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Celebrate Disability Pride Month This July!

Posted on 7/1/2026
Every July, AWP recognizes Disability Pride Month to highlight the importance of working toward a more accessible and inclusive world. Below, find articles from The Writer’s Chronicle, past AWP events, educational resources, and upcoming online...

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Posted on 2/13/2026
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Celebrate Disability Pride Month This July!

Job Posting: Accounting & Payroll Specialist

Posted on 6/30/2026
Join the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) and put your accounting and payroll expertise to work supporting a mission-driven organization advancing the literary arts.

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...

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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) . . .