TW Morning Series: Three Panels
Wake up and smell the coffee! Join us at AWP this week—live or virtually—for lots of literary community building.
On your marks: The annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs opens today and runs through this Saturday at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
In addition to TW's three morning panels—Thursday, Friday, and Saturday—we're sharing Bookfair Booth 409 with our friends from Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.
TW staffers will be decked in their "We're Talking Writing—Are You?" shirts and live tweeting for those who can't attend #AWP15.
But wait! We're cohosting a Digital Lit Reception Friday evening, too. Details below.
TW Panel 1
Long vs. Short:
Nonfiction Storytelling in the Digital Age
Thursday, April 9, 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Live tweeting: #R126B
Short-short writing is hot. But the jury is out about what hooks readers and keeps them reading. Is the traditional essay dead? Discuss!
Panelists: Alan Davis, senior editor of New Rivers Press; Mai Neng Moua, founder of Paj Ntaub Voice, a Hmong literary arts journal; Kelly Sundberg, managing editor of Brevity Magazine; Richard Hoffman, nonfiction editor at Solstice Literary Magazine and senior writer in residence at Emerson College.
Moderator: TW Editor-in-Chief Martha Nichols.
TW Panel 2
Digital Poets and Nature: A Reading
Friday, April 10, 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Live tweeting: #F128
In conjunction with TW's "Nature Tech" issue, this diverse group of poets—from cities, suburbs, and wild places—read work that explores a more complex attitude toward the natural world than traditional nature poetry.
Poets: Athena Kildegaard, author of Bodies of Light, a Minnesota Book Award finalist; Randall Horton, English professor at the University of New Haven; JP Howard, curator of the Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon in New York.
Moderator: TW Poetry Editor Carol Dorf.
TW Panel 3
The Politics of Empathy:
Writing Through Borrowed Eyes
Saturday, April 11, 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Live tweeting: #S125
Minority writers often don't feel the same freedom to create characters of other races or identities that white authors do. As a follow-up to TW's popular "Literary Politics" session at AWP last year, these five writers from varied backgrounds take on who gets to cross gender and color lines.
Panelists: Matthew Salesses, author of Different Racisms; Prageeta Sharma, poet and English professor at the University of Montana; Aimee Phan, fiction writer and chair of the California College of the Arts MFA writing program; Jennifer Jean, poet and administrative editor of Talking Writing.
Moderator: T. Geronimo Johnson, author of the novel Welcome to Braggsville and director of the Summer Creative Writing Program at UC Berkeley.
Solstice Panel
Making Diversity Happen:
Editors Can Change the Literary Landscape
Friday, April 10, 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Live tweeting: #F279
Panelists: Martha Nichols, editor-in-chief of Talking Writing and contributing editor at Women's Review of Books; John Wang, editor of Juked; Danielle Legros Georges, poet, essayist, and professor at Lesley University in Boston; Margaret Elysia Garcia, contributing editor at Hip Mama Magazine and fiction writer.
Moderator: Lee Hope, editor-in-chief of Solstice Literary Magazine.
AWP Offsite Event: Digital Lit Reception
Friday, April 10, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
North 45º Restaurant & Bar, Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis
A celebration of digital literary magazines, cohosted by Talking Writing, Solstice Literary Magazine, Juked, and Minnesota-based Grey Sparrow Journal. Free and tasty food, cash bar, and good company.
For more information and updates, go to the Facebook Digital Lit Event page.
Live tweeting: #CelebrateDigiLit
