler Moderator: Viet Dinh Presenter: Federico Erebia Presenter: Wendy J. Fox Presenter: Renee Simms Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F169 Official Event Outline for To Publicist or Not to Publicist 2.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F169	2025032812:1013:25 020	FRI, MAR 28	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	New Literary Forms for a New Literary Los Angeles Five writers of genre-defying poetry, creative nonfiction, cultural criticism, and fiction consider what it means to effect social change. Paying homage to canonical twentieth-century literature, writers consider formal techniques specific to a new emerging Los Angeles cultural identity. How do invented archives, manifesto, “postcard” texts, speculative futures, neo-noir, documentation, community-based festivals, and cultural criticism serve as an antidote to historical erasure? What informs twenty-first-century Los Angeles writing? Speaker(s): Presenter: Steph Cha Presenter: Gina Frangello Moderator: Claire Phillips Presenter: Sesshu Foster Presenter: Audrey Shipp Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T111 Event Outline for AWP 2025 2.26.25.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T111	2025032709:0010:15 005	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Affect & Act: Environmental & Climate Storytelling Across Diverse Mediums To paraphrase climatologist Judith Curry, storytelling is “a way of smuggling” environmental and climate concerns into readers’ consciousness; moreover, it can compel them to imagine past, present, and future impacts of human action on the environment. What does pioneering research reveal as the most “affective” ways for storytellers to respond to the eco-crises we face? If our writing is meant to influence cultural-social-political change, what creative approaches best accomplish that goal? Speaker(s): Presenter: Carol LaHines Presenter: Nina Schuyler Moderator: Cynthia Reeves Presenter: Carmiel Banasky Presenter: Melody Cooper Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S167 Event Outline_Affect and Act_FINAL.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S167	2025032912:1013:25 015	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	California Counternarratives: Stories That Remap the State This panel will feature award-winning writers Alex Espinoza, Jean Guerrero, Susan Straight, and Vanessa Hua in a dialogue about how their narratives, fictional and real, have countered prevailing understandings of the state from the 1980s through the present. Keenan Norris will moderate the panel. Looking beyond their work, the writers will discuss how emerging writers based in the state continue to recast California. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jean Guerrero Presenter: Vanessa Hua Presenter: Susan Straight Moderator: Keenan Norris Presenter: Alex Espinoza Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F139 AWP Event Outline.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F139	2025032810:3511:50 015	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Videopoetry 101: Merged Mediums & New Possibilities A videopoem is an accessible tool for media literacy and creative expression. The poetic thrives in the associative leaps between image, audio, and text, providing a dynamic platform for cultural impact. Five writers present guiding principles for making, teaching, distributing, and curating videopoems, from what they are and where to start, to practical pedagogy, to how videopoetry sets educators, students, artists, and audiences up to engage with and integrate the power of the written word. Speaker(s): Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk Presenter: Shin Yu Pai Presenter: Rana San Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S220 Videopoetry 101 Outline.docx Videopoetry 101 Outline.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S220	2025032915:2016:35 010	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Landing Literary Funding & Letting Go of Scarcity How do you contextualize your publishing program or literary festival in one thousand compelling characters? Five arts leaders, publishers, editors, and writers representing Blair Publisher, Griot & Grey Owl Conference, Lookout Books, Nightboat Books, and Obsidian journal share their approaches to grants and fundraising. Learn best practices for identifying state and national opportunities, evaluating guidelines, preparing strong narratives and budgets, and collaborating with partners to build support. Speaker(s): Moderator: Emily Smith Presenter: Robin Miura Presenter: Stephen Motika Presenter: Khalisa Rae Presenter: Bernardo Wade Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F198 Event Outline AWP Landing Literary Funding & Letting Go of Scarcity .pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 151, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F198	2025032813:4515:00 015	FRI, MAR 28	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	The Middle March: Novel Writing’s Toughest Mile Many aspiring novelists don’t reach publication because they struggle with the middle of the process—whether it’s getting to the end of the first draft, or undertaking the multiple subsequent drafts required to refine their prose and ideas. How do you develop story, craft, and stamina at the same time? The five novelists on this panel will share tips and tales of survival from the “middle march” of writing their award-winning books, which range from historical novels to thrillers to horror. Speaker(s): Moderator: Maria Hummel Presenter: Jennifer duBois Presenter: James Han Mattson Presenter: Maggie Shipstead Presenter: Simon Han Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S195 Event Outline 25.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S195	2025032913:4515:00 020	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Whose Fault Is It, Anyway? Canceled Unfortunately, this event was canceled by the event participants. Speaker(s): Presenter: Dana Johnson Moderator: David St. John Presenter: Aimee Bender Presenter: Maggie Nelson Presenter: Danzy Senna Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F140	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F140	2025032810:3511:50 020	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Becoming a Debut Novelist: The Journey from Agent Queries to Book Launch The path from finishing a book draft to launching a debut novel into the world is thrilling and exciting, but it is also long and full of twists and turns. This panel of debut novelists—with publication dates in 2024 and 2025—will discuss all aspects of this journey, including finding an agent, selling the book, working with an editor, and navigating marketing and publicity. The aim of the panel is to be transparent and to provide helpful advice for all debut novelists to come. Speaker(s): Moderator: Laura Spence-Ash Presenter: Megan Cummins Presenter: Denne Michele Norris Presenter: Lilliam Rivera Presenter: Jemimah Wei Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F113 AWP Event Outline 2025 Becoming Debut Novelist.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F113	2025032809:0010:15 015	FRI, MAR 28	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Debut You! How to Bring Your Poetry Book to Market Five poets publishing debuts in 2024–2025 will discuss the resources, time, and tactics with which they approached book promotion. With day job expertise ranging from strategic marketing and grant writing to editing and communications, they’ll share how to divide time between writing and publicity, create a budget, send cold emails when you’re a stone-cold introvert, plan readings, pitch reviews, and more. If you’ve got a book on the way or in the works, this panel is for you. Speaker(s): Presenter: Margot Kahn Moderator: Ally Ang Presenter: Sarah Ghazal Ali Presenter: Megan Pinto Presenter: Katie Prince Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S168 Debut You! How to Bring Your Poetry Book to Market Event Outline.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S168	2025032912:1013:25 020	SAT, MAR 29	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Reporting the Self: From Personal Curiosity to Research & Reporting Nonfiction writers often begin with personal questions before zooming out to consider the systems and histories that interact with their lives. Doing so poses questions: What are the limits of using the self as a lens? How do you decide which research and reporting to use? How do you structure a book that blends the micro with the macro? A group of authors whose books braid memoir with research and reporting will discuss balancing these modes and the rewards of engaging deeply with the world. Speaker(s): Presenter: Melissa Febos Presenter: Lilly Dancyger Moderator: Kristen Martin Presenter: Sasha Bonét Presenter: Heather Radke Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S221 Event Outline - Reporting the Self - AWP 2025.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S221	2025032915:2016:35 015	SAT, MAR 29	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Beyond Large PR Budgets: Launching a Book & Reaching Your Readers Writers from diverse backgrounds share ways in which authors can attract and nurture the intended audience for their work, especially within an industry documented to be predominantly white at the highest levels of gatekeeping. This panel is especially geared toward writers who are finishing or shopping a manuscript or are about to publish a book through a traditional publisher, and who do not have access to a large budget—their own or their publisher’s—to pay for book-promotion services. Speaker(s): Moderator: Namrata Poddar Presenter: Myriam Chancy Presenter: Susannah Rodriguez Drissi Presenter: Madhushree Ghosh Presenter: Ruchika Tulshyan Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T226 Event Outline - 2025 AWP - Beyond Large PR Budgets.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T226	2025032715:2016:35 025	THU, MAR 27	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Teaching Financial Literacy & the Material Realities of Being a Writer Financial literacy, candor, and a focus on the material realities of making a living as a writer rarely appear in a creative writing curriculum. With a panel consisting of four authors, plus a moderator—who all publish fiction but also make a living through editing, freelance journalism, teaching, corporate writing, and content creation—we will interrogate how candid we have a responsibility to be about the material and financial realities of our writing lives. Speaker(s): Moderator: Lara Williams Presenter: Susan Meyers Presenter: Lucas Southworth Presenter: Sharlene Teo Presenter: Courtney Maum Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T197 Event Outline.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T197	2025032713:4515:00 025	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Agent Plot: Authors on Finding & Working with the One Nothing makes an aspiring author more jittery than the idea of a literary agent reading their manuscript. Queries (oh my!) seem like the first big step toward going “public” with one’s work. Bestselling authors Jasmine Guillory and Nancy Jooyoun Kim discuss finding and choosing agents in conversation with their agents, Holly Root and Amy Bishop-Wycisk. Come and learn about the lesser-known ways of connecting with agents and the ins and and outs of the writer-agent relationship, and for the chance to have your burning questions answered. Speaker(s): Presenter: Amy Bishop-Wycisk Moderator: Emma Komlos-Hrobsky Presenter: Jasmine Guillory Presenter: Nancy Jooyoun Kim Presenter: Holly Root Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F228 Event Outline -The Agent Plot_ Authors on Finding & Working with the One.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F228	2025032815:2016:35 025	FRI, MAR 28	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Hell-Bent Hope: Poets Holding Fast During This Time of Ecological Crisis Now is a time of ecological crisis and mass extinction, so even if you don’t consider yourself a “nature” poet, all of us need to ask ourselves what the writer’s task is in this climate-changed world. Equally important is how to cope with despair, which can be incapacitating, threatening to silence us under its weight. Together, we’ll discuss how to bear witness to these coming storms and how to define hope in a way that might allow one to move forward with courage, awareness, and yes, even joy. Speaker(s): Presenter: David Baker Presenter: CMarie Fuhrman Presenter: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Presenter: Matthew Olzmann Moderator: Nickole Brown Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T112 Event Outline Hellbent Hope AWP 2025.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T112	2025032709:0010:15 010	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	I’ll Tell You What I Want, What I Really, Really Want: Agents Explain MSWLs With so many agents, it’s hard to know who to query. How do you find that elusive “right fit” when you’re cold-emailing strangers? Five agents who represent a broad range of books will discuss the purpose of manuscript wishlists (including #MSWL tweets) and where to find them, what thinking goes into crafting theirs, and how writers can use MSWLs to their advantage and maximize their chances of finding an agent who will be interested in, understand, and maybe even fall in love with their book. Speaker(s): Moderator: Roma Panganiban Presenter: Natalie Edwards Presenter: Mina Hamedi Presenter: Marin Takikawa Presenter: Michaela Whatnall Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S141 AWP 2025 - Agents' MSWL panel outline.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S141	2025032910:3511:50 015	SAT, MAR 29	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Alchemizing Belonging Outside of Academia: Writers Creating Careers Without MFAs Will my voice be heard? Do I get to be here/play in this space? Writers of color ask these questions as they enter workshops, the publishing industry, and beyond. This internal dialogue deepens in the absence of “the right degrees” that provide access and permission to question belonging in spaces not designed for them. This panel features cross-genre authors of color as they examine how to navigate the publishing industry on their own terms, while alchemizing a code of belonging. Speaker(s): Moderator: Camille Hernandez Presenter: Elontra Hall Presenter: Camari Hawkins Presenter: Heidi Lepe Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F199 AWP Event Outline.pdf Communities and Resources We Trust.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F199	2025032813:4515:00 020	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Alternative Funding Options for Literary Magazines & Presses, Sponsored by CLMP Publishers cannot live on sales alone. In this panel, hear from presses and magazines that have found success pursuing creative strategies for generating revenue, including membership/subscription models, crowdfunding campaigns, merch sales, and local business partnerships. Join us to learn how to set up and pursue alternative funding strategies to support your publishing work for years to come. Speaker(s): Presenter: Alyson Sinclair Presenter: Krystie Yen Moderator: Montana Agte-Studier Presenter: Diane Goettel Presenter: Maria Maloney Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T168 Event Outline_Alternative Funding Options.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T168	2025032712:1013:25 020	THU, MAR 27	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Can Writers “Live the Dream”?: On Paying the Bills While Doing What You Love This panel confronts the controversial relationship between art and money, and the many ways in which writers support themselves financially on the path, pay their bills, navigate publishing (which isn’t known to be transparent with money, numbers, book advances, and outreach), advocate for themselves, ask for fair compensation for their labor, and do the work they love. This conversation is especially geared toward writers who don’t have access to generational, family, or spousal wealth. Speaker(s): Moderator: Namrata Poddar Presenter: Jennifer Baker Presenter: Bruna Dantas Lobato Presenter: Rajpreet Heir Presenter: Niloufar Talebi Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S113 Event Outline - 2025 AWP - Can Writers Live the Dream?.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S113	2025032909:0010:15 015	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Great Divide: Commercial, School & Library & Building a Resilient Career Four writers and a literary agent discuss the various shapes an author’s career can take and how that fits into the various “tracks” a publisher can set a book on. What’s a “commercial” imprint? Why does school and library marketing matter, and how does it differ from traditional marketing? We will discuss how an author can navigate the various parameters, expectations, and pitfalls publishers can throw at them while they build a lasting career across age categories, genres, and publishing tracks. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jen Ferguson Moderator: Adib Khorram Presenter: Patricia Nelson Presenter: Edward Underhill Presenter: Julian Winters Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T139 AWP 25 Event Outline Draft_ The Great Divide_ Commercial, School & Library & Building a Resilient Career .docx	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T139	2025032710:3511:50 015	THU, MAR 27	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Leaving the Writing Cave: When, Why & How to Pursue Representation Most authors have heard that to get published, they need a literary agent. But is that true? And if it is, when should they start querying? In this panel, five agents will break down when to pursue representation and the scenarios in which authors might seek other paths to publication. We’ll also address at what stage of writing and/or conception authors should consider querying, how to find agents who feel aligned with their project, and how writers can put their best querying foot forward. Speaker(s): Presenter: Amy Bishop-Wycisk Moderator: Maggie Cooper Presenter: Lucy Cleland Presenter: Lauren Scovel Presenter: Michaela Whatnall Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F170 Event Outline - 2025 Leaving the Writing Cave.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 152, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F170	2025032812:1013:25 025	FRI, MAR 28	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Crowned with Laurels: The Role of the Poet Laureate in a Contemporary Age The first poet laureate was named to office in 1315. But what does it mean to be a poet laureate in 2024, amid a digital age marked by political unrest, widespread threats to the arts, and a continually evolving poetic landscape? How do laureates build and sustain literary community? Address access and representation? What is the state of poetry in their jurisdictions? Five poets representing various states, cities, and counties will discuss what it takes to champion this enigmatic genre. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jennifer Militello Presenter: Oliver de la Paz Presenter: Mag Gabbert Presenter: Patricia Jones Presenter: Tess Taylor Program Development Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T169 AWP Event Outline for Crowned with Laurels final.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T169	2025032712:1013:25 025	THU, MAR 27	4F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Read Write South: Thirty Years of Hub City Press Since its founding in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1995, Hub City Press has grown from a publisher of local writers and history into the premier literary publisher in the South, putting out more than one hundred high-caliber literary works and championing writers living and working in the South, our country’s most diverse and least funded arts center. Join Executive Director Meg Reid and Hub City authors Carter Sickels and Neesha Powell-Ingabire as they share their experience working with a nonprofit press. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kate McMullen Presenter: Neesha Powell-Ingabire Presenter: Carter Sickels Presenter: Halle Hill Presenter: Minrose Gwin Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S142 Read Write South_ Thirty Years of Hub City Press.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S142	2025032910:3511:50 020	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Long Live Octavia Butler Though she may have died in 2006, science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s impact is all over the Los Angeles area, from bookstores to creator labs to the writing of authors working today. Today, Butler’s legacy lives on in the authors who look to her work for inspiration and the communities and spaces that benefit from her attitude toward innovation and creation. Join a conversation with authors and community makers honoring Butler’s legacy through their words each day. Speaker(s): Moderator: Blaise Zerega Presenter: Nikki High Presenter: Tamisha Tyler Presenter: Natalie Daily Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T140 Event Outline - 2025 AWP LONG LIVE OCTAVIA BUTLER-2.pdf Event Outline - 2025 AWP LONG LIVE OCTAVIA BUTLER-2.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T140	2025032710:3511:50 020	THU, MAR 27	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	From Prose to Screen & Back Again How do writers transcend medium to bring impactful characters and gripping tales to the page and the screen? What challenges face a writer adapting their work, or simply shifting from the written to spoken word and vice versa? This panel will explore the meaningful differences between screenwriting and novel writing, the obstacles inherent to creating deep internal character arcs using dialogue and stage direction alone, and how writers mold their style for success in wildly different media. Speaker(s): Moderator: Dani Hedlund Presenter: Charlie Jane Anders Presenter: Hart Hanson Presenter: Bart Nickerson Playwriting & Screenwriting Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F200 AWP Panel Event Outline - F(r)iction.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F200	2025032813:4515:00 025	FRI, MAR 28	49806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Women of a Certain Age on Sex & Death: “I Took the Lake Between My Legs” In her poem “Morning Swim,” Maxine Kumin defies societal expectations that sexuality is exclusively for the young. In this reading, five award-winning poets aged from mid-forties to mid-seventies will share frankly erotic work that makes a bulwark of bodily sensuality against death, time, and our aging selves. Shoring these fragments against our ruins can be exhilarating, painful, or painfully funny. Sometimes it nurtures a rare and fierce flame, building beauty that lasts. Speaker(s): Moderator: Rebecca Foust Presenter: Susan Browne Presenter: Julia Levine Presenter: Mahogany Browne Poetry Readings Reading Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F114 REVISED Event Outline for Women of a Certain Age on Sex and Death 3-23-25.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F114	2025032809:0010:15 020	FRI, MAR 28	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Ecopoetics in a Time of Grief: Queer & Trans Perspectives What is queer and trans about ecopoetics? In this panel, five poets—with intimate connections to LA—will respond to the conditions of our shared world. We’ll explore relationships between queer poetics, trans grief, colonial violence, and environmental justice to arrive at why we must queer our contact with a suffering planet and its communities. We’ll consider speculative aesthetics, prosody, and genre hybridity as forms of resistance—and as forms of engagement with bodies and climates in transition. Speaker(s): Presenter: Luther Hughes Moderator: Cass Donish Presenter: Elijah Guerra Presenter: Paul Tran Presenter: S Yarberry Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F171 Event Outline_AWP 2025_Ecopoetics in a Time of Grief - Queer & Trans Perspectives.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F171	2025032812:1013:25 030	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Beyond Nostalgia: Writing & Rewriting Diaspora Five poets explore the different tactics they call on in order to expand on received notions of writing in the diaspora. How does nostalgia inform or redefine our ideas of home and belonging? How do we seek to rewrite dominant, colonial histories from within, while navigating the obstacles of erasure and rejection? Through shared personal experiences and insights on craft, this panel aims to illuminate the richly unfolding complexities of diasporic literature and its transformative power. Speaker(s): Presenter: Marianne Chan Presenter: Grisel Yolanda Acosta Presenter: Luisa Igloria Presenter: Yalie Saweda Kamara Moderator: Danni Quintos Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F229 AWP Event Outline_ Beyond Nostalgia_ Writing & Rewriting Diaspora.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F229	2025032815:2016:35 030	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Is That What You Meant? Collaborative Editing for Inclusion & Belonging In a publication landscape that has a ways to go in holding space for queer, diverse, and marginalized voices, what are the roles of editors and writers when potentially sensitive language or themes are at play? In this panel, editors will discuss revision processes that prioritize communication, creativity, and compassion. Panelists will also share times when collaborative editing strengthened the inclusivity and quality of the pieces published and deepened their relationships with writers. Speaker(s): Presenter: Keenan Norris Presenter: Elisabeth Houston Presenter: A. J. Bermudez Moderator: Chelsea Jackson Presenter: Katie Robinson Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S196 Event Outline - Is That What You Meant_ Collaborative Editing for Inclusion & Belonging.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S196	2025032913:4515:00 025	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Forms of Grief: The Craft of Writing Elegiac Poetry When writing contemporary elegies, how does utilizing a variety of forms—fixed, hybrid, broken, nonce, etc.—influence our individual poems, as well as our poetic projects as a whole? How do expressions of spirituality, sexuality, gender, and race intersect with elegiac forms? How can the act of writing poetry organize and provide structure for grief, if such a thing is even possible? Five poets discuss the intersection of craft, practice, and experience when writing in the elegiac mode. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kate Gaskin Presenter: Amanda Gunn Presenter: Carolina Hotchandani Presenter: Cintia Santana Presenter: Jim Whiteside Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S114 Event Outline Forms of Grief.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S114	2025032909:0010:15 020	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Poetic Fathers: On the Entanglements of Writing About Our Children How do our identities as fathers influence our poems? And how, if at all, does our poem-making influence the way we parent? When our children enter our poems, what are the ethics involved? Five poets who are also fathers share and discuss their poems—and the poems of fellow poetic fathers such as Primus St. John and Robert Frost—that poignantly address these questions and more. Speaker(s): Moderator: Derek Sheffield Presenter: Matthew Nienow Presenter: Gregory Pardlo Presenter: Nathaniel Perry Presenter: Simmons Buntin Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S169 _ Event Outline_ Poetic Fathers_ On the Entanglements of Writing About Our Children.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S169	2025032912:1013:25 025	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	How to Create, Become & Flourish as a City Poet Laureate Poet laureate positions are on the rise in cities of every size and region, generating fresh and rich engagement with poetry. From the grassroots to the ceremonial to creative intersections with public life, these hyperlocal poets flex extraordinary versatility and cultural knowledge. Poets and program leaders share ideas, best practices, funding tips, and stories of impact. This panel is inspirational and practical for the poet laureate–curious and anyone invested in writing as social practice. Speaker(s): Moderator: Chelsey Johnson Presenter: Tommy Archuleta Presenter: Steven Espada Dawson Presenter: esther belin Presenter: G.E. Patterson Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S222 EVENT OUTLINE - How to Create, Become, and Flourish as a City Poet Laureate.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S222	2025032915:2016:35 020	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Celebrating the Golden State: A Reading by Poets Laureate from California What do a queer undocumented immigrant, a former packinghouse worker, an organizer around issues of extrajudicial killings of Black people, a Korean adoptee, and a lawyer by training have in common? They are all poets laureate from various parts of California. These poets celebrate California but also challenge positions of power and privilege. The laureates will discuss their roles, read from their books, and engage in a Q&A with the audience. Speaker(s): Moderator: Lee Herrick Presenter: Tongo Eisen-Martin Presenter: Yosimar Reyes Presenter: Joseph Rios Presenter: Lynne Thompson Poetry Readings Reading Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T198 Event Outline Celebrating the Golden State A Reading by Poets Laureate from California.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T198	2025032713:4515:00 030	THU, MAR 27	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Creating Your Own Solo Show Do you have a story you’d like to take from the page to the stage? Our panel of award-winning solo performers, writers, directors, and producers will speak about how to get to the heart of your story; how to turn narration into scenes and dialogue; how to create distinct characters using dialogue, physicality, and vocal changes; and, most importantly, how to tell an engaging story that needs to be told. Other topics to be discussed: working with a director and taking your show on tour. Speaker(s): Moderator: Steve Budd Presenter: Mark Kenward Presenter: Joyful Raven Presenter: Kenny Yun Playwriting & Screenwriting Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T227 Event Outline - Creating Your Own Solo Show.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T227	2025032715:2016:35 030	THU, MAR 27	49806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Somehow I Manage: Managing Editors Who Manage Editors The office of every literary magazine operates differently. Panelists discuss their experiences as managing editors, describing some of the challenges and triumphs of overseeing the publication of a literary magazine. They share practical tips, helpful resources, and necessary advice to ensure their magazines run smoothly, no matter the size of the staff. Topics include internal business processes, subscription and marketing campaigns, printing and distribution, website management, and others. Speaker(s): Presenter: Stephanie G'Schwind Presenter: Jessica Poli Moderator: Emily Stowe Presenter: duncan barlow Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F141 AWP event outline - Somehow I Manage - Managing Editors Who Manage Editors.pdf	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F141	2025032810:3511:50 025	FRI, MAR 28	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Literary Archives: Practices for Institutions, Communities & Individuals Beyond Baroque, LA’s oldest literary institution, placed its literary archive at Cal State Dominguez Hills this year. This panel uses that acquisition as a case study for a broad discussion on preserving cultural production of literary movements. It brings together archivists, historians, institutional leaders, and bookdealers to discuss the intellectual, physical, legal, cultural, and aesthetic considerations faced by communities and individual writers in preserving archival legacies. Speaker(s): Presenter: Romeo Guzman Moderator: Johanna Drucker Presenter: Jennifer Johnson Presenter: Quentin Ring Presenter: Greg Williams Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T113 Literary_Archives.docx	Location: Concourse Hall 153 ABC, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T113	2025032709:0010:15 015	THU, MAR 27	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Still Surreal: A Poetics of Revolution This event considers US surrealist poetics. How do contemporary practitioners grow from, resist, or reenvision André Breton’s 1920s movement? What does it mean to be surrealist amidst the postmodern horror of climate collapse, hyperrealist global warfare, and the absurdity of the twenty-four-hour news cycle? Witness writers on the margins—women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+—adopt surrealist practice for personal and political expression, to engage its long-standing ideologies and revolutionize its anachronistic tactics. Speaker(s): Presenter: Will Alexander Presenter: Danielle Pafunda Moderator: C. Francis Fisher Presenter: Joyelle McSweeney Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T228 AWP Event Outline.docx	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T228	2025032715:2016:35 035	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Dear Yusef: Quotes, Notes & Anecdotes For & About One Mr. Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa is not only one of the most influential poets of the last half century, but also one if its most beloved teachers and mentors. This panel features fellow poets, friends, and former students reading from the anthology gathered in his honor, Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa. Speaker(s): Presenter: Didi Jackson Presenter: Adrian Matejka Presenter: Nicole Sealey Presenter: Yolanda Franklin Moderator: John Murillo Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F142 Dear Yusef AWP Outline.pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F142	2025032810:3511:50 030	FRI, MAR 28	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Strange Pilgrims: Asian Americans on Writing About Asia We’re all fascinated by our cultural heritage and ancestry, but what happens when we pursue that curiosity on the page? In this panel, we will talk to established and emerging Asian American writers of fiction, YA, and nonfiction to talk about the rewards and challenges of writing about, or set in, Asia. Language and cultural barriers, taciturn parents, privilege, imposter syndrome, the commercial viability of Asian American stories versus Asian ones, and other topics will be explored. Speaker(s): Presenter: Karen Tei Yamashita Moderator: Kevin Chong Presenter: Emmeline Chang Presenter: Christine Ma-Kellams Presenter: David Mura Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T114 AWP Strange Pilgrims event outline.pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T114	2025032709:0010:15 020	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Virtual Workshop: Tips for Teaching Creative Writing Online Asynchronous online writing workshops have existed for years, but how can instructors and students generate fruitful discussions of creative works without synchronous conversations? What approaches must instructors consider for virtual classrooms with diverse student populations? Five experienced educators from various institutions will discuss tips on generating community and engagement, inclusivity and equity, hybrid models, and best practices to build thriving virtual workshop spaces. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kali White VanBaale Presenter: Kirsten Imani Kasai Presenter: David Maduli Presenter: Donald Quist Presenter: Mathieu Cailler Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F172 The Virtual Workshop EVENT OUTLINE final.pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F172	2025032812:1013:25 035	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Words That Sing Think you’re not a lyricist? Think again. Writers often limit themselves to publishing on the page, when, in fact, there’s an exciting, lucrative world of performance holding its doors open to literary writers. Five poets whose libretti and lyrics have led them to the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Grammy Awards, and beyond will discuss topics such as breaking into writing for musical composition, best practices for musical teamwork and collaborative revision, how to manage contracts, and more. Speaker(s): Presenter: Samiya Bashir Presenter: Melissa Studdard Presenter: Arisa White Moderator: Taylor Brorby Presenter: Todd Boss Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S223 Words That Sing.docx	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S223	2025032915:2016:35 025	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	This Beautiful Body: Writing into Illness Our bodies hold influence over the way we write, what we write, and how we physically come to the page. While writing into illness and disability is often an act of liberation, it also raises difficult questions. How do we truthfully represent such personal experiences? How do we reclaim a narrative of illness steeped in erasure? How does writing about our bodies shape our relationship with them? In this panel, five writers discuss navigating the intersections of creativity, illness, and life. Speaker(s): Moderator: Andrew J Romriell Presenter: Katherine Standefer Presenter: Patrick Milian Presenter: CR Grimmer Presenter: Elissa Washuta Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S143 Event Outline - This Beautiful Body.pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S143	2025032910:3511:50 025	SAT, MAR 29	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Teaching Speculative Fiction: A Guide for the Uneasy & the Reluctant Students love reading and writing speculative fiction (SF), but as an instructor, you may feel uncertain how to take a literary approach to swords-and-sorcery fiction or gory horror. In this panel, SF writers/teachers discuss best practices for teaching and workshopping sci-fi, fantasy, and other SF, even if you don’t write or read it yourself. The discussion covers using SF to teach craft, designing assignments across genres, sample writing exercises, and creating a reading list you love. Speaker(s): Moderator: Anjali Sachdeva Presenter: Stephanie Feldman Presenter: Jac Jemc Presenter: Tobi Ogundiran Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S197 Event Outline_ Teaching Speculative Fiction_ A Guide for the Uneasy & the Reluctant.pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S197	2025032913:4515:00 030	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Multilingual Poetics & Futures Five poets based across Canada discuss the immense pleasures and rewards of deepening our relationships with inherited languages, and writing poetry in English from diverse multilingual perspectives. To sustain our fluencies, expand contemporary poetry readership to new audiences, and create thriving multilingual futures, we discuss the tools and supports we wish to see from publishers and literary communities within our predominantly Anglophone environments. Speaker(s): Presenter: Yilin Wang Moderator: Rahat Kurd Presenter: Dominique Bernier-Cormier Presenter: Klara du Plessis Presenter: Khashayar Mohammadi Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T199 Event Outline_2025 AWP Multilingual Poetics & Futures.pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T199	2025032713:4515:00 035	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Native Tongues 2: Teaching Creative Writing with Multilingual Students Given how essential one’s native language is to the experience and creative expression of their world, how does the negotiation between a multilingual writer’s “home” language and their writing language (English) present both challenges and opportunities? In this important evolution of a discussion begun in 2023, we explore how multilingual students can be supported and encouraged, particularly in light of the rapidly developing influence of (English- and Western-centric) generative AI tools. Speaker(s): Presenter: Maxime Garcia Diaz Presenter: Mieke Eerkens Presenter: Wade Geary Presenter: Adam Zdrodowski Moderator: Huan Hsu Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S170 Outline - AWP 25 Panel.docx	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S170	2025032912:1013:25 030	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Peeling the Layers of Race & Identity Through Narrative Craft “The ethnic writer creates not only literature but also people.” —Toni Morrison When writing characters outside of our own race, writers have to pay particular attention to ensure characters are three-dimensional and go beyond stereotypes. We all know that we should avoid two-dimensional characters when presenting the ethnicity or identity of characters. How can writers push past imago (the first impression) and reveal the nuanced complexity of race and identity as it serves the narrative arc? Speaker(s): Presenter: Grisel Yolanda Acosta Moderator: Diana Diaz Presenter: Edward Gunawan Presenter: Vincent Toro Presenter: Connie Pertuz Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S115 _VONA PANEL outline for AWP 2025 DIana DIaz .pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S115	2025032909:0010:15 025	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Sixty Years of Community at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program The UCLA Extension Writers’ Program begins its sixtieth year of operation in 2025. In that time, we have helped thousands of writers find their voices and reach their writing goals in every genre of literature and screenwriting. To celebrate this achievement, join us for a reading of works by our distinguished instructors. Speaker(s): Moderator: Charles Jensen Presenter: Cole Kazdin Presenter: Malia Marquez Presenter: Sehba Sarwar Presenter: Chris Terry Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F230 AWP outline.docx	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F230	2025032815:2016:35 035	FRI, MAR 28	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Persea Books Fiftieth-Anniversary Poetry Reading Since its founding, Persea Books has centered poetry in its mission to discover essential literary voices. It has introduced readers in the United States to indispensable poets like Molly McCully Brown, Paul Celan, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Nâzim Hikmet, Thylias Moss, Les Murray, Marie Howe, Patrick Rosal, and many others. This reading brings together five of Persea’s core contemporary poets. Each will read their own work as well as that of others published by Persea in the past half century. Speaker(s): Presenter: Alexandra Teague Moderator: Molly McCully Brown Presenter: Cameron Awkward-Rich Presenter: Patrick Rosal Presenter: Lisa Russ Spaar Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F201 AWP Persea Event Outline 2025.docx	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F201	2025032813:4515:00 030	FRI, MAR 28	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Finding Today in the Past: Writing Relevant Historical Fiction Historical fiction provides contemporary readers with more than an escape from current affairs—it illuminates the through line of human experience. While we continue to change our environment, laws, and customs, our concerns and desires remain relatively constant. Five writers rooted in feminist, LGBTQ, Black, and Asian communities discuss their choice to set their work in a different time and their strategies for creating characters and situations that are relevant to today’s readers. Speaker(s): Presenter: Freeman Ng Presenter: K.M. Soehnlein Presenter: Elizabeth Costello Moderator: Martha Conway Presenter: Deborah Johnson Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T141 AWP 2025 Event Outline Finding Today in the Past.pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T141	2025032710:3511:50 025	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Uncertain Characters in Uncertain Times How do novelists craft characters who are coming into their own in a fractured and uncertain world? How do we infuse stories with the intimacy of characters’ self-awareness and their emergent understanding of the social order? Spanning the ultra-Orthodox community of Brooklyn, to contemporary South India, to the gentrifying Bronx and post–World War II Poland, this panel brings together four novelists whose writing sheds light on the internal and external struggles of finding one’s way. Speaker(s): Presenter: Felicia Berliner Presenter: Sheila Sundar Moderator: Annell Lopez Presenter: Jai Chakrabarti Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F115 AWP Event Outline.docx	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F115	2025032809:0010:15 025	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Combining Community & Mentorship to Help Build a Screenwriting Career As solitary as writing can be, it also requires a supportive community of peers and mentors, particularly for emerging TV writers and screenwriters, who must master not only the craft of writing for the screen but also the intricacies of the entertainment business and a writer’s place in it. This panel will discuss how emerging TV writers and screenwriters can establish a community of writers, producers, development executives, managers, and agents who can support and mentor them throughout their careers. Speaker(s): Moderator: Colette Sartor Presenter: Eirene Donohue Presenter: Winnie Kemp Presenter: Lisanne Sartor Presenter: Patrick Tobin Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T170 Event Outline AWP 2025- Combining Community and Mentorship to Help Build a Screenwriting Career.pdf	Location: Room 402AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T170	2025032712:1013:25 030	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Love & the Work of the Short Story Novels seem to get all the attention when it comes to book deals and publicity. Is there still a place for the short story and its collection? Are agents willing to champion these shorter works? This panel of fiction writers and agents will discuss the joys and challenges of this form and its value in the literary culture. The speakers will share strategies for making, selling, and marketing both collections and individual stories. Speaker(s): Presenter: Michelle Brower Presenter: Brenda Peynado Moderator: Dustin M. Hoffman Presenter: Heather Carr Presenter: Gwen Kirby Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F231 AWP Outline--Love and Business of the Short Story Form.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F231	2025032815:2016:35 040	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	They Only Call It Class War When We Fight Back The moderator will lead panelists in a discussion, based on their lived experiences coming from working-class origins, on their pathway to building a literary and/or academic career. Panelists will share their respective methods for navigating intellectual spaces designed and built by those who rarely see or interact with the working classes while maintaining their respective identities. Participants include people in and outside of academia and in the publishing industry. Speaker(s): Presenter: Steve Bellin-Oka Presenter: Billy J. Stratton Presenter: Theodore Van Alst, Jr. Moderator: Christina Ward Presenter: Martin Billheimer Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T115 AWP2025 outline for They Only Call It Class War When We Fight Back.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T115	2025032709:0010:15 025	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Many Voices, One Novel: Fiction That Contains Multiple POVs & Truths Drawing inspiration from classic polyphonic novels such as James Baldwin’s Another Country and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, contemporary polyphonic novelists make music from overlapping and often conflicting voices. In this panel, four accomplished novelists explore how polyphonic narrative forms can be used to depict vibrant and sometimes contentious multiethnic societies like our own, and how they provide the tools to tell stories that might not otherwise be told. Speaker(s): Presenter: Michael David Lukas Moderator: Hannah Bae Presenter: Vanessa Chan Presenter: Caro DeRobertis Presenter: Hannah Michell Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T200 AWP 2025 Event Outline_Many Voices.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T200	2025032713:4515:00 040	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Meet Me Halfway: On Writing Other Cultures & Avoiding Self-Exoticization This panel will feature writers from historically marginalized groups whose work grapples with how to write for an American/Western audience. We celebrate bringing our cultures to life on the page, while assuming a diverse readership with varying degrees of knowledge of the worlds we build. When does cultural translation through stories tip toward self-exoticization? This panel discussion will explore the complexity of writing culturally diverse stories for American publishers. Speaker(s): Moderator: Dalia Azim Presenter: Suchitra Gururaj Presenter: Chaitali Sen Presenter: Jenny Tinghui Zhang Presenter: Megan Kakimoto Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F202 2025 AWP panel Meet Me Halfway.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F202	2025032813:4515:00 035	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	A Tribute to Brenda Hillman: Meditations on a Radical Poet & Advocate A formally innovative poet, Brenda Hillman writes poetry that pushes boundaries of lyricism using meditation, collage, and activism to interrogate the act of experimentation. A poet of possibilities, Hillman invokes the environment, politics, theory, and religion to “open the lyric” (Hillman). This panel will explore Hillman’s forty years of verse that has given contemporary American poetry new perspectives on form and craft, and will consider her contribution to teaching, poetry, and publishing. Speaker(s): Moderator: Rachel Morgan Presenter: Major Jackson Presenter: Suzanna Tamminen Presenter: Brian Teare Presenter: Rachel Richardson Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S144 AWP event outline_ Tribute to Brenda.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S144	2025032910:3511:50 030	SAT, MAR 29	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Writing Body H(awe)rror Abomination, decomposition, implantation, transformation. Body horror addresses the vast anxieties that result from being a human meatsack. But it does more than that: It enables readers to reenvision their relationships to their bodies, to overwrite pre-inscribed meanings, and to exsanguinate (or disembowel or perhaps incinerate) oppressive structures. This panel brings together four diverse fiction writers to discuss their fascination with body horror and its liberatory potentialities. Speaker(s): Presenter: Emrys Donaldson Moderator: Maggie Nye Presenter: Katie Flynn Presenter: Chana Porter Presenter: Nicole Rivas Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S224 Event Outline_AWP 2025 panel_Writing Body H(awe)rror.docx	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S224	2025032915:2016:35 030	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Art of Noticing in the Age of Disappearance This panel brings together writers whose new works in various genres perform intense observations of the world. The panelists discuss how careful acts of noticing—as in poems devoted to an endangered mammal in Laos and Vietnam and in a novel that begins with a sick tree in a California garden—give them an entry to contend with environmental exploitation and human isolation. They ask, What are the limits of language in describing and repairing our relationship to nature and to one another? Speaker(s): Presenter: Marie Mutsuki Mockett Moderator: Brittany Torres Rivera Presenter: Harryette Mullen Presenter: Mai Der Vang Presenter: Robin Walter Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F116 Event Outline - The Art of Noticing in an Age of Disappearance.docx	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F116	2025032809:0010:15 030	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Art of the Uncanny Does “realism” carry the same weight as a genre that it once did? Increasingly, literary writers seek new techniques to represent our weird age. As a writer, how might you use elements of the speculative, the uncanny, the surreal, horror, and black comedy to speak to what it’s like to be alive today? Authors of fabulist literary fiction with varying backgrounds gather to discuss how they push boundaries and excavate strange, fantastic, and absurd truths of experience in their work. Speaker(s): Presenter: Carribean Fragoza Presenter: Kate Folk Presenter: Anita Felicelli Moderator: Heather Scott Partington Presenter: Rita Bullwinkel Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T171 Event Outline for The Art of the Uncanny.docx	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T171	2025032712:1013:25 035	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Breaking All the Rules: Ungoverning the Contemporary Sex Poem Reflecting on sex and literature, Melissa Febos writes, “When something seems difficult, in writing and in life, we tend to make rules around it.” But rules were made to be broken—or reinvented—and this panel will share strategies for writing poems that push back against cultural norms that attempt to govern sex on and off the page, as well as the ways that allowing a fuller sexual existence into our poems can create more space for explorations of humor, grief, play, and even our deepest rage. Speaker(s): Moderator: Keetje Kuipers Presenter: Chen Chen Presenter: Luther Hughes Presenter: Erika Meitner Presenter: Eric Tran Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S198 Event Outline Breaking All the Rules Un-governing the Contemporary Sex Poem.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S198	2025032913:4515:00 035	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Unapologetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction Short fiction is a rich playground for the weird! Panelists—all of whom have published short fiction collections that bend reality and the border between “literary” and “speculative” genres—will share what attracts them to the uncanny and how they write (and publish) fiction that embraces the strange, wondrous, and unsettling in the short form. These five women writers will also discuss how weird fiction is a vehicle for expressing experiences of marginalization, gender, and sexuality. Speaker(s): Presenter: Anjali Sachdeva Moderator: Marguerite Sheffer Presenter: Cleo Qian Presenter: Chelsea Sutton Presenter: Lena Valencia Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F173 AWP 2025 Event Outline-Unapologetically Uncanny & Unsettling_ Bending Reality in Short Fiction.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F173	2025032812:1013:25 040	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Holy Fk: Women, Faith & Sex in Fiction Funny, offensive, or both—fiction that centers faith and sex breaks taboos on so many levels. For five authors writing about women and girls in various religious communities, the friction between religious beliefs and sexuality also offers a deeply generative context for revealing female protagonists’ identities. Panelists explore craft approaches to bringing the body and soul alive, together, on the page, and discuss strategies for navigating the public discourse about hot-button topics. Speaker(s): Moderator: Deesha Philyaw Presenter: Felicia Berliner Presenter: Candice Marie Benbow Presenter: Aaliyah Bilal Presenter: Dantiel Moniz Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T229 EVENT OUTLINE--AWP 2025 HOLY FK .pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T229	2025032715:2016:35 040	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Understories & Mycocosms: Tapping Hidden Networks How do we tap into networks outside of established power structures in precarious times and spaces to connect with allies and advocates? What cues can we take from the remarkable pathways ignited by trees, fungi, and other species in activating our understories? Writers, editors, organizers, and producers will reveal literature’s Wood Wide Web, talking about the tales beneath the tales that animate our writing and how symbiosis can circumvent and subvert obstacles to nourish literary lives. Speaker(s): Presenter: Sarah Audsley Presenter: Lesley Wheeler Moderator: Anna Maria Hong Presenter: Amarnath Ravva Presenter: Asali Solomon Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T142 AWP 25 Understories and Mycocosms Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T142	2025032710:3511:50 030	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Scene Work Makes the Dream Work On the metaphorical ocean of the page, a writer must make a reader—usually a stranger—feel the mist, notice the call of gulls, and (most impossibly) want what the characters want. Scenes are where stories (prose, film, graphic memoir) can fail or soar. How does one calibrate character, detail, dialogue, and the crucial gestural level to render an affecting picture that lingers in a stranger’s mind? Five acclaimed writers share practical, cross-genre guidance for constructing (and teaching) life’s vivid moments by sharing scenes from their own work that failed and/or soared. Speaker(s): Presenter: Mira Jacob Presenter: Tracy O'Neill Presenter: Tiana Kahakauwila Moderator: Marie-Helene Bertino Presenter: Cleyvis Natera Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S116 AWP25SceneWorkOutline.docx	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S116	2025032909:0010:15 030	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Novels in Stories, Fragments & Constellations What defines a novel? Publishing can be binary and risk averse; it also rewards innovation. It’s confusing! These panelists’ published or forthcoming books play with form in “novel” ways. Each writer will address why a structural in-betweenness was essential to their work and the reception they’ve received from readers, agents, and editors. Hear reflections on form and craft from writers across speculative and realistic fiction, emerging and established voices, and small and Big Five presses. Speaker(s): Moderator: Helen Georgas Presenter: Nicole Haroutunian Presenter: Ananda Lima Presenter: Yiming Ma Presenter: Sequoia Nagamatsu Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F143 Event Outline—Novels in Stories, Fragments, and Constellations.pdf	Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F143	2025032810:3511:50 035	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Bad to the Bone? Crafting Deviant Characters In criminal justice, the opposite of deviance is conformity. By definition, then, all activism is a deviant act. Still, predators are deviants too. How does this rich and unpredictable concept enliven our work? What can we learn from inhabiting a deviant’s mind? What does deviance mean when law enforcers crack down on activists and marginalized people? Four multigenre authors discuss how and why they develop deviant characters, from fierce sympathetic LGBTQ+ rule breakers to heinous villains. Speaker(s): Presenter: Sophia Babai Moderator: Jessamyn Violet Presenter: Maurice Carlos Ruffin Presenter: Kayla Ancrum Presenter: Francesca Lia Block Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S172 AWP Event Summary.docx	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S172	2025032912:1013:25 040	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Radical (Re)Vision: The Gift of Starting Not Quite New The act of making is often thwarted by time constraints, life changes, or shifting perceptions on the society into which the piece once spoke. What to do when the piece’s original impetus has failed, or metamorphosed beyond recognition, but the author is in too deep to quit? Sometimes the solution is intentional unmaking, an act that allows for revelation. Panelists will share their experiences of radical revision, as well as a variety of techniques for reanimating old work with new revelations. Speaker(s): Moderator: Sarah Blackman Presenter: Jessica Alexander Presenter: Ray Levy Presenter: Vi Khi Nao Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T172 Event Outline Radical (Re)Vision_ The Gift of Starting Not Quite New.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T172	2025032712:1013:25 040	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Uncanonical Canon: Teaching Experimental Forms in a Traditional Curriculum Eugene Lim defines experimental literature’s mandate as to “destroy literary, social and psychological ideologies that are hidden from us,” but doing so from within systems that are often used to uphold or systematize these “invisible habits” of thought is a challenge for both teacher and student. Five authors/teachers discuss hands-on strategies to both desystematize the classroom and prepare their students for the necessary discomfort required to inhabit the deregulated space of experiment. Speaker(s): Presenter: Heather Green Presenter: A. Rafael Johnson Presenter: Michael Mejia Moderator: Sarah Blackman Presenter: Katie Jean Shinkle Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T143 Event Outline The Uncanonical Canon Teaching Experimental Forms in a Traditional Curriculum.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T143	2025032710:3511:50 035	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Losing Species: Integrating Conservation Science into the Writing Process For those who want to write about biodiversity loss and extinction, engaging with scientific research can be an invaluable source of inspiration. A diverse range of writers across genres will discuss their process of integrating science into their contribution to Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation. They will present their work and explore what transpires when writers incorporate scientific research in all its complexity and precision. Speaker(s): Moderator: Claire Wahmanholm Presenter: Ching-In Chen Presenter: Donika Kelly Presenter: Marco Wilkinson Presenter: Jane Wong Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T230 Event Outline - Losing Species.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T230	2025032715:2016:35 045	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	On Truth & Family Relationships in the Memoir: Bock, Qu, Khan, Lovato & Solomon Five well-known memoirists—Charles Bock, Anna Qu, Sorayya Khan, Roberto Lovato, and Dorothy Solomon—present examples from their work and discuss how each has negotiated the often-difficult balance between writing the full truth and/or withholding because of sensitivities to family relationships. How faithful to truth must a memoir be when writing about family relationships? What are the ethics (if any) for when to tell all and when to withhold? Moderated by Dorothy Solomon, UNLV. Speaker(s): Presenter: Roberto Lovato Presenter: Charles Bock Presenter: Sorayya Khan Presenter: Anna Qu Moderator: Dorothy Solomon Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F117 Event Outline On Truth and Family Relationships in the Memoir F117 version 3.