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2011 Featured Presenters
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2011 AWP Conference & Bookfair
Washington, DC
February 2-5, 2011

· More than 500 Presses, Publishers, & Journals at AWP's Bookfair
· More than 350 scheduled events and nonstop literary commotion!


Keynote Address By:

Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri
 



Bookfair Exhibitors Bookfair Exhibitors

 

Featured Presenters:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie

Sandra Alcosser
Sandra Alcosser

Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout

Adrian Blevins
Adrian Blevins

Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland

Brian Brodeur
Brian Brodeur

Derrick Weston Brown
Derrick
Weston Brown

Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown

Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac

Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash

Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros

Alison Hawthorne Deming
Alison
Hawthorne Deming

Toi Derricotte
Toi Derricotte

Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz

Mark Doty
Mark Doty

Rita Dove
Rita Dove

Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn

Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan

Martín Espada
Martín Espada

Joshua Ferris
Joshua Ferris

Thalia Field
Thalia Field

Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché

Richard Ford
Richard Ford

Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill

Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander

John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding

Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel

Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera

Kristin Hersh
Kristin Hersh

Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok

Marie Howe
Marie Howe

Susan Howe
Susan Howe

Gary Jackson
Gary Jackson

Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones

Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa

Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux

Lorraine Lopez
Lorraine Lopez

Carole Maso
Carole Maso

Rick Moody
Rick Moody

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Mark Nowak
Mark Nowak

Gregory Orr
Gregory Orr

Eric Pankey
Eric Pankey

Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy

Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips

Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine


Josh Ritter

Pattiann Rogers
Pattiann Rogers

Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan

Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez

John Philip Santos
John Philip Santos

Sapphire
Sapphire

Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart

Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout

Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey

Helena Maria Viramontes
Helena Maria Viramontes

Rosmarie Waldrop
Rosmarie Waldrop

Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead

Charles Wright
Charles Wright

Kevin Young
Kevin Young

Jeffrey Yang
Jeffrey Yang

Raśl Zurita
Raúl Zurita

 

Tributes:

Ai
Ai

Rane Arroyo
Rane Arroyo

John Barth
John Barth

Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton


Robert Coover

Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker
John Haines


Morton Marcus


Jack Meyers

 

Award Series:

Kevin Fenton
Kevin Fenton

Bradley Paul
Bradley Paul

Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed

David Vann
David Vann

Photo Credits:

  • Jhumpa Lahiri photo by Elena Seibert
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie photo by Ivara Esege
  • Sandra Alcosser photo by Philip Maechling
  • Rae Armantrout photo by Kevin Walsh
  • Adrian Blevins photo by Connie Stevens
  • Rosanne Cash photo by Deborah Feingo
  • Sandra Cisneros photo by Ray Santisteban
  • Stephen Dunn photo by Andrea Dunn
  • Martín Espada photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
  • Joshua Ferris photo by Nina Subin
  • Thalia Field photo by Richard Cummings
  • Carolyn Forché photo by Emma Dodge Hanson
  • Mary Gaitskill photo by Hillary Harvey
  • Forrest Gander photo by Yuh-Hwa Ning
  • John Wesley Harding photo by Bill Wadman
  • Amy Hempel photo by Kenneth Chen
  • Kristin Hersh photo by Dina Douglas
  • Marie Howe photo by Brad Fowler
  • Edward P. Jones photo by Jerry Bauer
  • Carole Maso photo by Dixie Sheridan
  • Rick Moody photo by Marion Ettlinger
  • Aimee Nezhukumatathil photo by Marion Ettlinger
  • Mark Nowak photo by Lisa Arrastía
  • Gregory Orr photo by Matt Valentine
  • Benjamin Percy photo by Jennifer May
  • Jayne Anne Phillips photo by Elena Seibert
  • Pattiann Rogers photo by John R. Rogers
  • Kay Ryan photo by Christina Koci Hernandez
  • Sapphire photo by Lina Pallotta
  • Gary Shteyngart photo by Lacombe
  • Elizabeth Strout photo by M. Berkley
  • Natasha Trethewey photo by Matt Valentine
  • Helena Maria Viramontes photo by Nico Tucci
  • Colson Whitehead photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien
  • Charles Wright photo by Nancy Crampton
  • Kevin Young photo by Todd Martens
  • Raúl Zurita photo by Héctor González de Cunco
  • Marilyn Hacker photo by Robert Giard
  • John Haines photo by Brian Allen

 
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AWP Bookfair

2011 Sponsors

Major Sponsors

George Mason University MFA in Creative Writing

The George Washington University

Georgia College & State University / Arts & Letters

University of Maryland

NEOMFA--The Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts

Steven Barclay Agency

 


Literary Partners

Academy of American Poets

Blue Flower Arts

Cave Canem

The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses / Small Press Distribution

Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University & WAMFEST

The Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center

The Loft Literary Center

Macondo Writers' Workshop

National Endowment for the Arts

PEN American Center

PEN/Faulkner Foundation

The Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Society of America

Poets House

Split This Rock Poetry Festival

VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts

Wesleyan University Press

Writers in the Schools

 


Benefactors

Adelphi University MFA in Creative Writing

Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins

Wilkes University Low Residency MA/MFA program

 


Patrons

MFA in Creative Writing, Antioch University Los Angeles

Columbia College Chicago, Fiction Writing Department and Story Week

Emerson College, Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing

MA in Writing Program, The Johns Hopkins University

Minnesota State University, Mankato/Blue Earth Review

University of North Carolina Wilmington

University of Notre Dame/Letras Latinas

Southern New Hampshire University

Tupelo Press

Virginia Tech

The Writer's Center

 


Sponsors

American University

Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada Las Vegas

Bowling Green State University Creative Writing Program

Chatham University

Longwood University / Dos Passos Review

National Association of Writers in Education

Ohio University MA and PhD in Creative Writing / New Ohio Review

Creative Writing Program, Roosevelt University

Rutgers-Camden MFA in Creative Writing and StoryQuarterly Magazine

Sewanee Writers' Conference

Spalding University's Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program

Vermont College of Fine Arts

Virginia Commonwealth University

The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University

Creative Writing at West Virginia University

 


Contributors

Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Loyola University Maryland

Potomac Review

Saint Joseph's University

Spectrum of Poetic Fire / Black Magnolias Special Issue

The MFA in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

University of Tampa

University of Tennessee Knoxville Creative Writing Program

Washburn University

 


Become a sponsor for our 2011 Conference.
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of sponsorship with a
variety of benefits.

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Matt Burriesci,
Associate Director,
at (703) 993-4540

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