AWP thanks all its sponsors and the conference committee co-chairs, Allison Joseph and Gerry LaFemina, for making the Chicago conference a success.

The conference was attended by 4,100 people including 1,400 students. Featured presenters included: Sandra Cisneros, Rosellen Brown, Stuart Dybek, Dana Gioia, Reginald McKnight, Robert Boswell, Sena Jeter Naslund, Jane Hamilton, Lorrie Moore, and many others.

2004 Sponsors

The Council of Literary Magazines & Presses

The Chicago Public Library

The Poetry Foundation

YMCA National Writer's Voice

Teacher & Writers Collaborative

National Endowment for the Arts

Columbia Chicago Fiction Writing Department

The MFA Program at The Ohio State University

University of Illinois, Department of English, MFA Program

Southern Illinois University/Crab Orchard Review

Western Michigan University Graduate Program in Creative Writing/New Issues Poetry & Prose/the Prague Summer Program

The Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Bowling Green State University

Columbia College, English Department Poetry Programs

Georgia College & State University

Notre Dame University

>Spalding University MFA Program

TriQuarterly

University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of Creative Writing

Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies MA in Creative Writing & the Undergraduate English Major in Writing

University of Nebraska Creative Writing Program/ Prairie Schooner/ The University of Nebraska Press/ Nebraska Summer Writers Conference

The Writing Program, Washington University of St. Louis

Another Chicago Magazine

Ascent & Concordia College-Moorhead

Bennington Writing Seminars

Black Warrior Review

Chicago State University/ The Gwendowlyn Brooks Center for Black Literature & Creative Writing

Elixir Press

Ferris State University

Illinois State University/Spoon River Anthology

Indiana University

Iowa State University

Kirtl & Community College

Knox College Program in Creative Writing

Miami University of Ohio

New York University Creative Writing Program

Other Voices

Low Residency Program at Queens University of Charlotte

Roosevelt University

Southern Illinois Edwardsville/ Sou’Wester

Spoon River Poetry Review/Illinois State University

University of Iowa International Writers Program

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota Creative Writing Program

University of Wisconsin Madison

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Vermont College of Union Institue & University

Wick Poetry Program

KSU Press

Kent State University Dept of English

Poets House

Bradley University

Gr& Valley State University

Clevel& State University

Marquette University

Mid-American Review

Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose

Penn State Erie

River Teeth/Ashl& Poetry Press

Sarab&e Books, Inc.

The MFA Program at Northern Michigan University

University of Missouri at St. Louis

Wabash College English Department

The MFA Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

University of Connecticut