R118. AWP Program Directors Plenary Assembly
Thursday, February 27, 2014
9:00 am to 10:15 am
All AWP program directors should attend and represent their programs. The Executive Director of AWP will report on AWP’s new projects and on important statistics and academic trends that pertain to creative writing programs and to writers who teach. A discussion with the AWP board’s Regional Representatives will follow. The plenary assembly will be followed by regional breakout sessions.
Participants
Moderator:
David Fenza joined the staff as publications manager in 1988, when he began to engineer the remaking of the AWP Newsletter into the Writer's Chronicle. The first bookfair he organized for AWP featured 33 publishers at the 1989 AWP Conference in Philadelphia, which attracted 300 attendees. After becoming Executive Director of AWP in 1995, he initiated many of the improvements in AWP's governance, conference, and public outreach.
