Sponsorship
“AWP is a precious opportunity to gather as a literary community — to learn and listen and connect and celebrate together — and to be reminded of the scale, scope, and impact of our sector.”
—Ruth Dickey, National Book Foundation Executive Director
The AWP Conference & Bookfair brings together writers, students, teachers, small press publishers, and literary arts nonprofits. Since 1973, the annual Conference and Bookfair has served as a gateway for writers to gather, build relationships and forge connections that nurture artistic and professional lives.
Sponsorship offers you a unique place at the heart of this literary extravaganza with multiple opportunities and benefits:
- Advertising and marketing for up to nine months before the conference
- Registration bundles that allow your staff, faculty, and students to participate
- Placement along “Bookfair Boulevard” in the heart of the action (Patron Level+)
- Recognition as an AWP Conference & Bookfair Sponsor on the AWP website, in The Writer’s Chronicle, AWP social media platforms, Conference webpage and program
- Invitation to attend post-Keynote VIP Reception
We offer sponsorships at multiple levels and are happy to answer any questions you may have. Contact sponsorship@awpwriter.org to submit your pledge form and secure your #AWP24 Sponsorship today!
Thank You to our #AWP24 Sponsors!
Major
- Andrews McMeel Publishing
Benefactor
- Poetry Foundation
- University of Missouri-Kansas City Friends of Creative Writing
- University of Nebraska Omaha MFA in Writing
Patron
- Adelphi University
- Antioch University MFA Program
- Arts & Letters/Georgia College and State University MFA Program
- ASU Creative Writing Program AND The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
- Center for African American Poetry and Poetics
- Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal @ Washington College
- Emerson College
- Hollins University: Jackson Center for Creative Writing
- Lasell University
- Muse Literary
- NEOMFA / Northeast Ohio Master Of Fine Arts Program
- NYU Creative Writing Program
- Salmon Poetry
- Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas
- University of Miami MFA in Creative Writing
- University of Mississippi MFA + Greenfield Farm Writers Residency
- University of Missouri PhD in Creative Writing
- University of Nebraska in Lincoln Creative Writing
- University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Vermont College of Fine Arts
- Washington University in St. Louis MFA / Center for the Literary Arts
- Western Colorado University / Elk River Writers Workshop
Sustainer
- African Poetry Book Fund / Prairie Schooner
- Chapman University
- Columbia University School of the Arts & Columbia University Press
- Institute of American Indian Arts
- Lambda Literary
- Sam Houston State University MFA Program & Texas Review Press
- Scarlet Tanager
- Sewanee Writers' Conference
- Spalding University low-residency MFA: Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing
- Sustainable Arts
- The Georgia Review / University of Georgia Press
- The Helen Zell Writers' Program, the University of Michigan
- UCLA Extension
- University of San Francisco MFA Writing Program
- USC Dornsife, PhD in Creative Writing & Literature Program
- Vanderbilt University
- Virginia Commonwealth University
Contributor
- Authors Alliance
- Chestnut Review
- Emory University Creative Writing Program
- FC2 / Fiction Collective Two
- Northwestern University SPS
- Rutgers University-Camden MFA / Writers House
- The Kenyon Review
- The Linden Review / U of Nebraska Omaha English Dept Creative Nonfiction Program
- University of Alabama Program in Creative Writing
- Your Part Time Controller LLC
Literary Partners
- Academy of American Poets
- ALTA
- Authors Guild
- Alice James Books
- Cave Canem
- CLMP
- Copper Canyon
- Furious Flower
- In-Na-Po
- Kundiman
- Letras Latinas
- Mizna
- National Book Critics Circle
- National Book Foundation
- National Endowment for the Arts
- PEN America
- Red Hen Press
- Sarabande Books
- WITS Alliance