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F117	2025032809:0010:15 035	FRI, MAR 28	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Rewriting the West This panel will explore the increasingly diverse writing of the American West with three multigenre writers as well as an editor from High Country News. Exploring the writing from the region, which has historically privileged the white, straight, able-bodied male gaze, this panel will reckon with the deeper history of the American West—its writing, and the opportunities that lie ahead for writers interested in the issues that face one of the most exciting geographies of American writing. Speaker(s): Presenter: Nina McConigley Presenter: Camille Dungy Moderator: Taylor Brorby Presenter: Jennifer Sahn Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T201 EVENT TITLE_ Rewriting the West.docx	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T201	2025032713:4515:00 045	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Experiments in Time Across genres, writers interested in formal experimentation have arrived at new layers of emotion and meaning by playing with time. In this panel, authors of time-bending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will discuss how they’ve resisted linearity and also why—whether it’s to more authentically represent the workings of memory, to challenge colonial story structures, to capture alternate histories, to conjure other worlds, or to demonstrate the circularity of trauma and desire. Speaker(s): Presenter: Venita Blackburn Presenter: Rita Bullwinkel Moderator: Hillary Brenhouse Presenter: Shze-Hui Tjoa Presenter: Elissa Washuta Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S199 Experiments in Time event outline.docx	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S199	2025032913:4515:00 040	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	To Speak with Silence: Writing the Unsayable Writing requires that the writer locate a narrative voice and plumb its depths like a divining rod, pursuing the story it has to tell. But what about pursuing the silences, portraying the voiceless, and revealing the unspeakable? Five writers will discuss their experience of imbuing silence with meaning. Considering both fiction and nonfiction, they will share practical strategies for structure and technique while also revealing their intuitive work to uncover the mysteries held in the silences. Speaker(s): Presenter: Lilly Dancyger Presenter: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Moderator: Kristen Millares Young Presenter: Cameron Dezen Hammon Presenter: Sonora Jha Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S117 Event Outline_ “To Speak with Silence_ Writing the Unsayable”.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S117	2025032909:0010:15 035	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Family Secrets: A Storyteller’s Bounty, or Curse? Many writers use their families’ most closely held mysteries and secrets as subject matter. But not all relatives cooperate. And not all stories make sense when pulled from hiding. Vital pieces may be missing, essential informants deceased. Transforming artifacts and shards of memory into literature that rings true can be both vexing and seductive. In this panel, five award-winning fiction and nonfiction authors and screenwriters discuss the perils and rewards of writing around family secrets. Speaker(s): Moderator: Aimee Liu Presenter: David Francis Presenter: Elle Johnson Presenter: Toni Ann Johnson Presenter: Colette Sartor Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S145 AWP 2025 Family Secrets Event Outline.docx	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S145	2025032910:3511:50 035	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	(Re)Writing History: Disrupting Mythologies & Reclaiming Real-Life Characters Nonfiction writers, by definition, reckon with the past. But how can authors research who and what has been under- and misrepresented in history books and scholarship? Using archives, interviews, on-the-ground investigation, and other forms of research, these recently published authors, whose work covers diverse stories and time periods, will discuss how they have recreated lives and times on the page, forging a counternarrative that separates myth from truth, while navigating bias in research. Speaker(s): Presenter: Suzanne Cope Moderator: Natasha Zaretsky Presenter: Katie Gee Salisbury Presenter: Laurie Gwen Shapiro Presenter: Michelle Young Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F203 (Re)Writing History AWP Outline 2025.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F203	2025032813:4515:00 040	FRI, MAR 28	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Confronting the Divine: Writing Through & About Religious Trauma Writing is a place of sanctuary, and amidst worldwide growing religious extremism, this has become especially true for those writing through religious trauma. Doing so can incite a range of powerful emotions: anger over what’s been done, grief over what’s been lost, or fear over what confronting these institutions might lead to. In this cross-genre panel, five writers from varying religious backgrounds discuss how they generate writing that confronts, disrupts, heals, and redefines spirituality. Speaker(s): Presenter: Andrew J Romriell Moderator: Nicole Hardy Presenter: Melissa Faliveno Presenter: Nick White Presenter: Denne Michele Norris Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S225 Event Outline - Confronting the Divine.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S225	2025032915:2016:35 035	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Crafting the Memoir in Essays The memoir in essays has taken off as a form in recent years, appealing to writers and readers alike. What distinguishes this genre from its closest siblings—the memoir and the essay collection—and what are its unique imaginative possibilities? Is there something about our current age that lends itself to this nonlinear storytelling mode in particular? In this panel, five authors discuss their journeys conceiving, developing, and publishing their memoirs in essays, sharing what they’ve learned. Speaker(s): Moderator: Nicole Graev Lipson Presenter: Eiren Caffall Presenter: Freda Epum Presenter: Emily Raboteau Presenter: José Vadi Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F174 AWP 2025 Event Outline_ Crafting the Memoir in Essays.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F174	2025032812:1013:25 045	FRI, MAR 28	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	LA Storytellers & Writing for the Stage LA has a diverse and vibrant community with some of the best storytellers in the world. Join us for a unique craft talk focusing on how to compose your personal life experiences for the timeless art of live storytelling! We will discuss the way this medium differs from other forms of literature, and how to adapt your stories for distinct styles, such as for The Moth Radio Hour (NPR), the RISK! podcast, and comedy and solo shows. Storytelling inspires memoir writing, and it strengthens communication skills! Speaker(s): Moderator: Kona Morris Presenter: Chris De La Cruz Presenter: Cara Lopez Lee Presenter: Miyo Yamauchi Presenter: Antonio Sacre Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F144 AWP Event Outline - Storytelling Panel.pdf AWP (date).pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F144	2025032810:3511:50 040	FRI, MAR 28	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Creativity as Armor: Crafting Narratives of Power & Resilience This panel brings together a diverse panel of Latino screenwriters, cultural critics, and memoirists to explore how writing can serve as a powerful tool to challenge dominant narratives, amplify overlooked stories, and inspire collective action in troubling times. Panelists will share insights into their creative process, the joys and challenges of crafting their personal stories, and their approach to finding strength through their art. Speaker(s): Moderator: Julissa Arce Presenter: Yaccaira Salvatierra Presenter: Christopher Rivas Presenter: Reyna Grande Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T116 Event Outline- Creativity as Armor_ Crafting Narratives of Power & Resilience-2.pdf	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T116	2025032709:0010:15 030	THU, MAR 27	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Authors & Actresses: Writing for the Stage & the Page Memoirs and personal essays require many of the same ingredients as live theater: voice, energy, trust, discipline. In this reading, five writers use the theater as a way to investigate themselves and the world around them through: the politics and Catholic schools of Latin America, a newly articulating disability, the highs and lows of motherhood, the joys and challenges of working as a Black artist, and living apart from a partner while pursuing an artistic career. Speaker(s): Moderator: Maggie Andersen Presenter: Sam Bailey Presenter: Ines Bellina Presenter: Jennifer Rumberger Presenter: Lindsey Trout Hughes Nonfiction Readings Reading Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F232 Event Outline Authors & Actresses.docx	Location: Room 403B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F232	2025032815:2016:35 045	FRI, MAR 28	45806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Bad Belonging: Jewish & Muslim Poets Writing Against & Into Community How can poetry disrupt shared ideas about what it means to belong to an ethnic or religious group? What might it mean, especially, to write poems as a “bad Jew” or a “bad Muslim” at this time? This poetry reading and panel addresses tensions between belonging to a cultural group while making choices, as poets, that refuse or challenge that sense of communal belonging. Panelists will consider poetry’s capacities for writing both against community and into community at this moment in time. Speaker(s): Moderator: Maya Pindyck Presenter: Kaveh Bassiri Presenter: Mohja Kahf Presenter: Taije Silverman Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S173 AWP25 Bad Belonging Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S173	2025032912:1013:25 045	SAT, MAR 29	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Beauty of the Unwanted: Exploring the New Literary Terrain of California Pushing beyond clichés of the “California Dream,” the Golden State, as embodied in a new literary terrain, is deviant and recalcitrant, proud and humble, joyful and communal and powerfully honest as it reclaims the beauty of the unwanted, the quotidian, and the out-of-place. This panel represents distinct literary voices of several contemporary essayists from California who are drawn to reenvisioning “the spirit of a place” in ways that challenge and fulfill the literary imagination. Speaker(s): Presenter: Ruth Nolan Moderator: Carribean Fragoza Presenter: Melissa Hidalgo Presenter: Jenise Miller Nonfiction Readings Reading Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F118 Event Outline - Beauty of the Unwanted- Exploring the New Literary Terrain of California.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F118	2025032809:0010:15 040	FRI, MAR 28	45806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Bennington Writing Seminars at Thirty: A Celebratory Reading The Bennington Writing Seminars—one of the oldest and best-known low-residency MFA programs anywhere—teaches creative writing through a process of intimate correspondence and brief periods of intense togetherness. Founded in 1994, the Writing Seminars celebrates thirty years of helping writers to realize their literary ambitions, publish countless books, and participate in literary communities. Four distinguished Bennington alumni will read from their books and new work as we look to the future. Speaker(s): Presenter: Kelly Sather Moderator: Mark Wunderlich Presenter: J. Mae Barizo Presenter: Shawna Kay Rodenberg Presenter: Claressinka Anderson Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T231 Bennington 30th Anniversary AWP Panel Outline.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T231	2025032715:2016:35 050	THU, MAR 27	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	On the Line: Ethical Approaches to Writing from the US-Mexico Border As writers, we are often told to be a “voice for the voiceless”—but what does this mean exactly? In this panel, award-winning alumni of University of Arizona’s Southwest Field Studies in Writing—a summer research, writing, and teaching program that sends fellows to collaborate with nonprofit community partners—will discuss the importance of reciprocal learning in art making, writing in the borderlands, and how, no matter our location, grappling with borders affects each one of us as writers and as people. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jo Blair Cipriano Presenter: Logan Phillips Presenter: Sophia Terazawa Presenter: Raquel Gutierrez Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F233 Event Outline—On the Line_ Ethical Approaches to Writing from the US-Mexico Border.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F233	2025032815:2016:35 050	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	From Dusk till Dawn: Exploring Nocturnes & Aubades Nature’s voltas, dusk and dawn are periods of tension, anticipation, and dramatic change. As poems of beginnings and endings, longing and leave-taking, dreamlike wonder and song, the nocturne and the aubade engage liminal spaces of possibility and transformation. How do poets harness the power of these twilight periods? How do they draw from the inherent tensions of these poetic modes? This panel will explore the complexity and abundant offerings, the push and pull of these evocative poems. Speaker(s): Presenter: Amorak Huey Presenter: Curtis L. Crisler Presenter: Tatiana Johnson-Boria Presenter: Kevin McKelvey Moderator: Amy Ash Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F145 Event Outline_From Dusk til Dawn_Exploring Nocturnes and Aubades.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F145	2025032810:3511:50 045	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Beyond Beaches & Colonialism: Writers from the Caribbean Diaspora One of the most ethnically diverse regions worldwide, the Caribbean is an area defined by colonization, immigration, and a history of violence. As writers from the diaspora, how do we contend with that history in an American context? Whose stories are we beholden to, and how do we balance the responsibility to represent our communities with that of representing ourselves? Writers from various diasporas read from their work and discuss how these histories and identities inform their choices. Speaker(s): Presenter: Gabriela Garcia Presenter: Lilliam Rivera Moderator: Tanya Rey Presenter: Yalitza Ferreras Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S118 Event Outline - Beyond Beaches and Colonialism.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S118	2025032909:0010:15 040	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Divergent Writers: A New Bloomsbury Anthology on Neurodivergence & Ableism Creative writing spaces are largely engineered for abled bodies. Attitudes surrounding disability, illness, and neurodivergence range from reluctance to complete disregard. These writers are often romanticized, erased, or both, as the writing world has little interest in accommodating those who do not fit neatly into ableist paradigms. Our panel of exceptional authors will discuss our forthcoming anthology. In doing so, we will share our relevant experiences and suggest interventions. Speaker(s): Moderator: Christie Collins Presenter: Leigh Camacho Rourks Presenter: K. Iver Presenter: Saul Lemerond Presenter: Said Shaiye Nonfiction Readings Reading Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T117 EVENT OUTLINE_DIVERGENT WRITERS.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T117	2025032709:0010:15 035	THU, MAR 27	45806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Making the Cut: What Judging Story Collection Contests Taught Us These five panelists—all of whom have published story collections—discuss what they learned from reading about seventy-five story collection submissions to the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, an experience that one judge calls “transcendental.” The panel—which includes editors, reviewers, professors, and scholars—offers insight and advice for those working on or trying to publish story collections; trend observations; and thoughts on how and why reading for the contest altered their own work. Speaker(s): Moderator: Lori Ostlund Presenter: Jenny Shank Presenter: Hasanthika Sirisena Presenter: Michael Wang Presenter: Toni Ann Johnson Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F204 Outline Making the Cut.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F204	2025032813:4515:00 045	FRI, MAR 28	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	A Tribute to Elizabeth Arnold (1958–2024) A tribute to Elizabeth Arnold (1958–2024), whose innovative oeuvre, vital scholarship, and intensive and generous teaching continues to enrich American poetry and the poetry of illness. The author of six volumes of poetry, from 1999’s The Reef to 2023’s Wave House, Arnold taught in the MFA program at the University of Maryland for over two decades and helped elevate Flood Editions, her press. Former students, friends, and colleagues will read from Arnold’s work and remark on her legacy. Speaker(s): Moderator: Lindsay Bernal Presenter: Elizabeth Countryman Presenter: Katy Didden Presenter: Kiyanna Hill Presenter: Jenny Mueller Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S200	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S200	2025032913:4515:00 045	SAT, MAR 29	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	More than Just Conversation: On Literary Interviews & Why They Matter Literary interviews help readers find and more deeply connect with the books they love. But the interview is also an important form unto itself, a space for writers to grapple with issues of cultural and political significance and even challenge the status quo. Experienced interviewers, interviewees, and editors will discuss the beauty and function of the form and offer concrete strategies for conducting, crafting, and publishing interviews so more writers can join these important conversations. Speaker(s): Presenter: Montserrat Andrée Carty Moderator: Allison Wyss Presenter: Ahsan Butt Presenter: Daniel Garcia Presenter: Bareerah Ghani Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T144 Event Outline- More than Just Conversation On Literary Interviews and Why They Matter.docx	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T144	2025032710:3511:50 040	THU, MAR 27	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Using Open Educational Resources in Literature & Creative Writing Courses This panel will explore the use of open educational resources (OER) in literature and creative writing college courses. What are the legal limitations and best practices when it comes to using OER? What resources (such as podcasts, online videos, and free online textbooks) exist, and how can instructors use them in the classroom, both in person and online? What are the benefits of using OER versus textbooks and materials that students are required to pay for? Speaker(s): Presenter: Tammy Wolf Presenter: Genevieve Betts Moderator: Joseph Klemens Presenter: Austin Eichelberger Presenter: Jared Valdez Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T202 Event Outline - Using Open Educational Resources in Literature and Creative Writing Courses.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T202	2025032713:4515:00 050	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Explosion of Oral Storytelling: The Power of Moving from Page to Stage What can we learn by standing spotlit before an audience and telling our truths with no notes, no book in hand? Four nonfiction writers who’ve successfully moved from page to stage will tell of their experiences with TED Talks, The Moth, spoken word, videos, and storytelling podcasts such as Writing Class Radio. We’ll explore what writers can learn from this most authentic form of storytelling, and we’ll provide craft tips for audience members who wish to give out-loud storytelling a try. Speaker(s): Presenter: Andrea Askowitz Moderator: Beth Ann Fennelly Presenter: Jitesh Jaggi Presenter: Devan Sandiford Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F175 Event outline_The Explosion of Oral Storytelling.docx	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F175	2025032812:1013:25 050	FRI, MAR 28	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Crafting Flash Narratives: Empowering Student Voices Through Microstorytelling In its concise form, flash fiction offers expansive practice for creative writers. Microstorytelling offers a trove of treasures for effectively teaching a variety of literary devices, terminology, writing voice, and process in a targeted way. Teaching writing with flash fiction is a pedagogy of craft and specificity while honoring writing students’ narratives and unique voices. Learn how to invigorate your teaching approach (and your own writing!). Inspire with the magic of flash narratives. Speaker(s): Moderator: Britta Stromeyer Presenter: Kim Culbertson Presenter: Grant Faulkner Presenter: Darien Hsu Gee Presenter: Ran Walker Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S226 AWP Microstorytelling.docx	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S226	2025032915:2016:35 040	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal Since 1950, the Beloit Poetry Journal has published poetry that speaks complex, necessary truths in startling, beautiful ways, producing literary magazines and chapbooks beloved by a diverse community of poets and readers. Join BPJ editors and contributors as they celebrate a remarkable seventy-five years of continuous publication and discuss the journal’s seven decades of dedication to expanding the definition of the term “American poetry.” Speaker(s): Moderator: Rachel Contreni Flynn Presenter: Kemi Alabi Presenter: Eduardo Corral Presenter: Katie Farris Presenter: Michael Wasson Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T173 AWP Reading Outline.docx	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T173	2025032712:1013:25 045	THU, MAR 27	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Joy & Magic of Afrofantasy: Celebrating African Storytelling Traditions From Nigeria to South Central, Afrofantasy presents readers and writers alike with the opportunity to overcome colonial histories and create new legacies. This conversation explores Afrofantasy’s origins in African oral storytelling traditions, folktales, and mythology. Through discussions of their works and the authors that inspired them, three panelists challenge Western storytelling conventions in the hopes of empowering future storytellers across the African diaspora. Speaker(s): Moderator: Candace Denson Presenter: Didi Anofienem Presenter: Karen A. Parker Presenter: Omari Richards Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S146 AWP Event Outline for The Joy & Magic of Afrofantasy_ Celebrating African Storytelling Traditions.pdf	Location: Room 404AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S146	2025032910:3511:50 040	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Southern Lit Journal as Resistance With the Southern political climate taking oppressive turns, literary journals can serve as artistic sites of resistance. How do literary journals maintain a progressive vision in the face of ongoing political violence? How can literary journals stand in solidarity with communities under perpetual attack? Editors from five literary journals in Florida and Alabama will discuss the lessons learned from publishing in the South as well as their experiences working with marginalized communities. Speaker(s): Presenter: Becka McKay Presenter: Jamie Poissant Moderator: Heather Truett Presenter: Jess Gallerie Presenter: Darby Power Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S174 Event Outline - 2025 The Southern Lit Journal as Resistance.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S174	2025032912:1013:25 050	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Debunking Myths Around Getting Started in Translation, Sponsored by ALTA What is literary translation? How does one begin? For the uninitiated, the monolingual, and the curious, translation can feel dauntingly niche. Yet it is a vital and enriching practice with the potential to connect people across the globe. In this panel, we will share our journeys of translating prose, poetry, and drama, from finding that first text to publication. We will debunk myths surrounding the craft and provide insights into how to responsibly and ethically begin translating. Speaker(s): Moderator: Amanda L. Andrei Presenter: Diana Arterian Presenter: KB Thors Presenter: Elisa Wouk Almino Presenter: Sawako Nakayasu Translation Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T145 2025 - Event Outline - Debunking Myths Around Getting Started in Translation.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T145	2025032710:3511:50 045	THU, MAR 27	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Spiritual Outsiders United: Writing Our Way to Collective Liberation, Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council This multigenre panel brings together Muslim and Jewish authors with complex cultural, ethnic, or racial identities at a time of escalated antisemitism and Islamophobia. Each will reflect on what it means to be a Jewish or Muslim author now, the struggles of belonging that inform their work, and how literary art fosters understanding amidst heightened conflicts. Join us to grapple with what it means to be an outsider within and beyond the communities we inhabit while working to build solidarity and collective liberation through literature. Speaker(s): Presenter: Sufiya Abdur-Rahman Moderator: Magin LaSov Gregg Presenter: Sarah Einstein Presenter: Isra Cheema Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F234 Event Outline Spiritual Outsiders United Writing Our Way to Collective Liberation AWP 2025.docx	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F234	2025032815:2016:35 055	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	A Narrow Bridge: Jewish Writers on Resilience in an Antisemitic Climate, Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council Since Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, Jews have been increasingly targeted for exclusion in both the journals and events of American letters. In this panel, Jewish American and Israeli authors will discuss how this has affected their work and the reception of that work, as well as share strategies for resilience in the face of overt hostility to Jewish voices. Speaker(s): Presenter: Elissa Wald Presenter: Howard Lovy Moderator: Sarah Einstein Presenter: Jennifer Lang Presenter: Amy Fish Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T232 A Narrow Bridge_ Jewish Writers on Resilience in an Antisemitic Climate.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T232	2025032715:2016:35 055	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Writing Jewishly, Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council For centuries, Jews have written stories inspired by their own circumstances, making art out of the realities of Jewish life. The styles and specifics differ, but the stories endure. Today a new generation of authors continue the rich tradition of Jewish storytelling, bringing compelling, modern novels to life. In doing so, they sustain a legacy of thoughtful and inquisitive conversation. Speaker(s): Presenter: Benjamin Resnick Presenter: Sasha Vasilyuk Presenter: Jessica Elisheva Emerson Moderator: Stephanie Butnick Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F119	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F119	2025032809:0010:15 045	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Beyond a Homeland: Celebrating Iranian American Women Writers How do writers make sense of the Iranian diasporic experience? This reading highlights Iranian American women fiction authors, all with incredibly varied connections to Iran. How do their relationships with a homeland that has been taken from them help shape the stories they tell? This is Iran beyond the news headlines. Discussion will follow the reading. Speaker(s): Moderator: Shideh Etaat Presenter: Jasmin Darznik Presenter: Sahar Delijani Presenter: Marjan Kamali Presenter: Porochista Khakpour Fiction Readings Reading Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F176 Event Outline Beyond a Homeland- Celebrating Iranian American Women Writers.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F176	2025032812:1013:25 055	FRI, MAR 28	2721969A-8498-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Our Own Name: Writing Jewishness Beyond Zionism, Assimilation & Fear How can contemporary poetry and prose trouble and disrupt associations, conflations, and assumptions about Jewish identity? In this panel, a diverse group of Jewish writers will grapple with the possibilities and limitations of writing about diasporic Jewish lives—beyond stereotype, assimilation, and Zionism. They will explore urgent and shifting questions about intention and audience for work that reflects the multiplicity of Jewish experience and confronts the weaponization of antisemitism. Speaker(s): Moderator: Robin Beth Schaer Presenter: Jennifer Gilmore Presenter: Irina Reyn Presenter: Courtney Zoffness Presenter: Moriel Rothman-Zecher Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T203 Event Outline Our Own Name AWP25.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T203	2025032713:4515:00 055	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Advocating for Your Story in YA as a BIPOC author We are a group of BIPOC authors who’ve published novels in different genres of young adult—romance, thriller, contemporary, and horror—and we’re holding a panel where we’ll discuss different nuances and challenges of navigating the YA world in traditional publishing as BIPOC authors, and ways that we’ve had to advocate for our stories at different points throughout the process, from querying through the editorial process, all the way to marketing. Speaker(s): Moderator: Clare Osongco Presenter: Jade Adia Presenter: Alex Brown Presenter: Trinity Nguyen Presenter: Ream Shukairy Children’s & Young Adult Literature Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F146 Event outline_Advocating for Your Story in YA as a BIPOC author_updated.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F146	2025032810:3511:50 050	FRI, MAR 28	3B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Broken World: Contemporary LGBTQ Writers on Research & the SFF Canon As queer SFF writers dreaming freer ways of being, we work in the shadow of strange, powerful writers who wove disparate influences into compelling worlds. Join four groundbreaking LGBTQ SFF writers in drawing lessons for current writers from the transformative research of J. R. R. Tolkien, open homophobe Frank Herbert’s sincere engagement with Islamic knowledge transfer, and Octavia Butler’s liberatory queer storytelling, and how contemporaries like Rebecca Roanhorse bring in once-excluded traditions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Kai Cheng Thom Moderator: Maya Deane Presenter: Alina Boyden Presenter: S.G. Demciri Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S119 Event Outline - The Broken World.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S119	2025032909:0010:15 045	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Afterwards: Veteran Writers Reflect on Reintegration, Mental Health & Healing Feelings of isolation and a missing sense of belonging have become familiar to many during the COVID-19 pandemic, as have challenges around reintegrating back into “normal” society. Join five veterans as they discuss writing about what comes after life-changing experiences. Panelists reflect on surprises and difficulties in writing about mental health, advocating for well-being through storytelling, how these issues intersect and clash with cultural norms, and the myriad forms healing may take. Speaker(s): Moderator: Bronson Lemer Presenter: Jacqlyn Cope Presenter: Lauren Kay Johnson Presenter: Michael Ramos Presenter: Ricardo Ruiz Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T174 Afterwards Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T174	2025032712:1013:25 050	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Defiance of Pink Poetry Books To see the world through rose-colored glasses means to have a positive outlook that may be naive or weak. But in a violent world, it is an act of defiance to choose love and joy over alienation and uncertainty. Celebrating titles that feature the color pink on their covers, poets will read work that highlights the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and identity, and discuss how pink came to be a prominent element of their book, and what the color means to them and their writing. Speaker(s): Presenter: Chen Chen Moderator: Xochitl Bermejo Presenter: Anatalia Vallez Presenter: Zefyr Lisowski Presenter: Cathy Linh Che Poetry Readings Reading Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S147 The Defiance of Pink Poetry Books - Outline.