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AWP Conference 2024


  • Kansas City Convention Center 301 West 13th Street Kansas City, MO, 64105 United States (map)

Kansas City, here we come! Join us at AWP. Come say hi at the bookfair (booth 3102) where our authors will be signing books and we’ll be slinging them; and go see our amazing authors, translators, editors, and booksellers at all their panels.

You are also invited to party with us! Come to a reading our imprint A Strange Object is cohosting with McSweeney’s, or to a soirée we’re throwing with n+1, Dorothy, Mizna, and the Yale Review (no readings; free sandwiches).


SIGNINGS

S. Yarberry, A Boy in the City
Thursday, 2-3pm

Lily Meyer, Short War (galley signing)
Friday, 10:30-11:30am

Wei Tchou, Little Seed (galley signing)
Friday, 10:30-11:30am

Dorothy Chan, Return of the Chinese Femme (galley signing)
Friday, 12-1pm

Wendy Call & Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Best Literary Translations 2024
Friday, 2:30-4:30pm

Joaquin Zihuatanejo, Occupy Whiteness
Saturday, 11am-2pm


PANELS

Dalia Azim & Jill Meyers
Down to the Wire: The Nuts and Bolts of Editing a Manuscript to Publication
With Chaitali Sen, Gemini Wahhaj, & Kurt Baumeister
Room 3501 GH, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3
Saturday, February 10, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am


KB Brookins
(Trans)cend: Trans Poetics in the Age of Anti-transness
With K. Iver, Kay E. Bancroft, & SG Huerta
Room 3501 EF, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3
Saturday, February 10, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am


Rita Bullwinkel
The Art of The Believer Interview: Twenty Years of Artists In Conversation
With James Yeh, Deb Olin Unferth, Courtney Zoffness, & Anelise Chen
Room 2210, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Saturday, February 10, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm


Wendy Call
The Fine Art of Craft Talking
With Brenda Miller, Barrie Jean Borich, Jenny Johnson, & Geffrey Davis
Room 3501AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3
Saturday, February 10, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am


Dorothy Chan
DIY Your Lit Mag: How to Build a Literary Magazine From the Ground Up
With Steph Liberatore, Ander Monson, & NaBeela Washington
Room 2103C, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Thursday, February 8, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am

Norman Dubie: A Critical Legacy
With Cynthia Hogue, Dexter L. Booth, Elizabyth A. Hiscox, & Hugh Martin
Room 2209, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Thursday, February 8, 2024
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm


Oksana Lutsyshyna
Amplifying Ukrainian Voices in the English-Speaking Literary Environment
With Grace Mahoney, Ostap Kin, Olena Jennings, & Oksana Maksymchuk
Room 2102A, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am


Sebastián H. Páramo
Our Souths: Curating Spaces Against BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ Erasure
With Dorsey Craft, Kai Coggin, Jessica Q. Stark, & Erin Hoover
Room 2504AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am


Riley Rennhack
Brick and Mortar: Partnering with Indie Bookstores, Sponsored by CLMP
With Chelsea Oei Kern, Cori Smith, & Jenny Gropp
Room 3501AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3
Friday, February 9, 2024
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm


Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
Building Writing Collectives that Empower and Support Outside the Institution
With Aliah Lavonne Tigh, Randall James Tyrone, & Glenn Shaheen
Room 2101, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Thursday, February 8, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm


See you there!