UNP will be exhibiting at the AWP Conference & Bookfair March 8-11. It’s the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Come visit us in booths 623/625 to browse our books and journals!

Attending the conference virtually or perhaps can’t make it? Check out our virtual book exhibit here for the same great books and conference discount.

Below is a schedule of UNP author panels, signings, and more!

Wednesday, March 8: Happening in the conference

Virtual. Saddiq Dzukogi, author of Your Crib, My Qibla, “Bury Me in the Motherland; Rituals of Death, Burial, and Repatriation in African Literature”

Thursday, March 9: Happening in booths 623/625

All day: Books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).

11:00-11:30 a.m. book signing with Paige Towers, author of The Sound of Undoing

1:30-2:00 p.m. book signing with Jill Christman, author of If This Were Fiction

Thursday, March 9: Happening in the conference

9:00-10:15 a.m. Ana Maria Spagna, author of Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus, “Re-visioning History in Creative Nonfiction”

10:35-11:50 a.m. Jennifer De Leon, editor of Wise Latinas, “Crafting Voice in YA Fiction”

12:10-1:25 p.m. Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, author of What Isn’t Remembered, “Totalitarian Traumas: A Reading by Writers from the Former USSR”

12:10-1:25 p.m. Denise Low, author of The Turtle’s Beating Heart, “Defying Tradition in Lyric Flash Creative Nonfiction”

12:10-1:25 p.m. Susan Nguyen, author of Dear Diaspora, “The State of Vietnamese-American Poetics”

12:10-1:25 p.m. Safiya Sinclair, author of Cannibal, “Contemporary Chantuelles: A Reading by Caribbean Poets”

1:45-3:00 p.m. Mónica Gomery, author of Might Kindred, “Jewish Diasporist Poetics”

3:20-4:35 p.m. Kwame Dawes, author of Nebraska, “Blue Flower Arts Presents Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kwame Dawes, and Chigozie Obioma”

3:20-4:35 p.m. Daryl Farmer, author of Bicycling beyond the Divide, and Nancy Lord, author of Rock, Water, Wild, “The Northern Imagination: A Reading”

7:00-9:00 p.m. Jill Christman, author of If This Were Fiction, and Jody Keisner, Under My Bed and Other Essays, “Celebrate 20 Years of Literary Mama at AWP”

Friday, March 10: Happening in booths 623/625

All day: Books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).

10:30-11:00 a.m. book signing with Terese Svoboda, author of Dog on Fire

1:30-2:00 p.m. book signing with Chachi D. Hauser, author of It’s Fun to Be a Person I Don’t Know

2:30-3:00 p.m. book signing with Jessica Cherry, editor of Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska

3:30-4:00 p.m. book signing with Katya Cengel, author of Exiled and From Chernobyl with Love

Friday, March 10: Happening in the conference

9:00-10:15 a.m. Denise Low, author of The Turtle’s Beating Heart, “Elder Songs: Indigenous Wisdom in Poetry”

9:00-10:15 a.m. Sherrie Flick, author of Reconsidering Happiness, Venita Blackburn, author of Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, and Terese Svoboda, author of Dog on Fire, “Celebrating 30 Years of Flash Anthologies: A Reading from Flash Fiction America”

10:35-11:50 a.m. Eric Freeze, author of Hemingway on a Bike, “Story Mode 1.0: Teaching Narrative Video Games and How to Write Them”

10:35-11:50 a.m. Tiffany Midge, author of Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, and Trevino L. Brings Plenty, author of Ghost River, “Uplifting and Centering Indigenous Voices: Decolonizing Publishing and Academe”

12:10-1:25 p.m. SJ Sindu, Zero Street Fiction series editor, “New Queer Weird”

1:45-3:00 p.m. Elizabeth Dodd, author of Horizon’s Lens, “The Best of All Worlds: Partnering to Support Presses, Nonprofits, and Writers”

1:45-3:00 p.m. Michelle Herman, author of The Middle of Everything, “Trauma in Unstructured Memory vs. Crafted Memoir”

1:45-3:00 p.m. Toni Jensen, author of From the Hilltop, “Insiders and Outsiders: Following, Bending, and Breaking Literary Traditions”

1:45-3:00 p.m. Mahtem Shiferraw, author of Your Body Is War, “BIPOC Women/Nonbinary Writers: Cultivating Community and Safe Writing Spaces”

3:20-4:35 p.m. Venita Blackburn, author of Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, “The Future of Queer Aesthetics: How to Write Authentic LGBTQ+ Characters”

3:20-4:35 p.m. Dustin Hoffman, author of One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist, “Wonderfully Weird and Small: How to Build a Thriving Small Press”

Saturday, March 11: Happening in booths 623/625

All day: Books on sale for 40% off (plus free shipping).

10:30-11:00 a.m. book signing with Elizabeth Cooperman, author of Woman Pissing

12:00-12:30 p.m. book signing with Jody Keisner, author of Under My Bed and Other Essays

Saturday, March 11: Happening in the conference

10:35-11:50 a.m. Jody Keisner, author of Under My Bed and Other Essays, “Writing about Kith and Kin: Dos & Don’ts, Rights & Wrongs, Risks & Rewards”

10:35-11:50 a.m. Tomás Q. Morín, author of Let Me Count the Ways, “Latinx Poetics: Craft and Criticism”

12:10-1:25 p.m. Saddiq Dzukogi, author of Your Crib, My Qibla and Jessica Poli, editor of More in Time, “University of Nebraska-Lincoln Poets: Celebrating Four New Collections”

12:10-1:25 p.m. Paul Guest, author of Notes for My Body Double, “Mutant, Monster, Misfit, Myself: Writing the Disabled/Chronically Ill Body, Sponsored by AWP”

1:45-3:00 p.m. Safia Elhillo, author of The January Children, “Black SWANA Lit: Collective Black Identity in Southwest Asia and North Africa”

3:20-4:35 p.m. Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, author of What Isn’t Remembered and Karin Lin-Greenberg, author of Vanished, “Exploring the Terrain of Fiction—Writing as a Means of Survival”