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The Business & Pleasures of Editing the Literary Anthology

Virtual
Thursday, March 24, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:10 pm

 

Five editors of published or forthcoming poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction anthologies offer advice concerning how to propose an anthology for independent and mainstream presses, and how to query and collaborate with contributors and acquisitions editors, which might include making calls for submissions, setting and meeting deadlines, publicizing a new anthology, and handling contributor remuneration. They will also discuss any pitfalls they've encountered during the editorial process.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Outline2.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Christine Sneed is the faculty director of Northwestern University's graduate writing program; she also teaches for Regis University's low-residency MFA program and was an AWP W2W mentor. She has published four books; her first, Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, won the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction.

Phong Nguyen is the author of Bronze Drum, Roundabout, The Adventures of Joe Harper, Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History, and Memory Sickness. He edited two books: one on author Nancy Hale and the Best Peace Fiction anthology. He teaches creative writing at the University of Missouri.

Kevin Prufer is the author most recently of How He Loved Them, Churches, In a Beautiful Country, and National Anthem. He is codirector of the Unsung Masters Series and a professor at the University of Houston's creative writing program and the Lesley University low-residency MFA program.

Jennifer Baker is a publishing professional, creator of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, faculty member of BayPath University's Creative Nonfiction MFA program, a former contributing editor to Electric Literature, & editor of Everyday People: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology (2018).

Jason Lee Brown is the author of three books and former editor in chief of River Styx literary magazine, director of the River Styx Reading Series, and series editor of New Stories from the Midwest. He also coedited the poetry anthology The Book of Donuts.

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February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center