NYFA WRITERS IN FULL FORCE AT AWP CONFERENCE
NYFA Fellows’ Events at the AWP Conference & Bookfair, April 8 – 11
If you’re headed to the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference & Bookfair in Minneapolis next week, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to see NYFA Fellows share their work and discuss the literary landscape. Check out the list of their events below!
Julie Sheehan (Fellow in Poetry ’09)
Thursday 9-10:15 AM, Write forYour Life
Thursday 1:30-2:45 PM, Why DidYou Write That? The Problem of Urgency.
Nova Ren Suma (Fellow inFiction ’04)
Thursday 9-10:15 AM, Plot ISCharacter, Character IS Plot.
Friday 4:30-5:45 PM, Growing Upin a Magical Space: Magic Realism in Contemporary Young Adult/Children’s Literature
Rebecca McClanahan (Fellow in Nonfiction ’03)
Thursday 10:30-11:45 AM, Mining the Gap: Trauma, Memory, and Reimagined Pasts.
Rachel McKibbens (Fellow in Poetry ’07)
Thursday 12-1:15 PM, From Poverty to Poetry
Taylor Mali (Fellow in Performance/Multidisciplinary ’01)
Thursday 12-1:15 PM, Page Meets Stage Tenth Anniversary Showdown Hosted by Taylor Mali
Wesley Brown (Fellow in Fiction ’87)
Thursday 12-1:15 PM, A Lifetime of Experience in One Hour: The Art of the Craft Talk
Cate Marvin (Fellow in Poetry ’07)
Thursday 12-1:15 PM, Money! Sex! Politics! Negotiating Gender Bias to Get What You Want as a Writer and as an Academic.
Friday 10:30-11:45 AM, Blood Will Out: Putting Violence on the Page
Joan Silber (Fellow in Fiction ’86)
Thursday 1:30-2:45 PM, A Tribute to Charles Baxter
Bianca Stone (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books ’11)
Thursday 1:30-2:45 PM, The Hybrid Book: Publishing Poetry and Art Together
Rodrigo Toscano (Fellow in Poetry ’05)
Thursday 1:30-2:45 PM, Poetic Labor: The Paradoxes of Making (It) Work
Friday 3-4:15 PM, Poetics Theater: A Textual and Theatrical Performance and Discussion
Rigoberto Gonzalez (Fellow in Poetry ’11)
Thursday 1:30-2:45 PM, The Fate of the Poet: Shuttling Between Solitude and Engagement
Emily Raboteau (Fellow in Fiction ’04)
Thursday 3-4:15 PM, Women in Publishing: The Business of Publishing as a Woman Today
Bob Holman (Fellow in Poetry ’93)
Thursday 3-4:15 PM, Slamming Down the Academy’s Door
Patricia Smith (Fellow in Poetry ’09)
Thursday 3-4:15 PM, Slamming Down the Academy’s Door
Friday 12-1:15 PM, Southern Indiana Review 20th Anniversary Reading
Joan Murray (Fellow in Poetry ’88)
Thursday 3-4:15 PM, River Styx 40th Anniversary Reading
Cornelius Eady (Fellow in Poetry ’90)
Thursday 3-4:15 PM, River Styx 40th Anniversary Reading
Jane Ciabattari (Fellow in Fiction ’87)
Thursday 4:30-5:45 PM, A Reading and Conversation with Lily King, Anthony Marra and Jayne Anne Phillips, Sponsored by National Book Critics Circle.
Ada Limon (Fellow in Poetry ’03)
Thursday 4:30-5:45 PM, Let’s Not Start From Scratch: How to Talk About Race in Poetry
Eleni Sikelianos (Fellow in Nonfiction ‘01)
Thursday 4:30-5:45 PM, Experimental Lyric.
Kathleen Ossip (Fellow in Poetry ’07)
Friday 9-10:15 AM, Create and Connect: Making the Most of your Writing Residency.
Susan Wheeler (Fellow in Poetry ’93)
Friday 10:30-11:45 AM, Boston Review 40th Anniversary Poetry Reading
Ken Chen (Fellow in Poetry ’11)
Friday 10:30-11:45 AM, Mapping New Territories: Diasporic Writers from Regions of Conflict
Edwin Torres (Fellow in Poetry ’01)
Friday 12-1:15 PM, 20 Years of Diversity: The University of Arizona Press Celebrates the Camino del Sol Literary Series
Phillip Lopate (Fellow in Nonfiction ’91)
Friday 1:30-2:45 PM, Readings from Every Father’s Daughter, a New Anthology of Personal Essays by Women about their Fathers
Stacey D’Erasmo (Fellow in Nonfiction ’95)
Friday 3-4:15 PM, Embracing the Unlikeable: How to Write and Teach Unsympathetic Characters
Quincy Troupe (Fellow in Poetry ’87)
Friday 3-4:15 PM, You CAN Judge a Journal by its Cover: Editors on Cover Art
Sarah Dohrmann (Fellow in Nonfiction ’09)
Friday 3-4:15 PM, Breaking the Body: Women Writers Reconfiguring Creative Nonfiction Forms
Sonja Livingston (Fellow in Nonfiction ’05)
Friday 4:30-5:45 PM, Secrets, Shame and Memoir: Women Writers on What it Takes to Tell the Truth About Our Lives
NYFA’s Artists’ Fellowship Program awards grants of $7,000 to individual artists in New York State. NYFA’s Artists’ Fellowships are administered with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
Image: Bianca Stone (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books ’11), excerpt from Tree Opera, 2010.
