Watch #AWP25 panelists “explore ways to better care for our children, our art, and our communities” in “Reshaping the Motherhood Plot” on Writer’s TV! AWP members can check out this panel and more today.
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Revisit the #AWP25 event “Black Words Are Black Wealth: A Lecture by Tayari Jones, Sponsored by IngramSpark” in honor of Black History Month!
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In “MFA vs. HBCU,” Kendra Nicole Bryant Aya shares insights from the #AWP25 HBCU MFA Think Tank and considers the best ways to support Black writers, inside and outside the university. Members and subscribers can read the full piece in the October issue of THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE.
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Revisit the #AWP25 event “Emergence & Becoming—Framing Native Poetics Beyond the Renaissance: A Lecture by Jake Skeets” in honor of Native American Heritage Month! Stream it now on our YouTube channel.
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The book THE GIRL WAKES: STORIES by Carmen Lau. Cover illustration is a sketched close-up of a girl’s head but her eyes are out of frame. Her mouth is the only thing colored in, and it’s smeared with pink across as if ambiguous whether it’s stained with blood or lipstick.The same pink is used in the swooping calligraphy of the title.
Got this book from @altcurrent.bsky.social at #AWP25 and ate it up like a meal.
THE GIRL WAKES by Carmen Lau is beautifully written. Gorgeous prose, dark edges, haunting whimsy. Feels like reading dark fairy tales or Wonderland again but subtly woven into modern settings.
🧵🪡 Faves listed below. ⬇️
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Revisit the #AWP25 featured event “Poet Leaders: A Letras Latinas Reading & Discussion” in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. You can stream this event now on our YouTube channel and find other past events in our Writer’s News.
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Check out news and highlights from AWP in each issue of THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE! In the latest, read reflections by the #AWP25 HBCU and TCU fellows, as well as Roxane Gay’s keynote address.
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“It’s about being in community and building on our collaborative strengths,” says #AWP25 HBCU faculty fellow Isaac Hughes Green. The HBCU and TCU fellowship programs strive to create community within AWP, but we need your support to sustain them! Make a contribution today.
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“Most Indigenous students come from storytelling ancestors, and we need more Indigenous perspectives in this written world,” says #AWP25 TCU student fellow Aziza Smith. The AWP TCU Fellowship Program needs your support! Make a contribution today.
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ANGELS & INSECTS ARE CREATURES WITH WINGS by Amy Jannotti is fluttering and buzzing with precise imagery and poems that are intricate, grotesque, and gorgeous.
Thank you @kithbooks.bsky.social! Delighted to get this book from you at #AWP25
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AWP asks for your support in helping sustain our HBCU and TCU fellowship programs. “It’s about being in community and building on our collaborative strengths,” says #AWP25 HBCU faculty fellow Isaac Hughes Green. Make a contribution today!
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Poetry collection book. ALL THE BLOOD INVOLVED IN LOVE by Maya Marshall. On the cover, a Black woman in a white lace dress wears a fluffy white sheep mask/head over her head. She is tenderly taking care of a black wig on an ironing board. Both textures are fluffy. The lighting is dim and pensive.
Loved this evocative, brutal, and tender poetry collection ALL THE BLOOD INVOLVED IN LOVE by Maya Marshall. So glad I came across @haymarketbooks.org at #AWP25 ❤️
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Including a report on the inaugural Jewish Writers Caucus that convened at #AWP25, an upcoming (free, online) event featuring @ayelettsabari.bsky.social & Manya Wilkinson, and much more.
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I'm available to be a panelist for #AWP26. I was a panelist for #AWP25 for "Abroad as an Escape: International Exchange & Trauma Informed Writing."
