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Friday, March 10, 2023 | |
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1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. | |
Rooms 445-446, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4 |
F205. Recent debut authors will briefly share their own first-book journeys, offering practical counsel and sharing resources when it comes to organizing, editing, and soliciting feedback on your manuscript; navigating first-book contest submissions; publishing outside of the contest model; and common emotional, psychological, and financial realities of sending your first book out into the world. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023). An employee of Open Books: A Poem Emporium and cohost of the podcast The Poet Salon, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Twitter Username: GabrielleBates Website: www.gabriellebatesstahlman.com
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and MacDowell. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center of the Arts and lives in San Francisco. Twitter Username: shhelleywong Website: shelley-wong.com Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, shares pages with Quenton Baker and Dr. Christina Sharpe. He lives in Seattle, where he practices echocardiography. Twitter Username: paulhlava Website: www.paulhlava.com |
4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. | |
Metropolitan Ballroom A, Sheraton Grand Seattle, Third Floor, Union Street Tower |
F239A. Join AWP for a reading and reception featuring the 2021 AWP Award Series winners: Anne-Marie Oomen (creative nonfiction), Elizabeth Shick (novel), Paul Hlava Ceballos (poetry), and Daphne Kalotay (short fiction). Anne-Marie Oomen won AWP’s Sue William Silverman Creative Nonfiction Award for her memoir As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. A previous memoir, Love, Sex, and 4-H won a Next Generation Indie Award for memoir. She has four Michigan Notable books. She teaches at Solstice MFA at Lasell University. Twitter Username: oomen_anne Website: www.Anne-MarieOomen.com Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, shares pages with Quenton Baker and Dr. Christina Sharpe. He lives in Seattle, where he practices echocardiography. Twitter Username: paulhlava Website: www.paulhlava.com Elizabeth Shick is the debut author of The Golden Land, winner of the 2021 AWP Prize for the Novel. A longtime American expatriate, she has spent the past twenty-seven years in Asia, Africa, and Europe, and now resides in Bangladesh. She holds an MFA from Lesley University and an MIA from Columbia University. Twitter Username: lizshickauthor Website: https://elizabethshick.com/ Daphne Kalotay is the author of the award-winning novels Sight Reading and Russian Winter and a new novel, Blue Hours, a 2020 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read.” Her debut fiction collection, Calamity and Other Stories, was shortlisted for the Story Prize. She is on the faculty of the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University. |
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