Sponsorship Overview
"AWP is a precious opportunity to gather as a literary community—to learn and listen and connect and celebrate together—and to be reminded of the scale, scope, and impact of our sector."- Ruth Dickey, National Book Foundation executive director
The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the nation’s premier literary event, drawing eight thousand to ten thousand authors, writing educators and students, editors, and publishers, who report high rates of satisfaction after attending the conference. At the largest literary conference in North America, 87% of 2024 exhibitors surveyed would recommend the experience to other organizations, and 93% of attendees surveyed would recommend attending the conference to a friend or colleague.
Thank you to our #AWP25 Sponsors!
Benefactor-Level
Mount Saint Mary’s UniversityPoetry Foundation
UCLA Extension
USC Dornsife, PhD in Creative Writing & Literature Program
AWP HBCU Fellowship Program Lecture & Reception
IngramSparkAWP Awards Reception
LA Live TalksPatron-Level
African Poetry Book Fund / Literary Arts at Brown University
Antioch University MFA Program
Arizona State UniversityAtmosphere Press
California Institute of the Arts MFA Creative Writing
Center for African American Poetry and Poetics
Chapman University MFA in Creative Writing
Columbia University School of the Arts
Emerson College
The Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University
Lasell University Solstice MFA in Creative Writing
NYU Creative Writing Program
Old Dominion University
Prairie Schooner / UNL Creative Writing
Spalding University Low-Residency MFA: Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing
UC San Diego, MFA in Writing and Archive for New Poetry
University of Miami MFA in Creative Writing
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Wash U MFA Program / Center for the Literary Arts
Sustainer-Level
The Book Incubator
California College of the Arts, MFA in Writing Program
Georgia College and State University / Arts & Letters Journal
The Georgia Review / University of Georgia Press
The Helen Zell Writers’ Program
Institute of American Indian Arts
The Kenyon Review
Litowitz MFA + MA Program at Northwestern / Northwestern University
Minnesota State University
Red Hen Press
Scarlet Tanager Books
Sewanee: Writers’ Conference, Review, and MFA
TRP: The University Press of SHSU
University of Cincinnati Department of English
Virginia Commonwealth University
Literary Partners
Alice James Books
American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
Center for Fiction
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
Sarabande Books
University of Arizona Poetry Center
Writers in the Schools Alliance (WITSA)
For an overview of all sponsor benefits and packages, check out our #AWP25 Guide to Sponsoring, Exhibiting & Advertising (PDF).