I'm interested in speaking about: memoir, flash essay, MFA, FGLI, poverty, silence, trauma, abuse, survival, international exchange, Fulbright, tea,
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📣 Announcing the Obsidian raffle #AWP25 WINNERS of gift certificates to Bookshop.org: Leslie McIntosh 🎉 Crystal Powell 🎉 Karrin Thompson 🎉
Thank you Leslie, Crystal & Karrin for visiting the Obsidian table at #AWP2025 and deep appreciation to Bookshop.org for gifting us two gift certificates! ❤️ ✨
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Poetry book with red-orange background. On the cover is a beautiful illustration of a snake twined territorially and comfortably at the top of a tree, jaw wide open and fangs bared, startling a black and white bird. A rattle behind it is raised high. Two other birds are perched on different twigs of this spindly treetop branch. The snake almost seems to be protecting the bird greyer bird perched right by it.
I’m in awe. & beginning yesterday morning with the “Queerness of Eve” section colored the rest of my day in this open, lovely light.
GORGEOUS craft and insightful, com/passionate poetry in this book “Nonbinary Bird of Paradise” by @emdashphillips.bsky.social I’m so glad I got this at #AWP25!
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Read our debut #ExpoStory featuring rockstar young writer & editor @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social!
She’s publishing QUEER LATINE HEROES, editing ANOTHER new zine & read at our #ExpoPresents 10-Year Party & Love + Community @ #AWP25! But how did she start with Expo? Find out: tinyurl.com/ExpoStorySofia
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Thank you Charles Jensen for noticing my style at #AWP25
#goth #gotico #gotíco #gothpoet #poetagotico
Thank you @brittmenjivar.bsky.social for posing with me, as well as Mariño González, Jack Skelley, and wife.
Writer's Style Guide 014: Omar Bárcena open.substack.com/pub/charlesj...
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Wish I could tag the author & publisher! Chelsea C. Jackson’s debut is a masterpiece, and I was also just so stoked to greet the publishers April Gloaming at #AWP25.
Find them here:
aprilgloaming.com/shop/all-thi...
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✨ From page to plate, Gata & Gartal brought warmth, words, and community to LA during #AWP25!
Our LA Chapter’s offsite gathering featured powerful readings by Armenian writers, delicious food, and space to connect through stories and heritage. 🍷✨
📷: Andy Smith
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📚 From the AWP stage to events in Yerevan and NYC, IALA's been busy! At #AWP25, we hosted panels on Armenian and Palestinian solidarity and nonprofit lit and teamed up with Anamot Press at the book fair.
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Writers interested in a 2026 Fiction Meets Science residency should get their applications to us by MAY 1!
Info: tinyurl.com/FMS2025
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@authorsguild.bsky.social #writersresidency #fellowship #scilit #amwriting #writerscommunity #AWP25
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From connecting with fellow writers to attending inspiring readings, this year's AWP conference in LA was nothing short of amazing!
Special thanks to our readers and everyone who attended the co-hosted reading with APP, Muleskinner Journal, Chestnut Review, and Black Fork Review.
#AWP25
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We’re hitting the road again, listening to Pen Pals Podcast, which I had the pleasure of being a guest on their bonus episode during #AWP25!
open.spotify.com/episode/08WU...
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Great to meet up with the stellar @clmporg.bsky.social core krewe of Chelsea, Alisa and Montana at #awp25! They make so much possible for independent publishers! We at The Fab are so grateful for all they do. Also complimenting their excellent choice in reading materials!
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My #awp25 haul arrived. In my defense, I already owned two of these but brought them to LA to get them signed by the amazing @roxanegay.bsky.social, which Bluesky wants to change to “Amazon Roxane Gay” and that seems kinda awesome. (Please ignore mess behind books. Men turn feral in my absence.)
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A favorite moment from AWP: James Fujinami Moore coming to Perugia’s table to celebrate the announcement of his friend Holli Carrell’s 2025 Perugia Press Prize winning book APOSTASIES - and preordering 3 copies! Poet friends are the best. ♥️📚🎉 #awp25 @hollicarrell.bsky.social
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Thanks to those of you who could attend our event Born in the USSR: Diaspora Writers Against War, hosted by the @wendemuseum.bsky.social. Thank you for donating to @ukrainetrustchain.bsky.social. Please continue to do so!!
#reading #awp25 #supportukraine
Event video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tzF...
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