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Celebrate Pride Month!

Posted on 6/1/2026
To celebrate Pride Month, AWP has gathered articles from The Writer’s Chronicle, events from past AWP conferences, online resources, and diverse upcoming events. Explore the resources below to learn more about Pride Month.

Freelance Sponsorship & Advertising Sales Consultant (Remote | Commission + Retainer)

Posted on 4/6/2026
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Celebrate Pride Month!

Posted on 6/1/2026
To celebrate Pride Month, AWP has gathered articles from The Writer’s Chronicle, events from past AWP conferences, online resources, and diverse upcoming events. Explore the resources below to learn more about Pride Month.

TWC Live! Marketing Your Poetry Collection

Posted on 5/21/2026
AWP and The Writer’s Chronicle are excited to bring you our next TWC Live! conversation on Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. ET! Join poets, editors, and publicists for an expansion of last December’s conversation from The Writer’s Chronicle...

The Writer’s Desk: Pedagogy in Practice—Leveraging the Asynchronous Classroom

Posted on 5/11/2026
Join us for “The Writer’s Desk: Pedagogy in Practice—Leveraging the Asynchronous Classroom,” featuring educators Rebecca Bednarz and Johnny Damm, moderated by Travis Kurowski, AWP board chair and chair of the Professional Standards Committee.

Recognizing Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month!

Posted on 5/1/2026
Join AWP in recognizing Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month this May! Rewatch a past AWP event or reread an article from The Writer’s Chronicle. Don’t forget to check out AWP’s staff-curated Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Bookshop.org list!

Commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month This May!

Posted on 5/1/2026
Join AWP in celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month! AWP has compiled articles from The Writer’s Chronicle, online resources, and upcoming virtual events. Be to also check out our staff-curated Jewish American Heritage Month Bookshop.org list!

The Writer’s Desk: The Stories We Carry—Writing Remembrance, Radiance & Resilience

Posted on 2/2/2026
Join The Writer’s Desk for a special live event this Black History Month! “The Stories We Carry: Writing Remembrance, Radiance & Resilience” premieres on February 19 with authors...

Black History Month Turns One Hundred!

Posted on 2/1/2026
2026 marks one hundred years of formally celebrating Black History Month, which was established as Negro History Week by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Please join AWP in celebrating Black History Month this February. AWP is committed to...

Recognize Braille Literacy Month This January

Posted on 1/6/2026
Braille Literacy Month is observed every January. To recognize this month, AWP has compiled a brief history of braille, as well as online resources for learning more about the braille system, articles from The Writer’s Chronicle...

Observing Transgender Awareness Week

Posted on 1/6/2026
Transgender Awareness Week takes place on November 13–19 each year, with Transgender Day of Remembrance being held on November 20. AWP is committed to supporting writers and members of all life experiences and backgrounds.


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In Community, Not Competition: Solstice MFA at Twenty

Posted on 5/1/2026
Two decades after its founding, the Solstice MFA continues to challenge the competitive model of most graduate writing programs.

Morris Brown College Poetry Club Supports HBCU Students’ Mental Health

Posted on 4/1/2026
Morris Brown College Poetry Club student officers Olivia Wright, Donahvan Jones, and Zenobia Coltrane

Relaunching Chatham University’s Low-Residency MFA Program

Posted on 3/2/2026
Chatham University in Pittsburgh, whose low-residency MFA program, established in 2009 and deactivated in the fall of 2023, is once again open for applications.

A Zoom of Our Own

Posted on 2/1/2026
The lives of writers have long been romanticized by the rest of the world. Hemingway in a Parisian café. Austen at her desk in the sitting room. My life, I think, doesn’t lend to glamorization…

New Avenues in Narrative Medicine Through Dominican University’s MFA

Posted on 12/1/2025
In the spring of 2023, I unexpectedly found myself driving back and forth from my home in Sebastopol, California, to San Rafael, where one of my younger brothers was being hospitalized nearby. Each time I took the hospital freeway exit, signs…

Writing Nature and Place at Fallingwater with Chatham MFA

Posted on 7/28/2025
Chatham University’s MFA program has launched an exciting new partnership with one of the world’s most famous and photogenic houses: Fallingwater.

