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2022 AWP Conference Schedule

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Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Virtual	T216. Teaching toward Justice: Student Voice & Power in Creative Writing ( Catina Bacote, Helen Betya Rubinstein, Leora Fridman, Felicia Rose Chavez, Steven Alvarez) For too long, creative writing courses have held themselves outside politics and current events, invoking ideals of the “timeless” and “universal.” But antiracist creative writing classrooms can be sites of transformational action and resistance, led by students. Our cross-genre teaching methods include an antiracist writing workshop, student-led projects, community-based fieldwork, student publishing on digital platforms, collaborative storytelling, and intentional community building. Download event outline and supplemental documents. Add to schedule Check here to add to my schedule Catina Bacote is a 2021–2022 Jerome Hill Artist and American Association of University Women Fellow. Her essays have appeared in This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home, Ploughshares, Tin House, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and others. She teaches at St. John’s University in New York City. Helen Betya Rubinstein has taught at CUNY schools, University of Iowa, Yale, and The New School, where her current courses follow an inquiry-to-action model. Her essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Jewish Currents, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere, and she works one-on-one with other writers as a coach. Twitter Username: helenbetya Leora Fridman is author of My Fault, among other works of prose, poetry, and translation. She holds degrees with honors from Brown University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has taught online and in person for universities, homes, and community groups since 2004. Twitter Username: ummleora Website: leorafridman.com Felicia Rose Chavez is an award-winning educator with an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and coeditor of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT. Find her at www.antiracistworkshop.com. Twitter Username: writeantiracist Steven Alvarez specializes in literacy studies and bilingual education with a focus on Mexican immigrant communities. He teaches courses at St. John’s University ranging from ethnographic methods, visual rhetoric, and “taco literacy.” He is the author of two books and three volumes of poetry.
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:35 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.
120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level	F147. Feedforward: Empowering Student Writers through Inclusive Feedback (Micah Bateman, Amish Trivedi, Helen Rubinstein, Bureen Ruffin) What kinds of feedback help our students thrive? We draw from professional experience as well as from research in education and composition studies in sharing best practices in written and oral feedback. Our recommendations take into account student difference such as race, gender, class, and neurodivergence and apply to online, hybrid, and in-person creative writing classrooms for every level from high school to continuing education. Download event outline and supplemental documents. Add to schedule Check here to add to my schedule Micah Bateman teaches library and information science at the University of Iowa, where he has produced Massive Open Online Courses and taught creative writing online since 2013. He is coauthor of Mapping the Imaginary: Supporting Creative Writers through Programming, Prompts, and Research. Twitter Username: Micah_Bateman Amish Trivedi is the author of three books and has poems in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Kenyon, and Typo. He has an MFA from Brown University's program in literary arts and has a PhD in English and critical theory from Illinois State University. Twitter Username: amishtrivedi Website: www.amishtrivedi.com Helen Betya Rubinstein has taught at CUNY schools, University of Iowa, Yale, and The New School, where her current courses follow an inquiry-to-action model. Her essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Jewish Currents, and Gulf Coast, and she works one-on-one with other writers as a coach. Twitter Username: helenbetya Bureen Ruffin is an assistant professor in the first-year writing program at The New School’s Eugene Lang College. She has taught literature, creative writing, and English composition since 2011. A recipient of a Callaloo Fellowship, her work has most recently appeared in Of Note magazine.