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S147	2025032910:3511:50 045	SAT, MAR 29	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Poetry at Large: The Joys & Perils of Translating Long Poems, Sponsored by ALTA From Paterson to Omeros, from The Descent of Alette to Drafts, American poetry readers are all too familiar with long poems and their critical weight. Although long poems in translation have long been neglected in English, publishers have lately shown a resurgence of interest. This panel assembles a group of translators to discuss the joys and perils of their own work amid a recent slate of book-length poetic projects appearing for the first time in English. Speaker(s): Moderator: Derick Mattern Presenter: Edith Adams Presenter: Conor Bracken Presenter: Katherine M. Hedeen Presenter: Mira Rosenthal Translation Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F205 AWP Event Outline for Poetry at Large AWP 2025.docx	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F205	2025032813:4515:00 050	FRI, MAR 28	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Crafting Powerful Stories (with Difficult Topics) for Young Readers Modern readers are living in difficult times—luckily, stories offer an escape. But books also act as mirrors and windows for young readers to see themselves and come to better understand others. Creating strong narratives with universal emotional arcs is no easy feat, especially in a time when we need more diversity in our media as book bans flourish. Join authors Paula Yoo, Abdi Nazemian, Elise Bryant, Aaron Aceves, and Rex Ogle as they discuss culture, identity, and a love of story. Speaker(s): Presenter: Hannah Sawyerr Presenter: Aaron Aceves Moderator: Rex Ogle Presenter: Federico Erebia Presenter: Paula Yoo Children’s & Young Adult Literature Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T118 EVENT OUTLINE Crafting Powerful Stories with Difficult Topics for Young Readers.docx	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T118	2025032709:0010:15 040	THU, MAR 27	3B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Coach House Books Sixtieth-Anniversary Reading Coach House Books has been publishing cutting-edge literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction since 1965, meaning that 2025 marks our sixtieth anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, we will showcase some of our most celebrated authors, including Giller Prize winner Suzette Mayr (The Sleeping Car Porter) and poets Ian Williams, Adam Dickinson, Derek Beaulieu, and Susan Holbrook. The readings will be hosted by Editorial Director Alana Wilcox. Speaker(s): Moderator: Alana Wilcox Presenter: Derek Beaulieu Presenter: Adam Dickinson Presenter: Suzette Mayr Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S201 Coach House Books AWP Event.pdf	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S201	2025032913:4515:00 050	SAT, MAR 29	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	What You’ve Heard Isn’t True: Crafting New Salvadoran Myths & Futurities Contemporary writers of the Salvadoran diaspora use the speculative—the imaginative—to parse through the urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the US and El Salvador. By collapsing past and present, and blending history and mythology, these writers force us to ask, What have readers misunderstood or overlooked about the country and its diaspora? If much of El Salvador’s past was documented by outsiders, its future will be written by these speculative writers and their contemporaries. Speaker(s): Presenter: Ruben Reyes Jr. Moderator: Janel Pineda Presenter: Gina María Balibrera Presenter: Leticia Hernández-Linares Presenter: Reyes Ramirez Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S227	Location: Room 405, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S227	2025032915:2016:35 045	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	The Personal Is Always Political Confessional poetry and the phrase “The personal is political” have parallel histories. While some have claimed that autobiographical poetry is apolitical, that claim has always been fallacious—and never more so than in the poetry of the present. This panel gathers five poets to share their strategies for infusing even their most “private” or “interior” poems with their politics and their ethics, read brief examples of their own and others’ work, and engage the audience collaboratively. Speaker(s): Presenter: Tariq Luthun Presenter: Ally Ang Presenter: Jericho Brown Moderator: Sumita Chakraborty Presenter: Rachel Mennies Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F206 AWP 2025 Event Description.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F206	2025032813:4515:00 055	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Politics of Imagining: Poetry as Social Practice The political dimension penetrates every intimate aspect of human life—who is allowed to love whom and on what terms, who lives, who dies. Yet, “the political” is often relegated to a subgenre rather than being seen as the primary field of experience out of which the poetic imagination arises. This panel considers poetry within “a web of other social practices historically weighted with enormous imbalances of power” (Rich) and argues for a liberatory poetics that centers political consciousness. Speaker(s): Moderator: Issam Zineh Presenter: Courtney Faye Taylor Presenter: Cindy Juyoung Ok Presenter: Solmaz Sharif Presenter: George Abraham Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F235 Politics of Imagining Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F235	2025032815:2016:35 060	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Write Indigenously: Poets on Language Revitalization & Sovereignty Five Indigenous poets will share their creative work, while discussing how reclaiming their ancestral language has affected their personal poetics and healing process. Fluidity within the genre of poetry allows room for the inclusion of Indigenous languages and the decentering of English, rendering the poem a space of active decolonization. Here, the contemporary Indigenous poet writes themselves within the contexts of their own mother tongue and by Indigenizing the colonizer’s language. Speaker(s): Presenter: Kalilinoe Detwiler Presenter: Casandra Lopez Presenter: Arielle Taitano Lowe Presenter: Annie Wenstrup Moderator: Mary Leauna Christensen Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T119 Event Outline_Write Indigenously Poets on Language Revitalization & Sovereignty.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T119	2025032709:0010:15 045	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Setting Gap: Deconstructing Patriarchal Environments Through World-Building Setting is more than vibes. For BIPOC, female-identifying, and queer writers, it’s a means of entering spaces that have been historically inaccessible and prohibitive. From the margins, setting is political, and literary canons and societal gender norms have perpetuated these delineations. Authors from across genres discuss ways they build environments—real and fantastic—to close the setting gap, code-switch, raise social questions, and reckon with the gendered politics of how worlds are built. Speaker(s): Presenter: Nora Shalaway Carpenter Moderator: Gloria Muñoz Presenter: Alisa Alering Presenter: Tyler Gillespie Presenter: Felicia Zamora Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T233 AWP 2025 - Outline & Info - The Setting Gap_ Deconstructing Patriarchal Environments Through World-Building .pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T233	2025032715:2016:35 060	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Sisterhoods: Friendship, Feminism, Lineage & Perseverance Four feminist avant-garde poets will discuss how “the Sisterhood,” a network of black feminist writers and activists formed during the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, deeply informs how they think about their own self-identified lineages and contexts today. The panelists will share how the Sisterhood, as documented in a 1977 photograph taken at June Jordan’s home of writers and activists, catalyzed their contemporary enactment of a peer support system for black feminist avant-garde poetics. Speaker(s): Presenter: Patricia Jones Moderator: Jennifer Firestone Presenter: Tonya Foster Presenter: Erica Hunt Presenter: Harryette Mullen Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F177 AWP Outline.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F177	2025032812:1013:25 060	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Saying the Unsayable: Writers & Editors on Experimental Forms Writers often reach for experimentation when conventional forms cannot contain their work, when something more—or less—is needed to convey the tangled, traumatic, and expansive. In this panel, editors and writers across genres will discuss strategies and techniques to use experimentation to get at the unsayable in creative work, and how certain topics—like the climate crises, sociopolitics, trauma, and complicated identities—lend themselves to experimental approaches. Speaker(s): Presenter: Michael Ramos Moderator: Michelle Donahue Presenter: Jason Daniels Presenter: Felicia Zamora Presenter: Kate Gale Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S148 Event Outline_Saying the Unsayable.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S148	2025032910:3511:50 050	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Across Borders: Latine Writers Respond to the Crackdown on Immigration Latine writers read original pieces to respond to the recent immigration wave from South America. This session proposes that literature, specifically fiction and hybrid genres, illuminates how labeling the movement as a “crisis” economically manages and attacks one specific population: Spanish-speaking from the South of the Americas. We then reveal a long literary, geopolitical, racial, mythical, and classed connection between Latin America and the US. Speaker(s): Presenter: Giannina Braschi Presenter: Mónica-Ramón Ríos Moderator: Tess O'Dwyer Presenter: Carlos Labbé Presenter: Frederick Luis Aldama Fiction Readings Reading Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T175 Across Borders - Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T175	2025032712:1013:25 055	THU, MAR 27	2721969A-8498-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Feeling FATastic: The Poetics of Pleasure, Sexuality & Liberation This panel explores the craft of writing fat pleasure and joy. Narratives about fat people often center harm—eating disorders, bullying, body shaming. These topics are important components of the fat experience, but reducing people to their trauma is ultimately dehumanizing. The panelists will discuss how to use sensory details, musicality, voice, lineation, and storytelling to write poems that celebrate the pleasures of eating, sexuality, embodiment, belonging. Speaker(s): Moderator: Claudia Cortese Presenter: Diamond Forde Presenter: Ysabel Y. González Presenter: Omotara James Presenter: Emilia Phillips Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S120 Event Outline_ Feeling FATastic .pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S120	2025032909:0010:15 050	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Here & Now: Thoughts on the Second Indigenous Literary Renaissance The first Indigenous literary renaissance brought us thoughtful luminaries who influenced generations of writers with their craft and knowledge. Today, we’re continuing that cultural movement as authors of many Native nations are writing dynamic, forward-thinking stories. Our panel discusses the craft of writing in our native languages, leveraging our unique perspectives and life experiences, and engaging in futurist thinking, all of which help us shape the future for other Indigenous writers. Speaker(s): Moderator: Conley Lyons Presenter: Stacie Denetsosie Presenter: Kinsale Drake Presenter: Chelsea Hicks Presenter: Tiana Kahakauwila Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F147 AWP 2025 Event Outline - Thoughts on the Second Indigenous Literary Renaissance.docx	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F147	2025032810:3511:50 055	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Breaking Walls: Heirs of Angel Island Write Against the Anti-Chinese West Against the legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which set the xenophobic tone of current US immigration policy, and the harsh detentions at Angel Island, five writers of Chinese descent grapple with personal and collective history. From different generational stances as immigrants and mixed-race persons, they employ multiple genres—poetry, fiction, memoir, essay, and translation—to interrogate injustice. They’ll discuss strategies for subverting racial tropes and engaging lyric language to true a past. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jeffrey Thomas Leong Presenter: Teow Lim Goh Presenter: Tom Lin Presenter: Paisley Rekdal Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T146 Event Outline - Breaking Walls-Heirs of Angel Island Write Against the Anti-Chinese West.pdf Handout1 - Recommended Reading.pdf Handout2 - Notes on Translation.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T146	2025032710:3511:50 050	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Callaloo Literary Journal: The Revitalization of a Legacy Canceled Unfortunately, this event was canceled by the event participants. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kyla Kupferstein Torres Presenter: Vievee Francis Presenter: Jacinda Townsend Presenter: Matthew Shenoda Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F120	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F120	2025032809:0010:15 050	FRI, MAR 28	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	How to Teach Diné Literature Teaching Native American literature often incorporates concepts of culture, place, and storytelling. This panel discussion will embrace those ideas, including linguistic elements, sound symbolism, race, and institutional constructs that all have influenced how Indigenous writers story their complex narratives within this place called the United States. This panel signifies the importance of considering tribally specific literary histories, which is critical toward decolonizing our classrooms. Speaker(s): Presenter: sherwin bitsui Moderator: Shaina A. Nez Presenter: natanya pulley Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T204 Event Outline - 3_27 How to Teach Dine´ Literature (1).pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T204	2025032713:4515:00 060	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	We Beautifully Outside: Informal Writing Collectives, Community & Kinship This panel will discuss the significance of community-based writing spaces—especially for marginalized writers—that are not necessarily attached to universities or foundations. What happens with our craft and careers when we simply organize with other writers? What is the history of such literary gatherings? The panelists are members of the Anansi Writers Workshop founded in 1990 in Los Angeles, and Black Women Write, a collective established in Sacramento in 2018 and in Seattle in 2023. Speaker(s): Moderator: Renee Simms Presenter: C.R. Glasgow Presenter: Kim Benjamin Presenter: Monica West Presenter: Shonda Buchanan Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S175 We Beautifully Outside_ Informal Writing Collectives, Community & Kinship.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S175	2025032912:1013:25 055	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Criminalized Lit There is inherent risk in writing about our lives. What if our lives and our stories are criminalized, banned, or in violation of immigration or civil law, or strip us of the right of return to our country of origin? This panel speaks to so-called incriminating admissions in our writing. We will share experiences of writing with this level of risk, and strategies for working with other criminalized writers in our roles as educators, publishers, and queer, trans, and displaced community-based artists. Speaker(s): Presenter: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Moderator: Amber Dawn U Presenter: Janine Joseph Presenter: Casey Plett Presenter: Danny Ramadan Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S202 Criminalized Lit AWP Outline.pdf	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S202	2025032913:4515:00 055	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Crossing Genres, Crossing Worlds: Women of Color in Speculative Literature “The Future is Female” except in sci-fi, where after a century of visionaries like Octavia Butler and Begum Rokeya, it still appears white and male. What happens when women of color not only reimagine the barriers of genre, but of time and space as well? Four writers speculating across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and even code share their work and discuss how their experiences serve, in Butler’s words, “as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating”—not only our future, but our now. Speaker(s): Moderator: Quincy Scott Jones Presenter: Tananarive Due Presenter: Muriel Leung Presenter: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Presenter: Margaret Rhee Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S228 Event Outline - CROSSING GENRES CROSSING WORLDS- WOMEN OF COLOR IN SPECULATIVE LITERATURE.docx	Location: Room 406AB, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S228	2025032915:2016:35 050	SAT, MAR 29	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Queer Crip Worlds: Poetry as Portal for Transnational Solidarity This panel brings queer and crip/disabled diasporic poets of color from Bangladesh, Colombia, Iran, and Pakistan to consider the possibilities for using poetry as a portal connecting us from word to world. In the context of the US-backed genocide in Palestine and intersecting histories of conflict in our respective homelands, we will explore how poetry has been a vital tool for organizing queer and disability justice, and a modality for building connection and solidarity across social movements. Speaker(s): Moderator: Heidi Rhodes Presenter: Sami Ghaus Presenter: Tala Khanmalek Presenter: Ashna Ali Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S229 AWP 2025 Event Outline .docx	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S229	2025032915:2016:35 055	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Censorship in America: Mizrahi Jewish Perspectives in a Divided World, Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council Mizrahi (Eastern) Jews have had a consistent presence in the Middle East since antiquity. Their cultural and historical memory predates the advent of both Christianity and Islam. Their cumulative experience fosters a unique understanding of the forces at play in the region. Today, the United States is home to the second-largest Mizrahi Jewish community in the world. How can writers with firsthand experience of the region contribute freely their understanding of the post–October 7, 2023 events? Speaker(s): Presenter: Saba Soomekh Presenter: Daniel Bouskila Presenter: Houman Sarshar Moderator: Gina Nahai Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T120 AWP Panel description .docx	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T120	2025032709:0010:15 050	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	LitNet Meeting LitNet is a coalition of literary organizations from across the United States that works to promote the importance of the literary arts in American culture, build the capacity of the literary field, and broaden funding for the literary arts. Join us for a meeting from 9:00 to 10:15 a.m. to learn more about what we do, followed by a breakfast mingle with literary leaders and other advocates from the field. Pro Forma Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S136 Event Outline_LitNet Annual Meeting.pdf	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S136	2025032909:0011:50 001	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	African Diaspora Caucus Uniting attendees from across disciplines, the African Diaspora Caucus will provide a forum for discussions of careers, best practices for teaching creative writing, and obtaining the MFA or PhD. We will work with AWP's affinity caucuses to develop national diversity benchmarks for creative writing programs, and will collaborate with board and staff to ensure that AWP programs meet the needs of diaspora writers. This caucus will be an inclusive space that reflects the pluralities in our community. Speaker(s): Moderator: Dante Micheaux Caucus Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T176	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T176	2025032712:1013:25 057	THU, MAR 27	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Women’s Caucus The Women’s Caucus offers an inclusive space for networking, event planning, and discussing issues like resources, access to literary power structures, childcare, and publication obstacles. Welcoming diverse perspectives, we support women writers, enhance understanding of gender and creative writing, and expand literary dialogue across genres. We encourage feminist literary perspectives, advocate for equity, and provide support for women writers. Speaker(s): Moderator: Rahima Ullah Presenter: Joan Gelfand Presenter: Shalini Rana Caucus Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F207 AWP 2025 Women's Caucus (1).pdf	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F207	2025032813:4515:00 060	FRI, MAR 28	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Beyond Blind Prophets & Saintly Sufferers: Writing Disability in YA Millions of teens live with disabilities both visible and invisible, but they almost never see themselves accurately represented in the fiction they read. This panel features three disabled women who write about disabled teens in contemporary, historical, and fantastic settings. Each author will read briefly from her work and discuss the joys and pitfalls of writing disability in YA, with a focus on how we shatter ableist stereotypes and function in YA spaces as disabled authors. Speaker(s): Moderator: Sophie Trist Presenter: Nikki Lyssy Presenter: Jasminne Mendez Children’s & Young Adult Literature Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T205 Beyond Blind Prophets and Saintly Sufferers AWP 2025 Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T205	2025032713:4515:00 065	THU, MAR 27	3B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Outspoken: Accurately & Sensitively Representing Sexual Assault in YA Fiction In an era of book banning, it’s more important than ever to be outspoken about the difficult issues teens face, including sexual assault. But how do we write about it accurately and sensitively, making readers feel seen while simultaneously ensuring that the text isn’t unnecessarily triggering or gratuitous? These five writers will discuss how they each approached writing about sexual assault in their YA novels, why it’s so crucial, and the vital importance of centering the victim. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kim DeRose Presenter: Sonia Patel Presenter: Rocky Callen Presenter: Annie Cardi Presenter: Madeline Claire Franklin Children’s & Young Adult Literature Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S203 Outspoken AWP Outline.docx	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S203	2025032913:4515:00 060	SAT, MAR 29	3B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Beyond Translation: Two Writers, Two Languages A community workshop for African American and Chinese writers. An exchange between two bilingual poets, one American, one Uruguayan born, who translate and respond to one another’s poems with more poems. A collaboration between a French professor and a creative writer based on prison letters written by a female Resistance fighter. We describe our experiences, projects, and our processes in creating our own new work, and teaching others to create new work. Speaker(s): Moderator: S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg Presenter: Mary Hawley Presenter: Michael Warr Presenter: Chun Yu Translation Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F178 awp2025--event outline.pdf	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F178	2025032812:1013:25 065	FRI, MAR 28	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Adjunct Writers Caucus Are you an adjunct or part-time instructor at a college or university? Do you support adjuncts, maybe as a former adjunct yourself? Join us! The Adjunct Writers Caucus provides a space for writers who are also instructors to connect with others to learn and grow in their personal and professional lives. The caucus strives to provide visibility for this large subset of instructors, as well as space for discussion, support, and resources for its members. Speaker(s): Moderator: Stephanie M. Lindberg Presenter: Cara Diaconoff Presenter: Elizabeth Donald Presenter: Joseph Hess Presenter: Mike Spry Caucus Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F121 Event Outline AWP Adjunct Caucus.pdf Download Course Materials	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F121	2025032809:0010:15 055	FRI, MAR 28	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	“Traduttore, Traditore!”: Poets on Translation In his 2004 memoir If This Be Treason, translator Gregory Rabassa describes the act of translating, at least in part, as an act of betrayal. Betrayal of language, author, and self. Was he right? If so, is this especially true when translating poems? This panel uses Rabassa’s argument as a jumping-off point to discuss the joys, challenges, and . . . impossibility? . . . of translation. The five poet-translators will be reading from recently published translations from Chinese, Italian, Russian, and Spanish texts. Speaker(s): Presenter: Shangyang Fang Presenter: Forrest Gander Presenter: Valzhyna Mort Moderator: John Murillo Presenter: Mary Jo Bang Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S176 Poets on Translation Outline.pdf	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S176	2025032912:1013:25 060	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Filipino Writers on Diasporic Subjectivity & Postcolonial Prosodies Panel discussion exploring the Filipino diasporic subject’s relationship to/with the English language, our distinct positionalities, and how these inform our writing practice. What does the journey of understanding our colonial history, alongside embracing our creative vocation, look like? In what ways do our stories, characters, and poetics contend with the legacy of US imperialism? What accents our grief, curiosity, and joy? How do we think and write about tahanan or “home”? Speaker(s): Presenter: Oliver de la Paz Moderator: Paula Mendoza Presenter: Kimberly Garza Presenter: Alleliah Nuguid Presenter: Kay Ulanday Barrett Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T147 AWP 2025 - Event Outline .docx	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T147	2025032710:3511:50 055	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Jewish Writers Caucus The Jewish Writers Caucus invites writers to meet each other, discuss challenges and opportunities, share resources, and suggest how AWP can better support Jewish writers, all in a space welcoming to Jews of all denominations, degrees of religious engagement, races, ethnicities, sexualities, genders, socioeconomic backgrounds, and political affiliations. An often-invisible minority—invisible at times even to each other—we aim to connect Jewish writers and celebrate the significance of our stories. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jessica Jacobs Presenter: Lauren Grodstein Presenter: Josh Rolnick Presenter: Margot Singer Caucus Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F148 AWP 2025.JWC Plan.docx.pdf	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F148	2025032810:3511:50 060	FRI, MAR 28	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Asian American Caucus What is literature’s role in liberation? How do we as Asian American and Pacific Islander writers and readers steward spaces of care, emergence, legacy, and belonging? How can we think expansively about what it means to be Asian American and what it means to be a writer? Speaker(s): Moderator: Devyn Manibo Presenter: Neela Banerjee Presenter: Jason Bayani Presenter: Gina Chung Caucus Panel Discussion Assistive Listening Available Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F236 2025 Asian American Caucus Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 407, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F236	2025032815:2016:35 065	FRI, MAR 28	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Spirit Work: Talking (with) Sacred Texts Through Poetry Drawing upon inherited or chosen faith traditions as we face our contemporary world and its spiritual predicament, poets Sarah Ghazal Ali, Jessica Jacobs, Philip Metres, Angela Peñaredondo, and Pádraig ó Tuama will offer brief remarks and readings of poems (their own and others’) that wrestle with God and religion, the architecture of awe and belief, of grief and unbelief, offering new ways of thinking of poems as spiritual practice—through imaginative contemplation, midrash, and ritual. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jessica Jacobs Presenter: Angela Penaredondo Presenter: Sarah Ghazal Ali Moderator: Philip Metres Presenter: Padraig O Tuama Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S149 AWP 2025 Panel Outline Poetry and the Spirit.docx	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S149	2025032910:3511:50 055	SAT, MAR 29	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	IP IP IP: Books, Films & Beyond IP, IP, IP. It’s all about intellectual property, whether it’s a book optioned for a series or a short story turned into a feature or a script reverse engineered into a graphic novel. Join us for a fun, inspirational panel with a literary agent whose slate is entirely marginalized voices, a film/IP manager, and two award-winning authors as we discuss contracts, how to get representation, what agents and managers do, working as a queer screenwriter and novelist, and approaches to adaptation. Speaker(s): Moderator: tammy lynne stoner Presenter: Beth Marshea Presenter: Phoebe Schmidt Presenter: M Shelly Conner Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S204 IP IP IP stoner.docx	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S204	2025032913:4515:00 065	SAT, MAR 29	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Remembering What Is Vanishing: Poets on Ecology, History & Race This panel explores aspects of erasure, evanescence, and loss, as in erasure of one’s identity and subjectivity through racial and historical lenses, as in the extinction of 150 species in an average day, and how poets can “knock on silence,” in the words of Chinese poet Lu Ji, so as to give voice to those rubbed out by ideology, history, and time, to reach across the void instead of staring into it and becoming monsters. Speaker(s): Moderator: Tony Barnstone Presenter: Angie Estes Presenter: Mark Irwin Presenter: Douglas Manuel Presenter: Lynne Thompson Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T235 Event Outline.docx	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T235	2025032715:2016:35 070	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Resistance, Refusal, Silence & Life: When We Don’t Write Fallow periods are a feature of almost every poet’s practice. Sometimes procrastination, or balking, out of fear; sometimes the result of a lack of faith in the outcome, or in the endeavor itself; and sometimes an active choice, these fallow periods can be fraught or can be useful. Four quite different poets—in backgrounds, ages, and approaches—discuss how silences have figured in their writing lives and, in some cases, have been used to their works’ advantage. Speaker(s): Presenter: Gregory Pardlo Presenter: Bianca Stone Moderator: Susan Wheeler Presenter: Sophie Cabot Black Presenter: Roger Reeves Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S230 Event Outline - Resistance, Refusal, Silence and Life.docx	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S230	2025032915:2016:35 060	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Do the Hustle: How to Publicize Your Book In today’s crowded publishing landscape, getting publicity for your book is essential for reaching readers, supporting sales, and increasing your chances of publishing your next book. Yet many in-house publicists—if you’re lucky to be assigned one—are stretched thin, making it essential for writers to learn how to garner publicity on their own. Come get PR tips and tricks from four debut authors and a freelance publicist, including building media contacts, placing op-eds/essays, and using social media for PR, all to build Big Buzz for your book. Speaker(s): Moderator: Sasha Vasilyuk Presenter: Kathy Daneman Presenter: Elise Hu Presenter: Ruth Madievsky Presenter: Rasheed Newson Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F179 Event Outline Do the Hustle How to Publicize Your Book AWP 2025.pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F179	2025032812:1013:25 070	FRI, MAR 28	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Future Forms: Inventing Literary Forms for the Twenty-First Century From the epic poem to the lyric essay, literary forms have often been used to reflect the spirit of their age. With the advent of AI and digital technologies, the way we imagine literary genre and poetic form is changing. Five award-winning writers will share their work and discuss the ways in which they have subverted traditional forms, blurred genres, incorporated technology into narrative, and invented new forms to reflect our contemporary moment. