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Donations to AWP
Dear Friend of AWP:
AWP has improved all of its services to writers and lovers of literature. We’ve launched a few new services, too.
We expanded our Annual Conference & Bookfair. For our recent 2009 Chicago Conference & Bookfair, 9,500 people gathered for 380 literary events and 550 exhibits. We have created one of North America’s largest literary events to introduce writers, new books, and small presses to the widest possible audience.
Last academic year, we established new hallmarks and pedagogical guidelines to set high standards for the teaching of creative writing and literature to undergraduates. This year, we revised our hallmarks for graduate programs to help make our MFA programs more effective in their development of future generations of writers, teachers, and readers.
We expanded the Writer’s Chronicle to include more articles and more news and information, and we increased honoraria payments to the contributing authors. The Chronicle provides many emerging talents with advice and inspiration on how to develop their art. We have doubled the number of pages and features appearing in the Chronicle.
We established the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature to recognize and reward the great teachers, editors, program directors, mentors, and philanthropists who help contemporary literature to thrive.
We established endowments for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction and the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. With our participating presses, our Award Series published four wonderful books this year by Scott Blackwood, Sharon Dolin, David Vann, and Sharon White. Please see our website for more information on these fine books.
We established the Endowment for AWP Services. This endowment, as it grows, will support AWP’s Career Services, the Intro Journals Project, the Garrett Award, and AWP’s other services for young and emerging writers. This year, AWP will distribute $120,000 in honoraria to the writers and teachers involved in our many projects.
We launched a free online version of the AWP Official Guide to Writing Programs to help prospective students select the best programs for their needs. We launched AWP eLink, a website that provides up-to-date listings of job opportunities, publishing opportunities, and grants and awards notices for writers and students. AWP eLink also includes an archive of 968 essays and interviews on the art of writing from the Writer’s Chronicle. Our websites attract 750,000 unique visitors annually.
We have provided a supportive network and community for writers who often feel isolated in their devotion to a difficult and lonely art. We have introduced many writers to one another, just as we have introduced many writers to publishers.
With your help, we will continue to build support for writers, teachers, and good books. The writer’s place is in the public arena, and AWP has been building a bigger town square. Please support the good works of AWP.
Sincerely,
David Fenza
Executive Director
AWP is a 501(c)(3) organization, so your donation is tax-deductible. To download a donation form, click here. You can also make a gift today through AWP’s StoreFront.
Friends of AWP
2008-2009 Donors
AWP thanks those whose generosity makes many of its services to writers possible. Please consider making a donation today at www.awpwriter.org.
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Contributors ($25-99)
Gail Adams • Lisha Adela Garcia • Frank Allen • Mihku Anderson • Sally Arteseros • Lorraine Ash • Peter Balbert • Phyllis Barber • LB Barrington • Douglas Bauer • Josh Baugher • K E Beebe • John Bell • David Bergman • Hari Bhajan Khalsa • Brooke Bognanni • Mary Lou Brenneman • Alene Bricken • Megan Brown • Andre Carter • Cordell Caudron • Tom Claffey • Katie Clare • Michele Clark • Ellen Clay • Mary Crow • James Cummins • Diane D’Andrade • Narinder Dogra • Nancy C. Demme • Eugenie Doyle • Viola Ebert • Liese Farless • Frank Faruolo • Elizabeth Ferris • Steve Finkelstein • Kippur Flax • Mary Jo Fox • Friede Gardner • Karen Garthe • Jonathan Gbur • Bettye Givens • Andrew Graham • Michele Grand • Robert Haller • Dorothy Hassan • Grace Hayden • Merna Ann Hecht • George Held • Leanne Howe-Wilson • C.J. Hribal • Harry Humes • Faith R. Jackson • F Jones • Michael Jones • Caryn Kaufman • Richard Keller • Rod Kessler • Karen Kiaer • Ron Koertge • Joan LaBombard • Carol A. Lacroix • Dale Leaming • James Lenfentsey • Joanne Lehman • Gene Lettau • Leslie Leven • Gilbert Lewis Paige • James Lipscomb • Aimee Liu • Christina Lovin • Edward Lull • Thomas Marnocha • Dianne Martin • Marcella Matthaei • Robert McBrearty • Tom McCann • James McCorkle • Margaret Menges • Ethelbert Miller • Melanie Moore • Richard W. Moxer • Richard Moyer • Eugenia Murphy • Bob Mustin • Thomas A. Norton • Gwenn Nusbaum • Marion Perry • Rebecca Penick • Judith Perl • Robert Peronneau • Nancy Potter • Jeff Reed • Theresa Reid • Howard Rice • Francine Ringold • Mary Francois Rockcastle • Richard Rose • Clare Rossini • Rita Rud • Jeff and Diana Samet • Marjorie Sandor • Lauret Savoy • Nola Schiff • Pat Schrepel • Julie Schumacher • Steven Schwartz • Hugh Schwartzberg • Jean M. Selvester • David Shields • Maxine Silverman • James Smith • Jane Anne Staw • Eileen T. Stearns • Maureen Sullivan • ET Sunyer • Molly Sutton • Alycia Tessean • James Glenn Thatcher • Susan Thomas • Fred Tomasello • Deborah Trotter • Carol Tufts • Leslie Ullman • Davyne Verstandig • Monona Wali • Garry Wallace • Stephen Wallin • Elizabeth Warren • Mary Ann Wehler • Ed Weyhing • Carolyn Whittle • Mame Willey • Diane Williams • Kathy Williams • Jaimee Wriston Colbert
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