Proposals are now being accepted for the #AWP17 Conference & Bookfair in Washington, DC, where we will celebrate AWP's 50th anniversary. The conference will be held February 8–11, 2017 at the Washington Convention Center and Washington Marriott Marquis. 

The Washington, DC 2017 Subcommittee seeks proposals that feature panelists who are diverse in their backgrounds, pursuits, affiliations, and ages, and who represent a broad range of perspectives and experiences. The subcommittee strongly prefers proposals that reach beyond one campus or group to a greater diversity of people who also embody your concerns. AWP strongly encourages participation from current and recent graduate students. Please consider how adding a presenter who will bring another viewpoint will broaden the discussion for the audience and make for a more meaningful event.

Submitting a 2017 Event Proposal

The deadline for submitting a 2017 event proposal is Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Successful proposals observe the guidelines and modules by which we receive and review proposals. Please read the Open Letter and Event Proposal Handbook carefully before you submit your proposal. Each year AWP receives far more good proposals than we can possibly accept. Out of the 1,780 proposals we received for 2016, we were only able to accept 560, or about 32%.

Have questions about submitting? Join us at #AWP16 on Saturday, April 2 at 10:30 a.m. PST in room 503 at the Los Angeles Convention Center for a discussion of best practices for submitting a proposal, or on Wednesday, April 13 at 3:00 p.m. EST on Twitter for tips and to chat with AWP conference staff.

What's New in Your AWP Account?

We have reorganized the "My AWP Account" section of the website, which introduces a new "My Conference Participant Information" page that gathers information previously asked in separate user profile sections. This new page collects the short biography and professional designation that are used to help evaluate conference event proposals. Gender and race/ethnicity are also requested to help AWP report to our funders and membership, but the data is not used as part of the proposal process, and is not shared with the subcommittee who evaluates the proposals; this information helps AWP better understand who our conference presenters are. Gender and race/ethnicity is only used in the aggregate and may be released when a representative sample is achieved. There is also a field for entering your Twitter username so that attendees can easily find and credit you on social media when live tweeting from conference events.

If you participate on an event proposal for the #AWP17 Conference & Bookfair, please take a moment to complete your "My Conference Participation Information" to help AWP build a better conference.