Featured This Month
In the Spotlight: Kwoya Fagin Maples
Creative Writing Faculty, Alabama School of Fine Arts
Writer's Notebook: "AWP’s 2017–2018 Report on the Academic Job Market"
Jason Gray | December 2018
Podcast: Episode 158: Amplifying Unheard Voices
Washington, DC 2017
The Writer's Chronicle Archives: "What Happens If We Win"
Bruce Cutler | May 1986
The Writer's News
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January 10, 2019
Academy of American Poets Names Joy Harjo & Natasha Trethewey New Chancellors
The Academy of American Poets announced in a press release that poets Joy Harjo and Natasha Trethewey will become its newest Chancellors.
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January 9, 2019
What’s Your Excuse?
The new year has begun. I’m already a long-term gym addict, and a “lifetime” member of Weight Watchers (now renamed “WW”). So, what’s there to focus on for a New Year’s resolution? Oh yes—writing that next book.
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January 9, 2019
Survey Finds Major Decrease in Literary Authors’ Earnings
In 2018, the Authors Guild conducted the largest survey of author earnings in history, recording information from over 5,000 published American writers.
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January 7, 2019
Classic Works Enter the Public Domain
On January 1, 2019, thousands of classic books—many by notable authors including Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens—entered the public domain after a 1998 law extending copyright protections by twenty years ran out.
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January 4, 2019
Cracking Down on Discrimination in Portland
AWP has received correspondence recently from a number of our members who expressed their deep disapproval, outrage, indignation, and consternation regarding an incident of blatantly racially-based discrimination directed at an African-American hotel guest that took place in late December at the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
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Writer's Chronicle
Calendar
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Jan 19
15th Annual Eckerd College Writers' Conference: Writers in Paradise
8-day writing conference of workshops, craft talks, panels, readings, and writing time in St. Petersburg, Florida. January 19-26, 2019. Located on the beautiful waterfront campus of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, this writers’ conference feat
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Jan 21
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Poetry workshops for qualified writers of poetry are limited to 12 participants and 3 auditors. Workshops are 16 total hours over six days. Individual manuscript conferences are also available.
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Jan 24
Novel in a Year: Revise and Launch
Novel in a Year: Revise and Launch is the ideal class for any writer who is close to completing a novel. Students will join a writing cohort, learn about the revision and publication process, workshop the first 40 pages of their book, polish their synopsi
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Jan 26
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Jan 27
A Sense of Place: Exploring New Mexico Through Words
See how writing is grounded in a sense of place by reading the writers of New Mexico and then exploring the territory and places they have written about.
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Feb 02
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Feb 09
Centauri Arts - Creative Writing Retreat
An annual retreat for writers of all levels, attending solo or with family or friends. Our writing retreat is located at a gorgeous rain forest lodge in Costa Rica.