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kai Carlson-Wee Presenter: Kate Folk Presenter: Alexandria Hall Presenter: Keith Wilson Presenter: Hua Xi Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S121 EVENT OUTLINE–Future Forms (AWP 2025).pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S121	2025032909:0010:15 055	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Rewriting LA: Literature from the Modern Working Class Los Angeles is forever idealized as a glittering diorama of would-be actors and Hollywood palm trees. But this multigenre, intergenerationa panel focuses on a working-class literary Los Angeles that makes the glint possible, tasking us to rewrite our city’s imaginings or get written out. Through fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and nonfiction, these writers craft a diverse, gritty, tangled city, capturing the complex interchanges of Los Angeles’s cultural and social history. Speaker(s): Moderator: Vickie Vertiz Presenter: Steve Gutierrez Presenter: Joelle Mendoza Presenter: Jenise Miller Presenter: Tanzila Ahmed Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T148 AWP Event Outline_ Literature of the Modern Working Class, 2025.pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T148	2025032710:3511:50 060	THU, MAR 27	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	That Thin Fire Racing Under Skin: Writing Sapphic Desire This panel explores the craft of writing lesbian desire. Poetry has long been an art form that expresses amorous passion—from Sappho’s songs of seduction in which a thin fire races under the speaker’s skin to Petrarca’s sonnets of unrequited love. This panel evokes the tradition of erotic poetry in the context of contemporary queer identity, discussing how writers can use lyric elements—including image, metaphor, music, voice—to write sapphic pleasure, connection, obsession, passion, love. Speaker(s): Moderator: Claudia Cortese Presenter: Donika Kelly Presenter: M. Mick Powell Presenter: Rachel M. Simon Presenter: Zefyr Lisowski Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T206 Event Outline_ That Thin Fire Racing Under Skin_ Writing Sapphic Desire (2).pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T206	2025032713:4515:00 070	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Failing Again, Failing Better: The Joys of Revision Must revision be all tax and toil? How might it be a process of exaltation and discovery, of further connecting with the thing we’re making to better understand what it needs of us? This cross-genre panel featuring widely published writers of poetry, memoir, journalism, essays, and fiction will engage with the challenges and demands of revision, and offer insight into their own revision strategies, including before and after samples and visual portrayals of their revision processes over time. Speaker(s): Presenter: Lauren Markham Moderator: Chris Feliciano Arnold Presenter: RO Kwon Presenter: Camille Rankine Presenter: Ingrid Rojas Contreras Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F149 AWP 2025 Panel Outline — Failing Again, Failing Better_ the Joys of Revision.pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F149	2025032810:3511:50 065	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Alchemy of Adaptation: The Screenwriter’s Approach In a panel discussion, four professional screenwriters/educators will share their approach to the challenging alchemy of adaptation. Dramatic structure for screenplays and series is distinctive from other story forms. The panelists will share the tools they use to distill and transform source material into the cinematic form, no matter the format or genre. To illuminate the process, they will offer specific examples from their own experience of adapting source material for the studios and networks. Speaker(s): Presenter: Karol Hoeffner Moderator: Patricia Meyer Presenter: Beth Serlin Presenter: Stacy Spruill Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F122 AWP Event Outline--The Alchemy of Adaptation.pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F122	2025032809:0010:15 060	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	No Excerpts: On the Long Poem Long poems pose many problems for the writer, reader, and teacher. How do poets, past and present, retain the attention of readers? How much does the market shape poem length? How can one teach poems concerned with endlessness in short class periods? The hope is that one may free oneself from these anxieties to make art that endures not just across pages, but across centuries. Dedicated to that long view, this panel features five poets who have written and/or taught long poems themselves. Speaker(s): Presenter: Ama Codjoe Moderator: Corey Van Landingham Presenter: Jennifer Chang Presenter: Jacques J. Rancourt Presenter: Rick Barot Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S177 Event Outline_No Excerpts- On the Long Poem.pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S177	2025032912:1013:25 065	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Irresistible Openings: The High-Wire Act of a Novel’s First Pages How do you get right to the good stuff in a novel so that a reader can’t help but devour the text and turn the page? These authors guide us through the openings of their published books, sharing their journeys to the first sentence, paragraph, and chapter. Learn how the work evolved across drafts and get a behind-the-scenes look at the approaches they tried, discarded, and embraced. Pull back the curtain on the stories behind the words that audiences eventually saw in print. Speaker(s): Presenter: Lydi Conklin Presenter: Lauren Francis-Sharma Moderator: Danielle Harms Presenter: Marie-Helene Bertino Presenter: Gene Kwak Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T177 Download Course Materials	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T177	2025032712:1013:25 060	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	How to Pitch like Hollywood Mastering the art of pitching is essential for writers working in Hollywood to secure assignments, sell scripts, and push projects forward. Four seasoned, diverse, award-winning screenwriters will divulge insider tips acquired from their experiences in the film industry trenches that apply to the publishing world. They will explore strategies on effectively selling yourself, your completed work, and your story concepts to industry professionals such agents, publishers, publicists, and booksellers. Speaker(s): Moderator: Karol Hoeffner Presenter: John Strauss Presenter: Weiko Lin Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F237 AWP Event Outline - How to PItch Like Hollywood.pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F237	2025032815:2016:35 070	FRI, MAR 28	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	You’re So Money & You Don’t Even Know It: Funding Your Creative Writing A panel of mid-career writers will discuss strategies for securing funding for creative writing projects, including community, state, and regional arts endowment awards; residency fellowships; travel grants; and freelancing in correlation with a particular project. Participants will highlight resources for finding funding opportunities, offer advice on crafting effective proposals and applications, and share hacks for making funds go further. Speaker(s): Moderator: Julie Hensley Presenter: Robert Krut Presenter: James Wells Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F208 AWP_Outline_Hensley.pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F208	2025032813:4515:00 065	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Predictable Unpredictability: Celebrating the Poetry of Reginald Shepherd The Pitt Poetry Series is honored to celebrate the poetry of Reginald Shepherd with the recent publication of The Selected Shepherd, selected and with an introduction by Jericho Brown. Drawing from all six of his collections, The Selected Shepherd offers a new retrospective on the work of an important and sometimes controversial Black, gay poet. Five poets will read poems from the collection and share the impact Shepherd had on the poetry community. Speaker(s): Presenter: Camille Rankine Moderator: Jericho Brown Presenter: Timothy Liu Presenter: Kevin Prufer Presenter: Charles Stephens Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T121 Event Outline - Predictable Unpredictability- Celebrating the Poetry of Reginald Shepherd.pdf	Location: Room 408A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T121	2025032709:0010:15 055	THU, MAR 27	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Obsidian at Fifty: Activating the Archive—Editors’ Roundtable Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is marking its fiftieth anniversary of continuous publication. To celebrate the living legacy of Obsidian, editors past and present discuss their strategies for and experiences working with archival content as Black editors and writers/makers navigating publishing and artistic practice in contemporary climates of white supremacy as a means of activating past voices and blueprints of survival to create thriving, embodied presents. Speaker(s): Moderator: Duriel E Harris Presenter: Alexis Pauline Gumbs Presenter: Douglas Kearney Presenter: Sheree Renée Thomas Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T207 AWP Obsidian at 50 Editors' Roundtable Outline (brief).pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T207	2025032713:4515:00 075	THU, MAR 27	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Older & Wiser or Older & Invisible? Five Authors Reflect Is ageism the last “acceptable” prejudice? How does ageism affect the writing community? Zora Neale Hurston said, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Five writers over sixty-five consider what answers they have found and whether a world focused on the new is willing to listen. What benefits and what obstacles come to writing lives with age? What can the voices of elders add to the diversity of human experience? Speaker(s): Presenter: Lorna Dee Cervantes Presenter: Lex Williford Presenter: Nancy Lord Moderator: Valerie Miner Presenter: Gary Lilley Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T178 Event Outline --Older & Wiser.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T178	2025032712:1013:25 065	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Reimagining Futures Through Innovative & Speculative Writing Writers know that who imagines the future and how they imagine it has a profound cultural impact on the eventual present moment. Just as Octavia Butler influenced 2024 when she set Parable of the Sower there in 1993, we BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and disabled innovative and speculative writers rescript those bleak futures spun from our present-day marginalization that have been imagined for us. We offer world-building strategies to construct futures rooted in our resistance, liberation, safety, and joy. Speaker(s): Presenter: Ching-In Chen Presenter: Katie Jean Shinkle Moderator: Danielle Pafunda Presenter: Dior J. Stephens Presenter: Kenning JP Garcia Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F180 AWP25 Event Outline Reimagining Futures .pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F180	2025032812:1013:25 075	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Magic, Ghosts & the Uncanny: The Hidden Logic of Fiction In this panel, authors will discuss how magic, ghosts, and the uncanny influence the stories they tell. They will explore the tensions between “genre-bending” narratives that set out to complicate conventions, with traditions and expectations firmly steeped in mystery, horror, and/or fantasy, considering, How do authors working in or outside of these traditions write compelling stories? Speaker(s): Presenter: Raul Palma Moderator: Claire Jiménez Presenter: Grace Butler Presenter: Olufunke Ogundimu Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S178 2025 Event Outline .pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S178	2025032912:1013:25 070	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Disrupting the Composition Classroom: Strategies from BIPOC Creatives How can creative writers bring their expertise to the composition classroom? This panel will discuss how women of color/genderqueer creative writers challenge “traditional” white supremacist frameworks in college-level composition courses. Panelists will discuss creative teaching strategies that center racial justice and promote supportive spaces for all voices. We will share assignments that engage collective knowledge and allow students to see the power they already possess as writers. Speaker(s): Moderator: Cynthia Guardado Presenter: bridgette bianca Presenter: Arielle Jones Presenter: Michelle Brittan Rosado Presenter: Simona Supekar Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T122 2025 AWP_ Disrupting the Composition Classroom_ Strategies from BIPOC Creatives.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T122	2025032709:0010:15 060	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Out of Many, One: Writers of Color Writing the Multiple-POV Novel Even in an industry that prizes novels over story collections, many writers of color turn to novels in stories, books composed of multiple storylines. What can the multi–point of view book offer to us—and our stories about family, diaspora, and community—that maybe no other form can? Fiction authors with acclaimed multi-POV books discuss the powers and pitfalls of the mosaic novel, crafting distinct voices and characters, representation, and creating a larger narrative out of many. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kimberly Garza Presenter: Rubén Degollado Presenter: Jonathan Escoffery Presenter: Sidik Fofana Presenter: LaToya Watkins Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S150 AWP Outline.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S150	2025032910:3511:50 060	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Tricks of the Trade: Teaching Literary Editing & Publishing Five magazine editors offer advice and share their experiences of teaching project-based literary editing and publishing courses. The unique pedagogical and production challenges of involving students in this collaborative work are discussed. Panelists describe the benefits to students, teachers, departments, and institutions of including the publication of a literary magazine in the curriculum, outlining the most effective models for creating and sustaining a robust learning laboratory. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jeremy Schraffenberger Presenter: Elijah Burrell Presenter: Jennifer Case Presenter: Sarah Matthes Presenter: Mary Ann Miller Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F123 Event outline, Tricks of the Trade_ Teaching Literary Editing and Publishing.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F123	2025032809:0010:15 065	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Fighting the Muzzle: Literary Organizing for Palestine During Genocide The invasion and genocide of Gaza has cost the lives of almost forty thousand Palestinians. In the United States, even acknowledging this unconscionable atrocity has been labeled as “complicated.” The leaders of three prominent Arab/SWANA literary organizations (Mizna, RAWI, and Palestine Writes) discuss the ways they have been silenced trying to promote Palestinian, Arab, and Southwest Asian and North African literature, and the methods they’ve used to break through this silence. Speaker(s): Moderator: Glenn Shaheen Presenter: Susan Abulhawa Presenter: Lana Barkawi Presenter: Sarah Aziza Presenter: Tarik Dobbs Program Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S205 Event Outline Fighting The Muzzle Literary Organizing For Palestine During Genocide.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S205	2025032913:4515:00 070	SAT, MAR 29	4F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Navigating Intersectional Identities in Book Marketing All identities are intersectional, but the publishing world often asks authors to define themselves in a more focused manner, “pitching” themselves in line with their books. This panel will bring together four fiction and nonfiction writers who have experienced the struggle of defining their various identities as they introduce their work to publishers and new audiences. They will offer personal experience and advice for other writers who seek to navigate these waters. Speaker(s): Moderator: Laura Leigh Morris Presenter: Neema Avashia Presenter: Jonathan Corcoran Presenter: Sarah Cypher Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T149 Event Outline - Navigating Intersectional Identities.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T149	2025032710:3511:50 065	THU, MAR 27	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Writing Toward Liberation: Asian American Cultural Organizing for Change For decades, Asian American organizers have harnessed the arts to spur change. Joining this tradition, community literary organizations and teaching artists curate events for learning and to resist the status quo. Panelists will discuss the lineage of creative writing in Asian American action (including internal and external challenges); how writers use generative workshops to organize; and how such spaces provide frameworks for action and respite from the mainstream literary establishment. Speaker(s): Moderator: Roohi Choudhry Presenter: Aishvarya Arora Presenter: Tamiko Beyer Presenter: Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis Presenter: Mohamad Saleh Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S231 AWP Writing Towards Liberation outline.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S231	2025032915:2016:35 065	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Fragmentos: Reclaiming Hybridity & Fragmentation Through Latine Narratives Latin American literature has a rich history of fragmented storytelling paved by Borges, Luiselli, and other contemporary Latines. From the borderlands to Colombia, authors from the Latine diaspora are reframing Latin America’s rich history of fragmented storytelling. Fragmentation is a means of self-preservation to stitch back and forth through time and space, echolocate personal truth and examine histories, and help us protect ourselves while writing through layers of colonization. Speaker(s): Moderator: Ofelia Montelongo Presenter: Norma Cantu Presenter: Gloria Muñoz Presenter: Emilly Prado Presenter: Viktoria Valenzuela Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F209 Fragmentos_ Reclaiming Hybridity & Fragmentation Through Latine Narratives - Outline.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F209	2025032813:4515:00 070	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Using Stories to Fight Overreliance on AI in Community College Class AI is a reality in all aspects of modern life, including our writing classes. How do we prevent AI from becoming the voice of student writing? Allowing students to connect their personal and community stories to writing assignments is one way. Guiding students to discern differences between their ideas and AI-generated prose will nudge them to rely less on the artificial and more on their own creativity. This workshop will inspire participants on how to make AI part of the classroom, responsibly. Speaker(s): Presenter: Heather Hutcheson Presenter: Kakwasi Somadhi Moderator: Emmanuel Sigauke Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T236 AI Presententation Outline.docx	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T236	2025032715:2016:35 075	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Connecting Communities Through Creative Writing At Cal State LA, creative writing is integral to the university’s mission and history as a means to build internal and external community. In 2025, Statement Magazine, a past winner of AWP’s National Program Directors’ Prize, celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary, and the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics celebrates its twentieth anniversary. A variety of stakeholders discuss ways that creative writing strengthens universities and builds beneficial bonds with the community, using Cal State LA as an example. Speaker(s): Moderator: giovanni singleton Presenter: Will Alexander Presenter: Aldon Lynn Nielsen Presenter: Mike Sonksen Presenter: Lauri Scheyer Program Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F150 Event Outline - AWP 2025 Connecting Communities Through Creative Writing.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F150	2025032810:3511:50 070	FRI, MAR 28	4F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Joyful Revision: Finding Hope in Change To thoroughly revise a piece of writing is to believe in the possibility of change and transformation—a fundamentally optimistic act. In this panel, five distinguished writers will share ideas for finding joy in revision. They’ll discuss how to approach revision as a generative practice that invites discoveries and deepens meaning. The conversation will include both big-picture advice for tackling resistance to revision, and concrete strategies to make the process work. Speaker(s): Presenter: Allegra Hyde Presenter: Nina McConigley Presenter: Vanessa Hua Moderator: Alix Ohlin Presenter: Peter Ho Davies Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F238 AWP event outline joyful revision.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F238	2025032815:2016:35 075	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Speaking Volumes: Crafting Impactful Monologues in Your Scripts In this session, panelists offer examples and tips for writers who want to craft impactful monologues for stage, television shows, and movies. The event concludes with a workshop in which attendees read their monologues out loud while others in the room offer support, comments, encouragement, and notes. Speaker(s): Moderator: Leslie Kreiner Wilson Presenter: Andrea Baltazar Presenter: Rosanne Welch Playwriting & Screenwriting Panel Discussion Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S122 Speaking Volumes Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 408B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S122	2025032909:0010:15 060	SAT, MAR 29	49806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Damaged Bodies in a World: Jewish Poets Writing the Body & the Body Politic In “Contradictions: Tracking Poems,” Adrienne Rich explains that the challenge of being a poet is to find links between “the pain / of any one’s body with the pain of the body’s world.” How do Jewish poets write about the experience of living in Jewish bodies, all while connecting to larger experiences of trauma? Five poets from diverse Jewish literary traditions will discuss approaches they use to balance the intimate bodily stories with large-scale narratives that lie beyond the self. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jehanne Dubrow Presenter: Hadara Bar-Nadav Presenter: Rodger Kamenetz Moderator: Owen Lewis Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T151 Event Outline for Damaged Bodies in a World.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T151	2025032710:3511:50 075	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Of Two Minds: Cultivating a Liminal Space of Poetry & Translation In this panel, composed of poets who are also translators, we explore how we shift through varied personas, both when we write poetry and when we translate. Does it change or expand our creativity as we are merging or moving between these personas? Does modeling the composition of poetry on translation—or vice versa—make deeper or more distinctive work possible? Can working at the intersection between poetry and translation enable us to move away from a dependence on “originality”? Speaker(s): Moderator: Kristin Dykstra Presenter: Daniel Borzutzky Presenter: Laura Cesarco Eglin Presenter: Aaron Coleman Presenter: Vivek Narayanan Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F182 UPDATED Event Outline AWP 2025 Of Two Minds.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F182	2025032812:1013:25 085	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	On Translating Environmental Literature, Sponsored by ALTA This panel brings together four translators to discuss the translation of environmental literature. We are interested in exploring the range of tasks and challenges that come with translating environmental literature—from needing specific ecological vocabularies to unpacking theoretical frameworks, and from exploring craft and formal demands to contextualizing works within their sociopolitical histories, including Indigenous rights movements. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kathleen Maris Paltrineri Presenter: Johanna Domokos Presenter: Eirill Falck Presenter: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs Presenter: Saskia Vogel Translation Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T238 Event Outline - On Translating Environmental Literature.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T238	2025032715:2016:35 085	THU, MAR 27	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Beyond Definitions of Diaspora: Korean Women Poets Breaking & Building Poetics Korean American women poets will offer their insights on what it means to break and build poetic identities, to move beyond perceived definitions of Korean diaspora, displacement, kinship, and (un)belonging. Korean women poets’ contributions to contemporary American poetry will be highlighted through their individual contributions, and will demonstrate how their work advances the field. Each poet will read a poem, which will be followed by a moderated discussion. Speaker(s): Moderator: Sarah Audsley Presenter: Ae Hee Lee Presenter: Tiana Nobile Presenter: Rosanna Oh Presenter: Eugenia Leigh Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T209 AWP 2025 Panel Outline - Korean Women Poets.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T209	2025032713:4515:00 085	THU, MAR 27	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Dwelling in Possibility: How Libraries Can Help Your Writing Career Libraries are not just for readers. Libraries—including K–12, public, and academic libraries—are excellent resources that should be on every writer’s list of support. This multigenre panel of writer-librarians—Cybele García Kohel, Lauren Salerno, Elizabeth Galoozis, and Lisa Eve Cheby—will share their knowledge, strategies, and best practices for how writers can connect with libraries and librarians for research, community, workshops, and book promotions. Speaker(s): Moderator: Elizabeth Galoozis Presenter: Lisa Eve Cheby Presenter: Cybele García Kohel Presenter: Lauren Salerno Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S233 Dwelling in Possibillity - AWP Outline.pdf Handout_ Dwelling in Possibility_ How Libraries Can Help Your Writing Career (AWP 2025).pdf Download Course Materials	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S233	2025032915:2016:35 075	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Our Memory Will Not Be a Weapon: On Jewish Writing After October 7 American Jewish writing has long been influenced by Holocaust memorialization. For decades, Jewish trauma has been weaponized to justify Israeli occupation of Palestine and military attacks on Gaza, and to censor dissent. As Jewish writers and organizers, we invite audiences to consider alternatives to militarized responses to genocidal histories. How does literature honor or mourn? How can we as writers grapple with collective inheritances without contributing to further harm? Speaker(s): Presenter: Shelby Handler Presenter: Penina Eilberg-Schwartz Moderator: Leora Fridman Presenter: Mónica Gomery Presenter: Moriel Rothman-Zecher Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F211 AWP Event Outline Our Memory Will Not Be a Weapon On Jewish Writing After October 7.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F211	2025032813:4515:00 080	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	This Book Is Free & Yours to Keep Panelists introduce This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP), a new collection of letters, creative writing, and art by people in prison. APBP mails free books to people imprisoned in six states, creates book clubs in prisons, awards scholarships, and engages the public in conversation about abolition and transformative justice. Our book draws from twenty years of nonprofit work in West Virginia. We describe the book’s extensive editing process and advocate for educational access and equity. Speaker(s): Moderator: Katy Ryan Presenter: Destinee Harper Presenter: Steven Lazar Presenter: Ellen Skirvin Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F125 Outline for AWP Session This Book is Free and Yours to Keep.docx	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F125	2025032809:0010:15 075	FRI, MAR 28	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	A Singing Wound: Poetry of the Ukrainian Diaspora Since 2014 Descendants of those who left Ukraine in the middle of traumatic events exist in between: one foot in our current home, and one foot in the ancestral home. These writers and translators speak to the trauma of displacement, identity, and cultural fragmentation due to ongoing war. What language, imagery, and literary traditions help speak the unsayable? How does the multilingual Ukrainian diaspora speak? What can we do as poets, writers, essayists, and translators to bridge, connect, and heal? Speaker(s): Moderator: Olga Livshin Presenter: Judith Baumel Presenter: Valya Dudycz Lupescu Presenter: Julia Kolchinsky Presenter: Luisa Muradyan Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T180 Event Outline--A Singing Wound_ Poetry of the Ukrainian Diaspora since 2014.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T180	2025032712:1013:25 075	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Writing & Narrative Medicine: Study, Practice & Teaching Narrative medicine is a quickly growing discipline practiced in healthcare, education, and beyond. It engages participants directly in literature and writing, as well as other facets of the arts and humanities. This panel of award-winning writers, physicians, poets, and scholars will explore the multifaceted role of writing as a cornerstone of narrative medicine practice, focusing on pedagogy and pathways for writers to utilize their skills in narrative medicine contexts for self and others. Speaker(s): Moderator: Joseph Eveld Presenter: Chris Adrian Presenter: Deepthiman Gowda Presenter: Nellie Hermann Presenter: Nicole Robinson Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S207 EVENT OUTLINE DRAFT AWP 2025.