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    Author Signings

    View our schedule of author signings for the 2013 Bookfair.

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  • AWP Award Series

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    AWP Award Series

    Submit now in creative nonfiction, novel, poetry, and short fiction.

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Annual Report on the State of the Academic Job Market

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    Job Market Report

    AWP's annual report on the state of the academic job market.

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WC&C Scholarship Competition

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    WC&C Scholarship

    Submissions of fiction and poetry are welcome between December 1 and March 30.

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  • Conference & Bookfair Schedule

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    Event Schedule

    Our 2013 Conference & Bookfair will feature more than 500 events.

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  • Jan 18

    Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway

    Small, intensive workshops will advance your craft and energize your writing. Enjoy challenging and supportive workshops, insightful feedback, and encouraging community.

  • Jan 19

    Writers in Paradise

    Lectures on craft, roundtable discussions, readings, receptions and workshops in Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, Short Story, and Young Adult Writing. A rigorous, weeklong program for writers who want to take their writing to the next level.

  • Jan 25

    Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference

    Poetry conference focused on book-length and chapbook-length manuscripts is held in Massachusetts and other locations and includes pre-conference work, manuscript analysis workshops, and in-depth editor consultations. Poetry readings, editorial panel Q&A,

  • Feb 07

    Writers Studio at UCLA Extension

    Presented by the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, the Writers Studio at UCLA Extension is an intensive four days of instruction and writing.

  • Feb 22

    Arizona State University - Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference

    Sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, Desert Nights, Rising Stars returns with new faces, old friends, and a renewed emphasis on developing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a true community of writer

  • Mar 06

    AWP Annual Conference

    Each year, AWP holds its Annual Conference & Bookfair in a different city to celebrate the authors, teachers, writing programs, literary centers, and independent publishers of that region. The conference typically features 450 readings, lectures, panel di

  • Mar 15

    Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference

    Poetry conference focused on book-length and chapbook-length manuscripts is held in Massachusetts and other locations and includes pre-conference work, manuscript analysis workshops, and in-depth editor consultations. Poetry readings, editorial panel Q&A,

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Writer's Chronicle


The Writer's News

  • December 12, 2012

    Playful Chooseable-Path Version of Hamlet Draws Big Bucks.

    On Kickstarter, the website that helps promote crowd-funded projects, a choose-your-own-way edition of Shakespeare’s tragic play, Hamlet, called, To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure, has received, as of early December, nearly $300,000 in support from interested readers.
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  • December 12, 2012

    Philip Roth Announces he has Finished Writing.

    In an announcement he made in October in an interview to the French media, novelist Philip Roth, now 76 years old, declared he was all finished with writing, effectively making his 2010 novel, Nemesis, his final work of fiction.
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  • December 12, 2012

    Poet Jack Gilbert Has Died.

    On November 11, at age 87, poet Jack Gilbert died following complications from pneumonia. For years, Gilbert had also reportedly suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
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