Featured This Month
The Writer's Notebook: "The Art of Conducting E-Interviews"
Kamala Thiagarajan | August 2004
Podcast: Episode 83: Finding Voice with Roxane Gay, Pablo Medina, and Michael Thomas, Sponsored by Grove/Atlantic Press
Minneapolis 2015
The Writer's Chronicle Archives: "The Old Testament and Feminist Imagination"
Alicia Ostriker | September 1988
The Writer's News
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July 9, 2020
#AWP21 Proposal Announcement
The conference timeline has been delayed while we consider two options for #AWP21.
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June 29, 2020
AWP's COVID-19 Program Director Survey
We recently asked our program directors about their greatest concerns as writers during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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June 18, 2020
AWP Observes Juneteenth
Juneteenth (celebrated on June 19) is now an annual paid holiday for all AWP employees.
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June 16, 2020
Writing News Roundup
Here are a few things that have recently caught our attention.
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June 12, 2020
AWP Receives a $40,000 Art Works Grant from the NEA to Support Services to American Writers
AWP has been awarded this grant to support its upcoming 2021 Conference & Bookfair, featuring as keynote speaker US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
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Writer's Chronicle
Calendar
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Aug 12
MASS MoCA Poetry Retreat
Join Jan Freeman, acclaimed poet and Paris Press founding director (1995–2018), for the summer MASS MoCA Ekphrastic Poetry Retreat at the Studios @ MASS MoCA Artist Residency Center in the heart of the Berkshires.
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Aug 16
Live Free and Write
August 16-21, 2020 A writing retreat in scenic New England
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Aug 16
Mineral School August 2020 Residency
Mineral School is an artists residency located in a former 1947 elementary school near Mt. Rainier, in Mineral, Washington. During summer 2020, we're offering four two-week residency periods to a total of 16 artists, including screenwriters, poets, prose
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Aug 16
Elk River Writers Workshop
Intensive writing workshop for published and aspiring writers. We accept only 10 students in each genre: poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
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Aug 28
AWA Workshop Leadership Training in Chicago
The AWA Initial Leadership Training is a five-day intensive course focused on instructing individuals in the AWA method. This training prepares people to lead writing groups for the general population and for traditionally silenced people in places such
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Aug 31
Great River Writers Retreat
The Great River Writers Retreat winner is selected from an applicant pool of writers from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin across multiple genres, and allows the winner to spend a week working on a specific writing project they have underway.
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Sep 06
Form and Freedom: An Online Poetry Workshop
Sunday, September 6 – Friday, October 9, 2020 Limited to 12 participants Led by Stephanie Cawley