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S207	2025032913:4515:00 080	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	An Early Spark: Writing Poems with Young People Writing poems teaches children confidence in their own voices and imaginations, and is an early way for them to experience firsthand the joys of language. But what writing prompts will really engage young poets? How should we modify our teaching for different ages? How can we connect with and support our communities? Panelists who have written poetry with children from kindergartners through middle schoolers will share stories, prompts, and practical advice. Speaker(s): Moderator: Catherine Pierce Presenter: Kai Coggin Presenter: Meg Leonard Presenter: Matt Mason Presenter: C.T. Salazar Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S124 Event Outline_An Early Spark.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S124	2025032909:0010:15 070	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	How to Serve Queer & Trans Writing: Learning from Ten Years of Foglifter With its award-winning literary journal, chapbooks, anthologies, readings, and community events, Foglifter has become a vital platform for uplifting LGBTQIA2S+ writers and writing since its founding a decade ago. Five staff members—Foggies—reflect on the joys and challenges of their work, highlighting what they’ve learned (and what they’re still figuring out) about nurturing innovative writing and cultivating a queer literary community with profound commitments to its most marginalized members. Speaker(s): Presenter: Maria Picone Presenter: Rob Macaisa Colgate Presenter: Michal 'MJ' Jones Presenter: Chad Koch Moderator: Dior J. Stephens Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F240 AWP Outline_ How to Serve Queer & Trans Writing_ Learning from Ten Years of Foglifter.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F240	2025032815:2016:35 085	FRI, MAR 28	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Shaking Up the 3 Percent: Publishing Transnational Genre Lit Only 3 percent of books published in the US annually are translated from other languages—limiting the type of literature chosen. These eclectic publishers share what it means to decenter American “literary” sensibilities and make bold choices to acquire genre writing (science fiction, pulp novels, graphic novels, and more) from around the world. Panelists talk about the joys, risks, and challenges of publishing this marginalized lit and its importance in this historic moment of global attention. Speaker(s): Moderator: Neela Banerjee Presenter: Rakesh Khanna Presenter: Jee Koh Presenter: Nadine Santoro Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S152 Shaking up the 3 Percent AWP Panel Outline.docx GIRLS LOST_Excerpt_AWP.pdf Excerpt from LOVELIER, LONELIER by Daryl Qilin Yam.docx Blaft_excerpt.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S152	2025032910:3511:50 070	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Singing a Black Girl’s Song: Ntozake Shange’s Fiftieth Anniversary of the Choreopoem In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s award-winning choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, this panel of choreopoets and choreopoem scholars will discuss the choreopoem legacy as a social justice mechanism. Comparing the original to current works in the genre, panelists will construct the “choreopoem universe” for audience members with readings and analyses of this Black, feminist, political genre. Speaker(s): Moderator: Monica Prince Presenter: Jasminne Mendez Presenter: jessica Care moore Presenter: Anya Pearson Presenter: Bryan-Keyth Wilson Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T124 Event Outline - Singing a Black Girl's Song.pdf	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T124	2025032709:0010:15 070	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Long Haul: Sustainability for Small Literary Arts Nonprofits Join leaders of the Chicago Poetry Center, Literary Cleveland, Torch Literary Arts, and the Saint Louis Poetry Center as they discuss sustainability and their commitment to empowering communities. Learn how to offer expansive programming on a limited budget, forge capacity-building partnerships, and steward the next generation of writers with resources and opportunities outside of the MFA. With a history of innovation and reinvention, these organizations prove that inclusivity and community focus are vital to organizational longevity and success. Speaker(s): Moderator: Helene Achanzar Presenter: Amanda Johnston Presenter: B. Metzger Sampson Presenter: Erin Quick Presenter: Matt Weinkam Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F152	Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F152	2025032810:3511:50 080	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	When Words Are Not Enough: Graphic Literature & Diasporic Histories The blank spaces surrounding migration, diaspora, and intergenerational trauma can’t always be filled with words alone. Join four Asian American writers and artists who dove into their families’ lost histories and found stories that could only be told through a combination of text and image. From poetry to memoir to history, discover how the graphics medium brings richness and nuance to diasporic works, helping creators find their way into and out of their families’ complicated pasts. Speaker(s): Presenter: Teresa Wong Moderator: Kelcey Ervick Presenter: Tessa Hulls Presenter: Erica H Isomura Presenter: Victoria Chang Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T181 AWP 2025 When Words Are Not Enough Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T181	2025032712:1013:25 080	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Velvet Air of Gaza: Protest & Beauty This multigenre reading by mostly Palestinian writers focuses on what it means to write in the face of genocide and the global student protests against it. How do our words transcend mere empathy and reach beyond it to achieve active solidarity? What is the relationship between beauty and protest? Between protest and language? How do these relationships inform love in the tradition of Black radical love? Our readings will illuminate some possible answers to these urgent questions of our time. Speaker(s): Presenter: Samah Fadil Moderator: Samina Najmi Presenter: Lena Mubsutina Presenter: Deema Shehabi Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T125 Event Outline-The Velvet Air of Gaza.docx	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T125	2025032709:0010:15 075	THU, MAR 27	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Once Upon a Prompt: Including the Fantastic in Your Workshop Students want to write fantasy, but few academic programs prepare teachers to support these students. Five writers who have published fantastical work and taught it for decades will share classroom-tested resources that challenge students to write effective fantastical fiction, fabulist nonfiction, and speculative poetry. Audience members will leave with new tools and an appreciation for the unique pedagogy of the fantastic. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jennifer Pullen Moderator: Brooke Wonders Presenter: Alisa Alering Presenter: Annah Browning Presenter: Diana Ma Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S125 Event Outline - Once Upon a Prompt Panel 2025.docx	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S125	2025032909:0010:15 075	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Poetics of Grief: Private to Public From Catullus to Creeley, from Dickinson to Audre Lorde, poets have always used their art to lament the outrage of death. In this panel, five innovative poets read from recent works that trouble the border between the private sorrow of losing a loved one and the public grief over climate catastrophe, gun violence, and war. How do our personal losses press up against larger systemic crises? How does lament turn to demand, cry to outcry? Speaker(s): Moderator: Julie Carr Presenter: Quenton Baker Presenter: Serena Chopra Presenter: Gillian Conoley Presenter: erica lewis Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S234 Event outline AWP 2025 CARR.docx	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S234	2025032915:2016:35 080	SAT, MAR 29	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Future Work / Beauty Work: A Reading Featuring New Diné Poets “Future Work / Beauty Work” will feature a panel of exciting, new, and bold voices in Diné poetry—a school of poetics grounded in Hozhó. Diné poets are beginning to receive national acclaim and recognition, and it is vital to begin illuminating the histories and futures of Diné literature and poetry. The event will include a reading from four exciting poets from the Navajo Nation as they map new worlds for us and a brief Q&A at the end of the event to help introduce these necessary voices. Speaker(s): Moderator: esther belin Presenter: Jalen Charley Presenter: Chris Hoshnic Presenter: Yitazba Leigh Presenter: Jalen Smallcanyon Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F212	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F212	2025032813:4515:00 085	FRI, MAR 28	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Out in Public: Five LGBTQ+ Poets on Writing at One of the Oldest Pride Parades West Hollywood is an LGTBQ+ sanctuary city and in 2019 became the first city to sponsor poets at their Pride parade to interview participants and write poems based on their stories. These five poets representing LA’s diverse identities, including city poet laureates, examine queer community organizing through poetry. This combination discussion panel and reading will pair poems exploring poetry’s ability to hold space where trauma is prevalent and joy and delight are desperately needed. Speaker(s): Moderator: Brian Sonia-Wallace Presenter: Jireh Deng Presenter: Jose Rios Presenter: Carla Sameth Presenter: Victor Yates Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S208 AWP Event Outline 2025 - Pride Poets.pdf	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S208	2025032913:4515:00 085	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Moving Beyond Writing Prompts: Teaching Writing to K–12 in a Multisensory Way Engage your students by gamifying the writing experience and using multisensory experiments to inspire them. Keren Taylor is the founder and director of WriteGirl LA, a creative writing and mentoring organization that was awarded the prestigious National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. Acclaimed author Kim Purcell runs an international program teaching kids to write novels. They’ll be joined by teen students, and together, they’ll share what inspires great writing and what doesn’t. Speaker(s): Presenter: Lana Colaco Moderator: Kim Purcell Presenter: Ava Lucas Presenter: Selvi Radia Presenter: Keren Taylor Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S181 Zoom Teaching_ Multi-Sensory Prompts.pdf AWP 2025 Handouts (1).pdf AWP25 Outline - Keren Taylor and Kim Purcell (3).pdf 40 Multi-Sensory Ideas.pdf	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S181	2025032912:1013:25 085	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	A Desert Full of Color: Creating & Supporting BIPOC Spaces in LA Can a handful of established institutions serve the communities of a sprawling desert properly? Should BIPOC talent and labor be used to fight for access to PWI, or are we better served by creating and building our own spaces? Four writers, publishers, teachers, and community builders from the Los Angeles area discuss who benefits from inclusion into historically white spaces and whose work gets co-opted and ultimately wasted when BIPOC communities don’t build their own institutions. Speaker(s): Moderator: Peter Woods Presenter: Sarah Rafael Garcia Presenter: Romeo Guzman Presenter: traci kato-kiriyama Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F153	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F153	2025032810:3511:50 085	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Podcast Guesting: How to Get Booked & Be a Great Guest Podcast guesting is a great way to promote your book and grow your audience—but there’s an art both to getting booked and to being a great guest! This panel of award-winning podcast hosts and interviewers provides insights and strategies that will help you pitch yourself as a guest and be an engaging guest who gets invited back. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jia Rizvi Moderator: Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh Presenter: Harriett Jernigan Presenter: Laura Davis Agents, Contracts, Contests & Marketing Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T239 Event Outline for Podcast Guesting_ How to Get Booked & Be a Great Guest.pdf	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T239	2025032715:2016:35 090	THU, MAR 27	35806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Jack Gilbert: A Centennial Celebration This panel celebrates the achievement and influence of American poet Jack Gilbert near the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. Born in Pittsburgh in February 1925, Gilbert became one of the most accomplished poets of his generation. Though he avoided the limelight, his impact on readers and poets of all types has been immense and has only grown since his death in 2012. In this tribute, five poets discuss the influence of Gilbert on their work and teaching, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Speaker(s): Presenter: Doug Van Gundy Moderator: Dan Albergotti Presenter: David Kirby Presenter: Dorianne Laux Presenter: Crystal Williams Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F241 Jack Gilbert - A Centennial Celebration Event Outline, revised March 2025.pdf	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F241	2025032815:2016:35 090	FRI, MAR 28	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Poetry as Preservation: Other Californias & Beyond Believing a poem can be a vessel for preservation, this reading will gather poets writing about “other Californias” often overlooked and underrepresented. Along with a slideshow of rich visual representations, panelists will share their poetry and discuss the preservation of histories, environments, and cultures of the Sacramento Valley, the eastside of Los Angeles, Inglewood in the South Bay, the Inland Empire, and the San Joaquin Valley, as well as family histories of migration. Speaker(s): Presenter: Cynthia Guardado Presenter: Michelle Brittan Rosado Moderator: Emily Fernandez Presenter: Gina Duran Presenter: Steven Sanchez Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F183 AWP Event Outline for "Poetry as Preservation".docx	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F183	2025032812:1013:25 090	FRI, MAR 28	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Artistic Skill or Buzzkill? Grammar in the Poetry Workshop This panel explores creative ways to introduce grammar conversations in the poetry workshop, with an emphasis not on prescriptive grammar but rather on empowering writers to establish their poems’ particular grammars through conventional or other means. Panelists will offer exercises and ideas for treating grammar as a set of aesthetic choices that underwrite a poet’s intentions and mitigate the disconnect that can occur between sentence and line, vision and execution, in poem drafts. Speaker(s): Moderator: Ellen McGrath Smith Presenter: Amy Ash Presenter: Karen Paul Holmes Presenter: Anna Leahy Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S153 OutlineAWP25.docx	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S153	2025032910:3511:50 075	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Creative Confinement: Using Constraints to Amplify Your Work Though it may seem counterintuitive, one of the best ways to generate and shape material is to impose constraints on your work. These multigenre panelists will discuss various restrictions they’ve applied to their writing, both in early drafts and in revisions, and will discuss techniques that apply to poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic literature. This panel will also offer methods for bringing generative constraints into the classroom to help students develop their work. Speaker(s): Presenter: Darien Hsu Gee Presenter: Tom McAllister Moderator: Kathleen Rooney Presenter: Naomi Cohn Presenter: Sharon De La Cruz Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T210 AWP 25 panel outline (creative constraints).docx	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T210	2025032713:4515:00 090	THU, MAR 27	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Color/Line/Collage: Readings at the Edge of Comics This reading features cartoonists who use poetry, abstraction, and collage to push the boundaries of the comics medium. The trio will read from their work and discuss the importance of formal experimentation when dealing with complex and rapidly evolving issues, such as climate catastrophe, state-sanctioned police violence, and medical assistance in dying. The reading will showcase how hybrid forms open space for multiple perspectives, alternate realities, and new vocabularies. Speaker(s): Moderator: Sarah Leavitt Presenter: Johnny Damm Presenter: Mita Mahato Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F126 Color Line Collage AWP outline.pdf	Location: Room 411, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F126	2025032809:0010:15 080	FRI, MAR 28	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Literary Magazine as Textbook: Teaching Periodicals & Publishing in the Classroom, Sponsored by CLMP Literary magazines can be a stellar teaching tool for aspiring writers, editors, and readers of all kinds. But how can teachers integrate magazines into their curricula to maximum effect? And what should magazines know about reaching students, teachers, and classrooms? In this panel, three teachers who use literary magazines as part of publishing and creative writing courses discuss their strategies for incorporating journals into the curriculum. Speaker(s): Presenter: Erin Hoover Presenter: Susan Nguyen Moderator: Chelsea Kern Presenter: Paul Jaskunas Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T154 Event Outline_Literary Magazine as Textbook.pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T154	2025032710:3511:50 090	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Only Connect! Innovative & Effective Online Teaching in an Age of Distraction With more and more writing workshops now being offered online, the traditional in-person model has had to be adapted for asynchronous and synchronous instruction. Five writing professors who have each taught on-ground and online courses for many years will discuss strategies for ensuring the online environment maintains the immediacy and intimacy of the in-person model as well as its rigor and expansiveness. They will also share strategies for managing both the instructor and student workload. Speaker(s): Presenter: Brian Castleberry Presenter: Ana Maria Spagna Moderator: Christine Sneed Presenter: Laura Pritchett Presenter: Laura Warrell Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T127 Event Outline Only Connect.docx	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T127	2025032709:0010:15 085	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Teaching Amidst Trauma: Practices for Our Times Creative writing classrooms can be repositories for artifacts of traumas both personal and public. As university instructors, how do we teach in a time of accelerating emergency? How can we effectively invite students into the time-honored tradition of making art in the face of existential crisis? How can we do so without turning workshop into group therapy? In this panel, we’ll share lesson designs, community practices, and tips for classroom management and self-care for teachers and learners. Speaker(s): Moderator: Miranda McLeod Presenter: Diego Báez Presenter: Marcus Jackson Presenter: Becca Klaver Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T241 McLeod AWP 2025 Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T241	2025032715:2016:35 100	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Our Voices Make a Movement: Storytelling as Anti-Racist Pedagogy Conservative attacks on affirmative action and DEI programs across the country reinforce a legacy of erasure in academia. Still, we are power. Panelists will discuss how the writing classroom is essential to advancing equality, and how we can enable reflection and empathy among students as they build awareness of their own positionality, intersectionality, and communities. We’ll also provide practical resources to help students engage in storytelling as a form of justice, equity, and self-care. Speaker(s): Presenter: Rita Banerjee Moderator: Martin Rock Presenter: Adrienne Perry Presenter: Deborah Taffa Presenter: Matt Salesses Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S236 Our Voices Make a Movement_ Storytelling as Anti-Racist Pedagogy (1).pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S236	2025032915:2016:35 090	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Writing (& Publishing!) Short Fiction in a World Built for Novels The publishing industry remains largely geared toward novels. Many writers, however, come to fiction through the short form. How, then, to reconcile the disconnect between what we feel called to write and what the industry prefers to publish? Whether attendees are seeking publication strategies or simply fresh, urgent discussion about the validity of the short form, this panel promises insightful conversation led by five writers with robust experience using four thousand words or fewer. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jeremy Broyles Presenter: Lan Samantha Chang Presenter: Gwendolyn Paradice Presenter: Leslie Pietrzyk Presenter: Gina Chung Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S127 Event Outline - Writing (and Publishing!) Short Fiction.docx	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S127	2025032909:0010:15 085	SAT, MAR 29	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Passing the Torch (Back & Forth): Mentors & Mentees Discuss Effective Mentoring How can faculty best support students whose interests and strengths extend past the classroom? How can faculty encourage students in extra projects? How to find time to grad school applications or extra stories? How to help students grow into their own skills? What about online students? Does mentoring end at graduation? Students and their professors—who have been on both sides of the equation—reflect on what practices are most helpful. Speaker(s): Moderator: Brad Modlin Presenter: Julia Brown Presenter: J Bruce Fuller Presenter: Juan Carlos Reyes Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S210 Passing the Torch (Back & Forth) mentorship panel, Event Outline.pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S210	2025032913:4515:00 095	SAT, MAR 29	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Writing Political Conviction: A Discussion with Three Novelists This panel will address the subtle and overt ways novelists position characters to bear witness, from a student coming of age during the Sri Lankan Civil War, to an immigrant sociologist’s awakening to caste and nationhood, to a pair of Chinese American women who band together to subvert the model minority myth. We will discuss the creative process of political world-building, the balance of research and imagination, and the task of drawing readers into the emotional and ideological heart of the story. Speaker(s): Moderator: Faisal Mohyuddin Presenter: V.V. Ganeshananthan Presenter: Kirstin Chen Presenter: Sheila Sundar Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F185 Event Outline_ _Writing Political Conviction_ A Discussion with Three Novelists_.pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F185	2025032812:1013:25 100	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Advancing Craft & Community: Different Literary Center Approaches & Strategies Given their common goal of engaging diverse audiences, amplifying marginalized voices, and promoting the connective power of the arts, how do the Loft Literary Center, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and StoryStudio Chicago converge and diverge in their approaches? Administrators and teaching artists across a range of viewpoints, ethnicities, and geography will discuss their experiences working with writers of all backgrounds through local and digital programming and look to what’s next. Speaker(s): Presenter: Marianne Manzler Moderator: G.E. Patterson Presenter: Kathryn Kysar Presenter: Rebecca Makkai Presenter: Marissa Morrow Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T212 AWP25 Event Outline - Advancing Craft & Community_ Different Literary Center Approaches & Strategies.docx (3).pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T212	2025032713:4515:00 100	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Perfecting the Pivot: Starting Over (or in the Middle) in Academia As universities across the nation endure the impacts of the impending enrollment cliff, many faculty feel forced to make the difficult decision to start over, often despite established careers, their own desires, and a sense of safety traditionally secured by tenure. In this panel, participants will discuss the way their careers have necessarily shifted in response to higher ed’s ever-evolving landscape and the insights they’ve gleaned that have helped them navigate the process of starting over. Speaker(s): Presenter: Brooke Champagne Moderator: Amy Butcher Presenter: Molly McCully Brown Presenter: Rebecca Pelky Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F155 Event Outline-Perfecting the Pivot.pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F155	2025032810:3511:50 095	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Writing Traumedy: How to Make Your Mother Cry at Your Life & Laugh at Your Death It’s hard to be human. If you want to write the tough stuff—illness, trauma, loss, disaster, life—in a way that takes readers to the darkest places, but also brings them up for air and lets them laugh, join us as we marry tragedy with comedy to conceive the love-hate child named “Traumedy.” We’ll offer tips for using irony, irreverence, and gallows humor to bring levity to heartbreak and explore life’s sorrows traumedically. Morphing pain with pleasure is ideal for any sadomasochist—or writer. Speaker(s): Moderator: Brooke Champagne Presenter: Jill Christman Presenter: Ashley C. Ford Presenter: Brittany Means Presenter: Sue William Silverman Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S183 AWP Event Outline 2025 - Writing Traumedy.docx	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S183	2025032912:1013:25 095	SAT, MAR 29	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	AI-Proofing the Creative Writing Classroom The emergence of generative AI and its increasing use by students may force a reckoning from writing teachers everywhere. So let’s reckon with it! This panel will move beyond complaint and hand-wringing and fearful policing of student work to reconsider and name what it is we value. We’ll discuss strategies for designing curricula, learning outcomes, assessments, assignments, and overall course structures that focus on habits of mind and creative expression and can’t be circumvented with ChatGPT or similar so-called artificial intelligence. Speaker(s): Moderator: Amorak Huey Presenter: Michael Dean Clark Presenter: Carla Sofia Ferreira Presenter: Chris Haven Presenter: Dionne Irving Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T183	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T183	2025032712:1013:25 090	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	The Ghosts That Haunt Us How can hauntings be used to illustrate larger human stories? How can our own personal hauntings create and inspire stories that will haunt readers? From cities haunted by displacement and erasure, to haunted battlefields, to family ghost stories, five writers discuss how hauntings, real and metaphorical, have inspired their poetry and fiction. Speaker(s): Presenter: Xochitl Bermejo Moderator: Kate Maruyama Presenter: Latoya Jordan Presenter: Tanzila Ahmed Presenter: Chiwan Choi Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F214 GhostsThatHauntUsOutline2.pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F214	2025032813:4515:00 095	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Poets in the City of Movies As a complement to the anthology to be published in 2025, Poetry Goes to the Movies (Pacific Coast Poetry Series, imprint of Beyond Baroque Books), five longtime poets and teachers/professors of poetry in Los Angeles will explore the potential power of movies to generate poems—via visuals, scenes, theme, dialogue, sound, mood, and other cinematic elements—as well as the occasional influence imparted by the surrounding movie industry on our poetry. Speaker(s): Moderator: Suzanne Lummis Presenter: William Archila Presenter: Dorothy Barresi Presenter: Ramon Garcia Presenter: Ron Koertge Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F243 Event Outline - 2025 AWP Poets in the City of Movies.docx	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F243	2025032815:2016:35 100	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	When a Book Takes Forever to Write: How to Survive the Process What happens when writing a book takes much longer than expected? How do you keep on going? Five published writers from a variety of backgrounds (journalism, creative writing, academia) and genres (historical fiction, memoir, short story, novella, translated) will share their experiences with long book projects—some spanning almost three decades—and offer practical advice on how they navigated the process. Speaker(s): Presenter: Shakstri Akella Presenter: Margaret Lee Moderator: Sabina Murray Presenter: Gina Apostol Presenter: Jeff Parker Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S155 Event Outline- When a Book Takes Forever to Write.pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S155	2025032910:3511:50 085	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Long & Short of Craft: Authors Publishing Novels & Flash Fiction Many writers struggle with when and how to compress and expand their fiction. These panelists, experts in both the flash and novel form, will discuss tips and strategies for finding the best size for your story, what the two opposite ends of the writing spectrum have to learn from each other, and how stretching your expertise helps a career. Speaker(s): Presenter: Alan Michael Parker Moderator: Sherrie Flick Presenter: Venita Blackburn Presenter: John Dufresne Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F128 AWP2025panelOutline.pdf	Location: Room 502A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F128	2025032809:0010:15 090	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Dark-Lit Awakening: Rethinking the Lyric Moment The lyric moment might be described as a moment of ecstatic awe when time stops. Rilke’s “You must change your life” comes to mind. But what about those time-stopping moments that feel hopeless or horrible? Regardless of labels like “triggering,” “brutal,” “confessional,” or “trauma-laden”—any emotion can conjure the lyric moment and possess its own beauty. We will discuss aspects of craft and attitude that—despite difficult content—facilitate the ignition of the lyric moment. Speaker(s): Moderator: Dion O'Reilly Presenter: Francesca Bell Presenter: Jessica Cuello Presenter: Farnaz Fatemi Presenter: Luke Johnson Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S128 event outline_ Dark-Lit Awakening_ Rethinking the Lyric Moment .docx Download Course Materials	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S128	2025032909:0010:15 090	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	On (Re)Learning Our Place(s): Literary Citizenship In & Beyond the Workshop The writing workshop necessitates a