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Winners on Winning: Advice & Insight on Literary Contests

121BC, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Saturday, March 26, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

Literary contests can be a great way to connect with editors, build an audience, and find a good home in the world for your work. Submitting to contests is also an art in itself, one that requires savvy, strategy, and perseverance. In this panel, four writers who have found success in literary contests offer advice on choosing opportunities to pursue, selecting what to submit, and weathering the ups and downs of contest news—all while staying grounded in what matters most: the writing itself.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Outline_for_AWP_Panel__Winners_on_Winning_-_Advice_and_Insight_on_Literary_Contests.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Emma Komlos-Hrobsky is associate editor at Poets & Writers magazine. She has also served as an editor at Tin House books and magazine and a professor at The New School. Her writing appears in Guernica, Conjunctions, Tin House, Hunger Mountain, Bookforum, and other publications.

Suphil Lee Park is the author of the poetry collection Present Tense Complex, winner of the 2020 Marystina Santiestevan Prize. Most recently she received a third prize in the Writer’s Digest short short story competition and won the 2021 Indiana Review Fiction Prize.

Ananda Lima is the author of Mother/land (winner of the Hudson Prize) and the chapbooks Amblyopia, Translation (winner of the Vella Prize), and Tropicália (winner of the Newfound Prose Prize).

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from AWP. She is the recipient of a 2021 NEA Fellowship and the winner of the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize. She is currently a doctoral student in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston.

Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author of Philomath, selected for the National Poetry Series by Sally Keith. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Nation, Poetry, and Ploughshares.

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