Writers Find Home and Bear Fruit at DePaul University

Posted on 6/12/2025
Since the late 1990s, DePaul University has held the distinction of being the largest Catholic university in the United States.

Shaping a Collection into a Book

Posted on 5/14/2025
When I was matched in the Writer to Writer program in 2022, I’d been trying to compile a poetry collection for a few years. “Compile” is really the right word.

Creative Writing Blooms in the Prairie at the University of North Dakota

Posted on 5/1/2025
Soon after springtime arrives in Grand Forks and the first prairie flowers break through the cold crust of the earth, flocks of Canada geese return to the coulee on the University of North Dakota campus.

MLA Recognizes Legacy of UNO MFA Poets

Posted on 2/11/2025
In a city of constant juxtaposition like New Orleans, it can be hard to stand out. From world-class celebrations like Mardi Gras to devastating hurricanes (and freak blizzards) . . .

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Writer's Calendar

Weymouth Writeaway

Jun
06
Event Date: 7/6/2026 - 7/13/2026
Apply by 6/6/2026

Indulge yourself (and your muse!) with this unique opportunity to focus on your writing at historic Weymouth, home to writers for over a century.

Tinker Mountain Writers' Summer Workshop

Jun
14
Event Date: 6/14/2026 - 6/19/2026

Spend an inspirational week at the base of Tinker Mountain on the campus of Hollins University, learning, writing and connecting with fellow writers.

Write a Query That Gets Manuscript Requests

Jul
01
Event Date: 7/1/2026

Learn from Jane Friedman how to write a memoir or novel query letter that compels agents and editors to request your work. Register at pwnwriters.org.

Write a Query That Gets Manuscript Requests with Jane Friedman

Jul
01
Event Date: 7/1/2026

Learn to write query letters that get agents asking for more, with Jane Friedman.

Virtual Writers Week

Jul
05
Event Date: 7/6/2026 - 7/10/2026
Apply by 7/5/2026

Writers Week is a five-day creative writing and theatre program for students entering 9th through 12th grade.

Writers Week Session 1

Jul
19
Event Date: 7/20/2026 - 7/24/2026
Apply by 7/19/2026

Writers Week is a five-day creative writing and theatre program for students entering 9th through 12th grade.

Writers Week Session 2

Aug
02
Event Date: 8/3/2026 - 8/7/2026
Apply by 8/2/2026

Writers Week is a five-day creative writing and theatre program for students entering 9th through 12th grade.

Writeaway in France

Aug
04
Event Date: 9/4/2026 - 9/11/2026
Apply by 8/4/2026

Why write at home when you can write in a castle? Find your je ne sais quoi at Chateau du Pin in the Loire Valley of France.

Get Away to Write - Vermont

Aug
09
Event Date: 8/9/2026 - 8/14/2026

COMING SOON: August 9-14, 2026 in Grafton, VT. Combine an extended writing retreat with a relaxing summer vacation in the picturesque mountains...

Radical Reimagining: Growing the Archive with Shawna Kay Rodenberg

Aug
17
Event Date: 8/17/2026 - 8/21/2026

A week-long intensive in nonfiction that is both exploratory and generative.

Fiction Intensive Workshop with Taymour Soomro

Aug
17
Event Date: 8/17/2026 - 8/22/2026

A week-long fiction intensive that includes reading and critiquing each other's work as well as issues of craft.

Washington Island Literary Festival

Sep
17
Event Date: 9/17/2026 - 9/19/2026

Choose to attend 1, 2 or all three days: community creative lab Thursday, writing workshops Friday, author presentations Saturday.

 

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