communal contract, and course outcomes are strongly contingent upon empathy and sympathy, often seen as organic by-products of collaboration. However, making literary citizenship explicit within classroom discourse, assignments, and course requirements emboldens students to build and foster communities both in and beyond the classroom. Through this practice, students can explore their subject-positions and contexts with an eye toward diversity and inclusion. Speaker(s): Presenter: Alexandra Kleeman Presenter: Jameelah Lang Presenter: Barney Haney Moderator: Shonda Buchanan Presenter: Christopher Coake Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F215 On Re-Learning Our Places_Literary Citizenship In and Beyond the Workshop.pdf	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F215	2025032813:4515:00 100	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Pedagogy of Climate Change In the era of climate change, how can teachers of creative writing introduce our concerns for the earth, humans, animals, plants into the classroom? How can we transform our pedagogy in a way that fosters student engagement with the urgent ecological issues of our times? Participants specializing in various genres will share strategies and approaches to encourage our students to be conscious and aware of the challenges we face, and to make that awareness integral to their own creative work. Speaker(s): Presenter: Laura-Gray Street Presenter: Pamela Uschuk Presenter: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Moderator: Lawrence Coates Presenter: Ann Fisher-Wirth Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F156 EventOutline_ThePedagogyofClimateChange_finaldraft.docx	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F156	2025032810:3511:50 100	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Disaster Gays & Messy Femmes Join five writers in a discussion and celebration of writing self-destructive and unlikable queer women in fiction. Panelists will explore what draws them to reading and writing about flawed women, the unique societal pressures and expectations placed on queer fiction, and how to craft a compelling gay disaster. Speaker(s): Moderator: Silvia Park Presenter: Emily Doyle Presenter: Nic Anstett Presenter: Mariah Rigg Presenter: Kayla Upadhyaya Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T155 Disaster Gays & Messy Femmes Outline.pdf	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T155	2025032710:3511:50 095	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Thieves or Transformers? How Much of Fiction Is Fiction Works of fiction often come with a disclaimer: “Any resemblance to actual persons, places, or events is entirely coincidental,” which is almost never true. A diverse panel of four acclaimed fiction writers will discuss ways their fiction does, in fact, use actual persons, places, and incidents, and how they use these fictitiously. How does the imagination get involved? At what point does the actual become “transformative”? This panel includes an entertainment lawyer who will consider the benefits and risks of recounting some facts and fictionalizing others. Speaker(s): Moderator: Leslie Kirk Campbell Presenter: Lizbeth Hasse Presenter: Ananda Lima Presenter: Sidik Fofana Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T128 Graphic of panelists.pdf Event Outline - Thieves or Transformers.docx Legal Concerns for Authors one page Handout.docx	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T128	2025032709:0010:15 090	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Goin’ B(l)ack Home: Exploring Notions of Home, Migration & Return From “going down south” to going to the Motherland, Black writers have often been tasked with the discourse of home and belonging. But home has as much to do with place as it has to do with people—“who all over there?” Five contemporary Black writers place their work in conversation with Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, and other Black canonical writers to examine narratives of leaving, returning, and (un)belonging in home spaces—and home as a contested space for queer and marginalized bodies. Speaker(s): Moderator: M Shelly Conner Presenter: Marci Blackman Presenter: Deesha Philyaw Presenter: Sanderia Faye Smith Presenter: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F244 Event Outline Goin Black Home.pdf	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F244	2025032815:2016:35 105	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Health, Healing & Hybridity: Crafting the Body Across Genre How do you write love for a body inhabiting a world that refuses to love them back? How do you render the body on the page when racism, fatphobia, sexism, ableism, and other forms of institutional violence do not want these bodies to exist? From grief to love, cancer to disability, belonging to shape-shifting, haunting pasts and Afrofutures, four Black women authors within and across genre (poetry, memoir, novel, essays) discuss craft insights and healthful possibilities in centering the body in their work. Speaker(s): Moderator: Jodi-Ann Burey Presenter: Jamila Minnicks Presenter: Cynthia Manick Presenter: Athena Dixon Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S211 Event Outline - Health, Healing and Hybridity_ Crafting the Body Across Genre.pdf	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S211	2025032913:4515:00 100	SAT, MAR 29	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Parts of the Sum: Workshopping the Novel Excerpt Traditional workshops lend themselves most easily to short stories; when discussing novel excerpts, the group will not have read the entire manuscript. This can be a challenge, but the creative writing professors on this panel have led fiction workshops in MFA programs, at the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and for many other community writing programs; they have developed approaches to managing discussion of novel sections in ways most useful to the longform writer. Speaker(s): Moderator: Andrea Bewick Presenter: Michelle Huneven Presenter: Daniel Orozco Presenter: Angela Pneuman Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F186 TitleParts of the Sum.EventOutline.2.docx	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F186	2025032812:1013:25 105	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Pedagogy of the Distressed: Mental Health in the Postpandemic Writing Classroom Chronic absence, disengagement, and trauma in workshop: How has our postpandemic pedagogy evolved in response to Gen C’s ongoing mental health struggles? Hear an array of creative writing instructors share instructional strategies designed to nurture creativity and to build competency while supporting student mental health needs. Joining us is a poet and psychotherapist who will speak to writing’s efficacy as a tool for healing and wellness. Bring questions, anecdotes, and ideas! Speaker(s): Presenter: Joseph J. Capista Moderator: Lisa Page Presenter: janan alexandra Presenter: Adrienne Perry Presenter: Annie Liontas Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F129 F129_Event_Outline_AWP2025_Pedagogy_of_the_Distressed.pdf	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F129	2025032809:0010:15 095	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	“Thou Hast Thy Music Too”: The Poetry of Aging Every life stage offers unique challenges and possibilities and, as Keats wrote in “To Autumn,” its particular music. Aging brings its dilemmas: accentuation of losses, bodily and mental impairments, diminishing time. These same challenges are grist for new perspectives, wisdom, and awareness of the temporal and the enduring. In this panel, four poets (of a certain age) will speak to different aspects of aging as a stage of life lived in and with poetry. A younger poet will also reflect on age. Speaker(s): Moderator: Owen Lewis Presenter: Cornelius Eady Presenter: Carlie Hoffman Presenter: Linda Susan Jackson Presenter: Myra Shapiro Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S156 Event Outline for Thou Has Thy Music too.pdf	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S156	2025032910:3511:50 090	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	New Styles for the Immigrant Novel How can the familiar contours of the migrant narrative be reshaped? In this panel, three writers discuss how their recent novels find unique approaches to dialogue, detail, scene setting, point of view, and other aspects of language and structure to tell a new story about an individual’s experience in a foreign country. They explore how they cast their characters not only as outsiders adapting to a culture but as participants in larger conversations about race, precarity, ambition, and kinship. Speaker(s): Presenter: Shubha Sunder Moderator: Yuka Igarashi Presenter: Bruna Dantas Lobato Presenter: Maya Binyam Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T184 Event Outline for New Styles for the Immigrant Novel.docx	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T184	2025032712:1013:25 095	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Come to Play: Incorporating Play & Games in the Creative Writing Classroom In 1996, Harvard educator Colette Daiute pointed out the critical role of play in teaching writing. By integrating playful activities like storytelling games, role-playing, and collaborative writing exercises, teachers can create more interactive and supportive workshops. In this panel, five multigenre, college-level instructors/writers from the United States, Nigeria, and China discuss the specific ways they incorporate play into hands-on activities and cultivate a learner-centered classroom. Speaker(s): Presenter: Lydia Paar Presenter: Li Zhuang Moderator: Gwen Niekamp Presenter: Esther Okonkwo Presenter: Chloe Rodriguez Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T242 AWP Event Outline.docx	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T242	2025032715:2016:35 105	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Can Creative Writing Save the English Department? In 2023, Nathan Heller’s essay “The End of the English Major” caused a panic when it described humanities enrollments “in free fall.” Indeed, the overall number of English majors is down, but interest in creative writing remains strong. We examine how the rise of creative writing as an academic discipline has changed the English department and offer suggestions for what we might do as writers and faculty members to preserve the place of literature in our institutions. Speaker(s): Moderator: Nicholas Taylor Presenter: Micheline Marcom Presenter: Brendan Mathews Presenter: Tommy Mouton Presenter: Selena Anderson Program Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S237 AWP25 Can CW Save the English Dept_ - Panel Outline.pdf	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S237	2025032915:2016:35 095	SAT, MAR 29	4F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	The Heat of the Hybrid Systems that collide produce heat, energy. What’s true in physics is true in poetics. When systems converge, they produce heat and energy. Panelists consider the dynamic vitality of poetic hybridity—combining lyric poetry with “unpoetic” materials like science writing, journalism, medical research, and creative nonfiction. Such energetic collisions of genre can fuse into new literary forms, expanding boundaries of contemporary poetry in exciting formal, thematic, and narrative ways. Speaker(s): Presenter: Kimiko Hahn Presenter: Tina Chang Presenter: Beth Ann Fennelly Presenter: David Baker Moderator: Jill Bialosky Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S184 event outline-Heat of the Hybrid Panel.docx	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S184	2025032912:1013:25 100	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	LA Confidential: Novelists on Noir What is it about Southern California that makes the perfect setting for so many noir novels? The noir authors on this panel have explored Los Angeles through stories of dark corners, vast deserts, and car chases that keep readers hooked. They will dive into how they came to write noir fiction, why they set their stories in Los Angeles, and what “noir” really means. Expect tips on crafting the perfect shady characters and a deep dive into Los Angeles’s most mysterious stories. Speaker(s): Moderator: David L. Ulin Presenter: Steph Cha Presenter: Tod Goldberg Presenter: Rachel Howzell Hall Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T213 Event Outline - 2025 AWP NOVELISTS ON NOIR.docx	Location: Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T213	2025032713:4515:00 105	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The Personal Archives Creative nonfiction exists on a spectrum from internal to external, from “I” to “eye,” but what happens when we fit these together, when we approach the internal as external, turn the “eye” toward the “I”? These writers dig deep into life’s archives to find the truth of emotion, showing us the unique value of personal research. As panelists, they’ll discuss the practicalities of researching the personal, the ethics of doing so, and the craft involved in relaying the emotional truths unearthed. Speaker(s): Moderator: Maddie Norris Presenter: Mary-Kim Arnold Presenter: Erica N. Cardwell Presenter: Aisha Sabatini Sloan Presenter: Athena Dixon Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T129 Event Outline - The Personal Archives (AWP 25).pdf	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T129	2025032709:0010:15 095	THU, MAR 27	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Eyes Wide: Exploring the Extended Ekphrastic Ekphrasis—“adding commentary”—traditionally lets a poet meditate on a single work of art. But increasingly poets are upending and enlarging ekphrastic forms, extending the ekphrastic to include art practices, artist’s lives, and historic, familial, and personal archives. Extended ekphrastic touches other forms—autobiography, memoir, criticism, documentary poetry. In this panel, five poets with diverse working methods will examine the challenges and rewards of extending the frame. Speaker(s): Presenter: Allison Rollins Moderator: Tess Taylor Presenter: Victoria Chang Presenter: Tyree Daye Presenter: Dean Rader Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F130 Event Outline - Eyes Wide_ Exploring the Extended Ekphrastic.pdf	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F130	2025032809:0010:15 100	FRI, MAR 28	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	The ABCs of the Creative Writing PhD PhD programs offer invaluable time and resources, but the demands of a PhD and bias within academia can stifle writers’ creative practices. With attention to the ways students writing from the margins resist whiteness, heteronormativity, and ableism at each stage of the PhD, this panel of current PhD students and recent graduates addresses how to frame a course of study that complicates the canon, balance creative projects with the rigors of exams, and craft dissertations that innovate traditional scholarship. Speaker(s): Moderator: Thomas Renjilian Presenter: Leesa Fenderson Presenter: Natalie Villacorta Presenter: S Yarberry Presenter: Gwen Niekamp Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S129 ABCs of Creative Writing PhD Event Outline 2025.docx	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S129	2025032909:0010:15 095	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Abroad as an Escape: International Exchange & Trauma-Informed Writing Trauma travels with us abroad and in our writing too. Nomadic writers will speak about how their long-term experiences via international exchange inform their creative writing in relation to trauma. How do we take care of ourselves when we are underrepresented in both study abroad and the publishing industry? Panelists will discuss how their creativity is influenced abroad, what healing means, and ethically engaging with one’s host country and country of origin, as well as tips for aspiring nomadic writers. Speaker(s): Presenter: Shin Yu Pai Moderator: Anesce Dremen Presenter: Sophia Babai Presenter: Elisabet Raquel García Presenter: Camille U. Adams Artistic & Professional Development Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S212 Event Outline_AWP 2025_Abroad as an Escape_ International Exchange and Trauma-Informed Writing.pdf	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S212	2025032913:4515:00 105	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Pain & Prose: Navigating Difficult Emotions in Storytelling This panel explores how writers can effectively portray emotionally challenging scenes in fiction and narrative nonfiction. Topics include embracing vulnerability, finding emotional truth, and navigating ethical considerations. Panelists will share techniques for rendering emotions on the page while protecting their own mental health. This discussion offers practical advice and heartfelt insights for writers of all levels. Speaker(s): Presenter: Faith Adiele Presenter: Steve Almond Moderator: April Davila Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T185 Event Outline - Pain & Prose.pdf	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T185	2025032712:1013:25 100	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	“I Am Still a Body in the World”: Disability & Chronic Illness in Poetry Disability has been described before as the “final frontier of the civil rights movement.” In a world struggling with understanding accessibility and still reeling from a global pandemic, disability poetry offers an important and urgent lens through which to view our world. What does it mean to be disabled or to live with chronic illness? What does it mean for medical professionals who may not experience it personally? What are the borders of disability and illness? Speaker(s): Moderator: Teo Shannon Presenter: Michele Bombardier Presenter: Katie Hartsock Presenter: Laura Passin Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S185 AWP event outline.pdf	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S185	2025032912:1013:25 105	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	In Memoriam: Four Feminist Legacies of Poetry, Poetics & Art This panel pays tribute to the enduring influence of four feminist masters who challenged conventions and inspired generations over long careers, and whom we recently lost: Lyn Hejinian, Yong Soon Min, Helen Vendler, and Marjorie Perloff. Each reshaped their respective disciplines and thrived in collaboration. Our panel will highlight the powerful contributions of these figures while not shying away from any difficult, controversial, or polarizing aspects of their work. Speaker(s): Moderator: Chris Santiago Presenter: Cynthia Arrieu-King Presenter: Eileen G'Sell Presenter: Margaret Rhee Tributes Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T214	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T214	2025032713:4515:00 110	THU, MAR 27	55806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Black Ekphrastic Mode Four UK award-winning Black poets/academics talk about the unique approach to ekphrasis in their latest poetry collections. From four different vantages of the Black gaze, they fuse a relationship between poetry and the visual arts. They share both their poems and praxis. Malika Booker - An Alternative History of Stones (TBC, 2025); Jason Allen-Paisant - Self-Portrait as Othello (Pavilion, 2023); Denise Saul - The Room Between Us (Pavilion, 2022); Nick Makoha - The New Carthaginians (Penguin, 2025). Speaker(s): Presenter: Nick Makoha Presenter: Jason Allen-Paisant Presenter: Malika Booker Moderator: Elontra Hall Poetry Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S157 The Black Ekphrastic Mode -AWP Event Outline.pdf The Black Ekphrastic Mode Event outline.docx	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S157	2025032910:3511:50 095	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Writing Sex Beyond Survival: From Traumatic to Erotic & the Awkward In-Between Gertrude Stein said, “Literature—creative literature—unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.” Maybe that’s because sex itself is so creative, powered as much by our dreams and our divinity as by our animal needs and desires. Writing real sex reveals characters’ fears and wounds, but also their secret yearnings and human vastness. Five multigenre writers talk about writing that fully embodies and claims sex, with all its paradoxical harms, pleasures, and ecstasies of “life’s longing for itself.” Speaker(s): Presenter: Natashia Deon Moderator: Jeannine Ouellette Presenter: Gina Frangello Presenter: Rebecca Woolf Presenter: Lidia Yuknavitch Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F187 Sex Panel Outline.docx	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F187	2025032812:1013:25 110	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Nonfiction as Poem, Photograph, Song, or Fable The panelists will present and discuss their recent works of nonfiction, all of which obviate the boundaries of linear narrative and autobiographical account. What is made possible for an essay or memoir when it uses structures and devices more aligned with poetry, visual art, music, or fable? This conversation is an examination of cross-disciplinary techniques to achieve expansive and emotionally rich work that surpasses mere account. Speaker(s): Moderator: Samuel Ace Presenter: Brian Blanchfield Presenter: Lily Hoàng Presenter: Aisha Sabatini Sloan Presenter: Caryl Pagel Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T243 AWP Event Outline-Nonfiction as Poem, Photograph, Song, or Fable.pdf	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T243	2025032715:2016:35 110	THU, MAR 27	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope Not Your Papi’s Utopia (Mouthfeel Press, 2024) is the final installment of our Latinx speculative fiction trilogy. The panel, composed of two editors and three authors, will discuss the goal of the anthology to envision alternate forms of utopian thinking that focuses not on a perfect society but on a society trying to be more in harmony with the environment and with more equitable political systems. The discussion will be followed by fiction and poetry readings from the book. Speaker(s): Presenter: Matthew Goodwin Moderator: Sara Rivera Presenter: Rolando Lopez Presenter: Richie Narvaez Presenter: Lesley Tellez Multiple Literary Genres Readings Reading Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S238 Event Outline Not Your Papi's Utopia .pdf	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S238	2025032915:2016:35 100	SAT, MAR 29	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Can I Write That? At the Crossroads of Social Change & Conscious Language Writers know words matter, but they are not all that matters. Our craft exists within a personal, social, historical, and cultural framework. We face constant linguistic change and concerns about cultural appropriation, tokenism, stereotypes, and other harmful representations. This session investigates how we can adopt inclusive, socially responsible approaches to creative projects. Presenters steeped in how writing inspires change will explore creative freedom and cultural sensitivity. Speaker(s): Moderator: Stephanie Lenox Presenter: Kavita Das Presenter: Sonya Huber Presenter: Paisley Rekdal Presenter: Karen Yin Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F157 AccessibilityCopy_Ask Yourself if You’re The Right Storyteller for This Story by Kavita Das.pdf AccessibilityCopy_Appropriation in the Classroom by Paisley Rekdal.pdf AccessibilityCopy_Conscious Style Guide excerpt by Karen Yin.pdf AccessibilityCopy_Event Outline for Can I Write That_.pdf	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F157	2025032810:3511:50 105	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Hybrid Selves, Hybrid Form: Queer & Feminist Possibilities of the Prose Poem The prose poem is often first (or entirely) encountered in straight and masculine contexts, associated with Charles Baudelaire’s nineteenth-century pronouncement “Always be a poet, even in prose.” This panel revises that pronouncement to read, “Always be a poet, especially in queer and feminist prose.” Five queer women panelists reveal through reading and conversation an alternative and empowering legacy for the prose poem. Speaker(s): Presenter: Dawn Lundy Martin Moderator: Julie Marie Wade Presenter: Sophie Klahr Presenter: K. Iver Poetry Readings Reading Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T156 AWP.QueerProsePoem.docx	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T156	2025032710:3511:50 100	THU, MAR 27	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F4A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	The Hidden History Memoir: A Panel of Writers Who Were Never Meant to Speak This panel focuses on lived experiences, street smarts, and oral storytelling as an approach to memoir writing. How do marginalized writers—artists from humble backgrounds and/or geographic distances—bring nontraditional forms of wisdom to the page? Is a lived approach to craft particularly suited to the intertwining of personal and political topics? To write boldly, to speak from unique backgrounds, these panelists will address how they found their voices through embodied narratives. Speaker(s): Presenter: Brittany Means Presenter: Lenika Cruz Presenter: Jenisha Watts Moderator: Deborah Taffa Nonfiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F216 Download Course Materials	Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F216	2025032813:4515:00 105	FRI, MAR 28	43806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Los Angeles Writers Gathering Space We invite local Los Angeles-area writers to meet up in this informal space to share stories, swap resources, and make new connections. Pro Forma Location: Room 512, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F100A	Location: Room 512, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F100A	2025032808:0010:15 000	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Los Angeles Writers Gathering Space We invite local Los Angeles-area writers to meet up in this informal space to share stories, swap resources, and make new connections. Pro Forma Location: Room 512, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S100A	Location: Room 512, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S100A	2025032908:0010:15 000	SAT, MAR 29	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 1:25 PM PDT	AWP Writing Organization Council Meeting Previously called the WC&C Meeting, this meeting is the official convening of all AWP writing organization members. Please join us for a lunch and an informal working session with Writing Organization Council chair Mimi Herman and director of membership services & publications Miranda González. Pro Forma Location: Room 512, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F163A	Location: Room 512, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F163A	2025032810:3513:25 000	FRI, MAR 28	FAA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift The editor Kristie Frederick Daugherty and some of the poets included in the poetry anthology Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift (Random House, 2024) will be present to answer questions and discuss their poems, as well as read a few selected poems. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Kristie Frederick Daugherty Poetry Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S164	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S164	2025032912:1013:25 001	SAT, MAR 29	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Disability & Contemporary Poetry Join distinguished disabled poets Ona Gritz, Dan Simpson, Anne Kaier, and Stephen Kuusisto for a reading celebrating the new Propel Disability Poetry Series, published by Nine Mile Press. The Propel Poetry Series annually honors the best in disability poetry with publication and awards. Please join us for our inaugural event. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Stephen Kuusisto Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Anne Kaier Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Daniel Simpson Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Ona Gritz Poetry Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T136 Event Outline Disability and Contemporary Poetry.pdf Disability and Contemporary Poetry Opening Remarks and Readings.pdf	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T136	2025032710:3511:50 001	THU, MAR 27	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Lily Poetry Review Books Lily Poetry Review Books presents Heather Treseler, Jennifer Martelli, Robert Carr, Gloria Monaghan, Shari Caplan, Max Heinegg, M. P. Carver, Nicole Callihan, Meghan Sterling, Sheila Black, Darren Black, and Eileen Cleary reading from their new collections. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Heather Treseler Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Jennifer Martelli Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Eileen Cleary Poetry Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T192 Event line .docx	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T192	2025032713:4515:00 001	THU, MAR 27	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Helping Writers Fight Fears & Find Inspiration Amy L. Bernstein’s new book, Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration, is helping writers and artists of all stripes to acknowledge and cope with doubts around creative expression and capacity. Bernstein’s book grows out of her own experiences as an author and as a book coach consulting with writers who admit that fear often holds them back. Bernstein will read from her new book and hold a moderated conversation and Q&A as a way to normalize this sensitive topic. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Amy Bernstein Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Caroline Topperman Nonfiction Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T221 WRANGLING THE DOUBT MONSTER_Presentation Description.docx	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T221	2025032715:2016:35 001	THU, MAR 27	45806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Divergent, Delusional & Inspired: The Stories We Choose to Tell Stories are essential to making sense of our lives, but when they are hidden or silenced, we miss out on what makes us exceptional. These writers are looking to claim lost narratives. Beyond the stigma and headlines, they share the challenges and losses and also the triumphs of living with schizophrenia, coping with suicide and illness, or choosing celibacy in middle age—charting a way forward, learning self-care and advocacy while embracing the truth of life’s complexities. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Lisa St John Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Agata Szczeszak-Brewer Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Erin Wood Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Natasha Williams Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Charlotte Maya Nonfiction Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F136 Event Outline-Divergent, Delusional and Inspired.docx.pdf	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F136	2025032810:3511:50 001	FRI, MAR 28	45806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Poems for Our Nonhuman Kin: A Reading from The Uncollected Animals How have poets throughout the ages amplified the animal rights discussion? Sampling original and historical work from The Uncollected Animals, a global anthology that places the welfare of nonhuman animals at the forefront, we will explore the material and the questions surrounding it. The participants will read their own contributions plus other poems from the book and will speak about the poems and the topic. In a time of human-induced mass extinctions, this subject could not be more vital. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Kimiko Hahn Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Fred D'Aguiar Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: John Kinsella Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Holly Amos Poetry Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F165 Event Outline - The Uncollected Animals Anthology A Reading and Discussion.pdf	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F165	2025032812:1013:25 001	FRI, MAR 28	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	A Newly Discovered Galaxy of Words: Unsolicited Press Authors & Recent Books This event features authors with recent releases from Unsolicited Press, a small literary press in the Pacific Northwest. Home to many talented and award-winning writers, including readers Amy Shimshon-Santo, Jackson Bliss, and Douglas Cole, Unsolicited Press proudly publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction based on merit. The press is woman-owned and committed to publishing only women in 2025. Moderating the event will be Terry Tierney. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Jackson Bliss Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Amy Shimshon-Santo Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Douglas Cole Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Terrence Tierney Multiple Literary Genres Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F194 Event Outline--A Newly Discovered Galaxy of Words-Unsolicited Press Authors & Recent Books.docx	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F194	2025032813:4515:00 001	FRI, MAR 28	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Barrow Street Press: New Authors Reading This multigenre event will feature poetry and nonfiction from our new authors; topics covered include LGBTQ+ identity and multicultural intersections. Poetry and philosophy and current issues such as Jewish identity, world citizenship, and poverty and mental health challenges will also be addressed. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Ronald Palmer Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Ruben Quesada Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Phillis Levin Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Peter Covino Multiple Literary Genres Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F223 Event Outline - 2025 Barrow Street Press New Authors Reading.pdf	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F223	2025032815:2016:35 001	FRI, MAR 28	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Bottom Line: Comparing Book Sales to Overall Earnings Book advances and book sales can be disappointing: The average book advance does not provide a full-time living for even a year. Four authors will offer transparency into their book sales and compare them against other forms of professional income. You’ll see royalty statements, earnings reports, and the bottom line for each author. When writers open up about the financial realities of publishing, it empowers all writers to make the best decisions for their careers. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Laura Portwood-Stacer Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Jane Friedman Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Russell Nohelty Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Allison Williams Artistic & Professional Development Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S137 AWP Bottom Line event outline.pdf	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S137	2025032910:3511:50 001	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Native American Poetry from California, a Reading With more than 750,000 residents who identify as Native American, California has the largest Native American population of any state and possibly also the most diverse. This reading will feature poets from California’s Native American diaspora, as well as poets from Native Nations Indigenous to the state. They will read work rooted in the landscapes and cities of California, from ocean to desert and Sierra, and give voice to culture and traditions that interweave with contemporary life here. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Stephen Meadows Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Emily Clarke Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Denise Low Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Kim Shuck Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Lucille Lang Day Poetry Readings Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S191 WomanfireByEmilyClarke.pdf OutlineNativeAmericanReading2025rev.pdf	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S191	2025032913:4515:00 001	SAT, MAR 29	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Using Crowdfunding for Direct Distribution & Community Building There are numerous benefits to crowdfunding for authors and publishers: It can help foster deep ties with readers, encourage community- and brand-building, and offer direct-to-consumer sales and marketing solutions. Join Kickstarter’s head of publishing, Brink Literacy’s CEO, Feminist Press’ executive director, Slant’d’s executive director, and Microcosm’s publisher to discuss the ways crowdfunding can help strengthen community, set appropriate print runs, and raise much-needed funds for literary works. Speaker(s): Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Krystie Yen Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Dani Hedlund Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Russell Nohelty Bookfair Stage Event Presenter: Catherine Fitzpatrick Bookfair Stage Event Moderator: Oriana Leckert Publishing, Editing & Technology Bookfair Stage Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S218 Download Course Materials	Location: Bookfair Stage, West Hall A, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S218	2025032915:2016:35 001	SAT, MAR 29	51806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F8A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Matrilineal Saga: Redefining Generational Histories Recent novels like Pachinko, Homegoing, and Girl, Woman, Other center family histories from a matriarchal perspective. What defines a matrilineal narrative? How do female lineage and kinship inform generational stories—and how, within the constraints of patriarchy, does the matriarch influence the family system? Writers whose fiction concerns family culture discuss domestic sagas, subverting traditional gender roles, and crafting diasporic and diverse family narratives that center women’s lives. Speaker(s): Presenter: Thaïs Miller Moderator: Lauren Alwan Presenter: Ilze Duarte Presenter: Montéz Jennings Presenter: Peg Alford Pursell Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T159 Related Reading_update__3_19.pdf Outline_Matrilineal Sagas__update.3:22.pdf	Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T159	2025032710:3511:50 115	THU, MAR 27	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	The Translator’s Note: Bridging Linguistic & Cultural Chasms, Sponsored by ALTA The Translator’s Note is an indispensable companion to poetry in translation, acquainting readers with new poets, helping editors to evaluate poems, positioning a poet’s significance within a literary landscape, defining challenges in a particular piece, and more. Translating from Albanian, French, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish, our panelists will address how the Translator’s Note bridges linguistic and cultural chasms while fostering an understanding and appreciation for diverse voices. Speaker(s): Moderator: Blas Falconer Presenter: Sandra Alcosser Presenter: Nancy Naomi Carlson Presenter: Wayne Miller Presenter: Armen Davoudian Translation Panel Discussion Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F160 Download Course Materials	Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F160	2025032810:3511:50 120	FRI, MAR 28	53806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 056582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Beyond English: Multilingual Creative Writing Pedagogies Multilingual creative writing programs and pedagogies remain quite rare, but they do exist. Ranging from universities in El Paso, Hong Kong, and Manila, such unique programs allow students to express themselves across more than one language and more than one culture. This diverse panel of educators from around the world explores the nature of multilingual creative writing pedagogies with an eye toward their value for students and their resistance to the global dominance of English. Speaker(s): Presenter: James Shea Moderator: José De Pierola Presenter: Francezca Kwe Presenter: Sarah Lumba-Tajonera Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T245 Event Outline (Beyond English Multilingual Creative Writing Pedagogies).pdf	Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T245	2025032715:2016:35 120	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Beyond Syd Field: Decolonizing the Screenwriting Workshop Since the publication of Syd Field’s seminal text Screenplay in 1979, three-act dramatic structure has been the cornerstone of screenwriting pedagogy. But as literary circles engage in conversations around race, diversity, and inclusion (e.g., with Chavez’s The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop and Salesses’s Craft in the Real World), is it time for screenwriters to have the same moment of reckoning? Join four screenwriting instructors as they discuss approaches to making their classrooms more inclusive. Speaker(s): Moderator: Sara Graefe Presenter: Zac Hug Presenter: Maureen Medved Presenter: Fabio Montanari Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T216 Event Outline - Beyond Syd Field Pedagogy Panel.pdf	Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T216	2025032713:4515:00 120	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Golem, Dybbuk, Leviathan, Azazel Goat: Jewish Folklore in Contemporary Fiction Biblical stories and Jewish folktales deploy what might be called “magical realism” to preserve Jewish customs and elucidate religious, cultural, political, and ethical concepts central to Judaism. While the connection may be to specific tales or solely stylistic, this panel explores the ways contemporary Jewish fiction writers deploy these tropes and allow the intrusion of the unexpected, the uncanny, or the mystical to capture the complexities of Jewish life. Speaker(s): Moderator: Maya Sonenberg Presenter: Thomas Balazs Presenter: Kate Bernheimer Presenter: Anca Szilágyi Fiction Craft & Criticism Panel Discussion Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F190 Event Outline - Golem, Dybbuk, Leviathan, Azazel Goat, Jewish Folklore in Contemporary Fiction.pdf	Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F190	2025032812:1013:25 125	FRI, MAR 28	3D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Building a Creative Writing Program: A Student’s Perspective The Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) is the largest high school writing program in the country, with 180 students and over thirty semester courses. Graduates include YoungArts Presidential Scholars, a Yale Clapp Award recipient, and countless regional award winners. OCSA’s sister campus in the San Gabriel Valley houses a similar conservatory of 100. Current students will discuss the curriculum and events that help them develop their voices best. Speaker(s): Moderator: Josh Wood Presenter: David Bae Presenter: Anika Desai Presenter: Sam Holt Presenter: Olivia Le Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T188 Download Course Materials	Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T188	2025032712:1013:25 115	THU, MAR 27	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Around the World: Incorporating Translation into a Creative Writing Class Translations offer students new and exciting ways to engage with literature from around the world and incorporate diverse perspectives into the classroom. How can educators initiate and introduce conversations on translations with intention? What best practices should educators consider when crafting assignments on translation? In this session, panelists discuss inclusive strategies for bringing the art and study of translations into a creative writing class. Speaker(s): Presenter: Cindy Juyoung Ok Moderator: Wendy Chen Presenter: Maryam Ala Amjadi Presenter: Rohan Chhetri Presenter: Takami Nieda Pedagogy Panel Discussion Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F219 Event Outline - Around the World_ Incorporating Translation into a Creative Writing Class.pdf	Location: Room 514, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F219	2025032813:4515:00 120	FRI, MAR 28	47806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Female Gaze: Powerful Narratives for The Times, Sponsored by PEN America What counts as a powerful female narrative in our current cultural landscape? Why do stories around female identity, rights to our bodies, and education, spark so much controversy? How do we engage our audiences in these conversations? PEN America presents a discussion with its interim co-CEO Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf and bestselling author Jodi Picoult, whose work Nineteen Minutes was the most banned title in 2024. Read presenters' full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Moderator: Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf Presenter: Jodi Picoult Artistic & Professional Development Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S218A READ COPY PEN America AWP Female Gaze Event Outline (1).pdf	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S218A	2025032915:2016:35 003	SAT, MAR 29	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Cave Canem Presents Magnitude & Bond: A Field Study on Black Literary Arts Organizations Cave Canem has been engaged in a study which explores the organizational needs, strategies, and models that enable Black literary organizations to thrive despite adverse socioeconomic conditions. The learning gained from the operations, programming, strategic planning, and leadership of such organizations is discussed in its historical and cultural context by literary powerhouses and leaders in literary arts administration. This panel will benefit anyone seeking best practices from successful arts organizations with more than 140 years of collective experience. Read presenters' full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Mark McBride Moderator: Lisa Willis Presenter: Meta DuEwa Jones Presenter: Duriel E Harris Presenter: Clint Smith Artistic & Professional Development Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F195	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F195	2025032813:4515:00 003	FRI, MAR 28	37806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	National Jewish Book Award Poetry Reading & Conversation Five poets whose books have been honored by the National Jewish Book Awards come together to read from their collections and discuss what it means to write on Jewish themes today. The poets reflect on their writing relationships with Jewish histories, joy, trauma, and political injustices and brutalities. The reading includes both winners and finalists of the National Jewish Book Award in the category of poetry between 2018 and 2023. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jared Harél Presenter: Michael Dumanis Presenter: Erika Meitner Moderator: Maya Pindyck Presenter: Carlie Hoffman Poetry Readings Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T165 AWP2025 Event Outline_ NJBA Reading.pdf	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T165	2025032712:1013:25 005	THU, MAR 27	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Writing Toward Community, Sponsored by Blue Flower Arts & Anaphora Literary Arts To be a member of any community is to be held in tension between familiarity and isolation, between unity and individuality. Join these three artists as they continue the work of their poetry, fiction, film, and organizing work in navigating this tension, finding space for new connections and community to flourish—networks sustained by art and honesty, built for all of us still seeking our place. Blue Flower Arts and Anaphora Literary Arts are proud to present readings by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, and Ladan Osman followed by rich conversation moderated by poet Mahtem Shiferraw, founder and executive director of Anaphora Literary Arts. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Ladan Osman Presenter: Fatimah Asghar Presenter: Safia Elhillo Moderator: Mahtem Shiferraw Multiple Literary Genres Readings Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T193	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T193	2025032713:4515:00 005	THU, MAR 27	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Nurturing a Green Heart: Staying Soft in the Face of Adversity, Sponsored by Alice James Books Alice James Books presents four celebrated writers to share their most recent work and engage in conversation. Joshua Jennifer Espinoza and Ayokunle Falomo will read from their 2024 books, and Dorianne Laux from her book Life on Earth. The event is led by CM Burroughs, who will guide the conversation as the group grapples with an important question—in a world of unrelenting violence, how does one tend a green heart? How do we refuse to harden in conditions where becoming hard seems so natural? Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Moderator: CM Burroughs Presenter: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Presenter: Ayokunle Falomo Presenter: Dorianne Laux Poetry Readings Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T222 AWP25 Alice James Books Featured Event Outline.docx NEW AWP25 Alice James Books Event Outline.pdf	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: T222	2025032715:2016:35 005	THU, MAR 27	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Black Words Are Black Wealth: A Lecture by Tayari Jones, Sponsored by IngramSpark HBCUs have long been the incubator for African American literature, and also for robust debate. The gift of self-definition is the true endowment of our institutions. This lecture, part of the #AWP25 HBCU Fellowship Program, discusses this long legacy and also the route forward for Black writers who come of age at HBCUs—as students and as faculty members. This is about how we honor our proud past as we shape our meaningful and consequential future. Read the #AWP25 HBCU creative advisor’s bio. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Tayari Jones Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F110	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F110	2025032809:0010:15 001	FRI, MAR 28	F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Big Ideas, Short Forms: Sarabande Writers on the Art & Craft of the Short Form As a publisher of hybrid works, chapbooks, novels in stories, and experimental prose, Sarabande has championed the short form for more than three decades! Here, four nationally acclaimed writers will present and discuss original short form works of various genres, including poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. They will address structure, density, beginnings and endings, sudden moves, white space, and other tools in the short form writer’s toolbox. Read the presenters’ bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Moderator: Kristen Renee Miller Presenter: Khaled Mattawa Presenter: Whitney Collins Presenter: Kiki Petrosino Multiple Literary Genres Craft & Criticism Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F137	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F137	2025032810:3511:50 005	FRI, MAR 28	3F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Nightboat Books Through the Ages: A Twentieth-Anniversary Reading Over the last two decades, Nightboat Books has developed audiences for writers whose work resists convention and transcends boundaries, publishing more than two hundred books rich with poignancy, intelligence, and risk. To celebrate, a constellation of our authors—Dawn Lundy Martin, Brandon Som, Brian Teare, and Jackie Wang—together with our cofounder Kazim Ali, will read from their work as well as texts by other beloved Nightboat authors, from Etel Adnan and Fanny Howe to Assotto Saint and Lou Sullivan. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Dawn Lundy Martin Presenter: Brandon Som Moderator: Kazim Ali Presenter: Brian Teare Presenter: Jackie Wang Multiple Literary Genres Readings Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F166	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F166	2025032812:1013:25 005	FRI, MAR 28	41806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	The Vacancies We Name: Poetry of Global Perspectives, Sponsored by Copper Canyon Press When we leave home and move through the world, what vacancies get created inside us? What does it mean to be severed from belonging—and to find it again? And how does poetry give us a mouth with which to tune our empty spaces? In this reading, three celebrated, international poets explore the intersections between distance, home, and spirit, offering a window into the energies we use to make a place in which we can live, whether here, there, or both at once. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Shangyang Fang Presenter: Pádraig Ó Tuama Moderator: Michael Wiegers Presenter: Tishani Doshi Poetry Readings Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F224 Event Outline – The Vacancies We Name_Poetry of Global Perspectives.pdf	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: F224	2025032815:2016:35 005	FRI, MAR 28	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PDT	Emergence & Becoming—Framing Native Poetics Beyond the “Renaissance": A Lecture By Jake Skeets The term “Native American Renaissance” has long been used to describe the surge of Native literary production in the 1960s and ’70s. However, this label risks implying that Native literature lacked sophistication or vitality prior to this moment. Drawing from Diné poetics and cultural frameworks, this lecture—part of the #AWP25 Tribal Colleges & Universities Fellowship Program—will examine how these ideas illuminate the continuity and innovation of Native storytelling traditions, offering a more expansive understanding of Native literature’s past, present, and future. Read the #AWP25 TCU creative advisor's bio. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Jake Skeets Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S110 Event Outline Emergence and Becoming Framing Native Poetics Beyond the Renaissance A Lecture By Jake Skeets.docx	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S110	2025032909:0010:15 001	SAT, MAR 29	F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 10:35 AM - 11:50 AM PDT	Our People Shall Live: Mizna Gathers Lena Khalaf Tuffaha & Mosab Abu Toha in Conversation As we mourn Gaza’s destruction by the recent campaign of Zionist genocide and watch a tenuous ceasefire evolve under an appalling new threat of American imperialism, we seek voices from Palestine to render, deconstruct, and reimagine these realities and our relationships to them. Toward that, Mizna is thrilled to host a critical conversation and reading with two major Palestinian poets: National Book Award winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and acclaimed Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha. The two will share work responding to the ongoing catastrophe and engage in dialogue about Palestinian sumud, literature’s role in resisting genocide, and our collective futures in and beyond the world of poetry. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Mosab Abu Toha Presenter: Lena Tuffaha Poetry Readings Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S138 Mizna Featured Event Outline.pdf	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S138	2025032910:3511:50 005	SAT, MAR 29	4D806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT	Poetry of the West with Red Hen Press Will Alexander, Peggy Shumaker, Alison Hawthorne Deming, and Harryette Mullen: We feasted, we cried, we wept for our ancestors, and for the ancestors who lived on these lands and for our children, and we wrote the poetry of remembrance and laughter and forgetting and of writing new stories. The narrative of the West is being rewritten by these poets. We write ourselves into a new story. Read our presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Will Alexander Presenter: Harryette Mullen Moderator: Kate Gale Presenter: Peggy Shumaker Presenter: Alison Hawthorne Deming Poetry Craft & Criticism Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S165	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S165	2025032912:1013:25 005	SAT, MAR 29	4B806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Saturday, Mar 29, 2025	Saturday, Mar 29, 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT	Poet Leaders: A Letras Latinas Reading & Discussion How do you maintain an artistic practice while being in a leadership role like poetry editor at a publisher, founder of a literary journal, executive director, or senior poetry consultant for a major poetry festival? Three poets share their experiences as literary citizens and leaders. Opening with a reading of their work, they will then participate in a conversation about their varied roles championing literature, challenges they faced, and ways to get involved in the literary community. Read presenters’ full bios. This event will take place in person in the Los Angeles Convention Center and will be livestreamed for virtual audiences. All livestreamed events include open captions. Speaker(s): Presenter: Ricardo Alberto Maldonado Presenter: Ysabel Y. González Presenter: Sebastián Páramo Moderator: Brent Ameneyro Program Development Featured Livestreamed Event Live Captioned Assistive Listening Available Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S192 Event Outline - Poet Leaders- A Letras Latinas Reading and Discussion.pdf	Location: Petree Hall C, Level One, Los Angeles Convention Center Session Code: S192	2025032913:4515:00 005	SAT, MAR 29	4F806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F6A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 036582EC-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD 917DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 957DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0 977DB2D3-64DA-EF11-8101-8147A53E1DD0
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	Litowitz MFA+MA Faculty & Northwestern University Press Reception A book signing and reception with Litowitz faculty and Northwestern University Press authors. Faculty include Natasha Trethewey, Sarah Schulman, Charif Shanahan, and Juan Martinez. Food and beverages will be provided. Reception Location: Gold Ballroom 4, First Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T255	Location: Gold Ballroom 4, First Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T255	2025032718:0019:30 040	THU, MAR 27	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	Sewanee Writers’ Conference Alumni Reception Cocktail reception for Sewanee Writers’ Conference alumni. Reception Location: Gold Ballroom 4, First Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F258	Location: Gold Ballroom 4, First Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F258	2025032818:0019:30 045	FRI, MAR 28	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	Vermont Studio Center’s Reception Vermont Studio Center celebrates its writers, authors, Visiting Writers Program, and partnerships with a reception on Friday evening. Come and have a drink on us, meet other VSC alums, and gather together before your off-site events. For prospective writers, learn about an international residency program nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Meet and connect with VSC staff: Executive Director, Hope Sullivan, Chief of Advancement, Bill Belcher, and Writing Program Director, Sarah Audsley. Reception Location: Atrium Room II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F257	Location: Atrium Room II, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F257	2025032818:0019:30 025	FRI, MAR 28	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	Emerson @ AWP Join us to engage with Emerson alumni, students, and faculty members attending the conference. Refreshments will be provided by The Office of Alumni Relations. RSVP here. Reception Location: Georgia Room I, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T254	Location: Georgia Room I, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: T254	2025032718:0019:30 030	THU, MAR 27	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025	Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT	AWP Awards Reception & Benefit for LA Fire Recovery, Hosted by Amber Tamblyn & Sponsored by Live Talks Los Angeles Kick off #AWP25 with an evening of recognition, solidarity, and support. Join us as we support the nonprofit advocacy organization Arts for LA, which provides crucial support for communities, artists, and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and vibrant Los Angeles region through the arts. Visit their website for wildfire relief and resources for artists and creative workers. Our host Amber Tamblyn, a third-generation Angeleno, is deeply connected to the city and passionate about supporting its creative community. She is the author of six books across genres, including the critically acclaimed bestselling novel Any Man, and the creator of the popular Substack newsletter Listening in the Dark. In addition to her work as a writer, she is an Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated actress, an award-winning director, and an advocate for artists and writers. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Iowa Review, and the Poetry Foundation, among others. We are proud to honor and celebrate the winners of AWP’s awards: the AWP George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature; AWP Small Press Publisher Award; AWP Writing Organization Award; AWP Intro Journals Project; and AWP Prize for Undergrad Lit Mags, in addition to the AWP Award Series prizes. You will have the opportunity to make a direct donation to Arts for LA throughout the evening. We hope you’ll join us to uplift our literary community and make a meaningful impact. Complimentary admission with suggested $15 minimum donation to Arts for LA. One free drink ticket per guest and appetizers will be available. AWP is grateful for the support of Live Talks Los Angeles, celebrating 15 years of stories, ideas and conversation. Reception Location: Plaza Room I-III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: W105	Location: Plaza Room I-III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: W105	2025032618:3020:00 000	WED, MAR 26	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Friday, Mar 28, 2025	Friday, Mar 28, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT	NYU Creative Writing Program Public Reception Please join the NYU Creative Writing Program's Director Deborah Landau as well as faculty, students, and alumni for a festive reception. Reception Location: Atrium Room III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F257A	Location: Atrium Room III, Third Floor, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE Session Code: F257A	2025032818:0019:30 035	FRI, MAR 28	FCA2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD BF560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD
Thursday, Mar 27, 2025	Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 3:20 PM - 4:35 PM PDT	Disabled & D/deaf Writers Caucus - VIRTUAL MEETING The Disabled & D/deaf Writers Caucus allows for those who are disabled or living with chronic illness, and their allies, to network and discuss common challenges related to identity, writing, and teaching while professionally leading a literary life. By meeting annually at the AWP Conference & Bookfair, we aim to archive our interests, challenges, and concerns in order to increase our visibility and emphasize our importance both to this organization and to the communities where we live, teach, and work. This caucus meeting will now take place virtually. Interested attendees can email disabledwriterscaucus@gmail.com for access information. Speaker(s): Moderator: Cade Leebron Presenter: Jess Silfa Caucus Panel Discussion Location: Virtual Session Code: V116	Location: Virtual Session Code: V116	2025032715:2016:35 065	THU, MAR 27	39806854-0C1A-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD F2A2DABB-3445-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD C1560F83-6144-EF11-8100-B0DE0BDD54BD

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